{"id":37929,"date":"2013-09-26T09:50:19","date_gmt":"2013-09-26T16:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=37929"},"modified":"2013-09-26T09:50:19","modified_gmt":"2013-09-26T16:50:19","slug":"progressive-economist-dean-baker-says-obamacare-is-better-than-you-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2013\/09\/26\/progressive-economist-dean-baker-says-obamacare-is-better-than-you-think\/","title":{"rendered":"Progressive Economist Dean Baker Says Obamacare is Better Than You Think"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20130926Uprising\/2013_09_26_obamacare.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20130926Uprising\/2013_09_26_uprising.mp3\">Listen to the entire program<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/obamacare3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz ended his marathon protest of the Affordable Care Act yesterday morning after 21 hours of near-continuous talking at the podium. His protest was technically not a filibuster \u2013 the Senate went ahead and passed a spending bill that excluded the much-desired cut to Obamacare that the House Tea Party caucus has been agitating for. <\/p>\n<p>The Affordable Care Act has been President Obama\u2019s signature piece of domestic legislation \u2013 in signing it into law, he accomplished a feat the Clintons were unable to achieve. It is a daunting piece of legislation made all the more complex by Obama\u2019s compromises with big business and conservatives that resulted in a long-drawn out roll-out and piecemeal implementation. <\/p>\n<p>But the law has survived many assassination attempts, including a Supreme Court case. Now, on the eve of the highly anticipated roll-out of the state-by-state health insurance exchanges, the law seems to have survived a last-ditch Republican attempt to kill it. <\/p>\n<p>Starting on October 1st, Americans who do not have health insurance through employment and\/or have been unable to obtain affordable coverage from private insurance companies, will be able to choose from a variety of options via a state-run marketplace of health plans. Economist Dean Baker, who is a critic of Obamacare and a strong advocate of a Medicare-for-all plan, says the law is actually \u201cbetter than you think.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, DC, author of a number of books including False Profits: Recovering from the Bubble Economy, and The End of Loser Liberalism: Making Markets Progressive.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz ended his marathon protest of the Affordable Care Act yesterday morning after 21 hours of near-continuous talking at the podium. His protest was technically not a filibuster \u2013 the Senate went ahead and passed a spending bill that excluded the much-desired cut to Obamacare that the House Tea Party caucus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}