Explain It to Me
Vox
Should I buy a house? Why do I say “like” so much? Should Gen Z bother to save for retirement?Explain It to Me is the hotline for the issues that matter to your life. Send us your questions about health, personal finance, relationships, and anything else that matters to you. Host Jonquilyn Hill will take you on a journey to find the answers, whether it's to the halls of Congress or the local bar. You’ll get the answers you were looking for, and sometimes ones you didn't expect — and always with a dose of humor. New episodes every Sunday. Part of Vox and the Vox Media Podcast Network.
Episodes
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Sep 29, 2017 • 55min
The Puerto Rico disaster and Trump's inadequate response
Eliza Barclay and Alexia Fernández Campbell join Matt to talk about Hurricane Maria and its aftermath.
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Sep 26, 2017 • 1h 8min
What's budget reconciliation, and how did it eat the Senate?
Sarah, Ezra, and Matt delve into Senate procedure arcana, break down the latest GOP repeal bill, and talk about a surprisingly easy way to reduce theft.
White paper: SNAP Benefits and Crime: Evidence from Changing Disbursement Schedules
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Sep 22, 2017 • 1h 23min
Weeds Live: Canadian immigration and a health insurance experiment
Dara Lind joins Matt and Sarah at the Now Hear This Festival to discuss the Canadian immigration system, and the audience chooses a white paper (https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9174.html) for them to talk about.
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Sep 20, 2017 • 1h 4min
The worst GOP healthcare bill yet
Ezra and Sarah parse through Graham-Cassidy, the latest Republican repeal bill.
White paper: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3025749
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Sep 15, 2017 • 53min
White House Chinese food summit leads to congressional chaos
Congressional reporters Jeff Stein and Tara Golshan join Matt to talk about congressional Democrats' hopes and Republicans' fears.
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Sep 13, 2017 • 1h 15min
BernieCare and Hillary's abandoned UBI
Sarah, Ezra, and Matt discuss Bernie Sanders' Medicare for All bill and Hillary Clinton's musings on creating a national version of the Alaska Permanent Fund.
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Sep 8, 2017 • 1h 8min
Weeds Live: Atul Gawande on opioids, end of life care, and rock and roll
Atul Gawande is a surgeon and the author of Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End. Sarah interviewed him live, asking about the opioid epidemic, his work with end of life patients, and his terrible college rock band.
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Sep 6, 2017 • 1h 5min
Trump's art of the sabotage
Sarah and Matt discuss DACA, ACA implementation, and some game-changing new research on the real history of all-payer rate setting.
White paper:
Uncompensated care and the collapse of hospital payment regulation: An illustration of the Tinbergen Rule by Jeffrey Clemens and Benedic Ippolito
Paper on Maryland and hospital rate setting:
Tracking the demise of state hospital rate setting by John McDonough
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Sep 1, 2017 • 1h 15min
Deferred action podcasting
Dara Lind joins Matt to talk about the past, present, and future of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
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Aug 30, 2017 • 1h 8min
The policy origins of America's most expensive natural disaster
Sarah and Matt talk about the policy errors behind Hurricane Harvey's devastation, the single-payer wonk gap, and new research on kindergarten red shirting.
White paper: School Starting Age and Cognitive Development
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