it puts a cap on the well no but i'm not one hundred percent and we're almost out of time they're yours i think i mean any reduction in the and costs i mean all of us are going to be doing that all of us would have to deal with something being gone what would the million or. any reduction in what is what reduction in cost is going to millionaires and billionaires. there americans do understand what they pay and this is from a benefit from all the things that we benefit from so i don't understand why they're you know i was you know we're all by millionaires and billionaires as those people a lot of people you think are going to be hit by certain things make less than two hundred thousand dollars a year those are not millionaires and billionaires but i'm talking about those might be rich people were but they are not nearly there is a million or so i'm not hearing anything specific well i mean there's not i don't think that there's anything specific on the table the moment they are in negotiations so i mean so the other programs aren't saying anything either thanks thanks for bill thank you thanks for coming up the republican war against american

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welcome back to the big picture i'm john harshman coming up in this half hour republicans have taken off the gloves in their war against women stepping into rather personal choices like whether or not to bear a child so high as the g.o.p. so hell bent on following the taliban's meanwhile both medicare and medicaid remain on life support as lawmakers discuss massive cuts for the entitlement programs and the growing wealth inequality do more harm than good to the economy.

the republican war on women has reached an all time frenzy high in the past few months a good backer institute study released this week shows the states have an active one hundred sixty two new provisions related to reproductive health and women's rights in just the first six months of funny love and a sharp increase in last year forty nine percent of these new laws seek to restrict access to abortion services and twenty six percent of the new laws restricting abortion as this chart that was included in the report shows eighty abortion restrictions on acts of this year are more than double the previous record of thirty four abortion restrictions in act in two thousand and five and more than triple the twenty three an act in two thousand and ten and here's the zinger all all of these new provisions were enacted in just nineteen states where surprise surprise either the governor's office the legislature or both are controlled by republicans so far how far are what republicans will. take this war on women and

what can be done at the grassroots level to stop the attack on women's health or offer her insight on these issues as lose winston radio television personality activist and co-creator of the daily show liz great to see you ok time thanks for having me planned parenthood is seems to be the favorite target of these guys and i say these guys because in most cases it is men the house voted in february to strip federal funding from planned parenthood cutting money for contraceptives hiv cancer screenings reproductive health services as part of an attempt to weaken this you know planned parenthood because some tiny fraction three percent i think are what they say the provides worship services on how do you what's your response to that and how are women in america in general respond as well i mean even to say you know the three percent that they use to use for abortion now one penny of anyone's tax dollars goes to funding that and yet you hear eric cantor hemming and hawing when

the president says you know maybe we need to cut the tax loopholes for it to say to three billion dollars for those with corporate jets that's a huge thing oh well that's not enough i mean that's barely anything yet they prioritize women tell him you know you as you just cited so accurately on the state level the legislatures that are overreaching so profoundly in ohio i'm i it's incredible they're they're passing two pieces of legislation one is you know that they feel pain bill that says that effete is can somehow feel pain at twenty weeks when the american medical association has said well that's not true our extensive studies have said twenty four weeks and also that the second you hear heartbeat in a fetus a woman can no longer have an abortion that is past their state their state legislature and it is going to move on to their state senate it was so crazy in with the taxpayer should be really angry about is that any time those laws that cannot hold up to the law of the land which still is roe v wade it's going to close them money to fight these legal. well it's really insane tell us about your campaign you're on

the road on this right now. i am what would i you know as you said this assault has just reached a fever pitch and myself you know i am fifty years old and i've used play internet since i'm sixteen and every woman i know has or everyone i know either know someone who has or has and sounds and the fact that this funding is getting cut i decided you know what i have this skill i can get onstage and i can make people laugh and for some reason time people pay money to see it so i thought why not go on a road trip and start raising money doing my comedy to help at least plant here to keep keep some money coming in because at this point. i don't know what else to do i feel like this is all that's not going to stop on the legislative level so it if i go to town to town and anywhere between you know two hundred six hundred people are coming out to see my shows and they look around and the opposition is forced to

see these faces of people in numbers who say we are the true majority were the faces of planned parenthood they have to take pause because all the sudden they're looking at faces and saying oh i know these women these are my sisters these are my aunts these are my mom these are my coworkers and then that state plaza and then reassess their rhetoric i hope the can we disentangle for a moment the issue reproductive services and women's health services you know mammograms and pap smears and things like that and from abortion it seems to me that. we actually. talk about them same time but but i'd like to see it to cleave them because it seems like the effort of the republicans has been to always jam them together and get hysterical about abortions very loudly while in the background most of what they're caught in the case of planned parenthood ninety seven percent of what they're cutting is the ability of women to find out at an early stage if they have cervical cancer or breast cancer or origin born. get

access to birth control pills that would prevent the very pregnancies that you know abortion you know that would prevent the need for abortion what's the state of that in the united states right now and and you know where's it go on and where do you see this all and you know but the irony of it is as i'm doing these tours i'm also document women who have used planned parenthood persepolis has and the number of women who are low income women who use planned parenthood throughout their pregnancies i talked to one woman who she used. to have her baby and then she dropped a whole bunch of weight really quickly after the baby and at first she was excited about it and then she went back into planned parenthood meg's damager and they did detect a thyroid condition that she had and she could not afford a regular doctor to do that and they helped her find a great you know place where she could get treatment for her thyroid and stories like that are happening all the time breast cancer screening hiv screening just

education about helping young women who are entering into their you know sexual beings in south with counseling and with asking them questions about what birth control they should use and time to think that i always feel so incredibly. i guess avery really about is when i hear people talk about they want to reduce reduce the number of abortions with their argument and in the way they want to do that is to close down access to women have it just save health if you disconnect and i can no longer even debate with them in a logical manner because it makes no sense to me whatsoever yeah i had ninety seven to three percent ratio seems beyond bizarre lizz winstead thanks so much for being with us tonight tom thank you so much for having me great great great talking with you in a recent report from un women eighteen percent of americans said it's ok for a man to beat his wife and pay gap between men and women in the u.s. it's twenty three percent and the united states. it's the only developed country in

the world that does not mandate paid maternity leave just pushing pregnant women into poverty every day all across the country on the other hand when the violence against women act was passed in one thousand nine hundred forty or in the clinton ministration the immediate result was a forty nine percent decline in non-fatal violence against intimate partners in the u.s. over the next ten years and the percentage of women in congress has gone from eleven percent one thousand nine hundred seventeen percent this year mixed news to fighting for women's rights is more than just an ethical imperative it's literally the key to saving the world because women have rights then population stabilizes in our impact on the planet our environmental and global ecological impact lessons and that's good for the price. it's the good the bad of the very very good we're going to is the only ugly the

good congressman juror polls when it comes to reducing the nation's debt congressman polis is offering up ideas that are being discussed behind closed doors but are better in an op ed in today's wall street journal cordle's proposes legalizing and taxing marijuana and internet gambling to raise revenue just doing these two things the government can take over forty billion dollars a year in extra. well this isn't afraid of weighing in on controversy lucia's we need more lawmakers just like the bad bill o'reilly saudi nine usually reasonable last night a rally took republicans to task saying they need to accept that revenue raisers must be on the table in debt limit negotiations but instead of calling for more taxes on corporations billionaires and billionaires o'reilly called for more taxes on working people and argued for a one percent national sales tax sales tax by the way on the g.o.p. side we need tax reform guess wordly in this country we need to raise more revenue in smarter ways perhaps

a one percent national sales tax that could raise close to one hundred billion dollars a year without hurting the economy i mean he could fund medicare sales taxes are notoriously regressive hitting poor people much harder than rich people once again republicans refused to include millionaires and billionaires when it comes to national sure it's. and the very very ugly republican congressman kevin brady an interview a c.m. d.c. yesterday brady slammed the federal government saying it's not doing enough to get its finances in order and recommended a very very ridiculous solution that will work. most companies laying off workers to small businesses. to workers so my question is once a government in a sacrifice in order to help us get our financial house you know. unemployment is above nine percent and republicans are calling for more job loss and anyone surprised by the way the truth is that over five hundred thousand government

workers have been laid off mostly by republican governors since president obama took office and that is by the way killing our economy which of course is exactly the republican plan and that's theory here. coming up later in tonight's daily take part two of why the supreme court does not have full power running this country.

house majority leader eric cantor told me yesterday that his ideas to cut medicare medicaid and social security had all been seriously discussed with varying levels of democratic support and seven weeks of negotiations led by vice president biden but his proposals to cut medicare and medicaid to provoke fierce opposition from almost every major group that represents beneficiaries and health care providers as well as democratic lawmakers who first saw the list for the first time yesterday and this is no surprise considering that health care inequality is it an all time high in this country in fact the inequalities created by the current health care payment system in america have created nothing short of health care apartheid. in this nation and our next guest has been an eye witness to these inequalities specifically in the chicago public health care system after david ancyl currently serves as the vice president of clinical affairs and chief medical officer at rush

university medical center and he began his medical career in one nine hundred seventy eight at chicago's public hospital where he worked as an attending physician for nearly twenty years his new book county life death and politics as you call this public hospital examines health care in america and its injustices from the perspective of the people suffering its worst effects the uninsured doctor and so welcome to the program thank you your first time in the men's room of the cook county hospital is a pretty remarkable story can you tell us about that. well i was a twenty five year old kid from upstate new york so we decided we wanted to come to callan and because this was the crucial ball in health care or a crisis type of place where the poor in chicago rubin served and we wanted to go there to serve went to interview and the chairman of medicine was gone we were taken to a mass meeting and the discussion was all about the closing of the hospital so my

head was spinning in my stomach was turning and i had to relieve myself and i found the bathroom in the lobby of the hospital and i'm a former eagle scout and i couldn't use it and in some ways this is a true story and i ran across the street in a greek restaurant i was able to take care of business there but i did it does reflect the conditions in those days of the patients were under which were physically appointments unacceptable. conditions in the bathroom states it was a public lobby which just an example of there now this. this was a public this is the cook county public hospital what is a public hospital what differentiates that from all the other hospitals in this case and she thought well public hospitals have always been the place of last resort for the poor or beyond desirable the uninsured in this country really since the early eighteen hundreds and about as many public hospitals the united states as

there are academic medical centers many major most major cities in the country have them from oakland to new york and then many small rural public hospitals exist all around the country the you know this country we've made a pact that the poor get different health care than those who are not poor though by everyone's estimation is going to get worse for everybody going for it with the public hospitals have traditionally been the place for those who have nothing. but we in this context we've made a pass that says the poor are not only different care they have worse health outcomes oftentimes because these systems are not funded adequately to provide the level of care is not necessarily the doctors in this day and age it's not the physical facilities like i face in the patient's face back then it's actually access to care some of the things you were talking about in the prior program women

and men being able to get access to both primary care especially care in a timely way and this is a national problem it goes beyond public hospitals and my book county i talk about it from my point of view but it really is every town usa citizen there's no metal to the larger issue i understand that ed at cook county hospital right now there are four thousand people waiting for a call and ask a p's and these are not like people who are waiting for a call on us because the doctor said hey ya to get your five year exam these are people who actually have blood in their in their feces and and need them right away but they're not getting it right as statistic right yes beneteau new york city there is a wait list for mammograms for the women in the public health system in chicago there are a long way to go around the country to public hospital systems now or whether you have medicaid even a nun in a public hospital system is very tough to get in and while you've got great doctors and great facilities the demand exceeds the capacity of the system four thousand on

the wait list for mammograms there's a two to three month wait to get see an eye doctor dr told me a couple weeks ago said you could go blind on the waitlist my hospital is right across the street and you could see an eye doctor tomorrow if you needed to and that kind of an inequity leads to early death is one thing to have been coming equality in this country but the idea that a poor person an uninsured person should face early death or disability simply because they don't have access to health care. i think is unacceptable on american immoral and we have solutions to it at hand we're just not applying them but even even people who have access to health insurance my my best friend had spinal surgery yesterday morning and today he was told that if he wants to have the physical therapy in a high quality hospital his health insurance company won't pay for it and he has to go across town to a place that has minimal certification and doesn't have the equipment that he needs

simply because the insurance companies try to cut the costs. yes so we there's the i think the unfortunately dirty secret of our health care system the uninsured get the worst care of those on medicaid the next worse medicare is at risk but even people in the private insurance are finding their access getting blocked because it really depends on what cards you hold and it til you really need something you don't even know what's in that car that's why i'm an advocate for medicare for all i actually called medicare plus for all it's got to be better than medicare but this has been a very successful system for people over the age of sixty five and disabled and if we had one card for every one we could know what we would get with their car the excellent and this is how most of the other developed countries in the world do it and seems to work fine for dr randall thanks so much for being with us tonight thank you for having me back in two thousand and eight candidate obama was adamant about health care being a right for all americans. i think it should be

a right for every american in a country as wealthy as ours for us to have people who are going bankrupt because they can't pay the medical bills for my mother to die of cancer the age of fifty three and have to spend the last months of her life in the hospital room arguing with insurance companies because they're saying that this may be a preexisting condition when they don't have to pay her treatment there's something fundamentally wrong about that the august second debt ceiling deadline is very quickly becoming a reality the obama administration is going to be forced to make some tough choices and ovoid that with the sake of our nation's seniors and uninsured i hope president obama doesn't lose sight of the people who put him in office in the first place because there would be something fundamentally wrong with that as well. it last says daily take i said that i agree with newt gingrich when he said that

the supreme court has to work under rules set by congress but congress can limit the court's powers and of the court has taken on to itself the power to both shut down legislation and create doctrine like the ideas that corporations are persons and money is the same thing as speech here's news common. sense is if you believe the constitution if you read for the smaller nations he needs a break from. the fact he has the congress absolute commitment of course true stooge true friends constitution the first papers and this is the promise of these numbers of. their lives issue branches the beast as the british citizens the core of the american hostage is the court which is weak hoge admission. loses since he moved lives. we've done this is.

who wants to believe any foreign leaders. constitution. when. i pointed out that the founders never intended this to be this way as you can read federalist seventy eight federal federalist eighty the supreme court to have jurisdiction over congress and the president never intended supreme court was beyond their constitutional power when they handed version of the bush victory in two thousand they were beyond their constitutional power every single time they struck down a law passed by congress and signed by the president and most importantly every single time they created out of out of whole cloth a new legal doctrines like separate but equal in plessy versus ferguson were corporations are people so this is you know if you want to see the whole thing the complete. complete deal is take from last night with the quotes from hamilton and jefferson is the july twelfth two thousand and eleven daily take on our you tube page you can easily find it. so in responses to yesterday's daily take about this

number of people opposed messages over its sound harben dot com and on you tube and other places asking a few questions about what i had to say the first is if the supreme court can't decide what is and isn't constitutional then what is its purpose what's it really supposed to be doing the answer to that is actually laid out in the constitution in plain black and white the supreme court is the first court in the nation it goes for cases involving disputes about treaties embassadors a code in the constitution now controversies between two or more states and two in a state and citizen of another state and tween citizens of different states and foreign states end of quote read article three section two of the constitution it's all there second the supreme court is the final appeals court when everything else has been exhausted for pretty much every other kind of litigation two people have a lawsuit and it goes up through the courts it has to stop somewhere and that somewhere is the supreme court they and they alone can make the final decision about who wins and who loses in civil and criminal cases. but they have to do it

under the laws passed by congress and signed by the president they have to do it the way congress says they have to do it as the constitution says his supreme court show have appellate jurisdiction both as to law and fact with such exceptions and under such regulations as congress shall make period end of sentence now the word in there about what's known as the doctrine of judicial review the power of the courts to decide what is and isn't constitutional which raises a second question who does decide the constitutionality of a law passed by congress president thomas jefferson was pretty clear about that as were most of the founders and they said that the court and by the way the court is didn't start seriously deciding constitutionality until all of these guys were dead but back in the day they were there was actually one case in jefferson's lifetime

of a court did this back in the day here's what jefferson had to say the constitution has erected no such single tribunals knowing that to whatever hands confided with the corruptions of time and party its members would become despots it has more wisely made all the departments he's talking about executive legislative and judicial all the departments co-equal and co sovereign within themselves when the legislative or executive functionaries act unconstitutionally they are responsible to the people in their elective capacity their elective capacity that's a fancy presidential founder way of saying it but people can toss out on their guts any member of congress or any president who behaves in a way that's unconstitutional the ultimate remedy is with the people it's the ballot box if we don't like the laws being passed then we should all like new

legislators and a new president. that's what pretty simple but without the supreme court some say we never would have had brown versus board one hundred fifty four ending apartheid in america we never would have had roe v wade any restrictions on abortion in nine hundred seventy three true but brown versus board was mostly the supreme court reversing itself from its own eight hundred eighty six present versus ferguson decision which established legal apartheid in the united states and if the supreme court had decided in roe versus wade remember the birth control pill had just been invented and brought to market thirteen years earlier and the women's movement in one thousand nine hundred seventy three was in full bloom if they hadn't done it in seventy three it would have just been a matter of few years before congress took care of the fact of the matter is that the supreme court has never found eternal truths in the constitution they just reflect current popular view and they usually do that with about a twenty year or one generation time so let's end the charade that we have nine

unelected kings and queens in america who serve for life and can strike down laws the way it works and some constitutional monarchies we don't have a monarchy here in the united states this this supreme court this roberts supreme court has become a cancer on our democracy slowly but steadily eating out all the rest of it tell your members of congress to wake up and read the constitution. as the big picture for tonight for more information on the stories we covered visit our website to tom hartman dot com free speech dot org and our two dogs you can check out our to you tube channels there are links a ton of that and the entire show is also available as a free video podcast on i tunes and we have a free tom hartman i phone and i pad app in the app store you can send us feedback at twitter at tom under school or on facebook it's on the school for our blogs

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