Thom Hartmann presents The Hidden History of American Healthcare

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  • @matteloht
    @matteloht 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    7:37 So basically when the series "Breaking Bad" would have been located in Denmark, or any other developed country by that matter, Walter White never would have been the drug king pin we all know (and love) him for, since he never had to start cooking math to pay for his cancer treatments and securing his family departure from life. So thx US of A for making this glorious series possible. With the best "health" "care" "system" and democracy that anyone can by for money, if you can afford it...

    • @lisayoder5686
      @lisayoder5686 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Lol, however, even with the outrageous, unforgivable high price tags of everything health, we do NOT have the best healthcare, or the best outcomes. The actual best healthcare is in the countries that we are trained to hate for no good reason except that they have resources that our sick oligarchy wants to control and profit from.

  • @tonifelise3668
    @tonifelise3668 3 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    People need to understand that there is supposed to be a sliding scale on federal income tax. I was paying the same 25% yearly income tax on my business. Even though I made under 20 thousand the entire year. That's the same amount the multi millionaire corporations were paying and now they are paying even less then that. People need to wake up and understand the average American worker and small business owners are paying all the federal income tax in this country.

    • @thehealthychefri
      @thehealthychefri 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      The top 1>10% pay 71% of all federal income taxes!
      I paid 38% for several years! Now I live in Costa rica and pay nothing!

    • @jeanalice4732
      @jeanalice4732 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@thehealthychefri
      The top elites do not pay any taxes. They have loopholes that provide for this situation.some even get kickback of tax payer money into their pockets due to their money laundering lobby funds.many are democrat elites...not just RINO.
      Current our health care system is. Corrupt.. especially with being controlled by elite Dem or others. Party affiliation has little influence when the individual is corrupt.

    • @thehealthychefri
      @thehealthychefri 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jeanalice4732 I’m not talking about the 1/10th of 1% that own more than the bottom 90%
      If you earn more than $440K you’re in the 1%.
      So the top earners pay more than 70% of all the federal income taxes! Aren’t you more concerned that over 70M Americans pay nothing? I’m a financial advisor that manages a lot of wealth.

    • @jeanalice4732
      @jeanalice4732 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@thehealthychefri
      Thanks for the clarification. I agree. To me we do need a range of middle classes. I hardly see that as being elites. But the can filter their holdings somehow.

    • @thehealthychefri
      @thehealthychefri 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jeanalice4732 I live in Costa Rica now. Life is great and taxes low! Don’t be consumed by it, you have No control.

  • @patrickhenry9846
    @patrickhenry9846 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    The greedy destroy everything.

    • @serialbert6810
      @serialbert6810 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Nah Racism destroyed everything then later down the road the Greedy, it all starts with racist white ppl rage against Black folks...

  • @davidgarcia-jk6nt
    @davidgarcia-jk6nt 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    And those poor citizens in red state continue voting law makers who keep them poor

  • @denisevarner7308
    @denisevarner7308 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    American politics of "we can't afford it" has destroyed public health through corporate tyranny. I have observed my own primary care clinic die since COVID. It was once a pillar of public health care. Political policies around COVID destroyed compassionate care delivery. Why did all of the inpatient hospices in California closed? Why is home health so incompetent at actual care of human lives? Insurance companies have dominated care delivery over working doctors and nurses. Now both have been silenced for authoritarian policies not of cost containment but for euthanasia.

  • @lonmiller1865
    @lonmiller1865 ปีที่แล้ว

    Lon Miller 1/6/2023 Mr. Hartmann, Thank you for your dedicated insight into realistic answers to many of our most serious and complex issues.

  • @lisayoder5686
    @lisayoder5686 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Billionaires should not even exist. Yes, I said it. We must go back to near 100% tax on top wealth (not just wage earners’ no one gets that rich from wages they actually earned). Tax the hoarded wealth as it should be and watch America spring right back up to the top again!

    • @wheresholiday
      @wheresholiday ปีที่แล้ว

      They shouldn't and science shows how that much wealth creates adverse personality outcomes for mankind. It's an unequal distribution of power and that changes neurology. You cannot become a billionaire without indirectly increasing crimes against humanity. The 401k is a rich man’s Ponzi scheme and lifesaving healthcare is only given to those that are physically capable of working. It’s such bullshit. I do hate it here in the USA. Our politicians are monsters. Except for Katie Porter, AOC, and the other trace few progressives like Bernie.

  • @mrtriffid
    @mrtriffid 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    People should know that the California State Legislature, controlled by Democrats, sank a single-payer initiative. Anthony Rendon accomplished this almost single-handedly, and can surely look forward to a lucrative career as a AMA or PHARMA lobbyist after he leaves "public service."

    • @jnananinja7436
      @jnananinja7436 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      So.. you imply it was the Democrats, but then assert it was a single person. There are plenty of corrupt politicians, repub and dem, but the democratic party, by and large, represents progressive social evolution while the republicans have completely sunk into deeply corrupt fascist waters.

    • @mechanic6682
      @mechanic6682 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Bribing politicians needs to be outlawed.

  • @7uplusprite
    @7uplusprite ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The Human Species begun in Africa, so that means underneath all our skins we're black at some level

  • @sheknows9950
    @sheknows9950 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    In our country, we r beggars, go fund me, donations from rich, charity from institutions, financial aid, prove to get a grant, WE R homeless, poor health, dysfunctional, middle class BEGGARS!

    • @Instramark
      @Instramark 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Wow. So true.

    • @kasnarfburns210
      @kasnarfburns210 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yet no one calls it begging when corporations or rich people allow everyone one ELSE to fund the Commons or when elite steal funds from the Commons.or when corporations like banks come seeking relief during economic crashes.

  • @Silvertestrun
    @Silvertestrun 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Ty

  • @pattirockgarden4423
    @pattirockgarden4423 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    More than ever, US needs M4All! But of course, insurance company, equity company, & investor profits come before people's health.

  • @hapennysparrow
    @hapennysparrow 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    We need to sound the alarm. It is urgent. Please vote blue.

  • @arthurlevin
    @arthurlevin 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Back in the '60s and '70s, people were smart they knew an increase in the value of their homes meant an increase in property taxes.

  • @DougGrinbergs
    @DougGrinbergs 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    19:55 "skin in the game". ☹️ 45:43 Thom writes 7 days / week. 2 books / year. 49:47 91% top tax bracket essentially limited c-suite salaries at $3M. Reagan dropped top tax bracket. ☹️

  • @alvaroramos9069
    @alvaroramos9069 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    32:23 Medicare/Medicaid Auditing

  • @davidgarcia-jk6nt
    @davidgarcia-jk6nt 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    And all this applied towards Mexican Americans in Texas New Mexico Arizona southwest

  • @baja1988_Texas
    @baja1988_Texas 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Have you ever debated Thomas Sowell?

  • @mikeobrien288
    @mikeobrien288 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I like you I believe everything you say but you're always saying Reagan did this Reagan did that. Sorry Reagan was a ventriloquist dummy dude. Right down there with Trump and Herschel Walker . Lewis Lapham thought he would make a good maitre de at a Beverley Hills restaurant.

    • @TARAdubbleyuu
      @TARAdubbleyuu 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Yup. And you can be sure Mr. Harttman knows what a political figurehead is. Regardless, it is the Reagan administration according to United States presidential history.

  • @TARAdubbleyuu
    @TARAdubbleyuu 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Such a shame that this stuff isn't common knowledge in America. Writing this in December 2024, I continue to be kerflummoxed by the murderous, money hungry, racist US healthcare/insurance industry. F-ing disgusting.

  • @marcorodrigues8303
    @marcorodrigues8303 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Eles são mestres em fazer 🥗 saladas e confusão. Faz tudo pra o povo desacredita na realidade da verdade. O GOP dele está Caracterizado em Atak as Mídias sociais e tbm em Dow Story em 2015 há 2016 . E seguindo pra frente até oje. se não porque todo este Carnaval até oje . 😌#👨‍👩‍👦👨‍👦‍👦👨‍👧🥗#

  • @rrickarr
    @rrickarr 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    This needs to be told loud and clear. I am listening 3 years after this clip has been posted and yet I have heard nothing about this. America is asleep, and now in Dec. 2024 and America has now re-elected Trump, we see that America has learned nothing.

  • @BanBb1
    @BanBb1 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Here are two disappointments of this. Not a word about Modern Monetary Theory, which explains how our Fiat system really works. The comments are also disappointing. It shocks me to see how ignorant we still are about taxation. Tax money is not used to cover government spending, period. Tax money is destroyed, i.e. taken out of the system upon receipt. Government spending is not a bad thing, it is necessary and almost always it is good for our economy. Our government could give us a Universal single-payer health care coverage that covers all of our medical needs including vision, hearing, dental and mental care, and also long-term care with a few strokes on a computer keyboard, without raising our taxes or causing inflation. Do yourself a favor and learn the benefits of our fiat system, and for God's sake, stop listening to the oligarchal naysayers.

  • @rosspitca9142
    @rosspitca9142 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    our health insurance also took a dive in quality when we started labeling selfish acts of addiction as a disease. they sucked money out of the insurance pool. its not a disease when you choose to party at the price of your families life. --its a selfish CHOICE.

  • @user-pi8dl4xs3z
    @user-pi8dl4xs3z 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Religious, lying, ignorant and stupidly dangerous conservative lawmakers. If there claims of belief in something larger than life are to be heard, then, why all of the constant lies and vitriol towards others. When we accept a belief system that is invisible and demands with endless punishment for sinning, what happens then, we get tired of ourselves to exhaustion. So since we can't just stop we take on the leaders own works rather than the kindness that It, espouses. R