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Steven Brill Extended Interview

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Steven Brill Extended Interview

Exclusive — Steven Brill Extended Interview Parts 1 & 2

In this exclusive, unedited interview, Steven Brill examines the monopolistic pricing structure of American health care. [6:24]

One of the best, detailed discussions of how monopolistic healthcare pricing works in the U.S. I ever heard. Click here after watching for part 2. Must see. Part 1 first seen on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart 15 Jan 2014.
(Click here to read Brill’s 20-page 2013 article in Time, Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us. Subscription needed for more than a preview.)

‘Not the America any of us should want’

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Not the America any of us should want

ANDREA MITCHELL 01/06/14
‘Not the America any of us should want’
Sherrilyn Ifill discusses some of the restrictive voting rights laws recently passed and local voter suppression efforts.

Know someone who needs to be convinced to vote because they think it doesn’t matter who wins? Then they probably won’t mind when the rules in their state change making it necessary for a lot of people to take buses all over creation to track down documents to be able to get an allowed type of photo I.D. to be able to vote.