Thom Hartmann Program - 1 Hour Edition - 02/01/19 - Republicans don't seem to want everyone to have health care, but they want everyone to be able to have a gun. What is wrong with those priorities? Underneath it all, does the right wing want to have a servant class, and believe that they fundamentally deserve to live like aristocrats? A fascinating discussion.
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 1 February 2019
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Thom's Take: Republicans in Utah are pushing legislation that would reverse a voter initiative to accept federal Medicare expansion in that state. What are they thinking? - Norma in Alabama speaks passionately about the suffering of those who have no way to see a doctor, and the push by conservatives to pay lower and lower wages, tax the poor and middle class but not the rich- are the rich trying to make us into their servants or even slaves? Thom and other callers hold an illuminating conversation in response to these questions. - What does it mean to really be 'pro-life'?? Author Robin Marty drops in to discuss her 'Handbook for a Post-Roe America'. Roe vs Wade is perhaps the best-known court case, but will the decision be overturned? - Thom reads from 'Handbook for a Post-Roe America' by Robin Marty. - Patreon ask - A fascinating discussion between Thom and pro-gun broadcaster Cam Edwards on the question of gun control and a legislative challenge of gun laws in New York... and callers respond.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:15.0 | Greetings my friends, Patriots, |
| 0:19.0 | lovers of democracy, truth and justice, |
| 0:21.0 | believers, and peace, freedom, and the American way, Tom Hartman, here with you. |
| 0:25.8 | There is something I don't understand, and maybe you can help me with this. |
| 0:32.2 | In Utah, in the state of Utah, the good people of Utah put a |
| 0:37.0 | ballot initiative on their ballot, which was, yes, we're going to take the Medicaid expansion, keep in mind, you know, the federal government pays, I think what is it, 90% of it. |
| 0:48.0 | The state only has to pay 10% of it. |
| 0:50.0 | So the voters of Utah put this on the ballot and voted it in. You know |
| 0:56.6 | legislature wouldn't do it, the governor wouldn't do it, they're all |
| 0:58.9 | Republicans, so the citizens of Utah said we want the Medicaid expansion. |
| 1:03.2 | It's going to give health insurance the ability to get low-cost health care or no-cost health care |
| 1:09.6 | to 150,000 people in Utah. To do that, it's going to cost the state nothing for the |
| 1:16.9 | first couple years, but they say that it's going to cost around $10 million by 2021 and 65 million by 2024. |
| 1:29.8 | So keep that in mind, $10 million, like a couple years down the road it's going to |
| 1:34.1 | across the state of Utah Utah has right now a 1.2 billion dollar surplus |
| 1:41.3 | 1,200 million. |
| 1:44.0 | 1,200 million. |
| 1:47.2 | It's got a 1.2 billion dollars surplus. |
| 1:50.8 | And the Republicans who run Utah are saying we're not going to put into law this thing that the people just voted on. |
| 1:57.0 | There's legislation to completely repeal the ballot initiative. |
| 2:01.0 | There is legislation to impose work requirements like |
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