Jon Lovett
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39 appearances
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard Dec 2024
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This guy, well compensated, is a tool of a broken system.
this insurance company exists and benefits from a broken system.
And like that to me, like I want to have a debate about the broken healthcare system and why we have this ridiculous system where half the people get insurance through work, which creates these incredibly convoluted and broken incentives where we have publicly traded companies that
exist to create a difference between how much they pay out in health benefits versus how much they recoup in premiums.
Like their job is to maximize that differential.
We built a whole system around it.
That's fucking stupid.
That is terrible.
That causes all kinds of harms.
But like the idea that we're going to associate the murder of a health executive
with Medicare for all, to me, does not bring us anywhere closer to Medicare for all.
We're not going to shoot our way to universal health care.
And it ends up becoming a kind of vicious and negative and divisive debate, a debate we can win without kind of needing to resort to this sort of like ridiculous kind of performative, I don't know what you'd call it, theatrics, heroics, I don't know.
B, there's no acknowledgement in the statement that part of the rationale should be that Donald Trump is about to become president, right?
The statement is very kind of like imperious.
Or sympathy inducing.
He's been sober for a long time.
There's a lot of people on whom like the gears of justice have like turned while they were trying desperately to maintain their sobriety and no pardons for them.
Can I just point out too, on that point,
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