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To the Point

Reality Check: Health insurance and Obamacare

To the Point

KCRW

News

4.4583 Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2016

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Obamacare has made health insurance available for millions of people who didn't have it before. It's anything but perfect, and now Bill Clinton has made it an unavoidable issue in this year's presidential campaign — intentionally or otherwise. We compare the best laid plans of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, this is Josh Barrow.

0:02.0

On Thursday, October 20th, KCRW is coming out of our basement studios for a civilized, yet provocative, left, right, and center live.

0:09.0

Join us at the beautiful Ace Hotel Theater in downtown Los Angeles for a night of amusing and insightful commentary on this unique election season.

0:17.0

I'll be joined by Kelly Goff, Jean Sperling, and Mona Charon as we dissect Trump

0:20.9

versus Clinton, Democrat versus Republican, and fact versus fiction. Buy your tickets today at

0:26.3

KCRW.com slash LRC Live.

0:30.8

From KCRW in Santa Monica and PRI, Public Radio International, this is To the Point.

0:39.5

Reality check, health insurance, and Obamacare.

0:46.3

Hello again, I'm Aronaldi, and this is To the Point.

0:49.2

Even President Obama says the Affordable Care Act has real problems,

0:52.8

which Bill Clinton says makes it the craziest thing he's ever seen.

0:56.7

That has put it front and center in the presidential campaign to the delight of Donald Trump and the discomfort of Hillary Clinton.

1:03.9

She wants reform, he wants repeal, and millions of newly insured people may be in for a November surprise, a big jump in premiums

1:12.0

before the election. We'll hear two very different approaches to an issue that has the

1:16.4

potential to influence the voting. On today's talking point later, Yahoo has subjected all

1:22.0

its hundreds of millions of email accounts to scanning on behalf of the NSA.

1:29.1

First, here's the news.

1:41.6

Check out KCRW's all-news channel, News 24, programming from KCRW, NPRW, NPR, BBC, and more,

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24 hours a day. Go to KCRW.com slash News24 or listen on KCRW's app.

1:54.9

Support for To the Point comes from the members of KCRW and from the Public Radio International Program Fund.

2:01.6

Hello again, we're on me, back with To the Point.

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Obamacare has made health insurance available for millions of people who didn't have it before.

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