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KCBS Radio In Depth: Following the money in the Senate GOP Healthcare Bill

KCBS Radio In Depth
KCBS Radio In Depth
Episode • Jul 10, 2017 • 27m

With congress back to work following the Fourth of July holiday break, the fate of the Senate's GOP health care bill is back in the spotlight. Such legislation, which will have a massive impact on the American people and the nation's economy, is a perfect case study to examine the influence of money in our current political system; both industry lobby money, as well as very wealthy individual donors who can, and do, buy their way into our public policy.

Jane McMillan discusses this with Daniel Newman, President and Co-Founder of Maplight.org, a non-partisan, non-profit tracking money's influence in politics.

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