Putting aside the Republican's war on women for a moment – a new report from the National Women’s Law Center reveals that health insurance companies are charging women in American an extra billion dollars annually, and it's just good old fashioned gender discrimination. The report finds that the practice of for-profit health insurers charging women more than men for identical coverage is widespread – and states are doing little to stop the rip-off. In the states that don’t ban health insurance gender discrimination, 92% of the best-selling plans charge women more than men.

President Obama’s Affordable Care Act would ban this practice nationally – saving women a billion dollars a year. Unfortunately for women – Republicans are working as hard as they can to repeal Obamacare.

-Thom

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Hour Three: Obamacare vs. "The Pipes Plan"
- Sally Pipes, Pacific Research Institute

How Obamacare is helping
- Ron Pollock, Families USA

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Tuesday's Daily Stack

Quote: "All that harms labor is treason to America." -- Abraham Lincoln.

Article: "Trayvon Martin: Feds investigating unarmed black teen’s shooting in Florida" by Barbara Liston.

Article: "Trayvon Martin case to go to grand jury, Fla. state attorney announces".

Article: "Joe Madison uncovers racial slur in Florida shooting" by Robert "Rob" Redding Jr.

Article: "Video: Ex-Cop Says It's Illegal to Kill Dogs, Not Black Kids in Florida" by Michael Allen.

Article: "Homicide Rate (per 100,000), 1950–2007".

Article: "Florida’s “Walking While Black” Shooting — Could It Happen In AK?" by Linda Kellen Biegel.

Article: "The Trayvon Martin Killing, Explained" by Adam Weinstein.

Article: "Trayvon Martin Final Moments Captured During Phone Call With Teenage Girl" by Trymaine Lee .

The Big Picture
- Sam Sacks, The Big Picture producer, progressive commentator

Article: "House GOP unveils budget blueprint" by Andrew Taylor.

Article: "Paul Ryan’s Budget Includes $3 Trillion Giveaway To Corporations, The Rich" by Travis Waldron.

Article: "Germany Set to Invest $260 Billion in a Renewable Revolution" by Dr. Kent Moors.

Video: "Ronald Reagan States' Rights Speech in Philadelphia, MS", August 3, 1980.

Movie: "Mississippi Burning".

Book: "October Surprise" by Barbara Honegger.

Article: "2010 Florida Statute 776.041. Use of force by aggressor.".

Ryan budget impact on Social Security/Medicare
- Nancy Altman, Social Security Works

Article: "Social Security Battle's New Turn: Unions Call For Increase In Benefits" by Ariel Edwards-Levy, Ryan Grim.

Article: "Cash for Geezers? Lower the Retirement Age to 55 Now!" by Thom Hartmann.

Hour Two: Nader Proposes $10 Minimum Wage - wouldn't this help the economy?
- Trey Kovacs, Competitive Enterprise Institute

Article: "Raising the tipped minimum wage does more harm than good" by Trey Kovacks & F. Vincent Vernuccio.

Article: "Minimum Wage: Catching up with 1968" by Ralph Nader.

Speech: "Social and Industrial Justice" by Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, New York, August, 1912.

Article: "Audio: Westboro Baptist Church Creates 'Slut' Ads for Rush Limbaugh's Show " by Michael Allen.

Article: "Mo. Senate candidates can’t name minimum wage" by AP.

Article: "Mean world syndrome" by Wikipedia.

Book: "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations", Adam Smith, 1776.

Talk Radio News Segment:
- Victoria Jones, White House Correspondent

Book: "Self Empowerment: Nine Things the 19th Century Can Teach us About Living in the 21st " by B. Anne Gehman and Ellen Ratner.

Article: "Ryan Budget Cuts $5.3 Trillion, Lowers Spending Cap" by Benny Martinez.

Article: "Statement by White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer on the Ryan Republican Budget" by White House, March 20, 2012.

Article: "Are Life Sentences For Teenagers Cruel And Unusual?" by Tim Young.

Article: "Romney Wins Illinois GOP Primary" by Benny Martinez.

Article: "Declaration of Independence".

Article: "Senate Democrats Accuse House Republicans of ‘Reneging on a Deal’ With Ryan Budget" by Sunlen Miller.

Article: "Nader Proposes $10 Minimum Wage to Jolt the Left and Advance the Occupy Movement" by John Iacovelli.

Book: "Rebooting the American Dream: 11 Ways to Rebuild Our Country" by Thom Hartmann.

The good: Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J: "Senate Democrats call for an end to oil industry tax breaks" by Bruce Alpert.

The bad: "Santorum says "I don't care what the unemployment rate's going to be"" by Rebecca Kaplan.

The very, very ugly: "Chicago police tell journalists they can terminate first amendment rights" by Erica Ritz.

Book: "Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand.

Article: "Our Mission Statement" by William F. Buckley Jr.

Case: "Griswold v. Connecticut", 1965.

Case: "Roe v. Wade", 1973.

Case: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" (2010).

Article: "Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002" (McCain-Feingold).

"Tillman Act of 1907".

Video: "Ted Kennedy Attacks GOP for Stalling Minimum Wage Increase ".

Article: "Santorum Argues Candidacy Focuses on Freedom, Not Unemployment Rate" by Arlette Saenz.

Article: "Florida Drug Testing: Rick Scott Signs Bill Allowing Random Drug Testing Of State Workers" by Paige Lavender.

Article: "Europe faces 'long, hard road' to recovery, US treasury secretary says" by Dominic Rushe.

Article: "Hansen Clarke: Students in debt need relief, too" by Hansen Clarke.

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