Where Medicare-for-all is real

Today, Explained

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🗓️ 19 February 2020

⏱️ 18 minutes

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The Democratic presidential candidates keep having the same argument over Medicare-for-all at the televised debates. To spice up the conversation, Vox’s Dylan Scott takes Sean on a journey to Taiwan to explore how the idea works in practice. (Transcript here.) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Music
0:06.0	Music
0:15.0	Alright, so...
0:17.0	Talk to me about Taipei.
0:19.0	Do I have to?
0:21.0	Yeah!
0:22.0	It's hot.
0:24.0	It's bustling for sure.
0:26.0	Wait, Dylan, why are we in Taipei again?
0:28.0	Well, my colleague, Bird Pinkerton and I, went to Taiwan for this series of stories on international health systems.
0:36.0	I think this is the hospital.
0:38.0	And we had this appointment with a college professor, but we needed to kill some time before he hit.
0:43.0	And his office just so happened to be right next to the National Taiwan University Hospital in downtown Taipei.
0:50.0	I've got an hour and a half.
0:53.0	We see as much as we can.
0:54.0	So what did you see when you went inside?
0:56.0	It was really crowded inside.
0:58.0	It's evening with people.
1:00.0	Like, there was the opening registration lobby, which was just a big kind of open room.
1:05.0	And there were like, buzzers peeing all the time.
1:07.0	Press the button, take a number.
1:09.0	People getting their numbers called.
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