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Health policy experts debate GOP's potential Obamacare replacement plan
House Republicans tried and failed to repeal the Affordable Care Act over 60 times since the law's passage almost six years ago.
Now, they are trying something new, with an alternative proposal to replace Obamacare.
What House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) unveiled on Thursday is more of an outline than a comprehensive plan though. The 37-page document calls for overhauling Medicare and Medicaid, as well as lowering how much younger people get charged for insurance.
"This isn't a return to the pre-Obamacare status quo," the GOP's new healthcare blueprint says. "And it isn't just an attempt to replace Obamacare and leave it at that. This is a new approach. It's a step-by-step plan to give every American access to quality, affordable health care."
No price tag is attached to the proposal. According to the LA Times, the lack of concrete legislative language and fineprints would make it difficult to perform a fiscal analysis on the plan.
Guests
Paul Howard, senior fellow and director of health policy at the Manhattan Institute
Gerald Kominski, professor of health policy and management at UCLA and director of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research
Documentary ‘Unlocking the Cage’ claims chimpanzees are persons too
D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus’ documentary “Unlocking the Cage” shows the culmination of animal-rights lawyer Steven Wise’s years-long battle for the legal personhood of captive chimpanzees.
Wise believes that chimpanzees, cognitively advanced beings that possess self-determination and self-awareness, deserve expanded rights. This belief takes Wise to courtrooms across New York, while Pennebaker and Hegedus film his legal struggle in their lauded hands-off style.
Wise sees his lawsuits not as animal-welfare cases but fights for the rights of individuals - cases he believes have the potential to radically change the way we think of our relationship to nonhuman animals.
On FilmWeek, guest host Patt Morrison interviews Wise, Pennebaker, and Hegedus. What are the ramifications of calling nonhuman animals persons? What does Pennebaker and Hegedus’ iconic style add to Wise’s story? And what might these lawsuits - and this film - mean for the way we think about our nonhuman neighbors?
“Unlocking the Cage” opens today at the Laemmle's Monica Film Center in Santa Monica.
Guests:
D.A. Pennebaker, Filmmaker, “Unlocking the Cage,” recipient of an Oscar for Lifetime Achievement
Chris Hegedus, Filmmaker, “Unlocking the Cage,” Oscar-nominated documentarian
Steven Wise, President of the Nonhuman Rights Project; his work is chronicled in “Unlocking the Cage”