4.6 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2017
⏱️ 32 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:03.2 | You know, coming from a different world and only being a politician for a short period of time, |
| 0:08.2 | how am I doing? Am I doing okay? I'm president. |
| 0:10.4 | Hey, I'm president. |
| 0:12.0 | Did you believe it, right? |
| 0:14.6 | Have you ever seen a Rose Garden ceremony for a bill that passed one chamber? |
| 0:20.4 | This is a repeal and a replace of Obamacare, make no mistake about it. |
| 0:26.0 | I have to rely on my staff and I can probably tell you that I read every word and I wouldn't be telling you the truth. |
| 0:38.0 | Hello and welcome to Trumpcast, the show about the man who says he finally feels like the president. |
| 0:45.0 | Now that he's taking healthcare away from 25 million people, Donald Trump, I'm Jacob Oysterburg. |
| 0:52.0 | On Thursday afternoon, the House passed the American Healthcare Act, the AHCA by a four-vote margin. |
| 0:59.0 | Donald Trump and the Republicans are celebrating the end of Obamacare and its replacement with... |
| 1:05.0 | Well, that's the question. The president doesn't know what's in the bill. |
| 1:09.0 | Legislators who voted for it don't know what's in the bill. |
| 1:12.0 | They couldn't wait for the Congressional Budget Office to do its analysis, |
| 1:16.0 | so we don't know how many millions of people it will deprive of health insurance, |
| 1:20.0 | how many thousands are likely to die as a result, or how many billions of dollars it'll add to the deficit. |
| 1:26.0 | But we've got some pretty good guesses, based on an earlier, somewhat different version of the bill that never came up for a vote. |
| 1:32.0 | My guess today says that Trump care suffers from a fundamental lack of purpose. |
| 1:38.0 | Democrats have a clear goal when it comes to healthcare. They want everybody to have health insurance. |
| 1:43.0 | Whereas Republicans want, well, it's hard to say what they want. |
| 1:47.0 | I'll be back in a moment to speak to a Tool Gawande of the New Yorker about their rushed, hodgepodge of a bill. |
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