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Modern cold wars with China and Russia, the new right, and tech's cultural shift w/ Noah Smith

"Moment of Zen"

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The Complaining Patient

Cartel's to the time our doctors blah blah blah um and so./nAbsolutely./nDo that um./nYeah, didn't didn't didn't they pass like a law and i'm not an expert on this But it wasn't there a law in place until recently maybe even trump got rid of it It was like you couldn't medicare couldn't even negotiate with drug companies./nOh, yes, that's right. That's it was good that they got rid of that./nRight, but but like you just remember version of a national health care system that's gonna go in place It's gonna just be totally rife with with with like corruption from the the graft of lobbying But wait, I just don't have any confidence whatever passed something that would be effective./nDidn't you just talk about us passing a bill that allowed medicare didn't negotiate with drug companies and isn't that a good sign?/nRight, but after after had existed on the books for years of just like letting all the the kind of you know Inflation of costs and all that because they weren't allowed to do it./nIt sounds like you're complaining that things got better and smarter./nNo, but I mean it's like because the system already was terrible So it's like a like marginally better. It's went from like a one to a two./nBut it wasn't that terrible because medicare was always negotiating for other stuff that wasn't drugs It was just.

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