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BONUS: Will Talks Idaho Medicaid Expansion Documentary feat. Jim & Laura Kamoosi

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🗓️ 8 April 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Will discusses a new documentary on the shockingly successful grassroots effort to expand Medicaid through ballot initiative in Idaho with our friends Jim and Laura Kamoosi. Watch the film through the Santa Barbara International Film Festival at www.sbiff.org Find more information about the film here: www.reclaimidahofilm.com/

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0:00.0

Okay, greetings, friends. It's some bonus shop-o content coming your way. And folks, do you

0:08.3

feel like we're living in an age of overwhelming political despair and disenfranchisement? I do

0:13.9

too. So it's good to counter that feeling with an example of something a grassroots political

0:25.1

campaign that improves the lives of everyday people and indeed saves lives. But there's also

0:31.7

a movie about it. So you can feel good watching a movie and watching something about real

0:37.0

politics that has happened and is successful and provides something of a blueprint for

0:41.7

any campaign in the future that seeks to redress the numerous maladies plaguing the American

0:48.1

public. So to that end, I would like to introduce the directors of the new documentary film,

0:54.3

Re-Claim Idaho, currently screening at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival,

0:59.2

they are my good old friends, Jim Camousey and Laura Wing Camousey. Welcome.

1:05.2

Thank you. Thanks for having us. Thanks for having us.

1:08.0

So like I said, you're you have a new documentary. It's called Re-Claim Idaho and it is about

1:13.0

a grassroots political campaign to pass a ballot measure to expand Medicaid in the state

1:19.7

of Idaho. How did you come across this project? Yeah, it's kind of a funny story, but all

1:27.9

roads do in fact lead to Chappau because we heard Tim Faust on Chappau one day and thought

1:35.8

who is this weirdo? And so when we had a little time, we reached out to him to see if there

1:41.6

was some kind of documentary project that we could work on together.

1:44.8

We need to define Faust or a receipt or see a known factor. He was a guy who sold his

1:52.0

soul to the devil, I believe, for Medicare, X-Medicare actions in the state of Idaho.

1:59.0

So we wanted to work with Tim on a project and we've been talking about a bunch of different

2:02.9

things and one day he called us up and said, there's this campaign, it's an Idaho, it's

2:08.9

this married couple, they've got this like rickety old RV, they've painted a green, they're

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