Sarah Kliff on the Big Questions

The Gist

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🗓️ 17 October 2017

⏱️ 34 minutes

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You can't get away from Obamacare news, and with each repeal effort there are familiar, wild-eyed claims from the law's supporters and detractors. Will chipping away at the Affordable Care Act cause people to die? Did the health care law "bend" the cost curve? Did your taxes go up to pay for healthcare for the poor and the sick? Mike interrogates some of these pronouncements with Vox's Sarah Kliff. Listen to her new weekly podcast, Impact. Pitchforks down, please: a Spiel about why New York Times op-ed columnist Mayim Bialik isn't a monster. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:07.2	It's Monday, October 16th, 2017 from Slate, it's the gist I'm Mike Pesca.
0:12.0	You got a problem with the sunset clause?
0:13.7	I got a problem with you.
0:15.2	Lindsey Graham's got a problem with the sunset clause.
0:17.8	I'd hate to be a Democrat defending the sunset clause.
0:20.7	Hey, look, I don't like when the deal is over that a rank
0:24.8	could get back to pursuing nuclear weapons.
0:27.4	It'd be better if they gave up forever and ever and ever that ambition.
0:31.6	The Democrats don't like the sunset clause.
0:34.5	John Dickerson doesn't like the sunset clause.
0:37.6	I could tell he didn't answer when Lindsey Graham put that to him.
0:41.0	And those have longer sons.
0:42.1	You may think the sunset is a good deal.
0:43.8	I don't.
0:44.5	But let me tell you, John Dickerson doesn't think the sunset clause is a good idea.
0:48.8	He'd rather have the Iranians give up nukes tomorrow and agree to never even think of
0:53.2	a word that rhymes with nuclear.
0:55.4	But the deal with the sunset part of the deal being a bad deal is this.
1:00.4	It's not a flaw in the agreement.
1:02.4	It is the agreement.
1:04.1	That's the agreement.
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