Healthcare
We look at the biggest unresolved policy issue in America since tarrif reform: healthcare, from
the early days, when it wasn't entirely clear if the "care" was helping the "health", to the first fight for national healthcare and eventually, the passage of Medicare. What are the
eight reasons we do we not have a national healthcare system? How did we get the patchwork employer AND government-based system we have, and should it be scrapped in favor of a single system for all? What are the problems with government funded healthcare and market-based healthcare, and what are the problems with an
individual mandate system. Finally,
how will the politics play out?
(It's a HUGE issue, so it's a big podcast, and this one is a mix of facts and opinions....grab a seat. )
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What is Statehood?
What is statehood in America? The suffix 'hood' is deliberately abstract, denotes a concept. But as we examine in this podcast, there is no rhyme or reason to what a state is.
States were various shapes and sizes from the start of the U.S., and they were in a sense the people that showed up to the room. Politics, not geography have defined new states, and as we look at the immediately plausible 51st state candidates, Puerto Rico and DC included, and some crazy/fantastic candidates for 51st - 55th states (moon bases, underwater exploration, long time occupied areas) we see politics will always be in the offing.
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Does Voting Make Us Happy? Did the Founders Care if We Starved? And Other Questions
Did the Founders care if we starved? Did Henry Clay fuel our modern day healthcare debate? And does Voting Make us Happy? these are questions not directly asked by listeners but which have come in the course of answering the questions as best I can.
we take a look at the various voting sytems designed to produce more happiness than straight plurality voting does, and we discuss the big classic question of who looks out for our welfare - state or federal government?
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Shifters of American Foreign Policy
We look at Presidents who have significantly shifted American foreign policy, including (but not limited to)Richard Nixon, James Madison Teddy Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan and Harry Truman. these Presidents contradicted the current policy of the United States in a way that changed the relationship between American and the world.
Will Obama be a shifter? we address this in this episode.More MHCBUYP: They Signed - The Signers of the Declaration 90min. Pod Book
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Pursuit of Happiness, Haymarket Square, Even More about GHWBush vs Perot vs Clinton, other topics
A few comments and questiions from listeners. The labor movement,
Can a constitutional amendement really be unconstitutional?, and listeners take on the GHWBush v Clinton v Perot race of 1992 and whether the race was won by Perot for Clinton. A shout out for Zune listners (roughly 14% of total right now)
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Shall Propose Amendments
It's a high bar. 2/3rds of Congress and 3/4ths of the state legislatures, but the Constitution permits its own editing through the amendment process. Twenty seven times, this has occurred.
from the right to free speech, to electors for DC, to obscure rules about Congressional salaries, we look at these amendments and their impact and discuss why we may be due for more amendments in the future.
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Specter Defection, American Socialism, Obama as Centrist, Perot Hurting GHW Bush, and other Listener Questions
Are we getting socialistic? Does Specter's defection mean Republicans are finished?, Did Perot truly hurt George H.W. Bush in the 1992 race? Some great
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