Thursday 17 June '21 show notes

  • Are Red-State Covid Deaths about to Skyrocket? - Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding, Epidemiologist & Health Economist / Adjunct Senior Fellow - Federation of American Scientists
  • Why Is America the Only Developed Nation With No Right To Healthcare?
  • Could Money Market Funds Collapse? - Economist Dr. Richard Wolff, Democracy At Work / Author of numerous books - his latest is The Sickness is the System
  • Choose: Voting Rights or The US Chamber - Karl Frisch, Senior Adviser - AccountableUS
  • Can the Poor Beat the Lust for Profits? - Lori Wallach, Public Citizen's Trade Watch
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Why Is America the Only Developed Nation With No Right To Healthcare?
Thom plus logo The for-profit health insurance industry has attached itself to us like a giant, bloodsucking tick and "Scientific Racism" is part of the reason why.

There's only one person in this photograph/video of last week's G7 meeting who represents a country where an illness can destroy an entire family, leaving them bankrupt and homeless, with the repercussions of that sudden fall into poverty echoing down through generations.

Most Americans have no idea that the United States is quite literally the only country in the developed world that doesn't define healthcare as an absolute right for all of its citizens. That's it. We're the only one left.

The United States spends more on “healthcare” than any other country in the world: about 17% of GDP.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom
Thursday's Daily Stack Daily Stack
Hour One: Are Red-State Covid Deaths about to Skyrocket?
- Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding, Epidemiologist & Health Economist / Adjunct Senior Fellow - Federation of American Scientists @DrEricDing> @FAScientist
Tweet: "5) UK scientists found #DeltaVariant to have 2.4-2.6x higher risk of hospitalization than B117 #AlphaVariant. But Alpha is 64% higher risk than original for hospitalization. So 1.6*2.5= 4.1x. That's why Delta is 4x higher hospitalization than original." by Eric Feigl-Ding.
Article: "Precautionary Principle" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Herd Immunity Is Humanity's Great Hope, and It's Proving Elusive" by Robert Langreth, Emma Court.
Article: "What we know about the Covid-19 Delta variant first found in India" by Ivana Kottasová and Sheena McKenzie.
Why Is America the Only Developed Nation With No Right To Healthcare?
Article: “The Hidden History of American Healthcare“ by Thom Hartmann.
Article: “Race Traits and Tendencies of the American Negro“ by Frederick L. Hoffman.
Article: “McGuire's payday is a shame, if not a crime“ by Neal St. Anthony.
Article: “The Perfect Payday“ by Charles Forelle and James Bandler.
Case: "Buckley v. Valeo", 1976
Case: "Plessy v. Ferguson", 1896 (separate but equal).
Article: "Georgia's 1332 waiver violates the ACA and cannot lawfully be approved" by Christen Linke Young and Jason Levitis.
Article: "Maternal Mortality and Maternity Care in the United States Compared to 10 Other Developed Countries" by Roosa Tikkanen, Munira Z. Gunja, Molly FitzGerald, Laurie Zephyrin.
Article: "Did the Heritage Foundation Invent ObamaCare?" by D. Brad Wright.
Article: "Genocide of indigenous peoples" by Wikipedia.

Hour Two: Could Money Market Funds Collapse?
- Economist Dr. Richard Wolff, Democracy At Work / Author of numerous books - his latest is The Sickness is the System (now also available as an e-book) @profwolff @democracyatwrk
Article: "Fed urged to aid money market funds as negative rates loom" by Michael Mackenzie and Colby Smith.
Article: "Quantitative easing" (QE) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Financial crisis of 2007-08" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Dot-com bubble" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Daniel Quinn" by Wikipedia.
Article: “Gov. Cox invites Utahns to pray for rain June 4-6“ by Gov. Spencer J. Cox.
Article: "Medical Loss Ratio (MLR)" by HealthCare.gov.
Article: "First Amendment to the United States Constitution". "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..."

Hour Three: Choose: Voting Rights or The US Chamber
- Karl Frisch, Senior Adviser - AccountableUS @KarlFrisch @accountable_us
Bill: "H.R.1 - For the People Act of 2021" by Rep. Sarbanes, John P. [D-MD-3].
Bill: "S.1 - For the People Act of 2021" by Sen. Merkley, Jeff [D-OR].
Article: "Triple bottom line" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Vandana Shiva" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Milton Friedman" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Robert Bork" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Joseph Kennedy outfoxes the foxes as first SEC head" by Michael Chevy Castranova.
Can the Poor Beat the Lust for Profits?
- Lori Wallach, Public Citizen's Trade Watch @PCGTW @WallachLori
Article: "The US and EU must waive the patents" by Lori Wallach.
Article: "Biden To Support Waiving Patents For COVID-19 Vaccines" by Daniel Marans, Sara Boboltz.
Article: "Die deutsche Regierung nimmt die Welt als Geisel" by Joseph E. Stiglitz.
Article: "Angela Merkel" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Wall Street Crash of 1929" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Judicial dissolution" (corporate death penalty) by Wikipedia.
Excerpt: "Unequal Protection From Risk" (chartermongering) by Thom Hartmann.
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