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1. Inactive
   BThompson

   Why doesn’t this podcast appear as a post in the main feed like all the other podcasts?

2. Member
   contrarian

   10m15s: “Jimmy Kimmel, you’re an idiot. Dude. Find me the parent in the United States in the modern era, not 1727, whose child needs immediate emergency surgery and can’t get it.“- In 1986 as part of the COBRA insurance law, there was a provision called EMTALA which required that any hospital that accepts money from medicare (essentially all hospitals) is required to provide emergency treatment to patients who need it, and they cannot transfer the patient to a charity hospital based on a lack of insurance. This created an unfunded liability for the hospitals. It was addressing that problem which led a British economist at the Heritage foundation named Stuart Butler (now at Brookings) to publish a proposal for mandating that individuals must buy health insurance. He argued that since people without insurance will get treated at hospitals regardless, a mandate was necessary to solve the free rider problem. Then in 1992 when Clinton sought to enact universal healthcare (and it was defeated, largely through efforts coordinated by Bill Kristol) many Republicans, including Bob Dole, endorsed a plan that included an individual mandate as an alternative to Hillarycare. Many Democrats feel that the idea originated with conservatives, and this is the basis for their argument that Republicans who contend that the individual mandate in Obamacare is unconstitutional are hypocrites. I think that this argument is incorrect, but the reason why is a bit complicated and I’ve already gone too far afield from the starting point of the podcast.

3. Inactive
   George Townsend

   MGO (View Comment):
   10m15s: “Jimmy Kimmel, you’re an idiot. Dude. Find me the parent in the United States in the modern era, not 1727, whose child needs immediate emergency surgery and can’t get it.“- In 1986 as part of the COBRA insurance law, there was a provision called EMTALA which required that any hospital that accepts money from medicare (essentially all hospitals) is required to provide emergency treatment to patients who need it, and they cannot transfer the patient to a charity hospital based on a lack of insurance. This created an unfunded liability for the hospitals. It was addressing that problem which led a British economist at the Heritage foundation named Stuart Butler (now at Brookings) to publish a proposal for mandating that individuals must buy health insurance. He argued that since people without insurance will get treated at hospitals regardless, a mandate was necessary to solve the free rider problem. Then in 1992 when Clinton sought to enact universal healthcare (and it was defeated, largely through efforts coordinated by Bill Kristol) many Republicans, including Bob Dole, endorsed a plan that included an individual mandate as an alternative to Hillarycare. Many Democrats feel that the idea originated with conservatives, and this is the basis for their argument that Republicans who contend that the individual mandate in Obamacare is unconstitutional are hypocrites. I think that this argument is incorrect, but the reason why is a bit complicated and I’ve already gone too far afield from the starting point of the podcast.

   MGO:

   Thank you for the info. I did know all this.

4. Contributor
   Michael Graham

   BThompson (View Comment):
   Why doesn’t this podcast appear as a post in the main feed like all the other podcasts?

   @blueyeti ???