Ep. 71: How Obamacare Really Works...and How It Doesn't (with Peter Suderman)

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Channel: Libertarianism.org · 2015 · News & Politics

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Peter Suderman helps us make sense of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. How does it work, and why did we have to "pass it to find out what's in it?"

This week Peter Suderman joins us to help suss out the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, a law he says is so complex and opaque that "no one person" understands every single part of it perfectly. We discuss the long history of the idea behind a government-backed and mandated health care system and its unlikely origins, the "three legged stool" necessary for implementing the PPACA, and the philosophical ideas behind the law.

We also discuss challenges to the PPACA, including King v. Burwell, a case that will be heard in the U.S. Supreme Court this week.

What is Obamacare, and what does it do? How does it work? Why did we have to "pass it to find out what's in it," as Nancy Pelosi so infamously put it?

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