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The Hartmann Report

What?! Anti-Regulation GOP Wants to Regulate Journalism

The Hartmann Report

Thom Hartmann

The Hartmann Report, Climate Change, Democracy, News, America, Debate, Congress, Economics, Thom Hartmann

4.51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2017

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

The GOP Wants to regulate journalism and make it so you have to get a license. How dictator Trump and his mini me's are furthering the demise of democracy. And Greg Palast talks growing up with the Vegas shooter...

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0:00.0

This is the Tom Hartman program.

0:15.0

And greetings, my friends, patriots, lovers of democracy, truth and justice,

0:21.0

believers in peace, freedom, and the American way.

0:25.2

Tom Hartman here with you, and boy, what an amazing news day.

0:31.4

It's just incredible. The the the Donald Trump

0:37.7

destroying Obamacare. I mean he's just he's just out flat out doing it.

0:43.0

Let's take down Obamacare

0:45.0

uh... it's

0:46.9

and and i mean you know he started out with the executive order which he almost

0:50.0

forgot to sign

0:51.1

yet or he did forget to sign.

0:53.0

Penn said to say, go back and sign that thing.

0:55.0

And which would basically allow these so-called cheaper plans these you know non-conforming

1:05.6

plan I mean the main thing that Obamacare did is it established nationwide

1:10.1

regulations for health insurance that prevent health

1:14.0

insurance companies from ripping us off.

1:17.0

That prevent health insurance companies from selling us crappy plans and saying,

1:21.2

hey, all this will meet all your needs and it's only $100 a month compared to that plan over there,

1:25.5

which also meet all your needs, but it's $300 a month, or whatever it may be.

1:31.0

And then you don't realize you have a crappy plan until you're, you know, two years into it and your doctor says, oh, you know, you need to have your gallbladder taken out or you got you know of whatever you know and you

1:45.3

you have to do something that's expensive and suddenly you discover that your

1:49.1

health insurance is only you know doesn't cover hospital for example, or doesn't pay for surgeons, but does pay for

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