This is the Tom Hartman program.

So just when you thought that death-dealing Republican policies couldn't get any worse,

the health insurance industry is basically a giant parasite stuck to our backs and one

of five Americans are now in collection because of medical death.

The pandemic is not making it any easier.

Now we're getting mind-boggling new information about criminality associated and cover-ups

associated with the poisoning of the residents of Flint, Michigan, the state where I grew

up.

I've spent a lot of time in Flint.

Jordan Chariton is on the line with a CEO reporter with Status Coo, STATUSCOUP.pub-slash

U.S., but also a contributor to the intercept and this piece was published over at theintercept.com

today.

His Twitter handle, by the way, which is how we first got in touch with each other, is

at Jordan Chariton J-R-D-A-N-C-H-A-R-I-T-L-N.

Jordan, welcome to the program.

Give us, first of all, just to, you know, if you could real quickly for people who might

have forgotten or might not be up to date, what happened in Flint, how it happened, if

we can do that in like less than a minute.

And then, you know, what the shocking information that you've uncovered that you're reporting

about right now.

In a nutshell, there was a privatization effort, which is going on all around the country

to privatize Michigan's water.

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