Health Care Part 2: One nation, with liberty and health care for all (with Sanders for President Campaign Co-Chair Nina Turner)

Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer

Civic Ventures

Business, Government, News, Politics

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🗓️ 23 July 2019

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Medicare for All is the most ambitious health care proposal on the table right now, and the Bernie Sanders campaign is ground zero for making it a reality. In the second episode of a two-part series on health care, former Ohio State Senator and Sanders’ campaign co-chair Nina Turner explains why widely available and affordable high-quality health care would be revolutionary for the United States. Nina Turner was an Ohio State Senator from 2008 until 2014. In 2017, Turner became president of Our Revolution, a progressive political action organization spun out of Senator Bernie Sanders’ 2016 presidential campaign, and she is currently the national co-chair of Sanders’ 2020 campaign. Her podcast, We The People with Nina Turner, is available everywhere podcasts are posted. Twitter: @ninaturner Instagram: @ninaturnerohio Further reading: https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/25/health/what-does-medicare-for-all-mean/index.html https://www.vogue.com/article/sen-nina-turner-universal-programs-opinion

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0:00.0	A lot of these people are bought and sold by this industry, by Wall Street, by the pharmaceutical
0:08.0	industry, by the health care industry, and they don't want to upset their owners.
0:12.3	I'm sorry, excuse me, their donors.
0:14.0	Why in the world would you want to send somebody to a primary care doctor to burn a ward off
0:19.4	when you can send them to a specialist and charge $2,000.
0:23.8	They lack the intestinal fortitude either
0:27.7	ovaries or balls.
0:29.7	From the offices of Civic Ventures in downtown Seattle, this is Pitch Fork Economics,
0:40.0	with Nick Hanauer.
0:42.0	In honest conversation about how to make capitalism work for everyone. I'm Stephanie Ervin. I run a lot of our advocacy and campaign work here at Civic Ventures.
0:56.0	I'm Nick Henauer, founder of Civic Ventures.
1:00.0	Okay, so this is part two of our health care deep dive and today we're going to talk to
1:08.8	Nina Turner and Nina Turner is co-chair of...
1:12.0	Up the Sanders for president campaign.
1:14.0	Yeah and we're gonna talk about their Medicare for all proposal.
1:17.8	Which would be super interesting.
1:19.2	You know she's a super fascinating person with a really interesting personal background that clearly animates a lot of the work that she's been doing over the last few years and in her entire career as a
1:30.2	local elected leader herself and now really trying to lead a sort of movement for better
1:36.2	outcomes for people and doing that now as a part of the Bernie Sanders campaign.
1:40.1	So it'll be fun to talk to her and specifically about Medicare for all in the proposal they're suggesting.
1:45.0	Right. And you know I think you know what we learned in the first episode from TR Reed and you know just our own experiences that almost
1:54.6	anything would beat the existing system we have so it'll be really fun to
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