Healthcare, Lobbyists and Unemployment
Oct. 5, 2009 6:44 amBy LouiseWellPoint, the biggest health insurer in America that pays its CEO roughly $10 million, just announced it is cutting back on the health benefits to its own employees.
Transcript: Thom talks to Jeff Milchen about the Supreme Court and corporate personhood, 09 September 2009
Oct. 5, 2009 4:12 amBy SueNThom Hartmann: Mind-boggling news. Max Baucus, the wholly-owned appendage of the health insurance industry, apparently has a piece of legislation that is going to be coming out of the Senate Finance Committee. And according to Robert Gibbs, the folks on K Street saw it before the White House did. What a surprise! I would suggest probably the folks on K Street wrote it. In any case there’s a Supreme Court case coming up, Citizens United vs.
Friday Oct 9th 2009
Oct. 4, 2009 6:18 pmBy LouiseHour One: "Brunch With Bernie" Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) spends the hour with Thom discussing the issues and answering listener questions www.sanders.senate.gov
Thursday Oct 8th 2009
Oct. 4, 2009 6:17 pmBy LouiseKPOJ's Carl Wolfson and Christine Alexander filling in...
Hour One: New Supreme Court session with cases to be reviewed with Stephen Kanter www.lclark.edu
Wednesday Oct 7th 2009
Oct. 4, 2009 6:16 pmBy LouiseHour One: "Was Jefferson right when he said bankers were more dangerous than a standing army?" Thom challenges Dan Gainor on the GOP health care plan www.businessandmedia.org
Tuesday Oct 6th 2009
Oct. 4, 2009 6:13 pmBy LouiseHour One: Is hate speech from the pulpit the same as hate speech from any where else? with Mikey Weinstein www.militaryreligiousfreedom.org
Monday Oct 5th 2009
Oct. 4, 2009 6:12 pmBy LouiseHour One: "Should people with a gun in their house pay more for health insurance?" Thom mixes it up with Mike Hammond of Gun Owners of America www.gunowners.org
Transcript: Thom asks, "why does America have the most sick and twisted healthcare system in the world?" 08 September 2009
Oct. 4, 2009 12:34 pmBy SueNI want to share with you, well really, I want to share with you some insights that Matt Taibbi put together brilliantly over at Rolling Stone, about where we’re at with this healthcare legislation.
Transcript: Thom Hartmann asks, should we give up our rights for the swine flu? 03 September 2009
Oct. 4, 2009 7:40 amBy SueNI want to talk about swine flu because my email load is starting to explode with this. In large part it’s my right wing email load. I’m also, you know, I’m on multiple email lists and you know I’ve got a giant pile of right wing email every day as well as the left wing or liberal email. I would say the average American email. But without getting into that debate.
Transcript: Thom talks to William Gladstone, author of "The Twelve: 12/21/12 A New Beginning" 02 September 2009
Oct. 3, 2009 5:25 pmBy SueNThom Hartmann: Well you know how sometimes you know what you know is right, and sometimes you know what you know is wrong, and sometimes you think you know what you know, and sometimes you think you don’t know what you don’t know, and sometimes what you know you don’t know, you know, all that kind of stuff.