Uploaded December 2021 | Updated September 2026, 3 hours ago

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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.

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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

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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 program—merchant 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