Chris Murphy
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1,330 appearances
64 recordings
22 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 29 Jun
Chris Murphy’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It was just like the right thing to do, the idea that you would pool risk so that nobody goes bankrupt if they get sick.
It started in Texas.
where a whole bunch of teachers essentially got together and pooled the risk of hospitalization.
And, you know, until about 20 years ago, health insurance was still not for profit.
And then somebody figured out that you could make a whole bunch of money off it, and it became for profit.
That was the same thing with youth sports, right?
Like, when we grew up, it was inconceivable that a New York investment firm would own the league that my...
little league baseball team played in.
We just had like an understanding that like, it was just kind of icky for certain things to be run for profit.
So now what do we do?
Do we come in as a Congress or does a state legislature come in and say,
that youth sports associations can't be owned by for-profit entities?
Maybe, like maybe that's where it's come to, but boy, it'd be a lot better off if we could have just kept that old informal understanding.
It's a transition that's been in the works for decades, the idea that the only thing that matters in our economy is profit and efficiency, and that if a particular industry is generating profit, then it must inherently be working correctly.
That's a really new idea in America.
It used to be that we thought an economy should work first and foremost for the common good,
We wanted people to make money because that's how you get innovation and ingenuity and hard work is something you want to incentivize.
But we said, first, the economy should work to just make us happy, right?
To make us feel fulfilled.
And second, it should work to make...
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