Trump's trek to El Paso and Dayton as "consoler-in-chief" was a disaster, as is his entire presidency. Nicole Sandler begins the show with a bit of comedy and a look at the latest news of the day. Then, as it's Thursday, Howie Klein of Down with Tyranny and the Blue America PAC returns to talk about two progressive priorities for 2020 and beyond: Medicare for All and a new assault weapons ban...
Once again, Nicole Sandler watched the debate so you don't have to! We'll recap night 2 of debate 2. Then Howie Klein of Down with Tyranny and the Blue America PAC weighs in too.
Many Americans first met Wendell Potter in 2009 when he left the health insurance industry to become a whistleblower and told us the truth. He exposed the industry for the profit-grabbing thieves they are. Today, Potter is president of The Business Initiative for Health Policy, an organization focused on enacting Medicare for All. He's also the founder of Tarbell.org, an nonprofit, independent, reader supported news site covering money in politics and policy. And he's the author of a few books including Deadly Spin, which tells the story of his transition from insurance industry PR flak to whistleblower. It was [...]
We're back today, and Congress is back from its Easter break too, so it's time to get down to business. The first-ever House hearing on Medicare for All happened today in the House Rules committee. M4A Activist Ady Barkan, who's dying from ALS, was among those who testified. Scroll down to see his entire testimony. It's truly worth your time. The it's time for GottaLaff to return to the show to shoot the shit about the rest of the news. For some reason, WordPress won't let me embed the video of Ady Barkan testifying. Just click here to watch it.
We're back today, and Congress is back from its Easter break too, so it's time to get down to business. The first-ever House hearing on Medicare for All happened today in the House Rules committee. M4A Activist Ady Barkan, who's dying from ALS, was among those who testified. Scroll down to see his entire testimony. It's truly worth your time. The it's time for GottaLaff to return to the show to shoot the shit about the rest of the news. For some reason, WordPress won't let me embed the video of Ady Barkan testifying. Just click here to watch it.
We're still recovering from an ugly and divisive State of the Union address in which Trump threatened no legislation while there's an investigation, and claimed we'd be at war with North Korea by now if he hadn't been elected. I couldn't make this stuff up if I tried. I'll fill you in on what you missed if you opted out. Then Gaius Publius, now writing under his actual name of Thomas Neuburger, returns to talk about the inevitability .. .or not... of Medicare for All. He wrote two pieces about it for Down with Tyranny: "Medicare For All — The [...]
After an update on the news and the GOP tax scam passing the House and moving in the Senate, we welcomed Derrick Crowe, progressive Democratic candidate for Congress from Texas' 21st district. Check out Derrick's website at electcrowe.com.
Today's the day that Bernie Sanders introduces his Medicare for All Act of 2017, with 16 co-sponsors. Dave Johnson, former fellow at CAF, joins in to talk about how far we've come, and other good ideas that should be the way of our future.
