The Stay Healthy Edition

Slate Money

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Investing, Business

4.3 • 988 Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2015

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of Slate Money, Felix Salmon of Fusion, Slate's Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann, and author Harold Pollack discuss: • Harold's simple financial guide, The Index Card: Why Personal Finance Doesn't Have to Be Complicated • The current state of the Affordable Care Act • The economics behind neglected diseases Harold Pollack is the Helen Ross Professor of Social Service Administration and an Affiliate Professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Chicago, and a nonresident fellow of the Century Foundation. Read his proposal on how to strengthen the Affordable Care Act, here. Check out other Panoply podcasts at itunes.com/panoply. Email: [email protected] Twitter: @Felix salmon, @mathbabedotorg, @JHWeissmann Podcast production by Zachary Dinerstein Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.1	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:33.4	Hello!
0:39.4	And Merry Christmas and welcome to the Stay Healthy edition of Slate Money,
0:49.1	your guide to the Business and Finance news of the week.
0:54.0	It's very merry and special week that it is.
0:57.0	I'm Felix Salmon, a fusion.
0:59.0	I am joined as always by Slates moneybox columnist Jordan Weisman.
1:04.0	Happy Festivist, Merry Christmas, and all that to our listeners.
1:08.0	And Kathy is away this week sadly, but we are super excited to have the one and only
1:16.1	Harold Pollock on the show this week. Hi Harold.
1:19.6	Hi it's great to be here. So Harold is someone we've been wanting to have on for a very long time.
1:24.4	He's flown in from the University of Chicago where you are a professor of what?
1:30.0	Social service administration.
1:31.6	Which sounds less interesting than it actually is.
1:34.7	I think, I think just, you know, the proper way to describe Harold is King Policy Wonk.
1:41.9	How is awesome on the on the Wanc, in the Wancubus?
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