This week, Senate Republicans postponed the vote for their healthcare bill, which was secretly written by 13 men. The bill slashes Medicaid funding while cutting taxes by nearly $1 trillion over the next decade, mostly for the rich and corporations.
We’ll also discuss the status of single payer in California. How is media coverage shaping the healthcare debate?
Guests:
Elisabeth Rosenthal, Editor-in-Chief of Kaiser Health News, and author of An American Sickness: How Healthcare became Big Business and How You Can Take it Back
Trudy Lieberman, long-time contributor to the Columbia Journalism Review where she blogs for CJR.org about media coverage of healthcare and retirement issues, and "Thinking About Health" bi-monthly columnist for the Rural Health News Service
Web Resources:
CJR: Health care journalists need to cover the AHCA from the ground up
CNN: Why US health care costs defy common sense
AP: Koch network 'piggy banks' close until Republicans pass health and tax reform
NYT: Shifting dollars from poor to rich is key part of the Senate Health Bill
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