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Thom Hartmann The Hidden History of American Healthcare

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Thom Hartmann is one of the smartest, wisest people I know, a true renaissance person.

He's the author of a new book, The Hidden History of American Healthcare

HartmannReport.com

Goal for this book

Three secrets the book reveals

More Americans died from being uninsured than from all wars.

Tell a story

What are some stats on American Health care and how it compares to other nations?

Other countries with versions of single payer or medicare for all

Best ones

How a single payer system helped stop Covid-19

History of welfare in the US and the constitution

George Washington addressed welfare,

The constitution mentions it several times.

John Adams signed first single payer healthcare programmerchant marine

"Neoliberal infection"

Healthcare and racism

Frederick Ludwig Hoffman and Prudential insurance

From scientific racism to libertarianism

No compulsory healthcare

Medicare advantage

How do we get medicare for all

Reasons we don't have it.

Racism, slavery, history, libertarianism,

Is healthcare a right or a privilege?

Frances Perkins, Roosevelt's Secretary of labor

Healthcare for national defense and to defeat fascism

Healthcare and the green new deal

Medicare as anti-racism

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