At the very least, let's stop the egregiously deceptive advertising. Only Medicare should be able to call itself "Medicare."

Congress must pass a law to stop the deceptive advertising of Medicare Advantage plans. Only Medicare should be able to call itself Medicare.

Unless you've been out of the country for the past few years, you've seen the ads on TV featuring Joe Namath, Jimmy Walker, or William Shatner hawking so-called "Medicare Advantage" plans.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Friday's Daily Stack

Video: Anything Goes - Cole Porter (with lyrics).

Article: "27 Bible Verses About Lying" by Mary Fairchild.

Article: "Second Coming" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Orbán urges Christian nationalists in Europe and US to ‘unite forces' at CPAC" by David Smith.

Book: They Want to Kill Americans: The Militias, Terrorists, and Deranged Ideology of the Trump Insurgency by Malcolm Nance.

Quote: "If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other." - Ulysses S. Grant.

Article: "Stop the Medicare "Advantage" Scam Before Medicare is Dead" by Thom Hartmann.

Site: End The Bribe System.

Article: "Medicare Program; Request for Information on Medicare" by CMS & HHS (comment by 08/31/2022).

Article: "Tucker Carlson's embrace of foreign authoritarian leaders" by Sophie Lawton.

Article: "Liz Cheney" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Ontario International Airport" by Wikipedia.

Article: "List of plants known as cedar" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Cypress" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Jigonhsasee" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Electoral Systems" by FairVote.

Article: "Alex Jones must pay at least $4.1 million to parents of a Sandy Hook school massacre victim in defamation case, jury rules" by Safia Samee Ali.

Article: "Congress on "high alert" amid security threats" by Andrew Solender.

Article: "1912 United States presidential election" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Progressive Party (United States, 1912)" ("Bull Moose Party") by Wikipedia.

Article: "Gavin Newsom" by Wikipedia.

Article: "DeSantis Suspends State Attorney Who Vowed to Not Enforce Florida Abortion Law " by Brian Hamacher.

Article: "Who is Andrew Warren? Meet the Tampa prosecutor Ron DeSantis just removed" by Kirby Wilson, Dan Sullivan.

Site: KBCS.

Site: MomsRising.

Article: "Jeff Golden (Oregon)" by Ballotpedia.

Twitter: "Jeff Smith".

Article: "Iraq election: Purple fingers, but hard work ahead" by Hanah Allam.

Article: "Dick Cheney excoriates Trump in an ad for his daughter Liz Cheney" by Maggie Astor.

Article: "Dick Cheney calls Trump a ‘coward’ and a ‘threat’ in ad for Liz Cheney" by David Jackson.

Tweet: "Russia is ‘cranking up the dial to extract as much as it can’ with #BrittneyGriner's 9-year sentence @JuliaIoffe tells @JoyAnnReid. [link]" by The ReidOut.

Book: The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama.

Article: "Trump’s NATO isolationism is at least 30 years old" by Philip Bump.

Article: "Gavin McInnes" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Glenn Greenwald" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Bob Woodward Defends Withholding Donald Trump’s COVID-19 Comments Until Book’s Publication" by Ted Johnson.

Article: "Oregon Bottle Bill" by Wikipedia.

Site: Postcards to Voters.

Article: "Massive jobs surprise: US economy added 528,000 jobs in July" by Alicia Wallace.

Article: "Was Taiwan Ever Really a Part of China?" by Evan Dawley.

Article: "Hong Kong" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Daryl Morey’s Hong Kong tweet: Chinese backlash and political reactions" by Matthew Yglesias.

Article: "US officials push back on reports of dark web javelin missiles: 'Russian disinformation'" by Peter Aitken.

Article: "Carpetbagger" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) - August 1981 strike" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Standard Form 86" by OPM.

Article: "Does the President Have a Security Clearance?" by David Brown.

Article: "Hungary" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Indiana" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Rhode Island" by Wikipedia.

TV: "Bewitched".

Article: "Alex Jones rages at 'damn' attorneys: 'My lawyer gives them the raw text messages!'" by David Edwards.

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