Thom Hartmann Program
Monday, March 26, 2012

Today kicks off three straight days of oral arguments before the Supreme Court over the constitutionality of Obamacare. If the court ends up siding with the right-wing state Attorneys General who are in the pocket of the for-profit health insurance industry, then 50 million Americans will lose access to healthcare.
 
Not to mention - 17 million children will be denied insurance coverage because of pre-existing conditions - and more than 100 million Americans will have to live in fear that their insurance company will cap them just when they need a life-saving procedure. While Obamacare isn't perfect - and our nation should eventually adopt a single-payer system that makes health care a basic human right like in the rest of the developed world - the law is at least a start.
 
So now all eyes are on the Supreme Court and whether five unelected right-wing judges will put politics and corporate profits above the health of the nation.