Heard Tell w/ Andrew Donaldson for 06MAY22

Biden Admin’s Post-Roe Plan, Healthcare, Johnny Depp/Amber Heard Mess, Culture guest Elise Amez-Droz

Your Heard Tell for Friday, May 6th, 2022, is turning down the noise and getting to the information we need on the Biden Administration’s post-Roe plans, as the “Alito draft” has reportedly sent the White House scrambling to coordinate a messaging response while finding itself with limited options. We turn down the noise on the hot mess that is the Johnny Depp and Amber Heard trial, and talk about how some folks reaction and the culture and news media obsession over celebrity trials is feeding an unhealthy form of fandom. Guest Elise Amez-Droz of Young Voices joins to talk about healthcare, the particulars that make the American system both great in many ways but insufficient in others, the role of employeer-based insurance, and affects of ACA/Obamacare 12 years later. Elise also talks about the regulatory healthcare time bomb that is set to go off in 2026, legislative challenges, and the role of expanding Medicare/Medicaid, plus she talks about what we should and shouldn’t be focusing on in the healthcare debate. Also, we cover some writing by our friend Dennis Sanders on the death of “the big tent” and how…