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Explain It to Me

Trump couldn't repeal Obamacare, so he's making it worse

Explain It to Me

Vox Media Podcast Network

Politics, Society & Culture, Education, News

4.48K Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2017

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Dylan Scott joins Sarah and Matt to dive into the newest forms of Obamacare sabotage, and to talk about heroin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Maybe talk a little with Dylan about heroin.

0:02.5

I talk about heroin.

0:17.0

Hello and welcome to the weeds coming to you

0:18.9

from the Vox Media Podcast Network.

0:21.0

I am Sarah Cliff.

0:22.1

I'm here in the studio today with my colleague, Dylan Scott.

0:25.4

And I'm just going to tell you a little podcasting story.

0:28.3

So on Thursday, otherwise known as yesterday, Dylan and Matti Glacius and I,

0:33.5

we got in here.

0:34.3

We taped a great episode about the executive order and about some things about opioids.

0:39.4

And we thought, great, we'd covered the healthcare news of the week.

0:42.8

And then at 11.30 on Thursday night, we got the biggest healthcare news of this week

0:48.6

that Trump will be pulling these key Obamacare subsidies.

0:52.7

So Dylan and I are back here in the studio on Friday.

0:55.7

We are going to tack this little extra onto the top of the weeds and then you'll get

0:59.0

to hear the entire episode.

1:01.8

Before we do get to the episode, I'm going to make one more plug.

1:04.4

I have a new show launching on Monday that I think listeners of the weeds would really

1:08.6

like.

1:09.6

It is called the impact.

1:10.6

It is about how policy affects real people.

1:13.5

If you are a longtime weed listener and you remember weeds in the wilds episode where we

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