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For-Profit Insanity is Killing Americans
Despite what you might hear on Fox So-Called News, Obamacare really is working. Uninsured rates are dropping, premiums are a lot lower than expected, and in the states that have expanded Medicaid, hundreds of thousands of working Americans now have access to free, I repeat, free healthcare.
Everywhere you look, there’s good news to be found about healthcare reform. Even so, for-profit insurance companies and for-profit hospitals are still finding new ways to screw people over.
For example, since insurance companies are now banned from discriminating against people with pre-existing conditions, they’re now trying to make money off sick people by charging them higher co-pays for drugs that they used to get for close to nothing. This practice has very real consequences for public health. As one expert told Talking Points Memo, "There's very strong evidence...that even a $1 difference in out-of-pocket expenditures changes Americans' behavior [regarding their use of medical services].” In other words, when drugs cost more, people don’t buy them and therefore don’t get healthy.
But making sick people pay more for their drugs isn’t the only way the for-profit health industry is trying make a quick buck these days.
One other scam it’s come up with is a practice called “drive-by doctoring,” where patients are charged for services they didn’t ask for and for doctors they didn’t know they needed to see. Hospitals have gotten so good at “drive-by doctoring” that most patients don’t even know it’s happening to them.
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 10pm... The black ice threat to the arctic... (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT or Free Speech TV, and catch past shows on Youtube)
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Need to Know: How neoliberalism has destroyed the Middle East & America
The Best of the Rest...
PLUS, Finally...big business says ALEC lying about climate change- Jane Carter, AFSCME 
Daily Take: How the profit motive is killing Americans
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Wednesday's Daily Stack 
Hour One: Why "homeland"?
Clip: " Dank Ihrer Führung wird Deutschland sein Ziel erreichen, Heimat zu sein. Heimat zu sein für alle Deutschen der Welt." Rudolph Hess, 1934 Nuremburg rally.
Iranian singer- Sami Yusuf on humanitarian work and music
Hour Two: GMOs are safe...REALLY?!- Justin Danhof Esq., National Center for Public Policy Research
The Clinton Global Initiative for climate week- Secretary Rodney Slater, Former U.S. Secretary of Transportation under President Bill Clinton
Documentary: LAST HOURS - narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio. Documentary: CARBON - narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio. |
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Time for America to Dump “Homeland"
Iranian Singer Sami Yusuf - How to End World Hunger
Politics Panel - Sunday Shows Goes Silent on 400,000 Marchers
Politics Panel - We’re at War & Congress is Silent….
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Full Show 9/23/14: U.S. Begins Bombing Another Middle Eastern Country
Thom discusses today’s UN Climate Change Summit with environmental activist and hip-hop artist Xiuhtezcatl Martinez and how to end world hunger with Singer/Songwriter Sami Yusuf. Tonight’s “Politics Panel” discusses the bombing of Syria, how google is ditching ALEC over their stance on climate change and how the Sunday talk shows ignored New York’s massive climate change march. In tonight's “Daily Take” Thom discusses why we need to stop using the term “homeland.”
Another War for America...
GMOs are Safe...Really?!
Caller: How do we Stop People from Using the Term "Homeland"?
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