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Architect of Obamacare: Health Care Is Still a Mess

Architect of Obamacare: Health Care Is Still a Mess

The David Frum Show vor 11 Monaten

Jonathan Gruber on the broken American health-care system, Obamacare, the Trump administration’s war on vaccines and science, and being on the wrong end of Republican outrage. Plus: David on Donald Trump’s Ukraine “peace plan,” recent scandals, and They T

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On this week’s episode of “The David Frum Show,” The Atlantic’s
David Frum opens with his thoughts on the shocking alleged
corruption that has informed President Donald Trump’s actions
towards Ukraine and the scandal of the recently proposed “peace
plan” by the United States. He goes on to discuss how the many
scandals of the Trump presidency make it hard it to focus on just
one, as it is quickly replaced in the news cycle by another. Then
David is joined by Jonathan Gruber, an economics professor of
Economics and the chairman of the economics department at MIT.
Gruber discusses the backlash he faced as a key architect of the
Affordable Care Act and why the American health-care system still
feels so broken. David and Gruber also talk about the war on both
vaccines and science that is being waged by the conservative right.
Finally, David closes the episode with a discussion on They Thought
They Were Free, by Milton Mayer, and what we can learn about
teaching soldiers to commit crimes. Get more from your favorite
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