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- The Puerto Rico disaster and Trump's inadequate responseEliza Barclay and Alexia Fernández Campbell join Matt to talk about Hurricane Maria and its aftermath.
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55 min - 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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1 hr 9 min - Weeds Live: Canadian immigration and a health insurance experimentDara 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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1 hr 23 min - The worst GOP healthcare bill yetEzra 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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1 hr 4 min - White House Chinese food summit leads to congressional chaosCongressional reporters Jeff Stein and Tara Golshan join Matt to talk about congressional Democrats' hopes and Republicans' fears.
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53 min - BernieCare and Hillary's abandoned UBISarah, 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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1 hr 16 min - Weeds Live: Atul Gawande on opioids, end of life care, and rock and rollAtul 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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1 hr 8 min - Trump's art of the sabotageSarah 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 IppolitoPaper on Maryland and hospital rate setting:Tracking the demise of state hospital rate setting by John McDonough
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1 hr 5 min - Deferred action podcastingDara Lind joins Matt to talk about the past, present, and future of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
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1 hr 15 min - The policy origins of America's most expensive natural disasterSarah 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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About Explain It to Me
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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.
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