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The Health Care Turnabout

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

Slate Podcasts

News, News Commentary, Daily News

4.32.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2018

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Andrew Gillum began his candidacy as a "Medicare for All" supporter. His subtle slide from that position to another is a small, but telling one. Today on the show, a look into the health care debate in the lead up to midterms. Plus, Slate's Mark Joseph Stern on the Trump administration's effort to roll back civil rights protections for transgender people. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Do you feel like you understand healthcare now?

0:04.3

Yes, more so than most of my fellow 26-year-old friends.

0:12.1

Shefali Luthoro works at Kaiser Health News in D.C.

0:15.3

She's covered healthcare for the past four years.

0:17.7

It's a very complicated subject, so I'm always learning something new about it.

0:22.7

Being in Washington, writing about all the back and forth about insurance, copays and

0:27.8

deductibles.

0:29.4

These four years have actually felt a lot longer.

0:32.6

Repeal and replace was, you know, a very long process, and in some ways sort of felt like

0:40.2

Groundhogs Day.

0:41.9

Republicans tried to repeal the Affordable Care Act dozens of times on Shefali's watch.

0:46.6

Culminating in that May day, a year and a half ago, President Trump in the Rose Garden.

0:51.3

Thank you, Mike.

0:52.5

Dozens of Republican congressmen are behind him, smiling.

0:55.8

Thank you very much.

0:56.8

It just really is the group.

0:58.0

What a great group of people.

1:00.0

We suffered with Obamacare.

1:01.6

I went through two years of campaigning, and I'm telling you, no matter where I went,

1:08.2

people were suffering so badly with the ravages of Obamacare.

1:14.3

Shefali says, this is the moment that things began to change, because when it looked like

1:19.4

Congress was about to repeal the Affordable Care Act.

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