Heather Cox Richardson
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7,649 appearances
90 recordings
10 series
first heard Dec 2024
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That, in turn, will force hospitals, especially rural hospitals, to cut back services or close.
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Although still legally required to provide services to everyone, they will not be reimbursed for the cost of such care and will drop labor and delivery services, for example.
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Those closures will not just mean poorer health care, they will mean lost jobs.
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As the New York Times editorial board noted, Republicans deliberately put off the implementation of most of the Medicaid cuts until after the twenty twenty six midterms.
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New York Times reader KAM from Marin County, California, noted in a comment on the story that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessant defines onerous paperwork differently than Republicans in Congress.
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Bessant recently announced the Treasury will no longer require shell companies to disclose even the name, address, and identification of people who own an interest of more than twenty five percent or who exercise significant control over the company, as Congress required in the twenty twenty one Corporate Transparency Act.
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Congress designed the law to combat money laundering, but Bessent says the paperwork puts an undue burden on businesses.
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In eighteen eighty-three, sociologist William Graham Sumner published What the Social Classes Owe to Each Other, concluding that the answer was nothing.
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In a time when unregulated industrialization was making fortunes on the one hand and driving down wages on the other, creating extremes of rich and poor, Sumner turned on its head the traditional idea that the economy of the United States would provide a living to any man who worked hard.
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Instead, Sumner argued that anyone who did not succeed in the United States must be negligent, shiftless, inefficient, silly, and imprudent.
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Not only was it unfair to make the industrious and the prudent responsible for such shiftless men, he wrote, it would ruin the country, by destroying individual enterprise.
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Sumner called for a laissez-faire world in which those who failed should be permitted to sink into poverty and die to keep the US from becoming a place where lazy people wanted a handout.
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In the end, such people needed to be purged from society for the good of the nation.
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At the time, those succeeding in the industrializing economy nodded along with Sumner.
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The Republican New York Times editor wrote that even though Sumner's views are singularly hard and uncompromising, it is difficult to quarrel with their deductions, however one may feel one's finer instinct hurt by their apparent cruelty.
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The Trump administration seems to have embraced Sumner's belief that the nation depends upon the survival of the fittest.
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As microbiologist and senior health reporter Beth Mole reported last year in Rs Technica, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F.
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Kennedy Jr.
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appears to believe that the key to health is not to rely on the vaccines proven to prevent infectious diseases, but rather to have a strong immune system, fortified, as he wrote in a 2021 book, through healthy.
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Living, clean water, and good nutrition.
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