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The Supreme Court upholds Obamacare
Despite what you might have seen on cable news networks Fox News and CNN, the Supreme Court upheld Obamacare today – ruling that Congress does have the power to penalize Americans who don’t buy health insurance – which was how the individual mandate works. Chief Justice John Roberts was the swing vote – siding with the four justices on the left to uphold the law.
So just like that – the Right’s arguments that President Obama shredded the constitution with his health reform law – go up in smoke. But for progressives out there – this ruling means we have to keep fighting. Ultimately what happened today was that the Supreme Court reinforced our current healthcare system, which relies on private, for-profit health insurance companies.
If we’re going to truly fix our nation’s healthcare system – we have to get rid of the for-profit motive. President Obama took the first step, making sure we’re all in this together – that everyone is contributing to everyone’s healthcare. Now it’s time to go further – time to push for Medicare part E – Medicare for All.
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 9pm and 11pm... What SCOTUS means to ObamaCare (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT, and catch past shows on Youtube)
Need to Know: What SCOTUS means to ObamaCare- Simon Lazarus, Constitutional Accountability Center 
What SCOTUS' Medicaid ruling means for ObamaCare- Wendell Potter, health care industry whistleblower / watchdog / Author-"Deadly Spin"
Screwed: How do we end Scalia's reign of judicial activism?- Mike Papantonio, Attorney / Ring of Fire Radio
The Best of the Rest of the News...
China's middle class grows while America's disappears- Eamonn Fingleton, Economics writer; Author of "In the Jaws of the Dragon".
Geeky Science: Counting on your fingers may influence how your brain works
Daily Take: Ronald Reagan's toxic policies live on in Antonin Scalia
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Thursday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
Hour One: What SCOTUS means to ObamaCare- David Lyle, Courts Matter, Media Matters for America
Rep Jan Schakowsky on SCOTUS & ObamaCare- U.S. Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky (D-IL, 9th Congressional District)
Hour Two: today's Supreme Court ruling...it never should have happened
Geeky Science Rocks: - counting on your fingers may affect how your brain works.
Hour Three: Obamacare- Congressman Ted Deutch (D-FL, 19th District)
And, the best of the rest of the news and your calls right here on...
The Thom Hartmann Program...your media support group for "we the people"...TAG, YOU'RE IT!!!!!!!!! (OCCUPY SOMETHING!!!!!)
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Friday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
Hour One: If it's Friday, it's "Brunch With Bernie"... the honorable Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) will be here talking about all the important issues of the week and he'll be taking your calls too...
Plus, It's Anything Goes on Townhall Friday...what's on your mind today?
And, we'll have the best of the rest of the news and your calls right here on...
The Thom Hartmann Program, Occupying The Media 3 hours a day 5 days a week" for "we the people"...TAG, YOU'RE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (GET OUT THERE, GET ACTIVE AND OCCUPY SOMETHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
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Wednesday's Daily Stack 
Quote: "Fascism is capitalism plus murder" -- Upton Sinclair.
Hour One: What has Obamacare done for you?
Speech: " A Rendezvous With Destiny", 27 June 1936 acceptance speech by Franklin D. Roosevelt. " An old English judge once said: "Necessitous men are not free men.""
Who is secretly funding Voter ID laws?- John Nichols, The Nation Magazine
Hour Two: Why are the Republicans holding jobs hostage again?- Stephen Moore, Wall Street Journal, co-author, "End of Prosperity" and "Return to Prosperity"
Quote: "We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately." - Ben Franklin.
Hour Three: Who is the real extreme party?
Letter: " Thomas Jefferson to Spencer Roane", 6 Sept. 1819 " The constitution, on this hypothesis, is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist, and shape into any form they please."
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Thom's Poll
Will the SCOTUS ruling for ObamaCare help us achieve healthcare for all?
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Watch & Listen to Thom
Time for Congress to Impeach Justice Antonin Scalia
Conversations w/Great Minds - Michael T. Klare - Natural gas bubble in the US? P1
Conversations w/Great Minds - Michael T. Klare - Is humanity screwed? P2
Lone Liberal Rumble - The whacky Republican Platform
Or Watch the Full Show
Full Show 6/27/12: Impeach Scalia!
Thom lays out the case for why Justice Scalia should be impeached. Tonight's "Lone Liberal Rumble" panel discusses Texas' GOP platform, voter ID in Pennsylvania and how the Supreme Court will rule on Obamacare. And Thom talks with journalist and author Michael T. Klare in a special edition of "Conversations with Great Minds."
Thom Hartmann on the News - June 27, 2012
Thom Hartmann - impeach Justices Scalia & Thomas
Thom Hartmann & John Nichols - Who is secretly funding the push for Voter ID Laws?
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