Is "Scientific Racism" Why America Has No Universal Healthcare System?
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
4.3 • 8 Ratings
🗓️ 20 October 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
The simple fact is that, were it not for slavery, white supremacy, and the legacy of “scientific racism,” America would have a national, single-payer healthcare system.
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| 0:42.6 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:47.4 | I was on Karen Hutter's show and I got an inquiry from reporter for the Grio, |
| 0:51.7 | and there've been a bunch of inquiries and whatnot that I've been getting |
| 0:55.6 | over the last week or so about racism and health care in the United States. |
| 1:00.1 | And the reason why a year and a half ago, two years ago, I published the Hidden History of |
| 1:04.9 | American Health Care, one of the books in the Hidden History series. There will be ten of them when |
| 1:09.1 | we're done next year. In that book, there's a rather, actually it's about three chapters, it runs |
| 1:16.4 | across about three chapters. The story of Frederick Hoffman. What it happened was last year when I was |
| 1:22.0 | doing the virtual book tour for that book, Cenk Yuger had me on his program. Cenk's an old friend |
| 1:27.6 | and colleague with the young Turks, he started. And I did a little riff about how racism was |
| 1:37.5 | why we don't have an actual health care system. And maybe as Junk, I'm not sure, somebody reposted |
| 1:42.8 | on TikTok and it went absolutely viral. And so I've been getting all these pressing inquiries. |
| 1:48.7 | So I thought, well, you know, let's just pull this stuff out and lay it down. So I pulled out of |
| 1:54.4 | my book on health care, the story of Frederick Hoffman and how scientific racism, and I put that |
| 1:59.7 | in scare quotes, is responsible for America not having a universal health care system. It's a |
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