Democracy Now! 2024-12-16 Monday
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🗓️ 16 December 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Headlines for December 16, 2024; “Lawless”: Marwan Bishara on Israel Bombing Syria 800 Times & Expanding Occupation of Golan Heights; South Korea Impeaches President as Demands Grow for Democratic Reforms; Reporter Ken Klippenstein on Publishing Luigi Mangione Manifesto & Internal UnitedHealth PR Memos; Denied: ProPublica Exposes UnitedHealth Profiteering Off Limiting Care for Children with Autism
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| 0:00.0 | From New York, this is Democracy Now. |
| 0:16.4 | To vote, let me announce the results of the vote. |
| 0:20.8 | The impeachment motion of President Yun Sukhiel was passed with 204 votes out of 300 |
| 0:26.1 | total votes, 85 reject, and three are invalid. |
| 0:30.6 | South Korea's Farnelments voted to impeach the president over a short-lived attempt to impose |
| 0:35.4 | martial law. |
| 0:37.1 | South Korea's constitutional court will now decide |
| 0:40.2 | if he should be removed from office. We'll go to Seoul for the latest. But first, we look at |
| 0:45.2 | Israel's escalating attacks on Syria following the overthrow of the Assad regime. Last night, Israel |
| 0:52.6 | dropped what's been described as an earthquake bomb on Syria. |
| 0:57.0 | We'll speak with Al Jazeera's Marwan Bashara and also talk to him about the killing of three |
| 1:03.9 | more journalists in Gaza this weekend. We'll also look at the anger unleashed against the |
| 1:10.3 | health insurance industry following the killing of the United Healthcare CEO. |
| 1:14.9 | We'll speak to the reporter who published the manifesto by the alleged assassin. |
| 1:19.4 | We'll also talk to a ProPublica reporter about how United Healthcare cuts coverage for profit. |
| 1:27.1 | We obtained leaked documents from inside the company that have revealed what is effectively |
| 1:32.7 | the company's internal playbook for limiting mental health coverage. |
| 1:37.1 | And from those documents, we have published a story that looks at how the company has engaged |
| 1:41.5 | in a secret internal cost-cutting program that essentially targets |
| 1:46.5 | a growing financial burden for the company, and that's the treatment of thousands of children |
| 1:51.5 | with autism around the country. |
| 1:53.2 | All that and more coming up. |
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