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The Hidden History of American Healthcare
87 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 1h05min.
Popular progressive radio host and New York Times bestselling author Thom Hartmann reveals how and why attempts to implement affordable universal healthcare in the United States have been thwarted and what we can do to finally make it a reality."For-profit health insurance is the largest con job ever perpetrated on the American people—one that has cost trillions of dollars and millions of lives since the 1940s,” says Thom Hartmann.Other countries have shown us that affordable universal healthcare is not only possible but also effective and efficient. Taiwan's single-payer system saved the country a fortune as well as saving lives during the coronavirus pandemic, enabling the country to implement a nationwide coronavirus test-and-contact-trace program without shutting down the economy. This resulted in just ten deaths, while more than 500,000 people have died in the United States.Hartmann offers a deep dive into the shameful history of American healthcare, showing how greed, racism, and oligarchic corruption led to the current “sickness for profit” system. Modern attempts to create versions of government healthcare have been hobbled at every turn, including Obamacare.
How A Single-Payer Healthcare System Helped Stop COVID19 1Medicare For All – Why? 2Medicare for All – How? 4Gut the gap 4Build a robust system 5Part One: How Bad Things Are in America 5How the Insurance Industry Bought Joe Lieberman and Killed the Public Option 5Obamacare: Rube Goldberg Meets Health Insurance 6Wendell Potter: A good man in a bad job 8“Dollar Bill” McGuire & the Privatization of Medicare 10The “Advantage” war against Medicare 11You are locked-in to Medicare Advantage 14Rick Scott Killed Charlene Dill 15Work to Live, or Live to Work? 17Part Two: The Origins of America's Sickness-For-Profit System 18Germany gets the world's first single-payer system in 1884 18America, the Land of the Sick 20Frederick Ludwig Hoffman Makes a Discovery 21Race Traits and Tendencies of the American Negro 22From Scientific Racism to Libertarianism 23New York shakes up the insurance industry 24From Scientific Racism to “No Compulsory Healthcare!” 25Prudential helps kill America's first healthcare for all campaign 27Part Three: The Modern Fight for a Human Right to Healthcare 29Is Healthcare a Right or Privilege? 29Why Social Security Doesn't Already Include A Right to Healthcare 30Healthcare to Defeat Fascism 32The Beveridge Report: The British Plan for Defense & Welfare 34How Canada Won A Right to Healthcare 36LBJ takes it to Reagan and the doctors 38Medicare: America's most successful racial integration program 40Medicare “inspectors” defeat Goldwater's racists 41Medicare ends segregation in America's hospitals 41Ted Kennedy's Fight for Expansion 43Part Four: Saving Lives with a Real Healthcare System 43Undoing Reaganomics & Reducing Inequality Would Save Lives 44Buy the insurance companies! 46Medicare For All: The Losers 47The Impact of Medicare for All on Business 48Want a Green New Deal? Get Medicare for All First 48Paying for Medicare For All 50“It Takes a Crisis” 52
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