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Thom's blog
Pharmaceutical giant fraudulently puts Profits Over People
One giant pharmaceutical company just got busted for putting profits ahead of peoples’ lives. In the largest healthcare fraud settlement in U.S. history, British drug maker GlaxoSmithKline was slapped with $3 billion in fines after pleading guilty to a number of criminal and civil violations related to 10 drugs the company produces that are taken by millions of Americans.
The company illegally promoted the use of anti-depressants like Paxil and Wellbutrin for unapproved uses. It also failed to report safety problems with its drug Avandia after it was discovered it could substantially increase the risk of heart attacks. On top of that, the company defrauded taxpayers by over-charging the Medicaid programs for drugs – and routinely gave kickbacks to doctors who prescribed their medicine.
Glaxo’s CEO apologized for the crimes and claimed his company learn from their mistakes. But how long until the American people learn that profiteers and hucksters have no place in our nation’s healthcare system?
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 9pm and 11pm... IRS has their eye on SuperPACs... (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT, and catch past shows on Youtube)
Please welcome Progressive commentator/writer Sam Sacks in for Thom tonight
Need to Know: IRS has their eye on SuperPACs...- Zaid Jilani, Republic Report, United Republic 
Screwed: War on drugs to heat up?- Marc Harrold, Libertarian Commentator / Attorney / Author-"Observations of White Noise…an ‘Acid Test’ for the First Amendment".
The Best of the Rest of the News...
Has CERN "found" God?- Professor Robert Roser, Physicist & cospokesperson for the CDF experiment at DOE’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FermiLab) 
Daily Take: Are Republicans committing treason now?
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Tuesday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm
Syndicated columnist & Democratic strategist Karl Frisch in for Thom today...
Hour One: What to expect when you're electing...- Eric Burns, Bullfight Strategies / past president of Media Matters for America
Investigation for Vanity Fair Magazine "Where the Money Lives"- Nicholas Shaxson, Journalist & author of the tax havens book "Treasure Islands"
45th YMCA annual conference underway in NC / Energizing the youth vote- Bob McGaughey, YMCA Youth Conference on National Affairs
Hour Two: Last week's SCOTUS rulings...what's next?- Doug Kendall, Attorney / Constitutional Accountability Center
SoapBlox- Tina Dupuy, Syndicated op-ed columnist / Editor-in-Chief-SoapBlox
Hour Three: marriage equality in Maryland- Josh Levin, Marylanders for Marriage Equality
Marriage equality in Maine- Matt McTighe, Mainers United for Marriage
Marriage equality in Minnesota- Kate Brickman, Minnesotans United for All Families
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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Monday's Daily Stack 
Quote: "Taxes, after all, are dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society." -- Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Hour One: Why Ireland is scrapping their voting machines?
The Big Picture- Sam Sacks, The Big Picture producer, progressive commentator
Hour Two: is ObamaCare Taxmageddon or not?- Carrie Lukas, Independent Women's Forum
Book: " Trilby" by George Du Maurier.
Hour Three: The Republican plan to kill Obamacare...
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Wednesday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm
Happy Fourth of July! Enjoy a best of Thom Hartmann show today.
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Thom's Poll
Obamacare - Is it a tax or isn’t it?
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Watch & Listen to Thom
Can Republicans now easily repeal Obamacare?
Move Over Air Guitar - Time for Some Air-Sex
Climate Scientists Warned Us - Freak Weather & Rising Sea Levels
The Good, The Bad and the Very Very Nasicornously Ugly!
Why the media is not reporting the truth on Fukushima?
Your Take/My Take - Stephen, Edinburgh, Scotland, talks about humanity
Big Picture Rumble - SuperPAC's like Mafia Hitmen?
Why Ireland scrapped their voting machines
Or watch the Full "Big Picture" Show...
Full Show 7/2/12: GOP Plan to Kill Obamacare
Thom looks at the GOP plan to repeal Obamacare and whether he thinks it will work. Also discussed: the latest Climate Change induced weather hitting the U.S., Japan's absurd and dangerous decision to start reactivating nuclear reactors and in tonight's "Daily Take" Thom discusses why the U.S. should follow Ireland and scrap our voting machines.
Thom Hartmann on the News - July 2, 2012
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 Would you like to help give a child with a very troubled background this feeling of peace? Thom and Louise Hartmann founded the New England Salem Children's Village (NESCV) in New Hampshire in 1979. With states delaying payment for the children they entrust to the village, they need help with cash flow. Can you help? Now on Facebook. |
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