Behind the News: Health Care Havoc w/ Adam Gaffney
Plus: Alan Beattie on the US’s nonsensical trade policy.
July 22, 2025
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Behind the News: Health Care Havoc w/ Adam Gaffney
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<p>Adam Gaffney, co-author of a <a href="https://www.nybooks.com/online/2025/07/08/the-dismantling-of-american-health-care/" rel="nofollow">recent article</a> for the <em>New York Review of Books</em>, looks at Trump & Co.’s dismantling of health care and research. Also on the podcast, Alan Beattie of the <em>Financial Times</em> tries to make sense of Trump’s nonsensical trade policy.</p>
<p><em>Behind the News</em>, hosted by Doug Henwood, covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global. Find the archive online: <a href="https://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/radio.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/radio.html</a></p>
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