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Explain It to Me

The many flavors of Medicare-for-all

Explain It to Me

Vox Media Podcast Network

Politics, Education, News, Society & Culture

4.48K Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2018

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Dylan Scott joins Sarah and Matt to break down eight different plans circulating to expand government health insurance programs. References and further reading: Sarah breaks down five competing health care plans from Democrats Dylan lays out the Urban Institute’s proposed health care plan   A white paper finds ICE partnerships with local police led to a decline in elementary-school enrollment of Hispanic students Are you interested in more discussions around health care policy? Join our Facebook community for conversation and updates.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Support for this show comes from Into the Mix, a Ben and Jerry's podcast about joy and justice produced with Fox Creative.

0:07.0

As state legislatures consider more than 500 anti-trans bills, the latest episode of Into the Mix asks,

0:13.0

how best to support and protect transgender youth.

0:16.0

Like Olioski, a young man who, despite growing up in a loving and supportive home,

0:20.0

felt the need for friendship with other trans and queer kids.

0:23.0

At just seven years old, he took initiative and built a lasting community.

0:27.0

That story on Into the Mix, subscribe now.

0:57.0

Hello and welcome to another episode of The Weeds on the Fox Media Podcast Network.

1:11.0

I'm Matthew Eglaceus, here today with Sarah Cliff and Dylan Scott,

1:16.0

an innobel reliance on the norms of American politics.

1:21.0

Even Donald Trump is keeping the Thanksgiving to Christmas season a little bit sleepy, I would say, in the news cycle.

1:29.0

So we are able to live up to our ideals and take things back a little bit.

1:34.0

Sarah and Dylan are working on a great project right now where they are reading all of the different democratic Medicare for all plans,

1:43.0

and they will explain them all to you in text form soon.

1:47.0

But here in audio form, I had some questions about this.

1:51.0

I'm going to be this sort of straight man, the dope here.

1:55.0

So Medicare.

1:56.0

So Medicare, it's like, it's a thing old people get it.

2:01.0

Some people are old.

2:02.0

So Medicare for all, it sounds to me like we'll take Medicare,

2:06.0

this successful program for old people, and we'll just let all people have it, right?

2:11.0

Never so simple.

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