Wednesday 9/8, 2021, 6:00pm PT.

"For-profit health insurance is the largest con job ever perpetrated on the American people—one that has cost trillions of dollars and millions of lives since the 1940s," says popular progressive radio host Thom Hartmann. The New York Times bestselling author returns to Town Hall with the latest installment of his "hidden history" series, The Hidden History of American Healthcare: Why Sickness Bankrupts You and Makes Others Insanely Rich. He explores how attempts to implement affordable universal healthcare in the United States have been thwarted by greed, racism, and oligarchic corruption and what can be done to make healthcare for all a reality. Hartmann shares examples of other countries that have shown that affordable universal healthcare is not only possible but also effective and efficient and argues that America's "sickness for profit" system can be replaced with Medicare.

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-Thom

The simple solution to the Medicare Advantage problem is to kill off the program. It was just a Trojan horse to privatize Medicare.

Over 100 Democratic lawmakers last week introduced legislation to lower the Medicare eligibility age to 60. There is one small problem that needs fixing, though: so-called "Medicare Advantage."

This week my new book, The Hidden History of American Healthcare: Why Sickness Bankrupts You and Makes Others Insanely Rich is officially available in bookstores nationwide and online. Here's a chapter excerpt I think you'll find interesting, particularly after all those awful TV ads with former football and sitcom stars we've had to endure the past few years…

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Wednesday's Daily Stack

Article: "Donald Trump will host Holyfield vs Belfort boxing match in Florida on September 11 and will be joined at the highly-anticipated event by his son Don Jr." by Tommy Taylor.

Article: "Was Donald Trump at Ground Zero Searching for Survivors Two Days After 9/11 with Workers He Paid For?" by Bethania Palma.

Article: "Fact-checking Trump's claim that thousands in New Jersey cheered when World Trade Center tumbled " by Lauren Carroll.

Article: "What's on TV This Week: 9/11 Specials and 'American Crime Story'" by Gabe Cohn.

Article: "USS Cole bombing" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Maps And Charts Of Iraqi Oil Fields" by Dick Cheney.

Article: "Dick Cheney" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Abortion in the United States" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Foundling Homes" by Nicholas Terpstra.

Article: "Crime in the United States" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Time to End the Medicare Advantage Scam" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Health insurers have their way with regulators" by Fred Schulte.

Article: "Medicare Advantage Money Grab" by Center for Public Integrity .

Book: The Hidden History of American Healthcare: Why Sickness Bankrupts You and Makes Others Insanely Rich by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Brown, Colleagues Urge CMS to Investigate Medicare Advantage Overbilling, Protect Taxpayer Dollars and Improve Care for Older Ohioans" by Senator Sherrod Brown.

Article: "Key Statistics for Prostate Cancer" by American Cancer Society.

Article: "First on CNN: More than 100 Democratic lawmakers introduce legislation to lower Medicare eligibility age to 60" by Annie Grayer.

Article: "Healthcare Spending And Utilization In Public And Private Medicare" by NBER.

Article: "Medicare's Private Option Is Gaining Popularity, and Critics" by Mark Miller.

Article: "Three ways to cut — and improve — Medicare" by Ed Weisbart.

Article: "Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act", 2003 by Wikipedia.

Article: "Medicare Advantage" (Medicare Part C) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Privatization is really a plan to dismantle Social Security" by Max Richtman.

Article: "Frontline: America After 9/11 " by PBS.

Quote: "Ignorance leads to fear, fear leads to hate. Trump knew that" - Michael Moore.

Article: "Hospitals in Republican-led state given permission to ration care amid COVID-19 surge" (Idaho) by Marissa Higgins.

Article: "Patient livid after hospital cancels surgery due to COVID surge: 'I cried so hard that I had a headache'" by Bob Brigham.

Video: The David Pakman Show September 7, 2021 w/ Thom Hartmann.

Article: "No masks? Check. No vaccines? Check. No remote classes? Check. Public education ended? In progress" by Mark Sumner.

Article: "Critical Race Theory" by Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Article: "Catholic Church and health care" by Wikipedia.

Article: "How Catholic Bishops Are Shaping Health Care In Rural America" by Anna Maria Barry-Jester and Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux.

Article: "Syllabus: Introduction to Critical Race Theory" by Adrienne Keene.

Article: "Mark Sumner".

Article: "Hunter".

Article: "Gabe Ortiz".

Article: "Armistice Day" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Attack on Pearl Harbor" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Victory in Europe Day" (VE Day) by Wikipedia.

Article: "From 4% to 45%: Biden Offers Ambitious Blueprint for Solar Energy" by Ivan Penn.

Article: "Solar power in Germany" by Wikipedia.

Article: "German Renewable Energy Sources Act" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Joe Manchin's Dirty Empire" by Daniel Boguslaw.

Article: "Rebuilding after Hurricane Ida will be costly. Experts blame the pandemic and climate change." by 1246-newsvot.

Article: "Damages from winter storm in Texas 'could approach $50 billion'" by Tom Ambrose.

Article: "We Have A Number! Manchin Finally Makes His Opening Bid On Centerpiece Of Biden Agenda" by Cristina Cabrera.

Article: "China partly shuts world's third-busiest port on Covid-19 case in threat to global trade" by Bloomberg.

Article: "Filibuster" by Wikipedia.

Article: "John C. Calhoun" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The Filibuster Was Grounded in Slavery and Now Threatens All Life on Earth" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Latest Polls Of The California Recall Election" by FiveThirtyEight.

Article: "Newsom's biggest recall danger: Complacent Democrats who don't turn out to vote" by Julia Wick, Phil Willon.

Video: The Last Word: Sacramento mayor: Recalling Gov. Newsom 'would be terrible for California' - Lawrence O'Donnell.

Article: "Larry Elder" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Stephen Miller (political advisor)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "How recall candidate Larry Elder mentored Trumpism's top acolytes" by Jean Guerrero.

Movie: "BlacKkKlansman".

Article: "Reagan Proposes School Prayer Amendment" by AP (1982).

Quote: "America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization." - Georges Clemenceau.

Article: "Understanding mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines" by CDC.

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

I'll be talking with Economist Dr. Richard Wolff, Co-founder, Democracy At Work / Author of numerous books - his latest is The Sickness is the System (now also available as an eBook)

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