Single Payer Healthcare in NYS; Protecting US Elections; LGBTQ Migrants; Best and Worst of NYC
The Brian Lehrer Show | Aug 2, 2018
- Katie Robbins, director of the Campaign for New York Health, talks about a RAND corporation study assessing the feasibility of legislation to create a single payer healthcare system in New York state. Richard Gottfried, New York State Assembly Member (D-75th District) and Chair of the NYS Assembly Committee on Health, discusses his single payer health care proposal, which was the subject of the RAND study.
- Laura Rosenberger, senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund, director of GMF’s Alliance for Securing Democracy, and former Clinton campaign foreign policy advisor, and Jamie Fly, senior fellow and director of Future of Geopolitics and Asia programs at the German Marshall Fund of the United States and former counselor for foreign and national security affairs to Senator Marco Rubio, talk about what the U.S. is doing to combat election interference from Russia and other foreign entities, and what more the U.S. needs, as the midterm elections are approaching and Facebook has identified a new disinformation campaign on its network.
- Michael K. Lavers, international news editor for the Washington Blade, talks about his reporting on the experiences of LGBTQ people from El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala who choose to migrate to the U.S. and the impact President Trump's immigration policies have on them.
- A blog recently listed "The Worst Things to Do in NYC" -- it included wine and paint nights, free summer concerts and cheap eats (those last two are debatable), but it got us thinking..what are the worst things to do in NYC? And while we're at it, what are the best things to do?
