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Independent investigative journalism, broadcasting, trouble-making and muckraking with Brad Friedman of BradBlog.com
Independent investigative journalism, broadcasting, trouble-making and muckraking with Brad Friedman of BradBlog.com. Originating on Pacifica Radio's KPFK 90.7FM in Los Angeles and syndicated coast-to-coast and around the globe! NOW FIVE DAYS A WEEK!
BradCast 2/25/2020 (Guest: Former insurance exec Richard "RJ" Eskow of The Intercept)
02-25-2020 (53.49 MB)
On today's 'BradCast': Financial markets continued to plummet on Tuesday after the Centers for Disease Control (which Trump has gutted) announced that Americans should prepare for the spread of the Coronavirus. Also in healthcare: Bernie Sanders' Medicare for All (M4A) proposal is a source of concern for unions, including the leadership of the powerful Culinary Union in Nevada, who fear losing top-flight, hard-earned health care benefits under M4A. Many other Americans also fear losing their existing private employer health care coverage. Yet entrance polls show the union's rank-and-file members were strong supporters of Sanders in the Nevada Caucuses. RICHARD "RJ" ESKOW, former insurance executive turned political commentator, policy analyst and host of The Zero Hour, argues that, while the Culinary Union's plan is top notch, Medicare For All would actually be even better and cheaper for them, other unions, and for all Americans – and he explains precisely how. Also today: the crucial South Carolina Democratic President Primary on Saturday will be conducted on the state's costly new, 100% unverifiable touchscreen voting systems. L.A. County's expensive new, 100% unverifiable touchscreen voting system is already running into problems in early voting before the Super Tuesday Primary, with Voting Centers unable to open for hours, workers unable to set up complicated, Internet-connected computer pollbooks and voting machines, and more. Plus, Desi Doyen has our latest 'Green News Report'...
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