We are still the only country in the developed world that doesn't have truly universal healthcare.

We have many millions of people who do not have insurance.

We have many millions of people who have insurance, but they still can't pay their medical bills,

right?

Because they got these high deductibles.

The premiums are really eating into their wages.

We have people who they have to, you know, they have to fight insurance bureaucracies to

get treatment, they deal with mind-boggling level of hassle.

Hello, and welcome to Wise This Happening with me, your host Chris Hayes.

One of the weirdest things about the politics of the current moment to me is how the American

right has evolved in such a way that it ceases to have anything to say about the major questions

of political economy in our time.

What am I mean by that?

I came of age at a time when there was a certain kind of ascendant intellectual right, people

call it neoliberalism.

It was embodied in figures like Friedrich Hayek and then Milton Friedman and then in figures

like Reagan and Thatcher that made these arguments about markets versus the state about big

government and about the need for smaller government and how markets were both better for

human flourishing as a kind of moral and philosophical matter and better for prosperity as

a kind of efficiency question.

And that entire universe, dominant in the University of Chicago economics, school of economics,

all sorts of think tanks, all sorts of writers, this huge kind of era of big government is

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