If they can move more than half of Americans off traditional Medicare and onto these corporate plans, it'll provide the political cover to kill off Medicare altogether — and they're nearly there now.

In 2003, George W Bush set up the destruction and privatization of Medicare. The end of "real Medicare" is getting closer every day, and Congress and Medicare's administrators are doing nothing.

Last Friday the Centers for Medicare Services (CMS) announced a 14.5% increase in Medicare Part B premiums, raising the monthly payments by the lowest-income Medicare recipients from $148.50 a month to $170.10 a month next year.

If you're trying to live on the bottom rung of Social Security (about $365/month), that's consequential. People with Medigap policies are also seeing their policy price rises announced this month.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Friday's Daily Stack

Article: "The "Medicare Advantage" Plan to Kill Real Medicare" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Time to End the Medicare Advantage Scam" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Medicare's Open Enrollment Is Open Season for Scammers" by Susan Jaffe.

Article: "Health insurers have their way with regulators" by Fred Schulte.

Article: "Medicare Advantage Money Grab" by Center for Public Integrity.

Book: The Hidden History of American Healthcare: Why Sickness Bankrupts You and Makes Others Insanely Rich by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Brown wrote" by .

Article: "It's time to shop & compare plans for 2022" by Medicare.

Article: "Healthcare Spending And Utilization In Public And Private Medicare" by Vilsa Curto, Liran Einav, Amy Finkelstein, Jonathan D. Levin, Jay Bhattacharya.

Article: "Bush Renews Push to Partly Privatize Social Security" by Elisabeth Bumiller.

Article: "Medicare's Private Option Is Gaining Popularity, and Critics" by Mark Miller.

Article: "Everything the press said about the economy was wrong" by Eric Boehlert.

Tweet: "BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: THREAD: Pence, his aides, and staff were locked out of their offices in the capitol complex during the insurrection because their access badges had been DEACTIVATED the morning of the attack, according to sources familiar with the incident…" by Mueller, She Wrote.

Article: "Pence Rebuffed Secret Service Plan To Leave Capitol, Fearing A Halt To Electoral Vote Duty" by Mary Papenfuss.

Article: "Kyle Rittenhouse's mother defends son in first interview since trial began" by NBC.

Article: "'If anything, this country is center-right': Manchin tells Democratic colleagues they 'can't go too far left' after progressive protesters swarmed his house boat and followed him to the Capitol" by Morgan Phillips.

Site: "The Righting".

Article: "Kyle Rittenhouse, Both Right and Righteous" by Patrick J. Buchanan.

Article: "Kyle Rittenhouse Is America" by Bruce Bawer.

Article: "Health Care Financing Report" by Colorado School of Public Health.

Article: "Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted on all charges. Here's what we know about the 3 men he shot" by Christina Maxouris.

Article: "Assassination of John F. Kennedy" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Charlottesville car attack" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Kyle Rittenhouse: The Makings of a Patriot and American Hero" by Rohn Kenyatta.

Article: "JP Morgan Backtracks on Cutting Ties With Conservative Group After Outrage" by Isabel van Brugen.

Video: JFK Shocking Assassination Film.

Book: "Ultimate Sacrifice" by Lamar Waldron with Thom Hartmann

Book: "Legacy of Secrecy: The Long Shadow of the JFK Assassination" by Lamar Waldron with Thom Hartmann

Article: "Medicare Advantage" (Medicare Part C) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Time to End the Medicare Advantage Scam" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "A Pharma Front Group Has Spent $1.2 Million Backing Kyrsten Sinema" by Andrew Perez.

Article: "CPAC president said PBS should be defunded for 'Sesame Street' having an Asian-American muppet" by Tom Porter.

Hour Two: Progressive Town Hall
- Representative Ro Khanna (D-CA, 17th District)

Article: "House Democrats pass Biden's expansive Build Back Better policy plan" by Lauren Gambino and David Smith.

Article: "What's in the House-passed Build Back Better bill? Paid leave, universal pre-K and more" by Joey Garrison and Ledyard King.

Article: "The Pentagon Budget Costs 4 Times As Much As Biden's Social Policy Bill. Guess Which One Congress Thinks Is Too Pricey." by Akbar Shahid Ahmed.

Article: "Gosar (briefly) retweets the same murder-fantasy video that got him censured by the House" by Laura Clawson.

Article: "Kevin McCarthy gives longest House floor speech in history delaying Build Back Better vote " by Clare Foran, Manu Raju and Morgan Rimmer.

Article: "Mark Meadows Suggests Making Trump House Speaker To Own The Libs" by David Moye.

Article: "State Attorneys General Investigating Instagram's Negative Effects On Kids" by Ryan Grenoble.

Article: "MapLab: How Republicans Are Dominating the Redistricting Process So Far" by Laura Bliss.

Article: "Exxon and BP called to testify on climate after 'troubling' new documents" (October 28) by Chris McGreal.

Article: "COVID-19 Funeral Assistance" by FEMA.

Article: "The Social Security Windfall Elimination and Government Pension Offset Provisions for Public Employees in the Health and Retirement Study" by Alan L. Gustman, Thomas L. Steinmeier, and Nahid Tabatabai.

Bill: "H.R.5723 - Social Security 2100: A Sacred Trust" by Rep. Larson, John B. [D-CT-1].

Bill: "S.1 - For the People Act of 2021" by Sen. Merkley, Jeff [D-OR].

Video: How The Other Half Eats - Dr. Priya Fielding-Singh - Conversations w/Great Minds.

Article: "New Report on 'Grocery Cartels' Details Exploitive Retailer Monopolies" by Brett Wilkins.

Site: Double Up Food Bucks.

Article: "National Environmental Policy Act" by Wikipedia.

Site: Save Standard Time.

Article: "Daylight saving time linked to rise in health risks for weeks, months after time change" by Dr. Mary Gillis, D.Ed.

Article: "President Biden Announces American Rescue Plan" by White House.

Article: "Joe Biden signs $1.2tn infrastructure bill into law – live " by Johana Bhuiyan, Lauren Gambino.

Article: "Biden Just Nominated Joe Manchin-Lite" by Walker Bragman, Julia Rock.

Article: "'Saddening, Infuriating, and Utterly Unsurprising': Rittenhouse Acquitted" by Brett Wilkins.

Article: "Brad Crabtree" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Carbon capture and storage plant becomes operational in Iceland" by UNESCO.

Article: "Problem Solvers Caucus" by Wikipedia.

Article: "3 Experts Have Resigned From An FDA Committee Over Alzheimer's Drug Approval" by Bill Chappell.

Article: "It's Califf: Biden Finally Taps Nominee To Head FDA" by KHN.

Article: "Robert Califf" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Beware of misleading sales tactics, scams during Medicare's open enrollment" by Susan Jaffe.

Article: "University of Texas tower shooting" by Wikipedia.

Book: The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber, David Wengrow.

Article: "Kyle Rittenhouse's defense fund has raised close to half a million dollars in the run-up to his November trial" by Cheryl Teh.

Article: "Supreme Court to Issue Opinions Monday, Possibly Ruling on Texas Abortion Case" by Greg Stohr.

Article: "The Supreme Court Has Been Expanded Many Times Before. Here Are Four Ways To Do It Today." by margaret.

Article: "Has a U.S. Supreme Court justice ever been impeached?" by Elizabeth Nix.

Article: "Constitution of the United States", article 3 section 2. "... In all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party, the supreme Court shall have original Jurisdiction. In all the other Cases before mentioned, the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make...."

Case: "Goldberg v. Kelly" (1970, entitlement).

Article: "Biden Nominates Two New Postal Service Board Members" by Madeleine Ngo.

Article: "Matt Gaetz says Kyle Rittenhouse would 'make a pretty good congressional intern' and he 'may reach out to him'" by Ariel Zilber.

Article: "What's Medicare Supplement Insurance (Medigap)" by Medicare.gov.

Article: "Eric Adams calls Mayor de Blasio's NYC retiree health care shift a 'bait and switch'" by Michael Gartland.

Article: "Trump administration overhauls Medicare website to help with plan comparisons" by Health.

Article: "Defense rests in the trial over Ahmaud Arbery's death" by Devon M. Sayers, Alta Spells, Jason Hanna and Christina Maxouris.

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