Savage Love Episode 483
Savage Lovecast
Dan Savage
4.6 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2016
⏱️ 50 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the micro version of the Savage Lovecast, www.com. |
| 0:06.7 | If you're stuck in a relationship quandary, or if you're looking for sexual harmony, |
| 0:16.2 | well, there's nothing you can't ask on the Savage Lovecast. |
| 0:24.8 | When I was working on my book American Savage, I wrote a big chapter on Obamacare. |
| 0:29.0 | The title of that chapter was still evil, less evil, but still evil because our profit motive-driven health care system in this country harms a lot of people. |
| 0:41.8 | And that was truer before Obamacare, but it is still true under Obamacare. |
| 0:47.0 | People are still being harmed. |
| 0:48.3 | People are still being driven into bankruptcy. |
| 0:51.0 | Some people, by design, still don't have health insurance. |
| 0:55.3 | We're constantly talking about how great it is that children can now, and this is an Obamacare provision, that children can |
| 0:59.3 | now stay on their parents' health insurance plans until they're 26. Implicit in that, though, |
| 1:04.1 | is that 26-year-olds, when they turn 27, can lose their health insurance when they get kicked |
| 1:09.6 | off their parents' health insurance plans. |
| 1:11.6 | So it's kind of built into the system all over the place. |
| 1:14.4 | Some people are not going to have health insurance. |
| 1:16.9 | Even some people who do have health insurance, it'll be inadequate and they will be front |
| 1:21.1 | page of the New York Times a couple weeks ago, driven into bankruptcy by their bills, by their |
| 1:25.6 | co-pays, even though they have health insurance under |
| 1:29.2 | Obamacare. |
| 1:29.9 | But it's a whole hell of a lot less evil than our old system, the one the Republicans |
| 1:33.5 | want to keep bringing back. |
| 1:35.4 | This is why, however, I am a supporter, an aggressive, loud supporter of a single-payer |
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