A new Yale study says what we already knew about universal healthcare – it’s a lot cheaper than the for-profit healthcare system and saves a significant number of lives. Lee looks at the forces keeping our horrific system alive. In ‘Taking The News From Behind’, Lee covers how the state of Georgia is in two legal binds, with Greg Palast and Abby Martin, the Boy Scouts of America went into bankruptcy amid their child sex abuse scandal, and the New York Times declared the “end of Australia as we know it” because of the climate crisis. Natalie McGill takes a look at the unequal distribution of subsidies the Trump administration released to struggling farmers in the wake of his trade war with China. Anders Lee reports on how the field of economics consistently fails to address the structural cause of the problems it analyzes.
