We’re Losing the Next Pandemic Fight (w/ Jonathan Cohn) | Bulwark on Sunday
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🗓️ 1 June 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Building a coffee business? |
| 0:01.9 | Serving the best Americano in town is up to you. But winning back time and growing your business, leave that to sum up. Take orders and payments anywhere with the new sum up terminal. Turn occasional customers into regulars with a free loyalty program. And with the sumup point of sale system, you'll always know when you're running low on your best selling blends. Visit sumup.com.com. To learn more. Hi, welcome to bulwark Sunday. I'm Bill Crystal and I'm joined by my colleague Jonathan |
| 0:25.5 | Cohn, expert on all things, healthcare and a few other things as well, but genuinely |
| 0:31.9 | has followed. This, not just this healthcare debate, but decades, decades, I guess, |
| 0:36.6 | of healthcare debates very closely and written very interestingly let's not talk about how many |
| 0:41.6 | decades yeah let's not informatively about them so thank you for joining us today and |
| 0:47.7 | I mean there's been a lot going on right the last couple of weeks with RFK Jr and you |
| 0:52.1 | should describe it I guess for me that the sort of striking just super top line, |
| 0:56.2 | but tell me if I'm wrong, is that he got confirmed and friends of mine or acquaintance ex-friends in line who I still chat with occasionally, we're saying, well, don't worry. I mean, I hadn't focused as much on Kennedy. It's on Tulsi Gabbard and Cash Patel and P.T.X.S. and the sort of national security area. |
| 1:11.4 | And so don't worry. |
| 1:12.8 | I mean, Congress has a huge amount to say about, Kelsey Gabbard and Cash Patel and Pete Hetzeth and the sort of national security area. |
| 1:11.4 | And so don't worry. |
| 1:12.8 | I mean, Congress has a huge amount to say about health policy and the experts there. |
| 1:18.3 | He's not going to just override them. |
| 1:19.8 | He'll just give some silly speeches and so forth. |
| 1:21.8 | But has that working out? |
| 1:24.3 | Yeah, that's not quite how it's worked out. |
| 1:27.1 | And you may remember in the confirmation hearings, |
| 1:29.8 | Senator Cassidy from Louisiana, who's a doctor who takes this stuff very seriously. You know, |
| 1:35.2 | he was skeptical of Kennedy and Kennedy assured him. I'm not going to, you know, he assured Kennedy, |
| 1:39.9 | he assured Cassidy and all the senators, by extension, the American people. |
| 1:44.2 | I'm not going to just impose my own agenda. |
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