Will GOP Women Senators Stop the Virulently Anti-Female SAVE Act?
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 17 February 2026
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Will Republican women in the Senate stop the virulently anti-female SAVE Act? The Epstein Files: It’s now officially a cover-up...But, wait - there’s more. Christopher Armitage - What would happen if insurance companies were banned? Most Americans still assume elections alone will decide whether this stops, but our allies abroad — who’ve seen this movie before in their own countries in their grandparents’ lifetimes — appear far less certain. They’re acting as if the United States has entered a phase nations rarely reverse once fully established.
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| 2:17.7 | Welcome to our program on the line with us, our buddy Christopher Armitage, host of the |
| 2:22.3 | Existatialist Republic on Substack, C. Armitage, excuse me, C.m.armatage. |
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| 2:40.3 | Also, C. Armitage on Blue Sky. And Chris, welcome back to the program. I wanted to start with your piece, what would happen of states banned insurance |
| 2:51.5 | companies. It's one of the particularly shocking statistics that you point out in this is that |
| 2:57.1 | between 2022 and 2023 care denials rose an average by insurance companies, rose an average |
| 3:04.5 | of 20.2% for commercial insurance claims, and 55.7% for Medicare Advantage claims, |
| 3:11.8 | while the five largest publicly traded health insurers made $31 billion in profits. |
| 3:17.6 | Every penny of it came coming from saying, no, we will not pay for that procedure to the people that they are, quote, ensuring. |
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