Good evening, current affairs listeners. I am Nathan Robinson, the editor of Current Affairs

Magazine, and I am here tonight. First, with my current affairs colleagues, Mr. Orrin Nimney,

hello. Hello, everyone. Orrin and I are sharing an earbud, and so we are very close. We've

spent a lot of time living together, but this is the closest we've been in a very long time.

I hope the intimacy comes through to the listener at home. I'm also here with Ashling McCray.

Hello, Ashley.

Hello.

And finally, we have an incredibly special guest, the author of the new book, Health, Justice Now, Single Payer, and what comes next?

Mr. Timothy Faust, he is here in New Orleans with us in Current Affairs headquarters.

Hello, Tim.

Howdy all?

Happy to be here in HQ.

Tim, we had an event last night.

You were kind enough to come and give a talk co-sponsored by Current Affairs Magazine

and the New Orleans Democratic Socialists of America,

a talk that went incredibly well and you packed the house and you really roused the whole room.

It's rather incredible that on a Friday night in New Orleans with such a wealth of leisure for people to indulge in,

they chose, so many of them chose to come to a talk on health

care financing. So that's pretty strong credit to you.

Well, it's humbling, obviously. It's cool people come out, going toe to toe to toe with like

decadence and decadence parties, which I believe is the big pride event in New Orleans.

Yeah, I'm really grateful people came out. I kind of got it easy in that health care is the great unifier.

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