September 2
GUEST: Thom Hartmann, top rated progressive national and internationally syndicated talk show host, and New York Times bestselling author of over 30 books, talks about his latest work, The Hidden History of American Healthcare, Why Sickness Bankrupts You and Makes Others Insanely Rich.
The Hidden History of American Healthcare
In an era of Black Lives Matter, we can see the white supremacy basis for denying healthcare. Thom Hartmann spells it out for us in this very informative and readable history of America's shame, the denial of the human right for universal healthcare.
Read how the early campaign for healthcare denial was based on reducing the number of Black people in our society. As an "inferior race," they couldn't be allowed to multiply. It was Nazi thinking well before the Third Reich was even conceived. And it was supported by Prudential Insurance, seeking another source of vast revenue.
Read about how FDR and Churchill and met secretly to insure that after World War II, Europe would not succumb to fascism again. The answer that both men agreed upon was a social security plan and universal healthcare. Unless nations were able to make their citizen's lives better, the population would be vulnerable to fascism. Or so their thinking went. England adopted both social security and state supported healthcare when the war ended. But US corporations fanned the flames of white supremacy and universal healthcare never passed.
In fact, fascism is never mentioned in the healthcare debate in our country. Nor is racism. But remember that our media is owned by the same class of people who have so effectively bought off our politicians. There is no end of elected officials on the take from our insurance and healthcare industry, from Reagan to Joe Lieberman and Obama. Fascism in the US has been crafted by many elites. And the death toll over the last century has been staggering.
