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Nov 6, 2026
Annie AndrewsGUEST
And, you know, I just am going to work with anyone who's going to stay focused with me on solving the problems here in South Carolina, because, you know, as I heard you all talk about, we have so much work to do and we have to prove to the electorate that we know how to govern and that we're going to take this opportunity to to work boldly to solve the problems and work Lower gas prices and grocery prices and keep our rural hospitals open.
Annie AndrewsGUEST
You and I have talked before about how my number one priority is to stop those Medicaid budget cuts.
Annie AndrewsGUEST
And I'm going to be really focused on that.
Annie AndrewsGUEST
And I'm going to hit the ground running.
Sarah Stewart HollandHOST
So Hakeem has a lot more room to moderate.
Sarah Stewart HollandHOST
I've heard the term Medicaid for more already instead of Medicare for all.
Sarah Stewart HollandHOST
I've heard particularly, you know, from lots of sources within the Democratic Party.
Sarah Stewart HollandHOST
I mean, because you have people who are political influencers who just want to get the most like kind of radical list out there to get the clicks and the thing, whatever.
BaileyHOST
And Tennessee has its first female governor.
BaileyHOST
Now, Democrats are mapping out their next two years agenda, which includes ending the Iran war, bringing down the cost of living, reversing Medicaid and snap cuts, addressing, quote, corruption in government, regulating AI, and putting moratoriums on data centers.
BaileyHOST
Wondering why data centers are such a hot topic? Come back for tomorrow's TPO Explains.
BaileyHOST
Current Senate Majority Leader Thune has vowed that Republicans, quote, will not stand idly by, but will work with Trump to block, quote, Democrat extremism.
Bruce StokesSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
But it puts at least some Republicans who are up for reelection in 2028 in a bit of a bind.
Bruce StokesSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Do they want to vote against the food stamps? Do they want to vote against Medicaid, which is our health care for poor people? Do they want to vote against subsidies for Obamacare, which have gone up dramatically?
Stefan GrobeHOST
On that note, I know it's early, but who do you see as the candidate leading the Democrats into the next presidential election?
Bruce StokesSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So it's very early at this point.
Stefan OlivaGUEST
So I'm like, okay, I definitely can't help, you know, on a big scale in any way.
Stefan OlivaGUEST
I did go up to Lobby for the first time in my life, uh, in Albany for state Medicare and Medicaid to reimburse the LCAT, you know, art therapy in New York.
Stefan OlivaGUEST
So I can help in maybe small ways there, but, you know, larger ways, I'm like, okay, well, that's something over here.
Stefan OlivaGUEST
But with that connection piece, I'm like, this seems like it could be something that with me having no money would be able to do pretty easily and, you know, just start from there.
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Ann Marie HinesHOST
But, yeah, I love that.
Matthew BrooksHOST
Yeah, and I think when it comes to that, like, it's really nice hearing you as a person who's outside of art therapy get it when you're, like, the process and the human side of it is art therapy because that's what, like, we've been shouting from the tops of the mountains for so long that, like, somebody else and we're like, yeah, that guy gets it, you know, kind of a thing.
Stefan OlivaGUEST
It was fun when I was lobbying because I am on Medicaid, state Medicaid, and I was looking for an art therapist in New York that was affordable for the budget of Frameshare being free.
Stefan OlivaGUEST
And I was like, no, I'm here because this is my need.
Megan McArdlePANELIST
This was not going to be—even if you think this is a good policy— You have to understand there are real political constraints and that normal politicians who understand how politics and policy work, they work within those constraints.
Megan McArdlePANELIST
You know, Matt Iglesias once said about Medicare for All that what the Democrats should have done is just like, you raise Medicaid to like 150% of the poverty line.
Megan McArdlePANELIST
And then you come back and you raise it to 175.
Megan McArdlePANELIST
And you just keep ratcheting it up, and that's the way to get durable policy victories.
Jonathan MurphyHOST
You're not allowed to exchange anything of value that could sway a prescriber.
Jonathan MurphyHOST
And it's involved with Medicaid.
Jonathan MurphyHOST
The government being involved in healthcare, that was the line.
Jonathan MurphyHOST
And it extends to pharma reps when they're doing the job regardless of who they're talking to.
Abdul El-SayedSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
That has to end.
Abdul El-SayedSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And then the third, we are about to watch the equivalent of a health care nuclear bomb go off in the middle of our health care system with these Medicaid tax cuts.
Abdul El-SayedSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And the president and his party, they deliberately made sure that the worst of the big, ugly bill didn't take hold until after the midterms.
Abdul El-SayedSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Well, we are after the midterms.
Abdul El-SayedSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And in January, Medicaid is going to get cut.
Dave NealHOST
Good on him for helping educate people on this poison bomb that went off here with the Trump administration.
Dave NealHOST
And if my Canadian friends don't understand, Trump's big, beautiful bill, tax cuts for the ultra wealthy.
Susan CollinsAUDIENCE
Cuts coming in after the election.
Susan CollinsAUDIENCE
Medicaid
Dana DiscordiaHOST
work rules.
Dana DiscordiaHOST
Like you have to prove you work.
Dana DiscordiaHOST
The reality is,
Dan LobelHOST
despite what racists think.
Dan LobelHOST
The bulk of recipients of SNAP benefits and healthcare benefits, whether it be Medicaid for the most part, but also these Obamacare subsidies, the majority of these people are white.
Dan LobelHOST
When it comes to Medicaid and SNAP, most of them live in rural areas.
Mark WillisHOST
But she lived six more years.
Mark WillisHOST
Her family had to find a facility willing to take her as a private pay patient for the first two years and then keep her on as a Medicaid patient when the money ran out.
Mark WillisHOST
They found one, for goodness sakes, and the staff took good care of her until the end.
Mark WillisHOST
But the inheritance she'd been so intent on leaving her family was gone, totally spent years before.
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