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Healthcare: Let's Have People over Profits Once And For All
There are some things in this world that shouldn’t be turned into profit-making machines, and healthcare is definitely one of them. Believe it or not, there was a time in America when in almost every state health insurance companies and hospitals were required to be non-profits. Back then, Americans could actually get the healthcare and treatment they needed at affordable prices. But then Ronald Reagan came to Washington, and you guessed it, everything changed.
Suddenly, there was money to be made off of healthcare in America, and a lot of it. Banksters realized that these once-nonprofit hospitals, health insurers, and nursing homes had the potential to become absolute gold mines. Former Senator Bill Frist's family, for example, made billions in the 1980s and 1990s privatizing formerly county and city hospitals, slashing salaries, busting unions, and raising prices.
Slowly but surely, corporations and the wealthy elite took over our healthcare system, and have left us with a healthcare nightmare. That’s why according to a new study by a prominent think-tank, the United States ranks dead last in a review of healthcare in the industrialized world. For the fifth time in a row, the U.S. has been ranked last in the Commonwealth Fund’s annual review of healthcare in developed nations.
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 10pm... From shock & awe to bloodbath (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT or Free Speech TV, and catch past shows on Youtube)
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Daily Take: Let's Have People Over Profits Once and For All
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Monday's Daily Stack 
Hour One: Could the U.S. align with Iran over Iraq?- Mark Dubowitz, Foundation for Defense of Democracies
Hour Two: March for Marriage and the future of the GOP- Bryan Fischer, American Family Association
Bible: Genesis 2:24. " That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh." Bible: 1 Corinthians 7:2 " But since sexual immorality is occurring, each man should have sexual relations with his own wife, and each woman with her own husband.".
Bible: 1 Timothy 3:2 " A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife...". Bible: Leviticus 20:13 " If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman...".
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Tuesday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 12-3pm ET
Plus, the latest on Iraq and how we got in this mess - Thom challenges John Guandolo, Founder-UnderstandingTheThreat.com
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Should Pres. Obama take military action in Iraq?
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Full Show 6/13/14: The New Cold War?
In tonight's special hour-long edition of "Conversations with Great Minds," Thom discusses the current situation in Iraq, the ongoing crisis in Ukraine and the prospects of a new Cold War with Stephen Cohen of "The Nation," author of the book "Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives: From Stalinism to the New Cold War."
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