Buying a Medicare Advantage policy is a leap in the dark, and the federal government generally is not there to catch you: forewarned is forearmed.

In my multiple writings on the Medicare Advantage scam, the most common two responses I get (besides, "Thanks, you may have saved my life!") are, "I've never had a problem with my Advantage plan," and "If it's so bad, how come so few people are saying so?"

Both are honest, good-faith questions and highlight how easy it is for insurance companies to get away with their Medicare Advantage scams. The answer to both boils down to the unique nature of insurance being the only "product" we buy where we have no idea if it's any good until something bad happens — which can take years.

Every state in the union has an insurance commissioner. But why?

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Tuesday's Daily Stack

Article: "How Medicare Advantage Scammers Get Away With It" by Thom Hartmann.

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

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

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

Article: "Medicare Advantage Plans Often Deny Needed Care, Federal Report Finds" by Reed Abelson.

Article: "Jan. 6 House Committee Postpones Scheduled Wednesday Hearing" by Billy House.

Article: "The 31 people arrested in Idaho have ties to a White nationalist group and planned to riot at a Pride event, police say. Here's what we know" by Elizabeth Wolfe.

Article: "American Redoubt" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Idaho police get death threats after Patriot Front arrests, chief says" by Jonathan Edwards.

Article: "Idaho Lt. Gov. McGeachin to finish year with budget deficit" by Keith Ridler.

Article: "Idaho Primary Results" by CNN.

Article: "Bernie Sanders lays waste Lindsay Graham in a debate" by AntivaxHunters.

Article: "Consumer Protection Act" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Georgia Mom Guilty of Faking Daughter’s Illness After School Officials Uncovered Bogus GoFundMe Campaign" by gofraudme.

Article: "Trump Held a Contest for Small-Dollar Donors to Have Dinner With Him. No One Won" by William Vaillancourt.

Article: "Jan. 6 Latest: Trump Team Raised $250 Million on Fraud Claims" by Billy House and Chris Strohm.

Article: "AARP is just a for-profit insurance company" by Jon Decker and Phil Kerpen.

Article: "Biden to AFL-CIO: ‘How well are you going to sleep at night’ under Scott tax plan?" by Alex Gangitano.

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

Article: "Barr: Trump became 'detached from reality' after 2020 election loss" by Jon Ward.

Article: "Mens rea" by Wikipedia.

Hour Two: Poll Shows Lula Has Lead Over Bolsonaro - Could He Win?
- Guillaume Long PhD, Senior Policy Analyst - Center for Economic Policy and Research (CEPR) in Washington, DC. / Previously held several cabinet positions in the government of Ecuador and most recently served as Ecuador’s permanent representative to the United Nations in Geneva. Ph.D. in International Politics from the University of London.

Article: "Poll Shows Lula With Big Lead Over Bolsonaro in Brazil's Presidential Contest" by Kenny Stancil.

Article: "Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Jair Bolsonaro" (Brazil) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Che Guevara" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Viktor Orbán" (Hungary) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Bolsonaro’s New Ally in Questioning Brazil’s Elections: The Military" by Jack Nicas.

Article: "Biden and Bolsonaro to have awkward first meeting at Americas summit" by Lisandra Paraguassu and Anthony Boadle.

Article: "Fight to Pass Medicare Measure Raised House Speaker's Profile" by Carl Hulse.

Article: "Trump's 'free speech' platform Truth Social bans users who post footage from Jan. 6 hearings " by Jon Skolnik.

Article: "Poland Shows the Risks for Women When Abortion Is Banned" by Katrin Bennhold and Monika Pronczuk.

Article: "Stock market investors should prepare for more misery ahead as the S&P 500 officially enters a bear market, Bank of America says" by Matthew Fox.

Taking On Sarah Huckabee-Sanders
- Dr. Chris Jones PhD, Democratic Candidate for Governor of Arkansas / Son of two preachers / attended Morehouse College on a NASA Scholarship for physics and math / studied at MIT to become a nuclear engineer and earn a Ph.D. in urban planning / most recently ran the Arkansas Regional Innovation Hub

Article: "Chris Jones (Arkansas)" by Ballotpedia.

Article: "Sarah Huckabee Sanders" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Chris Jones, Democratic candidate for Arkansas governor" by Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.

Article: "Arkansas governor hopeful Chris Jones tackles his first mile in Little Rock" by Austin Bailey.

Article: "A group of Spanish radio stations are being sold to a new democratic Latino group" by Tim Padgett.

Article: "Soros-Backed Group Buys Univision's Radio Group" by Theodore Bunker .

Article: "Trump's Next Coup Has Already Begun" by Barton Gellman.

Article: "Stop the Steal's massive disinformation campaign connected to Roger Stone" by Rob Kuznia, Curt Devine, Nelli Black and Drew Griffin.

Article: "Roger Stone Cheers as Conspiracists Descend on a Florida Election, Again, to Stop ‘Radical Leftists’ From Counting Votes" by Atena Sherry, Will Sommer.

Article: "What We Know About McCarthy’s Call With Trump On Jan. 6" by Kristina Peterson and Rebecca Ballhaus.

Article: "Roger Chapin" (Help Hospitalized Veterans) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Capitol Protesters Attempt to Remove U.S. Flag and Replace with Trump Flag" by AWR Hawkins.

Article: "Pro-Trump Rioters Tear Down American Flag, Replace it With Trump Flag at U.S. Capitol Building" by Morgan Smith and Virginia Chamlee.

Article: "Morning Digest: Two South Carolina Republicans who crossed Trump will learn their futures tonight" by Daily Kos.

Article: "‘Actually healthy for us’: Marjorie Taylor Greene promotes global warming and more carbon (video)" by David Badash.

Article: "Peddler's martyrdom launched Tunisia's revolution" by Lin Noueihed.

Article: "Arab Spring" by Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Article: "China to step up tree planting campaign to help reach net zero" by David Stanway.

Article: "Over 100m Americans urged to stay indoors over extreme heat and humidity" by AP.

Article: "The good times are rolling for Big Oil. 3 things to know about their surging profits" by Brittany Cronin.

Article: "Louisiana mother forced to give up custody of her daughter and pay child support to her rapist: report " by Travis Gettys.

Article: "Tuxedo, New York" by Wikipedia.

Videos: Stephanie Abt.

Site: Medigap Seminars.

Case: "Roe v. Wade" (1973).

Article: "Mail Fraud" by FindLaw.

Article: "Federal Mail Fraud Laws" by Janet Portman.

Article: "Actions for reducing US emissions at least 50% by 2030" by John Bistline et al.

Tweet: "BREAKING: Jan. 6 committee abruptly postpones Wednesday hearing. "There's no big deal," panel member Rep. Lofgren tells @Morning_Joe. "Putting together the video exhibits is an exhausting exercise for our very small video staff ... it's just too much to put it all together."" by MSNBC.

Wednesday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 12-3pm ET

Representative Mark Pocan (D-WI, 2nd District) will be calling in to talk about the issues of the day and take your calls.

Plus, Mallory McMorrow, State Senator (D-MI, 13th District), about Dem. messaging.

And, I'll be talking with Economist Dr. Richard Wolff, Co-founder, Democracy At Work / Author of numerous books - his latest is The Sickness is the System (now also available as an eBook)

And, the best of the rest of the news along with your calls right here on...

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