Jon Stewart welcomed former Vice President Kamala Harris to Thursday’s episode of Comedy Central’s The Weekly Show podcast for a wide-ranging conversation about everything from her failed presidential campaign to Donald Trump to the state of the Democratic Party. In one instance, Stewart claimed that Democrats need to go further left on healthcare because the “conservative” Obamacare fix did not work, while, in another, he expressed shock and confusion when Harris claimed President Biden was competent enough to serve.
On healthcare, Stewart began, “You brought up the shutdown, I think that's a great example. So, Democrats are in a position now where they are shutting things down so that subsidies for the ACA can be extended because insurance premiums are driving—”
After Harris interrupted to add, “and will skyrocket,” Stewart rolled on, “But to the point of the Democrats' approach. I guess what I'm driving at is, are the reforms that Democrats are talking about not enough to—are they basically tinkering at the edges of a system that is inherently corrupt and not delivering. As opposed to rethinking that system, so that it delivers more directly. So, let's talk about the ACA. Basically, it's a conservative fix to a healthcare system that is an outlier in the civilized world.”
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