This is the Tom Hartman Program. Greetings my friends, Patriots, lovers of democracy, truth and justice, believers in peace, freedom, and the American way.

The big news, of course, is the election last night, or elections.

There were elections all across the United States.

Virginia seems to be and

Kentucky seemed to be sucking up all the oxygen in terms of talking about

them. But there were some very very consequential elections. I think though that

what happened in Virginia what happened in Virginia, what

happened in Kentucky really are worthy of major plays, a major

conversation here and the reason why is because of the issues that were involved.

This is absolutely fascinating.

A company called Data for Progress did a bunch of statewide polling in Virginia. And this was a week

or so before the election. And they published this report that you can find it

over at data for Progress.org.

And this was polling that was done a couple of weeks ago.

And they said, and I'm just quoting from their report,

support for free insulin

commands majorities in every district poll across a full set of swing districts

support for free insulin was 79%

while opposition was just 10%. Of course the Republicans oppose obviously free

insulin. By the way, the inventor of insulin gave the patent away for free. But you know now we've got drug companies making a fortune of it. How does that happen?

Well that's American health care. Support for Medicare drug pricing

negotiation was 73% across Virginia as opposed to 13% opposed.

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