Trumpcare Fiasco/Logic For The Left

Ralph Nader Radio Hour

Ralph Nader

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🗓️ 1 June 2019

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Medicare For All advocate, Dr. John Geyman, rejoins us to discuss his latest book “Struggling and Dying Under Trumpcare: How We Fix This Fiasco.” And philosophy professor Ben Burgis explains how to “Give Them an Argument: Logic For The Left.” Plus, David Helvarg comes on in the Wrap Up to explain how he’s “Putting The Blue in the Green New Deal.”

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0:00.0	From the K-P-F-K studios in Southern California,
0:03.6	it's the Ralph Nader Radio Hour.
0:05.7	Stand up, stand up.
0:07.8	You've been sitting great to long.
0:18.4	Welcome to the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. My name is Steve Scrove and along with my returning co-host David Feldman. Welcome back David. It is an honor to be back. It's good to have you back and we have the
0:24.9	man of the hour too of course Ralph Nader. Hello Ralph.
0:28.0	Hey, how are you? This is going to be a titanic issue to 2020 elections?
0:33.6	Yes, we hope it is.
0:34.8	And what Ralph is referring to is,
0:37.3	we've got a couple of doctors on the program today.
0:40.3	One is an MD, the other at PhD.
0:43.0	And first up is Dr. John Geiman.
0:45.7	He is back with us to discuss health care.
0:48.3	Regular listeners remember Dr. Geiman as an advocate for Medicare for all. He has done a deep analysis of
0:54.0	Obamacare versus Medicare for all as well as the Republican alternative,
0:58.0	whatever that turns out to be. And I believe he, I'm going to give him credit
1:02.2	for coining the term Trump
1:03.6	Trump I think owns the health care system now and he likes to talk about how
1:07.7	people don't want to give up their quote unquote beloved private health
1:11.5	insurance and I believe it's the first time the word beloved has ever been used to describe private health insurance.
1:20.0	And of course this is the same guy who said you know who knew health care was so
1:24.1	complicated he said that after taking office by the way so Dr Geiman's new book is
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