Despite what you might hear on Fox So-Called News, Obamacare really is working. Uninsured rates are dropping, premiums are a lot lower than expected, and in the states that have expanded Medicaid, hundreds of thousands of working Americans now have access to free, I repeat, free healthcare.

 

Everywhere you look, there's good news to be found about healthcare reform. Even so, for-profit insurance companies and for-profit hospitals are still finding new ways to screw people over.

 

For example, since insurance companies are now banned from discriminating against people with pre-existing conditions, they're now trying to make money off sick people by charging them higher co-pays for drugs that they used to get for close to nothing. This practice has very real consequences for public health. As one expert told Talking Points Memo, "There's very strong evidence...that even a $1 difference in out-of-pocket expenditures changes Americans' behavior [regarding their use of medical services]." In other words, when drugs cost more, people don't buy them and therefore don't get healthy.

 

But making sick people pay more for their drugs isn't the only way the for-profit health industry is trying make a quick buck these days.

 

One other scam it's come up with is a practice called "drive-by doctoring," where patients are charged for services they didn't ask for and for doctors they didn't know they needed to see. Hospitals have gotten so good at "drive-by doctoring" that most patients don't even know it's happening to them.

 

Read more here.

 

-Thom

       

Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 10pm... The black ice threat to the arctic... (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT or Free Speech TV, and catch past shows on Youtube)

 

Be sure to check out our new videos: CARBON & LAST HOURS - both narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio

 

Get your tickets now - now for a special evening with Sami Yusuf (9/26 at 8pm) featuring music from Sami's new CD, The Centre - to benefit the Foundation for Traditional Studies - at The Strathmore in N. Bethesda, MD

 

 

Lone Liberal Rumble:
- Horace Cooper - National Center for Public Policy Research 
- Andrew Kloster, The Heritage Foundation    

 

 

The black ice threat to the arctic...
- John Deans, Greenpeace USA   
- Mary Sweeters, Greenpeace USA  

 

PLUS, Finally...big business says ALEC lying about climate change
- Jane Carter, AFSCME  

 

  

Wednesday's Daily Stack 

Clip: "Dank Ihrer F�hrung wird Deutschland sein Ziel erreichen, Heimat zu sein. Heimat zu sein f�r alle Deutschen der Welt." Rudolph Hess, 1934 Nuremburg rally.

Book: "Mein Kampf" by Adolf Hitler.

Article: "Chris Matthews Can't Go 'Homeland' Again" by Leslie Savan.

Article: "Chris Matthews: 'Homeland' Is a Code Word Neocons Use to Drag Us into War" by Pam Key.

Article: "TPM Editor's Blog" by Josh Marshall, June 15, 2002.

Article: ""Homeland" And Other Un-American Words and Ideas" by Josh Marshall.

Article: "Time for the US to Dump the Word "Homeland" " by Thom Hartmann.

Video: Triumph des Willens (1935) - Triumph of the Will - Leni Riefenstahl.

 

Article: "Lindsey Graham: We may 'all get killed' by ISIS" by Steve Benen.

Article: "Godwin's law" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Denver Area Students Walk Out Of School In Protest" by Colleen Slevin and P. Solomon Banda.

Book: The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot, Russell Kirk.

Article: "Cesar Chavez" by Wikipedia.

Site: "Martin Luther King, Jr.".

Article: "Slave Rebellions".

Article: "Pullman Porters: from Servitude to Civil Rights".

Article: "Ludlow Massacre", 1914 by Wikipedia.

Article: "Remembering iconic Flint Sit-Down Strike of 1937" by Lorene Parshall.

Article: "Rosa Parks" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Hollande blasts 'cowardly' murder of French hostage in Algeria" by France 24.

Article: "In Syria, Follow the Money to Find the Roots of the Revolt" by Majid Rafizadeh, 04.08.13.

Article: "Washington Talk; Prickly Roots of 'Homeland Security' " by Elizabeth Becker.

 

Iranian singer
- Sami Yusuf on humanitarian work and music 

Video: Sami Yusuf - Sari Gelin.

Hour Two: GMOs are safe...REALLY?!
- Justin Danhof Esq., National Center for Public Policy Research 

Article: "National Center 3, Food Police, 0" by National Center for Public Policy Research.

Article: "Why genetically engineered food is dangerous: New report by genetic engineers".

Article: "Monsanto Double Standards and the Crumbling "Scientific Myths" of the GMO Biotech Sector" by Colin Todhunter.

 

Book: "None Dare Call It Treason" by John A. Stormer.

Article: "Eric Cantor, Paul Ryan & Kevin McCarthy: Plot To Sabotage US Economy with Frank Luntz" by keepemhonest.

 

PLUS, another war for America
- Congressman Jim McDermott (D-WA, 7th District) 

Article: "Rep. McDermott: Why I voted against sending arms to Syrian rebels".

Book: "Nineteen Eighty-Four" by George Orwell.

 

Talk Radio News Segment:
- Bob Ney 

Book: "Sideswiped: Lessons Learned Courtesy of the Hit Men of Capitol Hill" by Robert Ney.

Article: "Obama Urges World To Rally Against Extremism In UN Speech" by Justin Duckham.

Article: "Obama to host security council session September 24".

Article: "Khorasan Leader Muhsin al-Fadhli 'Killed' In Syria Air Strikes" by Umberto Bacchi.

Article: "French Hostage Beheaded By Algerian Militants" by Justin Duckham.

Site: "Goats for the old Goat".

Site: Governor Free Don Siegelman.

Article: "TRNS News Notes- 9/24/14" by Victoria Jones.

Hour Three: Is it over for ALEC?
- Jane Carter, AFSCME  

Article: "What's on ALEC's Agenda for its 40th Anniversary Meeting in Chicago?" by Brendan Fischer, August 07, 2013.

Article: "Wisconsin Dem State Rep. Kicked Out Of ALEC Conference" by Alex Seitz-Wald.

Article: "Google Cuts Ties With Right-Wing Group: 'They're Just Literally Lying'" by Josh Eidelson.

Article: "Facebook set to become latest tech giant to abandon rightwing lobby group Alec" by Dominic Rushe.

Article: "Yelp Takes a Quieter Approach to Breaking Up With ALEC" by Joshua Brustein.

Site: ALEC Exposed.

Site: Stand Up To ALEC.

Article: "American Legislative Exchange Council" by SourceWatch.

Article: "Conservative group Alec devises offshoot ACCE to lobby at local levels" by Ed Pilkington.

 

Article: "Walmart orders underpaid staff to cough up for new uniforms. Is it legal?" by Jana Kasperkevic.

Article: "From activism to arrest: one polar bear's adventure with Flood Wall Street".

 

The Clinton Global Initiative for climate week
- Secretary Rodney Slater, Former U.S. Secretary of Transportation under President Bill Clinton 

Article: "Brown signs bill to urge more drivers into eco-friendly vehicles" by Melanie Mason, Patrick McGreevy.

 

Site: Rodale Institute.

Site: Citizens Climate Lobby.

Documentary: LAST HOURS - narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio.

Documentary: CARBON - narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio.

Article: "Pentagon May Request Troops On Ground In Iraq" by William McDonald.

 

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Time for America to Dump "Homeland"

Iranian Singer Sami Yusuf - How to End World Hunger

Politics Panel - Sunday Shows Goes Silent on 400,000 Marchers

Politics Panel - We're at War & Congress is Silent....

Eco-Hip Hop Artist Xiuhtezcatl Raps "Be the Change"

Full Show 9/23/14: U.S. Begins Bombing Another Middle Eastern Country

Thom discusses today's UN Climate Change Summit with environmental activist and hip-hop artist Xiuhtezcatl Martinez and how to end world hunger with Singer/Songwriter Sami Yusuf. Tonight's "Politics Panel" discusses the bombing of Syria, how google is ditching ALEC over their stance on climate change and how the Sunday talk shows ignored New York's massive climate change march. In tonight's "Daily Take" Thom discusses why we need to stop using the term "homeland."

Another War for America...

GMOs are Safe...Really?!

Caller: How do we Stop People from Using the Term "Homeland"?

Why "Homeland"?

Are we better off with Obamacare?

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