Monday Morning Politics; One Year Since First Asylum Seekers Came to NYC; How Ubiquitous Hospital Mergers Affect Patients; What Are You Ambivalent About?
On today's show:
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Jonathan Lemire, host of “Way Too Early" on MSNBC, Politico White House bureau chief, and the author of The Big Lie: Election Chaos, Political Opportunism, and the State of American Politics After 2020 (Flatiron Books, 2022), discuses the latest national political news.
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Almost one year ago, buses of asylum seekers from Texas arrived at Port Authority in Manhattan. Murad Awawdeh, executive director at the New York Immigration Coalition, reflects on how the city has handled the influx of asylum seekers over the last year and its plans for the future.
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Elisabeth Rosenthal, senior contributing editor at KFF Health News, former ER physician and the author of An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back (Penguin, 2017), explains the effects of hospital conglomerates on health care costs and the difficulties in preventing mergers.
- Listeners call in to share what they feel unsure about in this age of certainty and political polarization.
Transcripts are posted to each segment as they become available.
