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The Hartmann Report

WHY SICKNESS BANKRUPTS YOU AND MAKES OTHERS INSANELY RICH

The Hartmann Report

Thom Hartmann

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🗓️ 15 September 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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This is the Tom Hartman program.

0:47.5

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

0:52.8

peace, freedom and the American way. I've got a new book out the hidden history of American

0:56.7

health care, why sickness bankrupts you and makes others insanely rich.

1:02.2

And I wrote it essentially as a how-to manual for people who want to advocate for sickle-payer

1:07.6

health care. And as a what's up for pretty much everybody else. In other words, here's the

1:13.5

history of how we got here. I'm just going to take this hour and go through step-by-step all the

1:19.3

different pieces of this. I'm starting with why is health care not a right in the United States.

1:25.0

And then in the second block, going to how did the health care companies get so rich and powerful?

1:30.3

And how did they maintain that power? To number three, the third part of the hour,

1:34.4

how Medicare Advantage can kill Medicare for all. And then in the fourth part of the hour,

1:41.1

how Canada got health care and how we can too. So why is health care not a right in the United

1:47.4

States? The United Nations negotiated this agreement that pretty much every country in the

1:52.1

world except the United States signed the United Nations Convention on Human Rights. This says

1:57.4

health care is a right. And every other developed country in the world except the United States

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