healthcare reform

Trumpcare Delayed Is Trumpcare Denied (Ep. 106)

July 3, 2017 00:35:04

This week’s MPU podcast looks at the GOP’s failure to pass an Obamacare repeal and replace bill, the U.S. arms sale to Taiwan, the potential for a U.S. ground war in Syria, the future of the Trump travel ban in the Supreme Court, and what the Founding Fathers might have thought of America in 2017.

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On Health Care Reform (Which is NOT Being Offered by Washington Republicans)

June 22, 2017

by D.J. McGuire

So, the Senate Republicans have, at long last, graced us with their plans for “health care reform” – quotes used because it isn’t health care reform. At best, it’s an attempt at health insurance reform much like “Obamacare,” which was corporatized health insurance cleverly disguised as socialized medicine. Regarding “Obamacare” – or, as I call it, the Patently Deficient and Unaffordably Careless Act – Congressional Republicans are far closer to Rinse and Repeat than Repeal and Replace.

Regarding actual health care reform, Washington would be best served doing what they could to increase health care supply. In that spirit, I present the following ideas (below the break).

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Trumpcare R.I.P. (Ep. 88)

March 27, 2017 00:46:01

In this “More Perfect Union” podcast episode the gang takes an in-depth look at the future of healthcare reform after the Trumpcare-Ryancare vote debacle and then has some laughs about the Devin Nunes-Adam Schiff war of words over the House Intelligence Committee’s investigation into Russian influence in the presidential election.

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More Perfect, After Dark: War and Peace (Ep. 87)

March 22, 2017 00:23:30

This special “After-Dark” episode takes listeners behind the scenes to hear what the hosts talk about after the podcast ends. This week they discuss the North Korean nuclear threat and how it compares to past situations in Iraq and Syria, how Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is handling his new role on the world stage, and whether President Trump is up to the task of international diplomacy.

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TrumpCare Debut

March 13, 2017 00:35:49

Episode 84 of The More Perfect Union podcast looks at the February jobs report, the TrumpCare replacement bill, the firing of 46 U.S. attorneys, the voting rights mess in Texas, and tattoo ideas for one of the co-hosts.

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