Sue's Daily Stack, Monday, 9 December, 2024
Your daily homework - links to everything discussed on today's show
Monday’s Daily Stack
Hour One: When Profits Kill: The Deadly Costs of Treating Healthcare as a Business
Article: "When Profits Kill: The Deadly Costs of Treating Healthcare as a Business " by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Projected Healthcare Spending: A Look Within the Numbers" by Horne.
Article: "Love of the UK's National Health Service—and Its Lessons for Health Policy" by Ashish K. Jha.
Article: "The People Cheering the UnitedHealthcare CEO Shooting A cold-blooded murder has become, to many, an opportunity to vent." by Nia Prater.
Article: "The Modernization Of Corporation Law, 1920-1940" by Harwell Wells.
Article: "'My thoughts and prayers were out of network'" by Scott Nover.
Article: "1 in 5 business leaders may have psychopathic tendencies—here's why, according to a psychology professor" by Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic.
Article: "US spends most on health care but has worst health outcomes among high-income countries, new report finds" by Jacqueline Howard.
Article: "Profiling CEOs and Their Sociopathic Paychecks" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "The U.S. Health System in Perspective: A Comparison of Twelve Industrialized Nations" by David A. Squires.
Article: "the NY Times is now sanewashing the greedy billionaires who are ripping us off" by Jeff Tiedrich.
Article: "Key Facts about the Uninsured Population" by Jennifer Tolbert, Patrick Drake, and Anthony Damico.
Article: "How Does the U.S. Healthcare System Compare to Other Countries?" by Peter G. Peterson Foundation.
Article: "Insurance Claim Denials: Worst Companies and How to Appeal" by Stephanie Guinan.
Article: "No one knows how often health insurers deny claims. Here's why" by Bruce Gil.
Article: "Big Insurance 2022: Revenues reached $1.25 trillion thanks to sucking billions out of the pharmacy supply chain – and taxpayers' pockets" by Wendell Potter.
Video: Bill Moyers Interviews Health Insurance Industry Whistleblower Wendell Potter.
Article: "Investigators questioning man about UnitedHealth exec killing, reports say" by Reuters.
Article: "Who can and can't contribute" by FEC.
Article: "Elon Musk contributed more than $250 million to 2024 campaign groups backing Donald Trump" by Bart Jansen.
Article: "Unpardonable double standards" by Sabrina Haake.
Article: "North Carolina Senate Republicans Override Dem Gov's Veto Of Their Power Grab" by Khaya Himmelman.
Article: "Osama bin Laden" by Wikipedia.
'They Should Go To Jail!' Trump Stuns Kristen Welker By Saying ALL Jan 6 Probers Should Be In Prison
Article: "'They Should Go To Jail!' Trump Stuns Kristen Welker By Saying ALL Jan 6 Probers Should Be In Prison" by Tommy Christopher.
Article: "Cheney responds to Trump jail threat: 'Here's the truth'" by Lauren Irwin.
Olivia Troye's attorney has responded to Kash Patel's demand for a retraction
Article: "Olivia Troye's attorney has responded to Kash Patel's demand for a retraction" by LetMyPeopleVote.
French govt. collapse...
- Cole Stangler, journalist based in Marseilles, France (in Paris today!) covering politics & labor / Author-most recently, "Paris Is Not Dead: Surviving Hypergentrification In the City of Light" @colestangler.bsky.social
Article: "Political Chaos in France: Macron Refuses to Resign After Hand-Picked PM Ousted by Lawmakers" by Democracy Now!
Article: "French Fifth Republic" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Macron dissolves Assemblée Nationale after EU election setback in highly risky gamble" by Claire Gatinois and Nathalie Segaunes.
Article: "2024 French legislative election" by Wikipedia.
Article: "'Turn to the right': What Macron's choice of Barnier as PM means for France" by Sophie Stuber.
Article: "French PM Michel Barnier ousted in no-confidence vote" by Nathan Williams, Hugh Schofield.
Article: "Macron eyes broad alliance to form new French govt" by AFP.
Article: "Romania's cancelled presidential election and why it matters" by Paul Kirby & Nick Thorpe.
Article: "National Rally" (National Front, France) by Wikipedia.
Article: " Biden extended contracts to private immigration jails despite reports of 'horrific' conditions" by José Olivares.
Article: "4B movement" by Wikipedia.
Article: "In first call, Russian defense chief cautioned top US general about large-scale military exercise in Mediterranean Sea" by Oren Liebermann.
Article: "Did Syrian President Bashar al-Assad contact both Donald Trump and Iran's Khamenei before he vanished?" by The Week.
Hour Two: Where is the healthcare CEO murder bandit?
Article: "Leaked video shows UnitedHealth Group chief complaining about 'vitriolic' coverage of Brian Thompson shooting" by Justin Rohrlich.
Article: "Suspect in UnitedHealthcare CEO Shooting Detained in McDonald's After Employee Found Him Suspicious: Police" by Ben Brachfeld, Elizabeth Rosner.
Article: "UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting latest: Suspect's backpack had Monopoly money: Sources" by Aaron Katersky, Mark Crudele, Bill Hutchinson, Jon Haworth, and Ivan Pereira.
Why does the media hold Trump to a lower standard?
Article: "The Media Is Ready to Hold Trump to a Lower Standard" by Jason Linkins.
Article: "Eric Cantor, Paul Ryan & Kevin McCarthy: Plot To Sabotage US Economy with Frank Luntz" (caucus room conspiracy) by keepemhonest.
Article: "FBI offers $50,000 reward for information about gunman who killed UnitedHealthcare's CEO" by Michael Balsamo, Michael R. Sisak.
Article: "All the major legal battles Elon Musk and his companies are facing" by Bloomberg.
Article: "Syria" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Abu Mohammad al-Julani" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Biden says U.S. will support Syria and its neighbors after Assad dynasty collapses" by Amelia Lucas.
Article: "Fall of Assad puts Russia's large military footprint in Syria at risk" by Adam Taylor, Júlia Ledur.
Article: "Biodiesel" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Portland is first in nation to phase out petroleum diesel, replace with biofuels" by Gosia Wozniacka.
Article: "Sanctuary city" by Wikipedia.
Law: "19th Amendment, August 18, 1920. "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex."
Law: "15th Amendment", February 3, 1870 "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude".
Case: "Bush v. Gore", 2000. "The individual citizen has no federal constitutional right to vote for electors for the President of the United States"
Article: "Takeaways from the Supreme Court's historic decision granting Donald Trump immunity" by John Fritze, Tierney Sneed and Devan Cole.
Article: "Ousted Syrian president Assad 'granted asylum' in Moscow - as rebels 'guarantee safety' of Russian military bases" by Sky News.
Article: "Tulsi Gabbard Trolled by Critics After Assad's Regime Collapses in Syria" by Rachel Dobkin.
Article: "Person of interest in fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson ID'd as Luigi Mangione, an ex-Ivy League student " by Joe Marino and Kate Sheehy.
Article: "The fall of Assad's regime could finally see Syria's Arab Spring realised" by Stuart Ramsay.
Site: STUN (Shift The Unfit Narrative).
Book: People of the Lie: The Hope for Healing Human Evil by M. Scott Peck.
Hour Three: More bird flu?
Article: "Arizona sees first case of human bird flu as government begins testing milk for virus" by Sarah K. Burris.
Voters in Missouri want the right to abortion. Republicans are trying to screw them
Article: "Missouri *Shows You* Why You Can't Vote For Republicans And Abortion Rights, Too" by Robyn Pennacchia.
Article: "James Skoufis" by Wikipedia.
Article: "After Democratic Losses, a Little-Known Lawmaker Wants to Lead the Party" by Reid J. Epstein.
Article: "Ron Kuby" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Coast Salish" by Wikipedia.
Twitter Luigi Mangione.
Article: "Kyle Rittenhouse" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Dow Jones By Year - Historical Annual Returns" by Macrotrends.
Article: "Daniel Penny acquitted in chokehold death of homeless man on NY subway" by Madeline Halpert.
Article: "Murder of Laken Riley" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Marine Veteran Daniel Penny Acquitted in Subway Chokehold Case" by Corinne Ramey, James Fanelli.
Article: "Gun that killed Trayvon Martin 'makes $250,000 for Zimmerman'" by BBC.
Article: "Killing of George Floyd", 2020 by Wikipedia.
Article: "1984 New York City Subway shooting" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Dean Phillips" by Wikipedia.
Article: "900 Sweetwater mobile home residents facing eviction as landowners plan redevelopment" by Ivan Taylor.
Article: "Klitschko brothers" by Wikipedia.