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The Conservative Death Panel
It’s time to kick the bums out of office. Right now, millions of Americans across 23 states are uninsured, because their Republican lawmakers have refused to expand Medicaid under Obamacare. As a result, they fall into the “Red State Donut Hole,” that was drilled into Obamacare by Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts and his four right-wing buddies. The Supreme Court said that states could refuse to take federal money to pay to insure working poor people, and Republican governs have jumped at the opportunity.
Millions of Americans are unable to afford life-saving healthcare, because Republicans would rather play politics than protect people’s lives. In fact, the rate of uninsured Americans is a staggering 50% higher in Republican-controlled states. In Florida alone, 750,000 Floridians are without insurance, because Rick Scott thought that a political win was more important than a person’s life. Harvard researchers estimate that six people in Florida die every day because of Governor Scott’s decision.
Charlene Dill was one of them. Charlene was a hardworking single mom, who worked three jobs to help make ends meet. Last year, Charlene made just $11,000 cleaning houses and babysitting. She used that money to help put food on the table for her children, and to put a roof over their heads. Charlene also had a severe heart condition, but she couldn’t afford the proper treatment for it, because she didn’t have health insurance.
Despite her health woes, Charlene continued to work three jobs, and continued to be the best mother that she could be for her children. But then one day late last month, when she was in a neighbor's house trying to sell a vacuum cleaner, Charlene died from her untreated heart disease. She died because multimillionaire Rick Scott chose to play politics, rather than protect the lives of the Florida citizens he is supposed to be serving.
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 9pm... GOP budget vs. progressive budget (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT or Free Speech TV, and catch past shows on Youtube)
Watch the video 'Last Hours' narrated by Thom Hartmann about the "time bomb" that is ticking underground, underwater and under ice… frozen methane that is now escaping and could trigger runaway climate change. www.lasthours.org
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Need to Know: GOP budget vs. progressive budget- Congressman Mark Pocan (D-WI, 2nd District) 
Your Take / My Take Live: Call Thom LIVE at (202) 904-2134 TONIGHT 7-8pm ET (check local listings)
Geeky Science: The origins of procrastination
Daily Take: The Conservative Death Panel
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The Daily Stack 
Hour One: Climate deniers using same tactics as tobacco industry...
Speech: " Madison Square Garden Speech", President Franklin D. Roosevelt, October 31, 1936. " They are unanimous in their hate for me—and I welcome their hatred"
Hour Two: Out of State Money Trumps GE Crop Ban- Jefferson Smith, Low-powered radio exec / Host-Thank You Democracy-xray.fm (91.1FM)
Hour Three: Cutting carbon emissions with wind power- Peter Kelley, American Wind Energy Association
Quote: Only in America can you be Pro-Death Penalty, Pro-War, Pro-Unmanned Drone Bombs, Pro-Nuclear Weapons, Pro-Guns, Pro-Torture, Pro-Land Mines, and STILL call yourself 'Pro-Life'. - " John Fugelsang". |
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Thursday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
Hour One: No GOP bill has helped average person since Nixon?
PLUS, Marching against slavery- Joe Madison, The Joe Madison Show
Hour Two: The conservative death panel
PLUS, Geeky Science - the origins of procrastination
Hour Three: Jesus was a communist- Dr. Alex McFarland, 10 Issues That Divide Christians
And, the best of the rest of the news and your calls right here on...
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Friday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
It's Friday and that means it's Brunch With Bernie...our weekly town hall meeting with America's Senator! 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!
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Thom's Poll
Should the Progressive Budget be taken as seriously as the GOP's?
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Watch & Listen to Thom
Climate deniers using same tactics as tobacco industry
Lone Liberal - How do Americans work if we don't create jobs?
Lone Liberal - GOP sucking up to billionaires - while millions struggle to survive
Or watch the Full "Big Picture" Show...
Full Show 4/9/14: Obamacare: 9.3 Million and Counting
Thom discusses the new Obamacare numbers with the Roosevelt Institute's Richard Kirsch and The Franklin Forum's Sarah Studley and tonight's "Lone Liberal Rumble" discusses the Comcast-Time Warner merger, the filibustering of equal pay legislation by Senate Republicans and why Washington and the mainstream media are ignoring the progressive caucus' budget. In tonight's "Daily Take" Thom discusses what global warming deniers and the tobacco industry have in common.
The Progressive Budget vs. Paul Ryan's Budget
Out of State Money Trumps GE Crop Ban
The Thom Hartmann Program - April 9, 2014
Republicans Have Blood on their Hands!
Cutting Carbon Emissions with Wind Power
The Carbon Barons' Useful Idiot
Climate Deniers Using Same Tactics as Tobacco Industry...
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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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