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The "Morally Bankrupt" GOP
The Congressional Budget Office has released its score of the Senate Republican healthcare bill. According to the CBO, the so-called Better Care Reconciliation Act would cause 22 million people to lose their health insurance.
Which - when you really think about it - is pretty weird.
I mean - what's the point of a healthcare bill that causes people to lose their health insurance?
Well - here's a little secret: the Republican healthcare bill isn't a really healthcare bill at all.
It's a massive tax cut for the rich paid for by an equally massive cut to Medicaid.
The Republican so-called healthcare plan is a glorified handout for the millionaires and billionaires - but not every millionaire supports it.
Patriotic Millionaires says it's "morally bankrupt".
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 10:30pm...
Dr. Richard Wolff - America’s Economy of Death Exposed…
(check your local listings for stations or stream at RT or Free Speech TV, and catch past shows on Youtube)
The Big Picture: Dr. Richard Wolff - America’s Economy of Death Exposed…
Big Picture Interview: Dr. Richard Wolff-You Didn't Do This Alone
- Economist Dr. Richard Wolff, Capitalism's Crisis Deepens Essays on the Global Economic Meltdown/Democracy At Work
Big Picture Panel: GOP TrumpCare Will Kill 29,000
- Sam Sacks, The District Sentinel News Co-op
- Bryan Pruitt, RedState
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Tuesday's Daily Stack 
Hour One: GOP Has Their Panties in A Wad Over Planned Parenthood
- Austin Petersen, Former Libertarian Candidate for President
Article: " 14th Amendment, July 9, 1868 (citizenship, representatives, public debt)
Opinion: " Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia, Inc. v. Comer", 2017. " 3. This case involves express discrimination based on religious identity with respect to playground resurfacing. We do not address religious uses of funding or other forms of discrimination". Case: " Bush v. Gore", 2000. " The individual citizen has no federal constitutional right to vote for electors for the President of the United States"
Article: " Trump’s Lies" by David Leonhardt, Stuart A. Thompson.
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Wednesday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 12-3pm ET
Congressman Mark Pocan (D-WI, 2nd District), Co-Chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, will be calling in to talk about the issues of the day and take your calls.
And, the best of the rest of the news along with your calls right here on...
The Thom Hartmann Program, Occupying The Media 3 hours a day 5 days a week" for "we the people"
And don't forget...Democracy is NOT a spectator sport...it begins with you...
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Thom's Poll
Will TrumpCare Pass the Senate?
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Watch & Listen to Thom
Watch the Full "Big Picture" Show...
Who Will Win the Coming Democratic Civil War?
On tonight’s Big Picture, Thom discusses with Morris Pearl how the secretive Senate health care bill that just rolled out will be good for wealthy patrons as opposed to YOUR health. Then he talks with Richard Eskow on the future of the Democratic party and if it will ever catchup to what the public is interested in, such as non corporate candidates like the UK has with Jeremy Corbyn.
Trumpcare Bill is One of Most Harmful Greedy Pieces of Legislation in History (w/guest Ben Wikler)
I Hope Americans Are in a Fighting Mood (w/Congressman Keith Ellison)
People Selling Beer and Ice Cream Know They Need Customers to Succeed (w/guest Morris Pearl)
The Fate of US Healthcare Depends on Activism Over the Next Week (w/guest Igor Volsky)
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