Daily Topics - Thursday October 22nd, 2015

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Hour One: Hillary Hits Back At the Benghazi Committee...
Hour Two: How Will Hillary's Benghazi Testimony Impact the 2016 Race?
Hour Three: Seniors Deserve a Raise! Congressman Alan Grayson (D-FL, 9th District)
Comments

Hi Thom,
Greetings. Thanks for your good work. I agree with you over 90% of the time, but not all of the time.
One major disagreement is the 'affordable health care act.' I would favor a single payer system paid from general revenues, but only if adequate cost constraints can be applied so that it is not an entitlement program for the health care industry.
Thom, I have low opinion of American doctors and the American health care industry in general. I don't want to be forced to pay for health care which I don't want with doctors and a system that I don't trust. Frankly, I would rather get on a plane to Canada and see a doctor up in Montreal which I have actually done. Doctors in Canada practice medicine for medicine's sake not for money's sake, and that is what I want to know when I talk to my doctor.
I checked the so-called 'affordable health care' plans and they are like $800 per month for lously coverage and high deductibles for a person in my age bracket even though I am healthy. Thom, I can't afford to throw away $800 a month for health care I don't want and won't use so as to subsidize Obama's campaign contributors in the health care industry.
I would support and vote for Bernie Sanders as I know that he also has strong reservations about this so-called 'affordable' system. I know that Bernie has actually led trips to Canada for pharmaceuticals for seniors and that is all the proof I need that he 'gets' the problem.
What has Hiliary Clinton done? NOTHING! She failed to pass her previous lousy plan, and continues to accept huge amount of both corporate and foreign money including from the health care industry which is a complete conflict of interest.
Thom, I wish you would have your staff do some reseach on the 'affordability' of the so-called affordable healthcare act....if one does not qualify for the subsidies which I think the cut off may be as low as $27K per year which is relative peanuts and not enough to even live in poverty in Fairfax, Virginia. I don't dispute that some people who can fall exactly within guidelines will benefit, but I think that is a distinct minority.
Being forced to buy something you don't want to buy is mercantilism or fascism and as bad as anything the Republicans are doing with making us all pay for their corporate welfare and recent endless wars....
You and your program rightly attack the Republicans, but you don't hold Hilary Clinton to an equal standard, or do you hold Barack Obama accountable either. Just two points: Obama per recent leaks on the drone program has killed about 1,000 innocent civilians worldwide..theintercept-com, while Hilary Clinton made unprofessional disgusting remarks about killing Khadaffi rather than bringing him to the Hague for trial which encouraged the breakdown of law and order in the post Khadaffi era. Hilary Clinton escaped all responsibility for her actions and lack of judgement in having no plan to discourage violence in Lybya post Khadaffi, and the people of Libya are now paying for her callousness and arrogance...some with their lives. I would rather vote Republican than vote for Hiliary Clinton as at least they admit to being for corporate interests while Hilary Clinton is just a liar who says for vote for me for my gender....
Your program should stop pawning of Hiliary Clinton as any kind of progressive when she has gladly accepted mountains of corporate money for years...and worse then that her chief of staff while was Secretary of State was on the payroll for Qatar. Ms. Clinton's behavior is totally unacceptable....and unfortuately the Republicans can not philosophically call her on the issues for she most deserves to be confronted on for which there are many. Having programs like yours continue to 'worship' this woman who has accomplished very little other than marrying an important man who actually did accomplish something 'the economy' while he was President. Her tenure as secretary of state was a disaster even by recent low standards....and her gall to keep saying how she is for the middle class while accepting corporate money and having favored both special corporate and even special foreign interests for decades justs reduces your otherwise very good program to a Democratic party propaganda arm....with the obvious reason that the Russians wrongly think the Democrats will give them a better deal.....and that, I reget to say is 'very, very, ugly.'



Why does HRC keep saying "counselate" (not a word), instead of "consulate"?