CNN and so-called conservatives keep worrying about how we're going to "pay for" things like Medicare for all and free college at the Democratic Debates. It's the completely wrong frame and question.

Americans have been ripped off for far too long in the areas of healthcare and education. Healthcare, being essential to life, is a public good. Therefore the delivery of healthcare should not be an opportunity for somebody to make a profit. This is a public function, which is why it's time to move health insurance companies into the appropriate realm of providing nonessential services to rich people and let the rest of us get healthcare at a reasonable cost, just as is done by every other developed country in the world.

The same is true of education. We need to get profit-seeking parasites out of these public realms, to provide safety and security for Americans, and reinvigorate our nation.

-Thom

Thursday's Daily Stack

Video: Watch night one of the CNN debate: Part 1.

Video: Watch night two of the CNN debate: Part 1.

Video: TNC:172 Kennedy-Nixon First Presidential Debate, 1960.

Video: JFK vs. Nixon - 2nd 1960 debate.

Video: October 13, 1960 Presidential Candidates Debate, Kennedy and Nixon (3rd debate).

Video: John F. Kennedy vs Richard Nixon - Fourth Presidential Debate 1960.

Article: "If the ACA Is Repealed Under Texas v. Azar, Millions Will Lose Health Insurance Coverage" by Emily Gee and Charles Gaba.

Article: "Majority of House Democrats now support impeachment inquiry" by Kyle Cheney.

Article: "Only 7 Candidates Have Qualified for the Next Democratic Debate" by Maggie Astor.

Article: "Medicare "Part E"- for Everybody" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "New Deal" by Wikipedia.

Article: "CNN's hiring of ex-Sessions spokeswoman stirs controversy" by Brian Stelter.

Site: League of Women Voters.

Article: "Eric Garner's Killer Got a Raise - and de Blasio Did Nothing" by Jumaane D. Williams.

Article: "Mitch McConnell blocks election security legislation" by Kathryn Watson.

Article: "Mueller Report (Redacted) Searchable Version (PDF)".

Randi Rhodes is here!
- Randi Rhodes, Host - The Randi Rhodes Show weekdays 3-5pm ET on FSTV

Site: Free Speech TV

Article: "Sen. Warren to Delaney: Why Would Anybody Run For President Just To "Talk About What We Can't Do?"" by Ian Schwartz.

Article: "Buttigieg: Stop Worry About What Republicans Will Say, No Matter What They'll Call Us Crazy Socialists" by Ian Schwartz.

Article: "Is it me or is Marianne Williamson making a lot of sense?" by Emily Stewart.

Movie: "Network (1976 film)".

Article: "'The Healthcare Industry Will Be Advertising Tonight': Sanders Calls Out CNN for Airing Pharma Commercials During 2020 Debate" by Jake Johnson.

Video: Cory Booker to Biden: You're dipping into the Kool-Aid and don't even know the flavor.

Hour Two: Conservatives and CNN Are Concerned About How Much Democratic Ideas Will Cost Us - Why do Conservatives work so hard to turn America into a third-world kleptocracy?
- Grover Norquist, President - Americans for Tax Reform

Speech: "Great Society" by Wikipedia.

Law: "G.I. Bill" (Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944) by Wikipedia.

Quote: "I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub" by Grover Norquist.

Article: "Horace Mann" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Know Nothing" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Scottsdale Fire Department celebrates 10th anniversary" by Catherine Sheffo.

Video: Released tape features Ronald Reagan using racist slur.

Article: "Despite sunny image, Ronald Reagan's racism paved the way for Trump's" by Sacramento Bee.

Video: Democracy Now! Wednesday, July 31, 2019.

Video: Democracy Now! Thu, Aug 01, 2019.

Article: "Inside Sen. Amy Klobuchar's Mining Industry Support In Northeast Minnesota" by Meghna Chakrabarti.

Article: "How deep does the Russia collusion go? To McConnell?" (aluminum factory) by Joan McCarter.

Article: "One for the Win Column: ISMS-Supported Step Therapy Reforms Now in Effect!" by Illinois State Medical Society.

Talk Media News Segment:
- Bob Ney

Site: "Goats for the old Goat".

Book: Loving What You Do: The Elements of a Great Working Life by Ellen Ratner.

Book: "Sideswiped: Lessons Learned Courtesy of the Hit Men of Capitol Hill" by Robert Ney.

Video: Bernie Sanders Calls Out CNN At Dem. Debate For 'Using GOP Talking Point' & Twitter Erupts.

Article: "Warren and Sanders fend off moderates in Tuesday night's Democratic debate" by Bryan Renbaum.

Article: "Sanders was not on stage on Wednesday night, but 'Medicare for All' was front and center" by Bryan Renbaum.

Article: "Kamala Harris rises, Joe Biden slips in polls after first 2020 Democratic debate" by Jacob Pramuk.

Article: "Senate approves 2-year budget and debt-ceiling agreement, syncs up with the House" by Bryan Renbaum.

Article: "Senate passes $2.7 trillion budget deal" by Ursula Perano.

Tweet: "The Radical Left Dems went after me for using the words "drug-infested" concerning Baltimore. Take a look at Elijah C." by Donald J. Trump.

Article: "Donald Trump first swept into the nation's capital 40 years ago. It didn't go well." by Michael E. Miller and Michael Kranish.

Article: "House Panel Approves Subpoena for White House Emails From Private Accounts" by Catie Edmondson.

Article: "President Trump's Attacks on Baltimore Came as Elijah Cummings Quietly Built Effective Investigations Into the Administration" by Alana Abramson.

Article: "Major Landlord Accused Of Antiblack Bias in City" by Morris Kaplan, Oct. 16, 1973.

Article: "In 1976, Trump-owned housing in Maryland was so deplorable that Trump's father was arrested" by Jen Hayden.

Case: "Buckley v. Valeo", 1976

Article: "'A Significant Milestone': Majority of House Dems Now Support Impeachment Inquiry, Increasing Pressure on Pelosi" by Eoin Higgins.

Article: "CNN asks about Mueller probe on Night 2 after taking heat for skipping it on Night 1" by Brian Flood.

Article: "Bernie Sanders vs. Tim Ryan on Medicare For All Covering Unions: "I Do Know, I Wrote The Damn Bill!"" by Ian Schwartz.

Article: "Thanks to the Koch Brothers, We Have More Proof that Single Payer Saves Money and Cares for All of Us" by John Nichols.

Article: "Democratic debate transcript: July 31, 2019" by NBC News.

Quote: "We're up here with makeup on our faces and our rehearsed attack lines, playing roles in this reality TV show" - Andrew Yang.

Article: "Imagining a Warren-Buttigieg, or Buttigieg-Warren, Ticket" by Nicholas Kristof.

Article: "Daily Kos Democratic presidential primary straw poll: Post-Detroit debates edition" by Carolyn Fiddler.

Video: Andrew Yang's Closing Statements - CNN Democratic Presidential Debates 7-31-2019.

TV: "The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Season 3: Episode 1: " by The Good-Time News.

Article: "GM is halting production at a 78-year-old Detroit-area plant this week" by Jordan Valinsky.

Book: The Hidden History of Guns and the Second Amendment by Thom Hartmann.

Video: Cooper presses Gabbard: Is Bashar al-Assad a murderer?.

Article: "Tommy Douglas" (father of Canadian Healthcare) by Wikipedia.

Law: "H.R.3590 - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act" (111-148) by Rep. Rangel, Charles B. [D-NY-15].

Friday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 12-3pm ET

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Debate: Should Healthcare & Education Be Free From Profit Seeking Parasites? (w/ Grover Norquist)

What 2020 Presidential Election Reveals about Our Democracy (w/ Ari Berman)

Voter Turnout Could be Stop Four More Years of Trump! (w/ John Nichols)

Legacies of Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens (w/ Matt Ford)