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SIO22: From Obamacare to Trumpcare

Serious Inquiries Only

Thomas Smith

News, Atheism, Skepticism, Democrat, Left, Liberal, Politics, News Commentary, Progressive, Religion

4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2017

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

In today's episode I want to discuss one of the most significant battles that will be fought in the new administration: that is the repeal and replacement of Obamacare. While looking into a lot of the claims made by Sean Spicer and other Trump apologists, I was struck by how fascinating the story of Obamacare really is. So, the first 15 minutes or so of today's episode is on the history of Obamacare, and what implications it has for the future of Trumpcare. Good Obamacare Timeline, Another Good Timeline, CNN's Piss-Poor Timeline NYT Article on Trumpcare, Demographics That Will Suffer Most Leave us a Voicemail: (916) 750-4746! Support us on Patreon at: patreon.com/seriouspod Follow us on Twitter: @seriouspod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/seriouspod For comments, email [email protected] Questions, Suggestions, Episode ideas? email: [email protected]

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0:00.0

You're listening to serious inquiries only. Oh, Hello and welcome to serious inquiries only this is number 22. I'm your host Thomas Smith and thanks for

0:35.8

joining me today on some free inquiry Thursday. Lots to talk about. The main issue for today is going

0:42.1

to be the Republicans plan to repeal

0:44.6

and replace Obamacare. What's in the bill? What does it look like? Is it the

0:48.2

greatest health care plan of all time or in the world? We'll see. And then also I have a few other little things to talk about that I think are very

0:57.8

interesting little tidbits. And in addition I've got a couple voicemails to comment on changing the format of the

1:05.0

voicemail segment so that I respond in between voicemails which should be a little

1:10.4

easier to keep track of and with, let's get right into it. First things first I need to dispel with a myth this was a little bit of liberal

1:26.0

fake news you may have seen floating around Facebook and other social media

1:29.8

that Trump's answer to Obamacare was called the world's greatest health care plan.

1:37.0

Now, while it's true that a Republican lawmaker, a Republican representative, has introduced a plan called the World's Greatest Health Care Plan 2017.

1:47.0

This is not the official Trump plan that repeals and replaces Obamacare.

1:52.6

This is a separate thing.

1:53.8

This guy seems like kind of a nut to me.

1:55.2

I don't know how much sway he has in the House of Representatives.

1:59.5

But it's funny because his plan is just so mind-numbingly stupid.

2:03.4

All it is is it repeals everything and then it allows each American to claim

2:07.3

2,500 tax benefit as well as a $1,500 tax benefit per minor.

2:13.9

So that ought to pay for what, like maybe a tenth of your health care,

2:17.4

maybe at best, like a fifth of your health care.

2:21.2

So it's just one of these typical Republican attempts to just say

2:24.5

now the free market give a bunch of language about how the free market's going to solve it

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