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President and CEO of GSN, the US cable television network, and author of Catastrophic Care: How American Health Care Killed my Father – and How We Can Fix It
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David Goldhill
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FROM David Goldhill
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A Better Path to Affordable Healthcare? Obamacare was produced in part to put the brakes on the costs of healthcare in the United States, which outstrips the rest of the industrial world. There's a developing consensus on both sides that the "employer mandate" may be a major part of the problem, and it's been put off for a year. Will it ultimately be phased out? David Goldhill, President and CEO of the cable TV network, GSN, is author of the new book, Catastrophic Care : How America Health Care Killed My Father -- and How We Can Fix It.
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Replacing Obamacare: Now you see it… now you don’t As the Senate deliberates replacing Obmacare, health coverage for millions of people is at stake. There've been no public hearings, and a draft measure won't be made public. Is the House version so unpopular that that Senate is hiding a version that looks much the same?
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White House budget proposal slashes and burns President Trump's first budget request is considered dead on arrival in Congress — a familiar development in Capitol Hill. We hear what it reveals about the priorities of the new administration. What's likely to die… and what might survive?
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Venezuela spirals into economic and political chaos Venezuela, a country whose potential for prosperity is unmatched, finds itself on the verge of civil war. What sustains the repressive government? With time running out, guest host León Krauze looks at what the international community can do to pull the country from the edge of collapse.
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Human Rights in the era of Donald Trump President Trump’s UN Ambassador, Nikki Haley, said today the US might pull out of the United Nations’ Human Rights Council. Serious violators of human rights are members of the Council itself–and a US resignation could make things worse. Later on today’s show, now that he’s into his second term, comedian turned US Senator Al Franken is telling jokes again.