The following podcast contains explicit language.

It's Thursday, March 9, 2017, from Slate It's Digest, I'm Mike Pesca.

Paul Ryan, in describing the American Healthcare Act, his savior of the decrepit eroding death

rattle that is Obamacare, emphasized the deliverance that his bill represents.

Obamacare is collapsing.

Obamacare isn't staying.

If we did nothing, the law would collapse and leave everybody without affordable healthcare.

We are doing a act of mercy by repealing this law and replacing it with patient-centered

healthcare reforms.

Ah, so Obamacare didn't have death panels, but the Ryan bill is a death panel.

It euthanizes a dying patient.

And what better symbolizes the care, sensitivity, and patient-centered empathy than the house

committee on Ways and Means and hospice care?

Oh, wait, no, just Ways and Means.

There, in a session that went until 4.30 this AM so a dying patient could be quickly

shuffled out the door, sorry, tenderly ushered into the whisper of the grape beyond.

There was Representative Jason Smith of Missouri.

He talked about an aspect of the ACA, attacks on tanning salons.

I wanted to see who is the, who predominantly is taxed with this tanning tax.

Is it men?

Is it women?

Today's International Women Day.

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