Building a Healthcare System and Breaking the Web

Talking Obamacare with Atul Gawande and Pondering the Possibility of a Balkanized Internet

Surgeon and New Yorker writer Atul Gawande shares with Anne-Marie Slaughter his predictions about the future of the Affordable Care Act and American healthcare. Open Technology Institute Director Sascha Meinrath, Slate Future Tense Digital Diplomacy Adviser Emily Parker, and New America Foundation Managing Editor Fuzz Hogan join Slaughter to explore what could happen if countries like Brazil and Indonesia succeed in developing their own sovereign Internet structures in order to break away from U.S. online governance and surveillance.


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