Sue's Daily Stack, Wednesday, 29 May, 2024
Your daily homework - links to everything discussed on today's show
Wednesday's Daily Stack
Hour One: If Donald Trump is convicted, Democrats need to change his first name
Article: "If Trump is found guilty, Democrats must make his first name "CONVICTED FELON"" by Dean Obeidallah.
Article: "Jury Deliberations Are Starting in Trump's Trial. Here's How They Work." by Kate Christobek.
Article: "Hung jury" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Robert Durst" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Shy Voter" by Taegan Goddard.
Medicare Advantage: Why Are We Paying for "Sham" Insurance?
Article: "Medicare Advantage: Why Are We Paying for "Sham" Insurance?" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Touching the Third Rail: Explaining the Failure of Bush's Social Security Initiative" by Terry Weiner.
Article: "Insurers Are Gaming Medicare — To The Tune Of $140 Billion" by Matthew Cunningham-Cook and Lucy Dean Stockton.
Article: "Schakowsky, Pocan, Khanna Introduce Bill to Strengthen Medicare, Define Alternative Plans" by Jan Schakowsky.
Article: "Stephen Hemsley Net Worth" by Wallmine.
Article: "Medicare Advantage's $64 Billion Supplemental Benefits Slush Fund" by Matthew Cunningham-Cook.
Book: The Hidden History of American Healthcare: Why Sickness Bankrupts You and Makes Others Insanely Rich by Thom Hartmann.
Book: "The Hidden History of the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of America" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "New Study Shows Medicare Advantage OTC Benefits Programs Help Enrollees and Health Plans" by CHPA.
Site: Centers for Medicare Services.
Article: "An Oversight Hearing on President Bush's Social Security Privatization Plan: Will You and Your Family Be Worse Off?" by Senate Democratic Policy Committee.
Article: "FTC Action Against Benefytt Results in $100 Million in Refunds for Consumers Tricked into Sham Health Plans and Charged Exorbitant Junk Fees" by FTC.
Article: "Cigna to sell Medicare Advantage business to Health Care Service for $3.7 billion" by Ciara Linnane.
Article: "Medicare Advantage Plans Often Deny Needed Care, Federal Report Finds" by Reed Abelson.
Article: "Industry Profile: Insurance" by Open Secrets.
Article: "Trump promotes private Medicare coverage, drawing contrast with Democrats' health care plans" by Rachel Roubein.
Article: "Republicans Are Planning to Totally Privatize Medicare — And Fast" by Andrew Perez.
Article: "McGuire's payday is a shame, if not a crime" by Neal St. Anthony.
Article: "The Great Big Medicare Rip-Off" by Ezekiel J. Emanuel.
Site: Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MEDPAC).
Article: "Abe Fortas" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Warning: A "Convention of States" Is Practicing to Rewrite the Constitution" by Russ Feingold.
Article: "It's Time to Investigate Ginni Thomas" by Thom Hartmann. (Abe Fortas)
Whoa...Alito's neighbors called the cops after "ugly" run in (it includes spitting!) with justice's wife
Article: "The Alitos, the Neighborhood Clash and the Upside-Down Flag" by Jodi Kantor.
Article: "At Justice Alito's House, a 'Stop the Steal' Symbol on Display" by Jodi Kantor.
Fascist Alert! RFK condemns the removal of Confederate monuments - Is he behaving immorally to cozy up to Trumpsters?
Article: "Kennedy condemns the removal of Confederate monuments" by Jonathan J. Cooper.
Article: "Breaking down Trump's attacks on the daughter of the judge in his New York hush-money trial" by Marshall Cohen.
Article: "Trump Attacks Bragg, Judge Merchan Ahead Of Closing Arguments In Hush Money Trial" by Marita Vlachou.
Article: "Eric Trump: We will win because "we're white"" by Jason Weisberger.
Substack: "LookingNWords" by Rohn Kenyatta.
Article: "Trump Says "Mother Teresa Couldn't Beat These Charges" As Jury Begins Deliberations" by C-SPAN.
Article: "The Deadly New GOP Plan to Rapidly Privatize Medicare" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "The Medicare Advantage Ripoff that Every American Should Know About" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Federalist 78" by Alexander Hamilton.
Article: "Supreme Court, Split 5-4, Halts Florida Count in Blow to Gore" by NYT.
Law: "14th Amendment, July 9, 1868 (citizenship, representatives, public debt, Equal Protection Clause).
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".
Law: "17th Amendment. "The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof...".
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: "24th Amendment" "The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax.".
Law: "26th Amendment". "The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of age.".
Case: "Marbury v Madison" (Supreme Court jurisdiction).
Letter: "Thomas Jefferson to Spencer Roane", 6 Sept. 1819 "The constitution, on this hypothesis, is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist, and shape into any form they please."
Book: Reading the Constitution: Why I Chose Pragmatism, Not Textualism by Stephen Breyer.
Hour Two: Texas Republicans want the death penalty for women who get abortions. Seriously.
Article: "Texas GOP Platform Endorses Death Penalty for Abortion Patients" by Jessica Valenti.
Article: "Trump allies get defensive when questioned on 'Project 2025' birth control plans" by Travis Gettys.
Article: "Dred Scott Case" by History.com.
Inside the dangerous anti-democracy coalition forming to help Trump
Article: "Inside the dangerous anti-democracy coalition forming to help Trump" by Robert Reich.
Why is the Lawmaker who gave J6ers a Capitol tour targeting the ex-Capitol Police intel head?
Article: "Revealed: Lawmaker who gave J6ers a Capitol tour targets ex-Capitol Police intel head" by Jordan Green.
Law: "Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015".
Article: "Primary Care First Model Options" by CMS.
Article: "Advance Payment ACO Model" by CMS.
Article: "Why the GOP Deploys the "Mudsill Theory" to Destroy Social Mobility in America" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Feudalism" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Exclusive: Putin wants Ukraine ceasefire on current frontlines" by Guy Faulconbridge and Andrew Osborn.
Article: "Belgium to deliver first F-16s to Ukraine this year — with strings attached " by Šejla Ahmatović and Stuart Lau.
Article: "Ukraine to produce thousands of long-range drones in 2024, minister say" by Tom Balmforth.
Article: "Ukraine to get its first F-16 jets in June-July, says Kyiv military source" by Reuters.
Hour Three: Texas Republicans are planning to permanently lock Democrats out of statewide office
Article: "Proposed Texas GOP platform would lock Democrats out of statewide office" by Texas Tribune.
How Canon made it impossible for jack Smith to appeal her decision to the 11th circuit...
Article: "Judge Cannon rejects request for gag order against Donald Trump in classified docs case" by Hannah Rabinowitz.
Article: "Universal healthcare as pandemic preparedness: The lives and costs that could have been saved during the COVID-19 pandemic" by Alison P. Galvani, Alyssa S. Parpia, Abhishek Pandey et al.
Article: "All charges against golf world number one Scottie Scheffler dropped" by Callum McAvoy.
Article: "Justice Alito tells Congress he will not recuse from Jan. 6-related cases" by Ann E. Marimow and Justin Jouvenal.
Case: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" (2010).
Article: "Just 50 Families Have Spent $600 Million On The 2024 Elections So Far" by Molly Redden.
Article: "Paycheck Protection Program" (PPP) by Wikipedia.
TV: "TMZ on TV".
Law: "Telecommunications Act of 1996" by Wikipedia.
Article: "'The Cash Monster Was Insatiable': How Insurers Exploited Medicare for Billions" by Reed Abelson and Margot Sanger-Katz.
Article: "Medicare Advantage Plans Often Deny Needed Care, Federal Report Finds" by Reed Abelson.
Article: "'Deny, deny, deny': By rejecting claims, Medicare Advantage plans threaten rural hospitals and patients, say CEOs" by Gretchen Morgenson.
Article: "Medicare Advantage overpaid by up to $140 billion annually: Report" by Business Insurance.
Podcast: "Podcast Episode - Highlights From: Suze School: Medicare & Medicare Advantage " by Suze Orman.