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There are some things in this world that shouldn't be turned into profit-making machines, and healthcare is definitely one of them. Believe it or not, there was a time in America when in almost every state health insurance companies and hospitals were required to be non-profits. Back then, Americans could actually get the healthcare and treatment they needed at affordable prices. But then Ronald Reagan came to Washington, and you guessed it, everything changed.
 
Suddenly, there was money to be made off of healthcare in America, and a lot of it. Banksters realized that these once-nonprofit hospitals, health insurers, and nursing homes had the potential to become absolute gold mines. Former Senator Bill Frist's family, for example, made billions in the 1980s and 1990s privatizing formerly county and city hospitals, slashing salaries, busting unions, and raising prices.
 
Slowly but surely, corporations and the wealthy elite took over our healthcare system, and have left us with a healthcare nightmare. That's why according to a new study by a prominent think-tank, the United States ranks dead last in a review of healthcare in the industrialized world. For the fifth time in a row, the U.S. has been ranked last in the Commonwealth Fund's annual review of healthcare in developed nations.
 
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Hour One: Could the U.S. align with Iran over Iraq?
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Article: "Country Reports on Terrorism" by U.S. State Department.
Article: "1983 Beirut barracks bombing" by Wikipedia.
 
Article: "Iran hostage crisis" by Wikipedia.
Law: "Davis-Bacon Act", 1931.
Article: "Alaska Permanent Fund" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Share Our Wealth" by Huey Long, February 23, 1934.
Article: "U.S.-Iraq Status of Forces Agreement" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Senate Passes Sanders-McCain Veterans Bill" by Sen. Bernie Sanders.

Hour Two: March for Marriage and the future of the GOP
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Bible: Genesis 2:24. "That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh."
Bible: Genesis 38:7-8 (marry late brother's wife)
Bible: "Deuteronomy 22:28-29". (marry a virgin you rape)
Bible: Genesis 16 (sleep with wife's slave).
Bible: Numbers 31:18 (soldiers to take virgin girls in war)
Bible: Exodus 21:7-11 (female servants as wives)
Event: June 19, D.C.: "March for Marriage".
Bible: 1 Corinthians 7:2 "But since sexual immorality is occurring, each man should have sexual relations with his own wife, and each woman with her own husband.".
Bible: Matthew 19:3-6 (no divorce)
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Bible: 1 Timothy 3:2 "A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife...".
Bible: Leviticus 20:13 "If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman...".
 
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Article: "Supreme Court: 'Straw' Purchases Of Guns Illegal" by Nicholas Salazar.
Article: "TRNS News Notes- 7/16" by Victoria Jones.
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- Daniel Schulman, Sons of Wichita Twitter Twitter
Article: "What Do the Koch Brothers Want?" (1980 Libertarian Party platform) by Sen. Bernie Sanders.
 
Article: "Index of Economic Freedom" by Heritage Foundation.
Law: "Civil Rights Act of 1964" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Bizarre Sex Habits of The Extreme Right-Wing" by Ellen - May 6, 2005.

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