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The Dig: Next Shift w/ Gabriel Winant

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Health Care - Who's Not in the Secure, Secure, Part of the Working Class

If you're not in the secure fraction of the working class, if you don't have access to that seal workor health plan, that means that prices are rising for you. And so this generates the political pressure to pass what would become medicare and medicate. But i think what's important about those programmes is that they don't displace in any they can a corps, public private bargain that's driving the growth of the health care system. They don't interfere with it. It doesn't position the government in any way as a supplier of services. On behalf of people who can't get it for themselves through their jobs. That's going to be a racialized phenomenon very heavily

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