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Ralph Nader Radio Hour

Will Democrats Fight for Medicare For All?

Ralph Nader Radio Hour

Ralph Nader

Government, News

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2018

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Michael Lighty, Policy Director for National Nurses United, makes the case for Medicare For All and points out the gap between the Democratic “base” and its “donors.” Plus Ralph tells us about his new book, “To The Ramparts: How Bush and Obama Paved the Way For the Trump Presidency and How It’s Not Too Late to Change Course.” Plus, listener questions!



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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.

0:05.6

Stand up, stand up.

0:07.8

You've been sitting ready to song.

0:10.3

Welcome to the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. My name is Steve Scrovan.

0:17.0

Unfortunately, David Feldman is having some technical difficulties, so he's not joining us as of yet. He jump in a little bit later but we do have the man to the hour Ralph Nader hello Ralph

0:27.3

Hello Steve we miss David we do miss David desperately but we're going to soldier on and I'm going to put some topics on the table here

0:37.5

Last week President Trump wrote an op-ed which was published in USA Today I think we know enough about Donald

0:44.8

Trump to know that he probably didn't actually write it himself and it was all about

0:48.4

Medicare for all and how bad it would be for America. And not surprisingly, it was full of lies. Just about

0:56.4

every major news media organization, broadcast, print, and electronic blasted the president for those lies.

1:04.0

Aside of course from Fox News, they just kind of reported on the controversy.

1:08.0

Even Jimmy Fallon called him out.

1:10.2

And I think we all know that when you've lost Fallon, you've lost America.

1:14.0

Well, what this attack on Medicare for all indicates to me is that the Republicans are very afraid of this idea.

1:21.0

So on the show today, we are going to talk with an activist who has been

1:24.5

campaigning for Medicare for All. He's actually on tour promoting it all across the

1:29.3

country. He's going to come to us from a tour stop in Dallas this week and his name is Michael Liddy and he's the director of public policy for National Nurses United.

1:39.0

I actually have a soft spot for nurses. My mother a nurse so who you going to trust about your

1:45.3

health care Donald Trump or my mother we'll talk with mr. Liddy in the first half of the show in the

1:50.3

second half of the show we're going to talk about Ralph's latest book.

1:53.7

I know some of you might be thinking, wait, didn't you just do a show about Ralph's latest book?

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