Democracy Now! 2024-12-20 Friday
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Democracy Now!
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🗓️ 20 December 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Headlines for December 20, 2024; Amazon Workers Launch Historic Strike to Demand New Contracts & End Unsafe Labor Practices; UnitedHealth vs. Patients: NYC Man’s Battle to Get Lifesaving Drug Highlights Broken Health System; How to Appeal Insurance Denials, Abolish Medical Debt, and Fight for Medicare for All; “Do Not Obey in Advance”: Timothy Snyder on How Corporate America Is Bending to Trump
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| 0:00.0 | From New York, this is Democracy Now. |
| 0:18.6 | We're back. |
| 0:20.7 | Let's back! Let him go! |
| 0:22.6 | Let him go! |
| 0:23.6 | Let him go! |
| 0:24.6 | Let him go! |
| 0:26.6 | Let him go! |
| 0:28.6 | What are we doing wrong? |
| 0:30.6 | We come right back. |
| 0:31.6 | What they're doing is illegal. |
| 0:34.6 | What they're doing is illegal. |
| 0:35.6 | Those fences are illegal. |
| 0:38.3 | Thousands of Amazon workers have launched the largest strike against Amazon in U.S. history. |
| 0:44.3 | We'll speak with an Amazon worker from Georgia and the president of a New York local. |
| 0:49.3 | Then, as Luigi Mangione is extradited to New York and charged in the killing of the CEO |
| 0:56.6 | of United Health Care, we'll look at the growing anger directed at the health insurance industry. |
| 1:02.6 | Kevin Dwyer was denied life-saving medicine for cystic fibrosis by United Health Care for nine |
| 1:08.8 | months. |
| 1:09.8 | When I went through my denial with United Health Care, I was extremely angry, and I know |
| 1:14.6 | that there's plenty of other people out there when I was going through mine that I talked |
| 1:18.6 | to who were going through similar things. The one thing that I hope is that the United |
| 1:24.6 | Health Care, all insurance companies and the politicians will wake up and see |
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