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"Trumpcare?" (Friday, January 16, 2026, Hour 1) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: You had set about disrupting the class by.
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  Speaker 2: Attracting attention to yourself.
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  Speaker 3: On a need to know basis, because you need to
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  Speaker 3: know the first thing today.
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  Speaker 4: Your word said, steal metem.
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  Speaker 5: You have a day at least for work.
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  Speaker 6: When the sun comes up, drops a pet.
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  Speaker 7: To school on the way.
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  Speaker 2: Joe is a thing, a.
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  Speaker 6: Gender, all the joss.
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  Speaker 8: No one that Joe's as smiled he on the eggs pleas.
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  Speaker 5: Let it be Joe.
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  Speaker 9: Thank you for letting us be of service to you
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  Speaker 9: this morning. We tell you what went on last night.
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  Speaker 9: We will tell you how we see it in the
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  Speaker 9: analysts that we talked to, and how you should approach
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  Speaker 9: it yourself. But most importantly, we want to know how
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  Speaker 9: it's impacting you where you are. We keep a text
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  Speaker 9: message hotline open because mornings are crazy and sometimes making
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  Speaker 9: a phone call is way too much. You've got to
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  Speaker 9: dot com. So much to cover as we head in
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  Speaker 9: to this weekend, and some I love the press. At
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  Speaker 9: some point this morning, I want to go through just
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  Speaker 9: the headlines, because the Marxists know that easily seventy five
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  Speaker 9: five to eighty percent of us only we'll see the
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  Speaker 9: headlines in the feeds that we get. So when you
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  Speaker 9: open your browser and it says look at these news stories,
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  Speaker 9: and look at these news stories, and you'll only see
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  Speaker 9: the headlines. So when you see things like Caroline Levitt
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  Speaker 9: clashes with the reporter, and then you open the story
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  Speaker 9: and you realize the clash was just an interaction during
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  Speaker 9: a White House press briefing that happens every day. Yeah,
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  Speaker 9: that's the stuff I'm talking about. But they know that
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  Speaker 9: if eighty percent of you only see those headlines, you'll think, oh,
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  Speaker 9: this girl, I mean, she's just out of control, she's
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  Speaker 9: just having fights in the streets. She might as well
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  Speaker 9: be a El Salvadoran drug gang member. We've got one
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  Speaker 9: of those going on trial here in our flagship city.
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  Speaker 9: Dude got a sixteen year old so drunk she couldn't walk,
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  Speaker 9: and then well did what you would expect.
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  Speaker 10: You know.
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  Speaker 9: The funny thing is that the people who argue with
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  Speaker 9: President Trump when he characterizes these folks as rapists, we
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  Speaker 9: have a rapist here and.
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  Speaker 11: A s.
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  Speaker 9: Misunderstood cultural misappropriation his country. Covering all this ground for you.
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  Speaker 9: This morning yesterday, Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado was
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  Speaker 9: at the White House and gave her Nobel Peace Prize
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  Speaker 9: to President Trump. Even though the Nobel Institute says Machado
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  Speaker 9: could never give her prize to Trump, it is an
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  Speaker 9: honor that he received in kind, and even if it
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  Speaker 9: is a purely symbolic gesture. President Trump said yesterday he
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  Speaker 9: has outlined a healthcare plan that he wants Congress to
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  Speaker 9: take up as Republicans are facing a midterm election replete
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  Speaker 9: with calls for making things more affordable. He said, the
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  Speaker 9: government is going to pay money directly to you. It
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  Speaker 9: goes to you, and then you take the money and
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  Speaker 9: buy your own health care. President Trump on Thursday threatened
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  Speaker 9: to invoke an eighteen oh seven law that deploys troops
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  Speaker 9: to quell persistent protests against federal officers sent to Minneapolis.
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  Speaker 9: The Insurrection Act threat comes a day after a man
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  Speaker 9: was shot and wounded by an Ice officer who was
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  Speaker 9: being attacked with a shovel and a broom handle. Canada
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  Speaker 9: is back from China. Prime Minister Mark Carney says they
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  Speaker 9: will cut its one hundred percent tariff on Chinese electric cars.
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  Speaker 9: I thought America had high tariffs, but Carney made the
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  Speaker 9: announcement after two days of meetings with Chinese leaders. He
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  Speaker 9: said there would be an initial cap of forty nine
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  Speaker 9: thousand vehicles on Chinese EVA exports to Canada, growing to
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  Speaker 9: seventy thousand over five years. China will reduce its tariff
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  Speaker 9: on Canadian agricultural products like canola seeds from eighty four
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  Speaker 9: percent to fifteen percent. The twenty two year old Utah
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  Speaker 9: men accused of killing conservative activist and founder of Turning
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  Speaker 9: Point USA, Charlie Kirk, is doing court today. His attorneys
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  Speaker 9: are seeking to disqualify prosecutors because the kid is a
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  Speaker 9: child of a deputy county attorney and that that personal
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  Speaker 9: relationship is a conflict of interest. That raises quote serious
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  Speaker 9: concerns about past and future prosecutorial decision making. In this case,
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  Speaker 9: US and Iranian officials faced off at the UN Security
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  Speaker 9: Council yesterday. America's envoy said that all actions are on
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  Speaker 3: First thing today on the Trunk Media Network by Joe Thomas,
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  Speaker 3: the second most famous Thomas in Charlottesville.
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  Speaker 2: Doctor Doctor didn't even news.
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  Speaker 21: I gotta cas loving you.
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  Speaker 9: And not to make it a competition, but none of
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  Speaker 9: the statues that are in my honor have been attempted
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  Speaker 9: to be taken down by anybody. Okay, fine, there are
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  Speaker 9: no actual statues of me in Charlottesville, So that's an
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  Speaker 9: easy thing to say. Thank you for allowing us to
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  Speaker 9: be of service to you this Friday morning. Trump Care
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  Speaker 9: and you know, the devil in the details of what
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  Speaker 9: the president wants Congress to do. But this is all
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  Speaker 9: part of the movement that's make America affordable again. This
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  Speaker 9: is a trope of the left in a rare instance
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  Speaker 9: where Donald Trump is capitulating to the woke left who
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  Speaker 9: are insisting that it's and to me, I would say, well, gosh,
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  Speaker 9: if you're claiming that you can make my life more
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  Speaker 9: affordable than it must, then go logically that you're the
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  Speaker 9: one who caused it to be inaffordable. But healthcare and subsidy,
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  Speaker 9: there are two kinds of subsidies. There's direct to consumer
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  Speaker 9: subsidy and supply side subsidy. Supply side is what Obamacare
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  Speaker 9: is is we will pay off the insurance companies to
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  Speaker 9: cover people that they would normally not cover whatsoever, instead
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  Speaker 9: of addressing, well, why won't you cover them whatsoever? Because
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  Speaker 9: the cabal between all the people who are mismanaging our
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  Speaker 9: healthcare system under the permissions of the US government have
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  Speaker 9: created a money laundering scandal where they take money from
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  Speaker 9: people and they give money to people, and never is
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  Speaker 9: it considered, hey, can somebody afford this stuff? Which is
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  Speaker 9: economics faster than you can say, Adam Smith, can somebody
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  Speaker 9: afford this? And if they can't afford it, why are
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  Speaker 9: we charging too much for this? Never comes up. Never,
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  Speaker 9: I will guarante blue Cross Blue Shield offices across America.
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  Speaker 9: Nobody ever sits there and says, hey, why do we
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  Speaker 9: charge so much for this? What are we doing that's charged?
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  Speaker 9: A doctor walking down the halls of some big hospital
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  Speaker 9: that he is pleased to have found a job with,
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  Speaker 9: because otherwise he'd be out there trying to find patients
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  Speaker 9: on the internet. The doctor who is associated with a
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  Speaker 9: big health management firm so that he can get free patients,
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  Speaker 9: because that's the gig is the doctor sells out to
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  Speaker 9: the big corporation who then says, well, we've got this
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  Speaker 9: list of patients, so you will see them and we
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  Speaker 9: will reimburse you in kind. That doctor never says, Hey,
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  Speaker 9: all these people I'm seeing, I have to get a
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  Speaker 9: subsidy from the government to see why can't they afford me?
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  Speaker 9: And there's this obvious reason that more and more of
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  Speaker 9: our jobs in this country don't pay us enough to
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  Speaker 9: pay for the things that are going on in this country,
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  Speaker 9: the things that we need, like a transportation and housing.
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  Speaker 9: And that's intentional. Understand that that is intentional because you
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  Speaker 9: have to be driven to a place to vote for Marxism,
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  Speaker 9: and Marxism every year gets closer and closer to just
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  Speaker 9: purely being on the ballot, not just in New York City.
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  Speaker 9: Charlottesville had a Democratic Socialist mayor, and we've got radical
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  Speaker 9: leftists and Virginia's government that you know, and some of
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  Speaker 9: Virginia's government makes California look conservative. And everyone wants to
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  Speaker 9: make life more affordable for their citizens without ever addressing
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  Speaker 9: how it became inaffordable. Now, you may not be a big,
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  Speaker 9: big business consultant, but the whole point of a free
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  Speaker 9: market is you don't need to be. You don't need
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  Speaker 9: to have a Master's of Business Association BA and BS
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  Speaker 9: is pretty much all these guys have. Anyway, you don't
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  Speaker 9: have to be Jerome Powell. Hell, you don't even have
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  Speaker 9: to be Boog Powell to understand I can't afford this.
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  Speaker 9: What can you do for me that you that I
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  Speaker 9: can afford? And if you have a personal relationship with
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  Speaker 9: the provider or something, and this goes to all facets
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  Speaker 9: of the economy, I can't afford this. Well, I'm sorry,
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  Speaker 9: this is what I'm asking for it because the government's
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  Speaker 9: going to guarantee that I'm going to get it from somebody.
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  Speaker 9: So you're gonna have to pay what the government's guaranteeing
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  Speaker 9: me to get reimbursed for it. It's nice work if
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  Speaker 9: you can get it. Wouldn't we all love a job
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  Speaker 9: where we don't have to worry about gosh? Can that
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  Speaker 9: can that farm expo afford the commercials on my radio show?
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  Speaker 9: Or can that gold company like jcsgold dot com? What
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  Speaker 9: can I charge them for time on my show? What's
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  Speaker 9: it worth?
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  Speaker 3: Well?
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  Speaker 9: What does it cost me? Deli owner? What is the
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  Speaker 9: bread and the cold cuts cost me? Can I make
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  Speaker 9: them myself? A lot of states you can't even make
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  Speaker 9: your own cold cuts anymore. I grew up in a world.
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  Speaker 9: You may have grown up in a world where you know,
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  Speaker 9: the deli, the delicatessen cooked most of their stuff. It
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  Speaker 9: was their potato salad, it was their prime rib sandwich,
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  Speaker 9: it was their turkey. They don't do that anymore. All
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  Speaker 9: comes off the boar's head truck, prepackaged, and we've learned
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  Speaker 9: about what some of those factories look like, because it's
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  Speaker 9: about keeping the costs down, and so now you're disconnected.
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  Speaker 9: So you're like, I don't know what do I have
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  Speaker 9: to pay for the parts of the sandwich? And in
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  Speaker 9: most cases the cost of a sandwich is only about
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  Speaker 9: maybe forty percent of the cost of the sandwich itself,
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  Speaker 9: if you're holding the cost down, and then the rest
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  Speaker 9: is payroll, so you mandate higher wages. So the deli
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  Speaker 9: owner or the walk in medical care clinic has to
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  Speaker 9: pay more for the person behind the desk, which means
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  Speaker 9: they have to charge you more to that and the
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  Speaker 9: electric bill, and it's hurting us all into Bernie Sanders Land. Oh,
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  Speaker 9: the rich oligarchs, No rich oligarchs except guys like Bernie
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  Speaker 9: Sanders and Nancy Pelosi so all these folks and Donald
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  Speaker 9: Trump is trying. He said, listen, we'll come up with
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  Speaker 9: a plan. How about instead of we give the subsidy
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  Speaker 9: money to the insurance company, which they still will be doing,
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  Speaker 9: we give you the money and you decide how you
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  Speaker 9: spend it. Still doesn't do much. It creates at least
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  Speaker 9: some form of decision making where somebody says, well, I
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  Speaker 9: want your money, but you won't give it to me.
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  Speaker 9: If I charge this much for what will it be
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  Speaker 9: worth to you? It at least puts that conversation back
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  Speaker 9: into the discourse between provider and consumer of healthcare. So
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  Speaker 9: it's not perfect, but it's a step.
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  Speaker 10: and the American Heart Association recommends that we all get
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  Speaker 10: at least one hundred and fifty minutes of moderate aerobic
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  Speaker 10: activity in a week's time. But here's the thing that
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  Speaker 10: one hundred and fifty minutes does not need to be
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  Speaker 2: His to the soldiers on the bitter War. He's to
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  Speaker 2: the wall that mass their names.
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  Speaker 21: Yes, human loves, we're gonna see some above ye loves,
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  Speaker 21: We're gonna see some about the.
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  Speaker 9: were out there on Spotify as well. We were talking
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  Speaker 9: yesterday we had a visit and this was from after
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  Speaker 9: the show. This is from the after party, just because
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  Speaker 9: I can never find myself talking to Ken Kuchinelli, former
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  Speaker 9: DHS secretary.
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  Speaker 3: Enough.
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  Speaker 9: But we got talking about redistricting and the mania that's coming.
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  Speaker 9: The General Assembly met first five minutes of its session
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  Speaker 9: was like, all right, go pass this bill to tear
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  Speaker 9: up the Virginia Constitution, all of favors AI. It's like
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  Speaker 9: a rush to judgment, as if Eric Holder had already
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  Speaker 9: sent them the template of how to do it and
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  Speaker 9: how to pass it. So it's on to the other House,
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  Speaker 9: and I think they're going to try to fast track
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  Speaker 9: it and get it into the pipeline for voters very fast.
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  Speaker 9: And nothing is nothing says good law, then rush to judgment.
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  Speaker 9: But Ken, you were Ken and I were talking about
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  Speaker 9: this future and what I first thought, Abigail Spanberger would
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  Speaker 9: do a lot of vetoing in this session because she
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  Speaker 9: wants to be President of the United States or strategy.
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  Speaker 22: If she's smart.
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  Speaker 9: I don't like it.
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  Speaker 22: But if she's smart, she'll veto stuff this year, they'll
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  Speaker 22: rewrite it and come back and she'll say, oh, it's
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  Speaker 22: much better now, and it'll do the exact same thing
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  Speaker 22: and then she'll sign it.
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  Speaker 9: Right, but she'll still be able to run TV ads
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  Speaker 9: saying that she stood up against blah blah blahah oh.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 22: Yeah.
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  Speaker 9: So given that she doesn't have a say on any
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  Speaker 9: of the constitutional amendments, and I'm going to set aside
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  Speaker 9: the marriage and the abortion, although I really wish somebody
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  Speaker 9: in the media would portray it as what it is,
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  Speaker 9: not just guaranteeing access to abortion, as if somehow Virginians
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  Speaker 9: are having that denied them. But that set aside, right,
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  Speaker 9: this explosion of the Redistricting Commission that you know, all
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  Speaker 9: of these Democrats that are still in the House and
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  Speaker 9: Senate voted in favor of not four years ago, and
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  Speaker 9: sixty five percent of the the Commonwealth voted for four
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  Speaker 9: years ago. You said that you didn't think it was
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  Speaker 9: going to get there. You didn't think it was going
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  Speaker 9: to change our districts. I want to find out why,
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  Speaker 9: because of all the people in all of Christendom, your opinion,
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  Speaker 9: and this means more to me than almost anyone I know.
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  Speaker 9: So why do you think it's not going to make it?
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  Speaker 9: Where is it going to trip up? Is it going
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  Speaker 9: to be the Senate, Is it going to be when
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  Speaker 9: it gets to the ballot box in April. What do
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  Speaker 9: you think, what is it that tells you this, No,
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  Speaker 9: it's going to be in court.
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  Speaker 22: So the Virginia Constitution has two requirements that this amendment
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  Speaker 22: has problems with. The first one is that you have
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  Speaker 22: to have an election in between a state election in
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  Speaker 22: between the two passings of the same legislation. And of
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  Speaker 22: course they passed it in late October. So because the
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  Speaker 22: Democrats gift us a forty five election season about five
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  Speaker 22: years ago, this is not been tested before. But is
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  Speaker 22: passing that bill before election day prior to an election?
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  Speaker 22: I would argue that it is not prior to an
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  Speaker 22: election because now an election in Virginia is forty five
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  Speaker 22: days long, and you know, the court will get to
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  Speaker 22: decide that. That's problem number one for the Democrats. Problem
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  Speaker 22: number two is that they want it voted on in April,
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  Speaker 22: and you know that's why they rush this stuff through
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  Speaker 22: so they can get to the ballot as fast as possible.
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  Speaker 22: Speed doesn't matter for their abortion and transgender by the way,
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  Speaker 22: same amendment and their marriage amendments. It doesn't matter for those,
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  Speaker 22: but it does matter for redistricting because they want those
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  Speaker 22: districts in place this year, and they know there'll be
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  Speaker 22: court fights over them, so they have to get those
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  Speaker 22: up and running quick.
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  Speaker 3: Though.
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  Speaker 22: We should tell people with the Supreme Courts ruling and
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  Speaker 22: the Night Circuits ruling that we've seen on the Texas
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  Speaker 22: and California districts, probably whatever comes out of Virginia, the
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  Speaker 22: federal courts will let stand.
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  Speaker 9: As Ken Coochinelli And again part of the podcast, you
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  Speaker 9: can get all of that there. Joel hanging on the
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  Speaker 9: line with us at four three four eight a two
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  Speaker 9: for two one seven with a thought or six as
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  Speaker 9: he gets his day starting. Good morning, Joel was on
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  Speaker 9: your mind.
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  Speaker 26: Good morning, Joe. I don't think like just it's a
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  Speaker 26: one or two solution thing for healthcare, because I remember
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  Speaker 26: a few years ago, I'm trying to remember, I think
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  Speaker 26: may even been President Trump when he was in office,
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  Speaker 26: that he stated that if they're going to do procedures,
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  Speaker 26: or if you're going to go to hospital or clinics,
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  Speaker 26: that they have to post their costs and fees on
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  Speaker 26: medical procedures and equipment and things that they're going to use.
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  Speaker 26: And I don't think that ever really stayed in like
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  Speaker 26: a mandate, because I've seen where I've walked into you know,
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  Speaker 26: clinic and I don't have insurance, and and then I
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  Speaker 26: don't even see anything posted or anything listed. And then
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  Speaker 26: they go, well, that's gonna be three hundred dollars right
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  Speaker 26: off the bat, And and you go, where are they
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  Speaker 26: coming up with this? And I even before when I
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  Speaker 26: did have insurance, they in their fine print, now you're
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  Speaker 26: doing a lot of electronic signing on let's call paperwork.
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  Speaker 26: On that fine print, it'll go, oh, whatever whatever else
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  Speaker 26: the insurance doesn't cover, So that that leaves the door
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  Speaker 26: open there too, like yeah, you know. And and I've
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  Speaker 26: had bills come back where it was part of where
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  Speaker 26: it wasn't covered. So where's the honesty in all of it?
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  Speaker 17: Right?
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  Speaker 9: Because they'll tell you in the onset it appears you're
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  Speaker 9: covered for this, but in case you're not, you're you're
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  Speaker 9: on the arm for it.
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  Speaker 3: It.
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  Speaker 9: I I to understand that there are costs to healthcare.
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  Speaker 9: But this all begins, you know, when I was in
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  Speaker 9: my twenties and we had the catastrophic healthcare insurance what
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  Speaker 9: we basically just then called health insurance, and it was
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  Speaker 9: inexpensive because the likelihood, especially for a twenty or thirty
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  Speaker 9: year old. The likelihood of you showing up with a
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  Speaker 9: serious medical situation that was going to require a lot
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  Speaker 9: of care and a lot of money was very rare.
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  Speaker 9: It's the same reason homeowners insurance is not all that expensive.
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  Speaker 9: Your house doesn't go driving around on the streets with
• 52:35
  Speaker 9: other houses looking to crash into them, so automobile insurance.
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  Speaker 9: And I never understood that until I bought a house. Oh,
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  Speaker 9: I see it. The house is sort of here. As
• 52:44
  Speaker 9: long as you keep it safe, it'll be good. Healthcare
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  Speaker 9: insurance much in the same way. Joeld.
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