we're experiencing feudalism to forget period what about louis the four teeth or charles the second or alexander the great or charles schulz or snoopy or linus we're going nowhere this is an absolute a. toss and i. actually you mentioned feudalism and that is in my next story and without them actually saying this is an article from w. from web m.d. and it's about insulin prices spiking insulin cost put patients and brutal buying so insulin prices have skyrocketed in recent years on average tripling between two thousand and two and two thousand and thirteen one popular brand over log increase its list price by three hundred fifty three percent from twenty one to twenty sixteen but some raise the money however they can mother people of diabetes take less effective insulin or ration what they have one survey revealed that forty five percent of diabetes patients in america had gone with out insulin because of the

price and in some cases the consequences have been fatal they go over some of the fatal stories but in particular they talk about this one guy so there are thirty million americans with diabetes seven point four million have to take insulin type one diabetes is the sort that you're born with and your pancreas does not produce insulin so you have to take insulin. they speak to this guy irv earle he's an m.d. and he's a professor at the university of washington school of medicine and he's one of the nation's foremost experts diabetes he himself has type one diabetes and he remembers back in the one nine hundred sixty s. he supposed seventy five cents so now it's up to thirteen hundred dollars a month for two vials or whatever you need for that month but so this cost he's talking about half of patients actually go to canada to get their insulin . obviously canada has

a universal health care and they negotiate prices with the pharmaceutical companies so you know there's this crazy idea here in america where trump ran on the he would allow re-importation so he would allow to canada to negotiate prices with pharmaceuticals but we americans can't do that is against our ideology but you can we'll let you go up there. and get their prices but here he says he doesn't blame the drug makers for the price increases exclusively he said there are three companies that make insulin products but the nation's opaque medication pricing system pharmacy benefit managers control which insulins are on an insurance list of approved drugs and get rebates from the manufacturers to do so they can exclude a drug that rebate is too low the result is that what one person pays for insulin could be vastly different from what another pays then i'm going to go into a quote where he confirms your idea of feudalism because this is the entire structure of the us versus the simplicity no bureaucracy no middlemen across europe and saying the united kingdom over their health care system he says you can think

of it as a tax by the time the insulin gets from the factory where it's made until it comes all the way down the chain to the patient there are a lot of people who touch the insulin and everyone wants money for touching at one of the things that's different in other countries not as many people touch the insulin before it gets to the patients so that keeps the cost that's the exactly what feudalism feudal times was like that there were constant toll booths and shake downs and everybody wanted to cut before any money got from the king in his goal down to you the schmuck on the street right into shakedown and toll booths and if you look at the charts on medicare cost bloat and that the number of doctors isn't going up with the number of administrators the number of bureaucrats the number of middlemen home booths tolerate errors and get their hands on the pie that keeps skyrocketing you know it's amazing to me that americans they'll drive you know five ten miles out of their way to save three cents on

a gallon of gas and they'll probably burn more gas getting that three cents off a gallon of gas then that makes sense even the go get that three cents off a gallon of gas or the go to a site like group on and they'll all pool their resources together to get a twenty percent discount on sushi right but if you say you know what you don't have to overpay for your met. well kara by three four five hundred percent six hundred percent you don't have to be treated by the pharmaceutical companies like you're an organ donor like they look at you like they want to harvest your organs the big pharmaceutical companies they see your liver they see your spleen they see your lungs they see your your plasma they're like we want to monetize that we want to engage in vivisection we want to cut you up we want to sell your part yes we want to make that money and americans are like you know what here's a knife start cutting me up and taking my organs please because i'm really strict and stupid i'll save twenty cents a gallon gas but you can have my kidneys for free that's a stupid these people are i don't know what sympathy for the has because people know when you put gas in your engine in the gas tank they know kind of how

combustion engines work they know how how it makes your wheels turn and you go forward down the highway people don't know what their kid need does or their pancreas or what their lungs look like and you know they don't know and told that they're not experts on that and so one of four dollars u.s. health care dollars is spent on diabetes so we're going to also look at the predatory nature of this health care system and how that might i'm just saying i'm just saying that low protein i want to just get that my as i was saying that might have something to do with how people vote either they are voting because of this or they're voting because of a guy who lives six thousand miles away so price fixing allegations they call this section caring wolford dreads going to the pharmacy to pick up her insulin i can research a plan before he choose what we're going to do next year but there really is no way to know what's going to happen the uncertainty is one of the worst parts about it

says wolford twenty eight a writer from atlanta like many americans she has a high deductible insurance plan so has to pay many many thousands of dollars of cost and her her insulin is thirteen hundred a month until she gets to. the bit where the health care actually kicks in but she goes again she keeps on talking about that the unpredictable nature of it so what i'm saying is i think many voters i know i would you know i get concerned about we don't know what our obamacare prices will be next year we don't know them yet they haven't told us they won't tell us until late much later in the year so you have no idea if your costs are going to go up forty four percent like they did in twenty sixteen and they can go up twenty three percent like they did last year so you don't know how to plan for next year she herself has basically decided she and her husband don't have any kids or they don't plan to because they can't afford it because of her she has type one diabetes and she has this cost otherwise she's

going to die so because she doesn't know if it's going to be thirteen hundred next year is going to be seven hundred dollars for her insulin or is it going to be two thousand five hundred she doesn't know. how it was a stunt or norco straighted program. well if i was a no it's it is definitely predatory and they actually talk about one guy who was once he turned twenty six and he was no longer covered by is america his parents' insurance he was confronted with thirteen hundred dollars a month for his insulin but he couldn't afford it so he waited to get his insulin until his paycheck amen but he died four days before his insulin before his push to the operative word being death cost twenty six years old why is four bucks for the insulin the charts thirteen hundred. perhaps. and the guy who of course the pharmaceutical companies say they need it for research money they need they need that for research so it's been proven that other countries don't have the same research budget but for the same innovative drugs and medical procedures anyway so

that's a look at where you. live in terms of cancer research right but how is that not an orchestrated campaign to wipe out part of the population or i mean that's the hut not they get i don't think it's that i think they consider that collateral damage in the predatory practices that they have here and it's about all the middleman. and all the middle men are all cods in the machine and there's no. there's no one figurehead guy at the top saying i am running this and killing all these people it's like i'm just a guy pushing paper and denying your insurance claim i'm just the guy sending the bill for the thirteen seven x. guy selling the insurance claim is making sixty to seventy million dollars a year as an as a salary that's not a guy but that's the way god but the predatory system right with it is set up so that nobody has it is called will remember barack obama said that there's there's no real illegal thing that happened when the entire financial system fell apart and fraud there was no nothing you could specifically point to and say that's the guy that caused that oh i get the no second responsibility but i get saying i'm just

saying this could be why people are angry this could be why people vote the way the elites are saying i see where you're going with this you see what i'm saying because i say because i'm saying i'm saying not complaining i'm just saying exactly we have to do more of this let's take a break we'll come back and we're going to sort this all out ok. don't go away. brougham so my. good jewish who've moved before. much of those who heard it's a preview of. who were who. but it. sure didn't look beautiful

but we did some good. moves slower most of these goals will give you a good groove. to go to shows we're going to distribute belonging to show. the story should go. to start to. kill a baby then that is the most they'd say look it is a. chimp stashed not just institutionally they mashed on truck stop the president and please contribute more to. the officials to go to the store to snoop to come up with a new look because that is the cousin with you or his supporters to your shoes station shouldn't be you should cook door for the one who's doing the.

you know world of big partisan movie lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the bath and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. when the u.n. was founded it was meant to serve as a forum for dialogue and conciliation the chillen into a u.n. security council meeting now and instead of robust debate you often see accusations and allegations of diplomats and just playing to the cameras as the u.n.

really become a hostile environment. all right we're back worth it here in the moment room very interesting so in other words what you're saying is per the message over to shirt is you not complaining or just saying you're just saying so when we were in the first half looking at the u.s. voter heading into the midterm what happened to twenty sixteen and how they were perhaps just fed up of a predatory system and ever declining wages now we're going to turn to europe because obviously europe has a vast social welfare system people are not thrown into the gutter when they lose their job they are covered if they have a medical problem it's covered they are not bankrupted by that and we see in

germany we've seen some pretty shocking sort of rallies going on in saxony in the eastern german part of the country where you're starting to see people actually do not see salutes and stuff like that so what's going on there why and what a look at what exactly what's going on there why are people angry there why do people vote for banks it's so. i'm going to look at first i'm going to actually show you a little photo of something from pakistan and this is a remarkable. i think this is a good analogy for what's happened in europe so this is a still from a video and perhaps we can play a little bit of the video here this is from pakistan who these are massive crocodiles the oldest one is one hundred twenty years old and this guy is feeding them by hand now scientists say that they've become tamed over decades and decades of these people going to a shrine in pakistan where they believe these are some sort of state or something

so they're feeding them they've been tamed by being fed all this meat well my question was like what happens if they run out of me and these worshiper stop feeding them will they revert to nature so hear it as that as sort of. globalization starts to bring in waves of of of changes like what's happening in europe about this sort of breakdown how is how where are these far right parties coming from in germany in austria up in you know sweden and they're not demarcus maybe but finland but how how is that happening this is timothy garton ash he often writes in the guardian but this is in the new york books and he says it's the culture stupid and he uses the german word for that which is a little bit different from the connotation in english so go read the article to see that but he says and explaining the populous vote in many countries that inequality of attention is that at least as important as economic inequality so he

talks about a situation that happened in east germany when a street protests in a small town in saxony was totally ignored by the visiting chancellor merkel a protester complained she doesn't even look at us with her. one can imagine a trump voter saying something similar about hillary clinton so he talks about the fact that this is part of the whole trend of d. platforming d. monetising and just shutting down the voices of the angry populace and is sure. it clearly expresses itself as a very right wing and the much of the elite that control everything are left wing and they don't want to hear their voices so they shut it down here they were protesting and they felt like basically merkel didn't doesn't even pay attention to them with her you know behind and they go into the fact that there is a bestseller that from an author there who. you know basically looks at the their

nazi past and it's considered right wing it was in the top ten best sellers for weeks and spiegel just took it off and it didn't it wasn't on the top some book of lists and timothy garton ash is putting that into this notion as they were basically that we're not even pay that these people don't even count we don't even hear them we're going to blank them and instead of it you know having conversations with these sort of people and doing things like nine hundred sixty s. and seventy's television used to look like in america when the likes of malcolm x. when the likes of muhammad ali were on television talking about really they were talking from radical person liberal and sort of progressive stands but. you know here we don't have a sort of debates where you're talking about radical crazy ideas imo you're asking the question about liberalism and europe and the welfare state in europe and the fact that on one hand it doesn't have the same problems always seen the u.s.

but now you're saying on the fringes of the rise of problems well in germany they're doing very well their incomes are very high they have free healthcare they have free education many of the people in these far right groups the alternative for democracy a.f.d. or something like that that they're that they're rising in power but they have like aristocrats and very wealthy people being part of this these far right groups so he's looking at it and looking at why it's not caused by economic hardship clearly in the situation because the. people are doing very well and they have high incomes they have all all that they need so he's looking at what else might be causing this the stuff that our media is unable to process at the moment look the doors are closed well he's saying that the inequality of attention that we're there they're expressing concerns and in this case a lot of them are concerned about the mass amount of immigration into their country

even though it's not going to east germany it's going to berlin and munich and hamburg but he said for the rank and file it went when spiegel took this book off their top seller list even though it was a top seller is it for the rank and file it is yet more evidence that the liberal elites have so little time and respect for them that they won't look at us even with their worst still they won't even let ordinary people say what they think and a poll conducted in spring two thousand and sixteen for the freedom index of the john stuart mill institute and heidelberg only fifty seven percent of responded and said they felt that one can freely express one's political opinion and germany today he thinks he goes on to say that he thinks it's encouraging debate john stuart mill would encourage debate in america how odious your opinion was no matter if you're steve bannan that you should be put on stage and challenge with equal intellectual or somebody able to articulate why that guy is wrong or what you know

have an open debate like we used to back in the sixty's and seventy's before everything got. back in the seventy's by the way we see the show the bodies of our dead soldiers returning from vietnam we don't do that anymore we block out a lot of stuff but it still exists i'm saying this seems to be a lot of stuff that exists that ignoring it doesn't make it go away just because you know the sixty's and seventy's are going back to the recent past and further into the economies and societies are a lot more of the. versified we in the twenty first century live in an economy that's run almost one hundred percent exclusively on a consumerism so the fact that merkel is not paying any attention to these people is not really the issue and they should really concern themselves with that the only question that they have to ask themselves is are they buying stuff because that's the only thing anyone really cares about the richest people in the world like a jeff bezos they they get rich by selling people stuff because that's what they want to buy stuff and they want to that's that's how they define themselves you are

what you buy that's who you are you're not a religious affiliation yet i know a lot of the country but the you know p.r. they have. you know part of a community you're just somebody that buy stuff and if you don't want to buy stuff then we don't want to hear from you and that's the end of the story nevertheless. we still live in democracies those people who vote a.f.d. still vote those people who vote for trump still vote and all our media is able to say is absolute shock they don't know where it's coming from the only ever answer is putin that putin has something to do with it they're not looking at our own culture hillary clinton called those people in middle america that are ignored and trump spoke to them whether or not he is. means that he spoke to them and spoke their language she spoke like an ordinary person and she called them baskets of deplorable and after she lost to him she said that they were losers and my people were winners my voters who are in dynamic winning places so that's why i'm saying

that they must write in these german fringed nazis are not winning any big elections right now are soaring in the elections they five percent of their that i think they are the number two party right now but what's a chasm between the one and two well you know there's a there's a multi-party system and germany nevertheless let's move on to the next story because here you know here's a guy who's timothy garton ash he's offered this inequality of attention and certainly there seems to be a lot that happens in the world that does not get covered by the corporate media because it does not sell goods it does not you know sort of book but i brought the answer is not to. ignore the basic underlying problem in the the society has lost its vitality as a dynamic place for social cohesion has become purely a way to move goods to be the end product on the subway line and that's the end oh good now that's a bigger problem that can be addressed in the numerous different ways but politically i don't think what the campaigns run by corporations for corporations

by corporations are going to see any change in that sector of the but the fundamental nature of the disintegration of what's happening around in certain communities nevertheless continues and i want to talk to in the last three minutes here about another headline from the atlantic because they are starting to also look and question the deeper. story of what is actually happening sure major corporations coca-cola nyc nike is now finance and colin kaepernick collin copernic said that you know these major corporations are adapting in co-opting various groups and they will always perhaps win until they don't but why technology favors tyranny artificial intelligence could erase many practical advantages of democracy and erode the ideals of liberty and equality it will further concentrate power among a small elite if we don't take steps to stop it obviously we're not going to take steps to stop it because that's not the nature of humans and that's not the nature of how power power doesn't just give up the amazon is now a trillion dollar company apple's a trillion dollar company they're progressive companies they give to democrats and

they're going to democrats are going to do all they can to make sure that those people maintain that power and wealth just like obama helped maintain the power and wealth of wall street when they backed him in the twentieth century the masses revolted against exploitation and sought to translate their vital role in the economy into political power now the masses fear irrelevance and they are frantic to use their remaining political power before it is too late breaks and the rise of donald trump may therefore demonstrate a trajectory opposite to that of traditional socialist revolutions the russian chinese and cuban revolutions were made by people who were vital to the economy but lacked political power and twenty sixteen trumping breaks that were supported by many people who still enjoyed political power but feared they were losing their economic worth because of ai because of robotics because of the at the beginning of the knowledge economy they fear irrelevance of course they should fear a rebel. irrelevance because they are irrelevant that course they are what they

have been saying for many years as mimics mimics humans to the point where it completely fools humans so humans are being relegated to the dustbin of history a useful robots and they say this is an interesting line is that it's much harder to strong. will against irrelevance brought against exploitation looks that i least when you're being exploited you can say look i work in a sweat shop factory for making mike shoes that people agree but here you're like. you're basically jeb bush pay attention to me clap for me you know none of the bots that run away i can hear you scream and it's over but i'm not saying that for a long time malcolm glazer right with the singularity that's happening faster than anyone really wants to admit and that's going to do it for this edition of the kaiser report with me max kaiser and stacy herbert joining catch us on twitter it's kaiser report until now.