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Health Insurance Profits From Denying Life Saving Coverage

Are Healthcare companies profiting from denying life saving coverage from patients? Wendell Potter, a former health insurance executive joins the Thom Hartmann Program to tell us about and other practices by health insurances companies that…

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Trump Claims Credit for Act Passed by Obama, Calls It "Greatest Idea" He's Ever Had

Donald Trump takes credit for an act passed by President Obama in 2014, calling it the "greatest idea" he's ever had, related to medical care for veterans.

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Taking on Trump and Supporters Using His Own Words

Congressman Ro Khanna joins the Thom Hartmann Program, answering calls from the audience and taking on Trump supporters and Republican rhetoric with the words of Donald Trump himself. Digging up damaging and contradictory statements, could…

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Mental Health Experts Demand Psychological Assessment of Kavanaugh for Drinking, Instability

Donald Trump openly mocked Dr. Christine Blasey Ford at a rally Tuesday, casting doubt on her claims that Brett Kavanaugh had tried to rape her in high school just days after calling her a very…

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Are Drug Companies Exploiting People for Profit?

Caller belives that the unfair rises in the cost of life saving medicine by drug and pharmaceutical companies is the result of capitalist profit motive over human rights and well being. are pharmaceutical companies exploiting…

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Life Saving Drugs Should Belong to the People, Not Big Pharma

Thom Hartmann counters a caller supporting the medical and pharmaceutical industry's free market "right" to charge whatever they want for life saving prescriptions and drugs. Should the pharmaceutical industry and drug manufacturers be able to…

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Roe v. Wade in Danger: Released Docs Reveal Kavanaugh Thinks Abortion Decision Is Not “Settled Law”

Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing took a series of dramatic turns Thursday, as Democratic senators began releasing confidential documents from Kavanaugh’s work at the George W. Bush White House. The New York Times…

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Kavanaugh Nomination Could Mean The End of Legal Safe Abortion in United States

Dawn Laguens the Executive Director of Planned Parenthood Federation of America says there is no silver lining to Donald Trump Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. who will overturn Roe v Wade along with other landmark…

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How Monsanto Plants Stories, Suppresses Science & Silences Dissent to Sell a Cancer-Linked Chemical

As Monsanto comes under scrutiny for allegedly hiding the dangers of its weed killer, Roundup, DN! talks to a reporter who says the company attempted to censor and discredit her when she published stories on…

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Historic Ruling Against Monsanto Finds Company Acted with “Malice” Against Groundskeeper with Cancer

California jurors have awarded $289 million in a historic verdict against Monsanto in the case of a school groundskeeper who developed cancer after using its weed killer, Roundup. DN! speaks with Brent Wisner, the lead…

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How Corporate Healthcare Interests are Trying to Scare You Out of Universal Healthcare

The morbidly rich are wasting no time countering the momentum progressives are making towards universal healthcare, and now corporate healthcare interests scared of losing their obscene profits are trying to scare you into giving up…

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The Need to Expand Social Security

Nancy Altman, author of The Truth About Social Security and president of Social Security Works joins Thom Hartmann to talk about the need to expand social security.

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Trump EPA Allowing Asbestos Back into Manufacturing

The Trump EPA is building a framework to allow new uses of the toxic carcinogen asbestos.

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Koch-Backed Study Says "Medicare for All" Would Save Gov't Trillions

A Koch-backed study by the libertarian Mercatus Center reveals that "Medicare for All" would save the government trillions, and media reporting about the study is highly deceptive.

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Debate: Is Healthcare a Personal Responsibility or Community Responsibility?

Healthcare Debate, Thom takes on a caller who thinks that healthcare is a personal responsibility instead of something that the community has a responsibility to cover? The Thom Hartmann Program on Free Speech TV is…

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Detroit's Oakland Ave Urban Farm is Rebuilding a Commercial Commons: Jerry Hebron and Bryce Detroit

Community wealth building on urban farms in Detroit, MI. Jerry Hebron and Bryce Detroit join Laura and The Laura Flanders Show from Oakland Avenue Urban Farms in Detroit to discuss their plans to revitalize a…

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Iraqi-American Pediatrician Mona Hanna-Attisha on the Trauma of Child Separation & the Travel Ban

As more than 900 children remain separated from their parents, DN! speaks to Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, a pediatrician from Flint, Michigan, who helped expose the dangerous levels of lead in the city’s drinking water after…

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As Death Toll Rises in Flint, Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha on Her Fight to Expose Lead Poisoning in City

A new report by PBS “Frontline” has found the death toll from the water crisis in Flint may be higher than Michigan officials have acknowledged. The state has admitted 12 people died following an outbreak…

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Rep Ro Khanna Believes Everyone Deserves Healthcare and a Guaranteed Job

Congressman Ro Khanna believes everyone deserves healthcare and a guaranteed jobs program, should this be national policy?

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Top Republican Wants Trump to Restart Obamacare Payments

Top Republicans are now pushing the Trump administration to restart Obamacare payments recently abruptly suspended by Trump.

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