Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of the Left podcast.

This is a sample of our bonus content that generally speaking only members get to hear.

You get to hear just a little bit of it to give you a taste.

Every two weeks or so are crew of researchers, Dion and Aaron and Amanda and myself of course

get together for a roundtable discussion.

We talk for about an hour on a variety of subjects, sometimes related to recent episodes,

with some background information, some additional ideas that came up during the research process

or whatever happens to be on our minds and then the members get to hear that and the reviews

have been all raves.

People love these and I have been struggling, I think, to convey in words a description

that does justice to these bonus episodes.

Here I go, I'm going to try again.

You know when you see something like a rainbow or the purity of a child's smile, that's

pretty much what our bonus episodes are like.

Here's a free sample of about 15 minutes for you so you can know what all the fuss is

about and inevitably come to the conclusion that, you know what, it's probably time to sign

up for a membership.

More and more and this was already happening but it's just, it's on a trajectory now.

Health insurance companies are trying to act like your doctors and getting really deeply

involved in your care plus surveillance technology.

So we got this fun combination of already having the health insurance company be way to

involved and obviously they can deny or approve coverage but now we're getting to the next

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