This is the Tom Hartman program.

Well greetings, my friends, patriots, lovers of democracy, truth and justice, believers and

peace, freedom and the American way Tom Hartman here with you.

David Sarota is with us to kick things off.

I got his newsletter this morning, The Daily Poster is what it's called and that's also

the website dailyposter.com and of course David's Twitter handle is David Sarota.

And it was a jaw dropper, David, welcome to the program, first of all, and thanks so much

for dropping by this morning.

Thanks for having me Tom.

So I'm reading your newsletter and I had no idea that 11 years ago, arguably 12 years

ago in 2009, Connecticut basically passed a law to establish a public option and giant

health insurance companies with the United Health Care at the top of the list have done

everything they can to prevent that from being implemented.

Tell me about this.

Yeah, so 11 years ago after the passage of the Affordable Care Act, Connecticut created

a pathway to create a public option in its own state.

If you remember, back then the Congress did not pass a national federal public option.

So states started going to work, Connecticut being one of them.

Now you might say, Connecticut would be a weird place to go to work for one only because

the insurance industry itself, much of it is rooted in Connecticut, but you know what

people live in Connecticut and people don't like paying high health insurance premiums.

Of course, the insurance industry is powerful in Connecticut and it has managed to use its

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