Silky Shah on Detention Center Fire, Eagan Kemp on Medicare Advantage

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We can live in a better world! We’ll get some ideas of where to start this week with Silky Shah, executive director at Detention Watch Network, about the Ciudad Juárez fire and what it tells us about immigration policy. Transcript: ‘The US Incarcerates More Immigrants Than Anywhere Else in the World’And on healthcare: Do we really need to be making choices between seniors getting needed healthcare and other folks getting needed healthcare? We talk with Eagan Kemp, healthcare policy advocate at Public Citizen, about the fight around Medicare and Medicare Advantage, and what it says about concerns about seniors and about health, in the US. Transcript: ‘Medicare Advantage Has Never Delivered on the Promise’