Episode 773 | Insulin Prices Double | Workers Pay Higher Taxes Than Corporations | Voter Purges
The Benjamin Dixon Show
The Benjamin Dixon Show
4.6 • 861 Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2019
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Insulin costs only $6 to produce, but the price of insulin is doubling yet again. Why on earth do we allow profit companies to extort the most vulnerable? This is the norm in America and we have to change our way of thinking.
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New report shows that workers, not corporations, pay a higher percentage in taxes to the gov't. This is by design and, yet, another thing that we have to change the mindset of the people over.
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Voter purges are spreading across the country again -- this time in Wisconsin and Georgia. I know this question has been asked a thousand times, but I must pose it again: if voting didn't matter, why has so much energy been invested into keeping you from voting?
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After we vote in a progressive President, senators, and congresspeople, we have to fund progressive think tanks and media. That's the only way we can come from behind and push us towards the future.
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| 0:11.3 | Welcome to the Benjamin Dixon show. |
| 0:15.0 | I am your host Benjamin Dixon. |
| 0:17.0 | Today is Tuesday, December 17, 2019. |
| 0:19.0 | Thank you so much for joining us. |
| 0:21.0 | I want to start with this headline from USA Today and it says |
| 0:27.3 | insulin calls continue to rise so much so that almost half of people with |
| 0:32.2 | diabetes have temporarily skipped taking their |
| 0:35.0 | insulin according to a 2018 survey. |
| 0:39.4 | Now I've covered on the show before this phenomenon of insulin rationing and I have |
| 0:48.8 | cover the stories of the people who have died from it, particularly young people who once they fall off of their parents insurance |
| 0:56.4 | they even when they fall off their parents insurance at the age of 27 if |
| 1:01.2 | they don't have a job that gives them insurance, then they find themselves rationing |
| 1:07.1 | insulin. |
| 1:09.7 | Bernie Sanders tweeted this out and he said a vial of insulin costs six dollars to make. |
| 1:15.0 | This is not our health care system malfunctioning. |
| 1:18.0 | This is exactly how it is designed to work. |
| 1:20.0 | Make as much profit for corporations as possible regardless of the human cost. |
| 1:25.0 | I can't stress enough the absurdity of our health care system. |
| 1:33.4 | And I cannot stress enough how utterly brainwashed America |
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