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Ralph Nader Radio Hour

The Corporate Assault on Medicare

Ralph Nader Radio Hour

Ralph Nader

Government, News

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2022

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

In our ongoing campaign against the corporate assault on America’s healthcare system, Ralph welcomes Kip Sullivan of “Healthcare for All Minnesota” to talk about what he terms “the creeping privatization of Medicare,” and tells us the story of how that ongoing corporatization is based on one particularly destructive yet durable myth.



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0:00.0

I'm Tom Morello, and you're listening to the Ralph Nader Radio Hour.

0:03.4

Stand up, stand up, you've been sitting way too long.

0:12.6

Welcome to the Ralph Nader Radio Hour.

0:14.3

My name is Steve Scrove, and along with my co-host, David Feldman.

0:17.5

Hello, David.

0:18.6

Very exciting show today.

0:20.4

Yes, indeed.

0:21.6

And we're joined for that show by the Man of the Hour Ralph Nader.

0:25.2

Hello, Ralph.

0:26.0

Hello, we need your help audience specifically, very easy.

0:29.3

So stay tuned.

0:30.9

We are going to be tackling one of our favorite subjects.

0:33.6

We've attacked this from many different angles,

0:36.0

and here's yet another one.

0:37.7

Because Americans have been paying too much for health care for decades.

0:42.0

Some people think the solution is to charge Americans

0:45.2

less for health care.

0:46.4

That's the idea behind Medicare.

0:48.5

But almost as soon as Medicare was passed in the 1960s,

0:52.1

corporate interests have been undermining it.

0:54.4

Our guests today will be single-payer advocate, Kip Sullivan.

0:57.5

We'll speak with Mr. Sullivan about the creeping privatization

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