Medicare under attack: Special Interview with U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan” Battleground Wisconsin Podcast
We have a special interview with U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan to discuss his fight against the for profit health insurance corporations who are running multi-million dollar ad campaign falsely promoting MediCare Advantage programs that make billions for private insurers. We review the historic bailout of SVB and the role of the 2018 bank deregulation and the Federal Reserve’s neo-liberal policies of cheap money and Quantitative easing (QE) for over a decade to rapid high interest rates and rapid unwinding of QE. We review Tuesday’s bankruptcy of Diamond Sports/Bally Sports Network and its potential impact on the Milwaukee Brewers’ financial stability. We make the obvious connection to the sudden demand of the Brewer’s owner for a massive state tax giveaway. China hysteria continues in the U.S. with a move to force the sale of Tik Tok to a U.S. company. But is Tik Tok really data really less secure? Also, we reveal conservative Wisconsin Congress members Glenn Grothman and Derrick Van Orden’s shameful and hypocritical effort to force full time working families who need food assistance to regularly report to the government that they are working in order to receive food, guaranteeing children and working families will go hungry.
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Show links:
- Bank Crisis Reveals Numerous Federal Reserve Failures.
- Silicon Valley Congressman Fundraising With Whiny Venture Capitalist.
- Elizabeth Warren’s Moment (Again).
- The company behind Bally Sports Wisconsin has officially filed for bankruptcy. So what happens now?
- Glenn Grothman joins GOP effort to expand work requirements for federal food aid.
- Why did the US just ban TikTok from government-issued cellphones?
- Biden admin mulling TikTok ban if Chinese parent company doesn’t divest.
- The Biden administration demands that TikTok be sold, or risk a nationwide ban.
