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"If THEY Can Make it Affordable..." (Friday, January 16, 2026, Hour 4) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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Speaker 1: Today, I'm thrilled to announce my plan to lower healthcare
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Speaker 1: pressures for all.
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Speaker 2: Amount need to know basis, because you need to know
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Speaker 2: the first thing today.
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Speaker 3: George said, steal metem.
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Speaker 4: You have a day at least for work.
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Speaker 3: When the sun comes up, drops akut to scoop on
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Speaker 3: the way. Joe has everything a dream, do all the
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Speaker 3: treasure and needs no one that Joe's as smiled, he
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Speaker 3: only ask.
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Speaker 5: Joe, bless you for letting us be of service to
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Speaker 5: you this morning. You know what we do here. We
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Speaker 5: tell you what went on last night, and then we'll
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Speaker 5: tell you our analysis of what went on last night,
0:48
Speaker 5: and we also ask you to share your thoughts as
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Speaker 5: to how it's impacting you where you are. We're visiting
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Speaker 5: with the host of the Good for America podcast. He
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Speaker 5: is Bob and former Chair of the House Freedom Concus. Bob,
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Speaker 5: I wanted to ask you about the President's health plan.
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Speaker 5: I know that a lot of folks, myself included, said well,
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Speaker 5: this is just another subsidy. At least this one's going
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Speaker 5: to the American people, but it's still coming from other
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Speaker 5: American people to get there. But at least it's something
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Speaker 5: that they can use to say i'd like to Oh,
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Speaker 5: I don't know health savings account or direct Primary Care Association.
1:28
Speaker 5: I know the details are only just getting out there
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Speaker 5: of what the President wants Congress to do. You've been
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Speaker 5: there for some time. You were there through a lot
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Speaker 5: of the attempts to get repeal and replace past. Why
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Speaker 5: has Obamacare become so much? I mean, it's almost as
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Speaker 5: bad as Social Security. If you mention it, you've just
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Speaker 5: grabbed onto the third rail of American politics. It seems.
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Speaker 6: Sadly we're going and moving in the wrong direction as
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Speaker 6: a country. That's no great novel revelation there, but we're
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Speaker 6: moving in a wrong direction as a country in terms
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Speaker 6: of big government, in terms of socialism, in terms of
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Speaker 6: government as the provider government, as the nanny state. I
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Speaker 6: think it was Ronald Reagan who famously said some version
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Speaker 6: of the fact that the only thing that's certain as
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Speaker 6: death into access is a government program, a government bureaucracy,
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Speaker 6: and the Unaffordable Care Act Obamacare went into effect in
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Speaker 6: twenty or was passed in twenty ten, became law in
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Speaker 6: terms of implementation in twenty fourteen, and then it was Republicans,
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Speaker 6: of course who failed us in a similar situation as
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Speaker 6: they are today with greater majorities than they have today
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Speaker 6: in the House of the Senate, but they had full
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Speaker 6: control of government the first two years Trump administration. Republicans
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Speaker 6: failed to overturn and repeal Obamacare, despite voting show votes
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Speaker 6: symbolic votes to do so in Congress before they had
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Speaker 6: full control of government during the Obama administration. So the
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Speaker 6: bottom line is the Democrats knew, and they know that
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Speaker 6: once people get used to subsidies, they get used to
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Speaker 6: provision from the government, they get used to not having
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Speaker 6: to pay for things, they get used to the mentality
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Speaker 6: of that something is a right, you're entitled to it.
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Speaker 6: Then you have the problems that we have today, combined
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Speaker 6: with spineless, self serving politicians whose primary objective is to
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Speaker 6: be in government, to be in Washington, to be in Congress,
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Speaker 6: and they don't want to do courageous things.
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Speaker 2: Get it, Yes, But to your.
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Speaker 6: Point, uh, the subsidies and the government control and the
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Speaker 6: government provision and things being free what we need. And
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Speaker 6: there's a there's a House plan, there's a Senate plan,
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Speaker 6: now there's a White House plan. But what we need,
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Speaker 6: of course is uh for to get away from the
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Speaker 6: mentality that that healthcare and the government provides to us
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Speaker 6: is a right. Do they get to decide whether we
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Speaker 6: get it or whether we don't get it, under what
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Speaker 6: conditions that we do get it. It doesn't work, it's
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Speaker 6: not working. It's made things worse. It's made it's We
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Speaker 6: need it. We need more choice, we need more competition,
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Speaker 6: We need control in the individual, We need transparency again.
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Speaker 6: We need to end the government substance. We need to
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Speaker 6: align the interests. Think about the mentality. If I get
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Speaker 6: to go, if I have a sniffle, if I have
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Speaker 6: any kind of an ailment or whatever, and I get
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Speaker 6: to go to a healthcare provider and I don't pay anything.
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Speaker 6: I don't pay a copay, I don't pay a deductible.
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Speaker 6: I don't know how much it costs. It goes to
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Speaker 6: the insurance company, and the government pays the insurance company.
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Speaker 6: My interests are not aligned with the taxpayer interest.
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Speaker 7: You know, that's what.
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Speaker 6: A horrible perverse warp system. Instead of me knowing what
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Speaker 6: it costs, me having some skin in the game, me
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Speaker 6: having to pay part of I pay insurance premiums with
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Speaker 6: a high deductible, I have a co pay. I'm looking
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Speaker 6: for the best deal. The best coverage, the best healthcare
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Speaker 6: at the best price, and I get to make those
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Speaker 6: this trade off decisions. We don't have that because of
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Speaker 6: what the government has done, and Republicans are complicit. Republicans
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Speaker 6: have went along, Republicans are driving the country off the
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Speaker 6: fiscal cliff, and this just to Democrats, just at a
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Speaker 6: slower pace.
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Speaker 5: He's Bob Good He's the host of Good for America,
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Speaker 5: the podcast. What do you have coming up this week?
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Speaker 2: Bob, Well, we're going.
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Speaker 6: about Venezuela. We're going to be talking about Republicans what
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Speaker 6: they should be doing these next two weeks, looking at
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Speaker 6: the fiscal situation in the government, threat of a government shutdown,
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Speaker 6: which I don't think is going to happen. But we're
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Speaker 6: also going to look at President Trump's call to put
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Speaker 6: price caps on interest rates for credit cards and what's
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Speaker 6: wrong with that?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I worry about that because I think there's going
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Speaker 5: to be a real restriction and you're going to have
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Speaker 5: a lot of people losing their credit cards, I believe
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Speaker 5: if you do that, and that's just going to drive
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Speaker 5: them to the Democrats at that point. Bob appreciate it.
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Speaker 5: Earlier this morning, we were talking about President Trump and
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Speaker 5: his plan to come up with ways to help people
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Speaker 5: with their healthcare costs by sending them money that then
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Speaker 5: they could use to pay their costs, pay the insurance,
14:08
Speaker 5: or join a health savings account or that kind of thing.
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Speaker 5: And obviously, part and parcel of this is the problem
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Speaker 5: with the idea that it is just another government subsidy,
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Speaker 5: that it is just a different output of the same
14:38
Speaker 5: process that has gotten us here in the first place,
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Speaker 5: where we already have an insurance industry. And a couple
14:51
Speaker 5: of quick points that were made that I think are important,
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Speaker 5: and to this first it comes a question about something
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Speaker 5: Bob in Moscow said. We have Bob from Farmville as
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Speaker 5: well on the subject. But question is that guy from
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Speaker 5: Russia with the superior medical system and cheaper standard of
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Speaker 5: living is he is he? For real? Well, you know,
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Speaker 5: yes he is. And here's the thing about one of
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Speaker 5: the things Bob and Moscow said that I think is
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Speaker 5: important to tell is he said right at the end,
15:37
Speaker 5: he said that there's an impetus to get you quote cured,
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Speaker 5: to get you out of the doctor's office rather than
15:45
Speaker 5: keeping you on you know, chronic medical care, which many
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Speaker 5: people point at with the health insurance industry working with
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Speaker 5: big you know, big Med, and it's not just farm,
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Speaker 5: it's big Med as well, that there's money to be
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Speaker 5: made in keeping a repeat customer, and so that you know,
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Speaker 5: while these folks are looking at what's happening with the
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Speaker 5: health insurance industry and saying, well, hang on a second, here,
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Speaker 5: isn't this just an industry keeping a consistent bunch of
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Speaker 5: customers because there's consistent amount of government subsidy, You wouldn't
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Speaker 5: be wrong to look at the correlation, if not causation
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Speaker 5: of it. But one of the things that the Russian
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Speaker 5: system and most of the Europeans socialized single payer systems
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Speaker 5: do is that what they're looking at is how you
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Speaker 5: feel about your treatment, not are you actually better? You
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Speaker 5: say cured, I'm cured.
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Speaker 20: Cured of what.
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Speaker 5: We heard it during the establishment of Alabamacare, Paul Krugman
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Speaker 5: saying very clearly that there was going to be a
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Speaker 5: panel that was going to determine whether or not you
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Speaker 5: qualified for certain expensive medical treatments. Huh. Even though Sarah
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Speaker 5: Palin called them a death panel, he said, we don't
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Speaker 5: call them death panels. They are advisability of care panels.
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Speaker 5: So when you get to the Russian version of that,
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Speaker 5: who decides whether or not you get the treatment or not?
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Speaker 5: That becomes the bigger question is is who gets to
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Speaker 5: decide what treatment you get and win? Because in America
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Speaker 5: it's a health insurance provider hiding behind a government board.
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Speaker 5: Now as you know these disingenuous chicken livers will do,
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Speaker 5: they're hiding behind the government. Obamacare was nothing more than
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Speaker 5: the insurance industry realizing that the jig was up that
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Speaker 5: since the eighties, more and more frequently people were finding
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Speaker 5: themselves left out without health coverage that they thought they
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Speaker 5: had only to find that on page eight hundred and
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Speaker 5: ninety five of their health insurance writer there was some
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Speaker 5: viso that gave the insurance company an opportunity to deny
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Speaker 5: coverage if such and such had not been completed. And
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Speaker 5: this was why the brilliance of the health management organizations
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Speaker 5: were big, because the insurance companies then said, then went
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Speaker 5: to the customers you still and said, oh you know,
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Speaker 5: get rid of all that paperwork. And the TV commercials
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Speaker 5: for Blue Cross and Blue Shield in the early nineties
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Speaker 5: were stunning because it was, you know, the poor sad
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Speaker 5: sack and his wife desk covered in papers and I
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Speaker 5: don't know. They said that you didn't fill out form
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Speaker 5: X Y Z and that's why they're not paying for
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Speaker 5: your kidney transplant or whatever it was. And you would
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Speaker 5: sit there and say, oh, my gosh, just because I
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Speaker 5: didn't fill out the right form. Remember what I've said
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Speaker 5: about bureaucracy, and I don't mean to be hurtful, and
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Speaker 5: I'm not trying to be means spirited, but if somebody
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Speaker 5: else is paying for you to do something, there's going
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Speaker 5: to be a bureaucratic process by which you prove to
20:09
Speaker 5: them you deserve it. And that's half the problem right
20:13
Speaker 5: now with the leftists. And they're going out there saying,
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Speaker 5: this is America, you shouldn't have to prove you deserve anything. Yeah,
20:21
Speaker 5: you do, because this is America. Because this is America.
20:26
Speaker 5: We are born into a world that we're allowed to
20:30
Speaker 5: prove ourselves air every day. So when you say, oh,
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Speaker 5: they cured me and they got me out of the office,
20:44
Speaker 5: that's exactly what the Affordable Care Act Advisability of Care
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Speaker 5: panel does. They say, oh, well, you can't have the
20:52
Speaker 5: hip replacement, but we have hospice that will cover for you.
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Speaker 5: Hospice big business right now, and it's because Obamacare would
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Speaker 5: rather pay hospice than an orthopedist. There are several ethicists
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Speaker 5: that are concerned that our Obamacare fixation with hospice is
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Speaker 5: going to lead into a government allowance for end of
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Speaker 5: life care. We're already watching more and more of this
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Speaker 5: under Obamacare. Remember, go back to Paul Krugman in twenty ten. Oh,
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Speaker 5: they're going to be panels that determine whether or not
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Speaker 5: somebody qualifies for an expensive treatment. Why should you care
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Speaker 5: whether I qualify for an expensive treatment or not? But
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Speaker 5: saves my life. So this is all predictable. We did
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Speaker 5: predict it in twenty ten. And the idea of getting
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Speaker 1: And I am thrilled to announce my plan to lower
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Speaker 5: And by the way, just to prove that you can
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Speaker 23: We're doing things that nobody's ever been able to do.
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Speaker 5: And that's very much a populist message driven towards the midterms,
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Speaker 5: House of Representatives. And understand what this healthcare plan is about.
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Speaker 5: It's about tagging Hakim Jeffries and his ILK with their
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Speaker 5: unless Hakim, and I've said this over the last few weeks,
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Speaker 5: have consequences, man, And they don't try any of these
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Speaker 5: parliamentary procedures to derail you know, they're there so the
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Speaker 5: minority voice can be heard. Anyway, back to this idea
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Speaker 5: that a subsidy check is going to help in healthcare,
32:15
Speaker 5: It's not about helping in healthcare per se. It's about
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Speaker 5: winning the midterms. So if Hikeem Jeffries and the rest
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Speaker 5: of the Democratic Party caucus in Washington vote against it,
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32:35
Speaker 5: we have to have that chronicled so that come the
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Speaker 5: mid terms it's like, oh, really, you want to make
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Speaker 5: things more affordable? How did you vote on the President's plan?
32:48
Speaker 5: But I was I forget who sent the text message.
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Speaker 5: Now it's not up on my phone. But the question
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Speaker 5: was why can't they address the first problem that most
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Speaker 5: of the people I know that are having healthcare issues
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Speaker 5: have is that when they get into the hospital and
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Speaker 5: that the insurance company has backed out some side proviso,
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Speaker 5: and now these patients who thought they were covered are not.
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Speaker 5: You know, that is a substantive thing, and that can
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Speaker 5: be very simply regulated through transparency of effort and that
33:29
Speaker 5: kind of thing. In the same way that there are
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Speaker 5: simple little, you know, seeds in the root of so
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Speaker 5: much of this stuff. You go back to a patient
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Speaker 5: and say, okay, well your insurance company only covered fifty
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Speaker 5: percent of that bill. You os the other fifty percent,
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Speaker 5: message laid out is somewhere, you know, in the economic
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Speaker 5: world of not having that money. That was why they
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Speaker 5: were in the doctor's office under Obamacare. But they will
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35:27
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Speaker 5: back and talk to me about art of the deal there.
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Speaker 5: And then Tehran. This is all about marginalizing this Russian
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Speaker 5: state of all these people, all these proxies that had
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Speaker 5: been running around causing them trouble. Now does that mean
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Speaker 5: democracy takes foot?
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Speaker 20: You know?
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Speaker 5: In nineteen fifty five, a democratically elected parliamentary government ruled Iran.
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Speaker 5: It was the most western country in that Middle East realm.
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Speaker 5: Of course I'll be in a Persian country. But Genghis
47:50
Speaker 5: Khan took care of all the Persians, and so you know,
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Speaker 5: can they will they? I think there's root there for it,
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Speaker 5: and we need to be supporting that, we need to
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Speaker 5: be supporting that, we need need not to be, you know,
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Speaker 5: pushing people who are just going to be friendly with us.
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Speaker 5: And that's why I'm comfortable with all these countries having
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Speaker 5: these issues while Trump's in the White House, because he
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Speaker 5: doesn't seem to care, and the more the Left tries
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Speaker 5: to make it out that he does, the more it's
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Speaker 5: proof that he doesn't. Let me get to you at
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Speaker 5: four three four eight eight two four two one seven,
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Speaker 5: Good morning. You're on the air with Joe. First thing
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Speaker 5: this morning.
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Speaker 13: Who's this And it's four fifty three am.
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Speaker 5: Guys, it's four fifty three am. Well, I hope there's
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Speaker 5: something entertaining for the you know, fifteen minutes before we
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Speaker 5: get on the air then, or at least you have
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Speaker 5: time to make compient.
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Speaker 13: It's my by alarm time. I don't miss this.
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Speaker 5: Early to bed, early to rise. Andy, how are you
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Speaker 5: doing this morning, sir?
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Speaker 2: Oh?
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Speaker 13: Great, it's it's fascinating to hear all of this stuff
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Speaker 13: and these kind of horror stories like the overbuilding, you know,
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Speaker 13: all that kind of stuff. I had just my doctor Brad,
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Speaker 13: I actually have a my main medical provider lives on
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Speaker 13: Widbey Island in Washington State. And I left the People's
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Speaker 13: Republic of albamarl oh probably it's seven or eighty years ago,
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Speaker 13: after reporting some serious crimes where they didn't do anything
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Speaker 13: about it. But the other reason I moved to Florida
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Speaker 13: was because of their tax code. And so I'm down
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Speaker 13: here and getting to the point where I'm moving around
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Speaker 13: well enough to like help my designer like rehang something
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Speaker 13: that you know needed to rehanging or something. I'm talking
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Speaker 13: like art objects, and I put a screw in my
49:46
Speaker 13: mouth and ended up inhaling it.
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Speaker 5: Oh gosh, oh man oh.
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Speaker 13: And I didn't know if I hadn't hailed it or
49:55
Speaker 13: I actually went down, you know, the yes August. So
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Speaker 13: I get doctor Brad on the phone and I'm there
50:04
Speaker 13: with Tony, and you know, he's like you normally I
50:08
Speaker 13: would say that, you know, he said if he went down,
50:11
Speaker 13: you know, the the just the system all is going
50:15
Speaker 13: to do is cause a little problem on the way
50:17
Speaker 13: down through. He said, if it's he said, if it's
50:21
Speaker 13: if it's in your windpipe, that's a whole another issue.
50:25
Speaker 13: And so we went over there and I think it
50:28
Speaker 13: probably took him hour and a half in the waiting
50:32
Speaker 13: room to kind of get me improved for surgery. And
50:36
Speaker 13: so I went into this like emergency surgery thing and
50:40
Speaker 13: they knocked me out. Don't remember much else about it,
50:43
Speaker 13: but the designer drove me home and I had followed
50:47
Speaker 13: her to the hospital, so you know, we had to
50:50
Speaker 13: like coordinate with my plot.
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Speaker 20: He's lady to you.
50:53
Speaker 13: Know, do a double pick up on this thing. I'm like,
50:57
Speaker 13: you know, it's just it's only about five or time
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Speaker 13: to the hospital. But the point is, I mean, because
51:05
Speaker 13: of that being there, but also because there's no limit
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Speaker 13: on how much they can charge. I'm looking at these costs.
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Speaker 13: I'm like, you can't be serious.
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Speaker 8: This would freak me out.
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Speaker 13: And I'm a wealthy person. And that's the thing that's
51:20
Speaker 13: just fascinating about this whole healthcare thing, that the take over.
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Speaker 5: The well and that's the thing about it is and
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Speaker 5: I thought, you know, an emailer from earlier this morning
51:36
Speaker 5: made a great point. He said, just make it so
51:39
Speaker 5: that if an insurance company doesn't pay, they can't go
51:43
Speaker 5: after you for it. So if you if you show
51:46
Speaker 5: up at a hospital with insurance and you say I'm
51:50
Speaker 5: here with insurance and the insurance company says, yeah, we're
51:53
Speaker 5: only going to pay fifty bucks of that cost, that
51:57
Speaker 5: they can't come after you for the rest of You
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Speaker 5: did your part. You purchased insurance. You you purchased it
52:04
Speaker 5: and had it set aside for it. But I still
52:08
Speaker 5: think that's dancing around the fire pit. I think we
52:11
Speaker 5: need to get back to a place where you can say.
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Speaker 13: That catastrophic thing is that you know you just can't.
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Speaker 13: But but you also have the responsibility take good care
52:21
Speaker 13: of yourself. And I think that's another part of all this.
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Speaker 5: Well, and that's part of it. You know people leave
52:26
Speaker 5: that out vaccines and but people they would even allow
52:30
Speaker 5: people to to use and yeah, that's I mean, you
52:37
Speaker 5: you espress these people to fix medicine. Anyway, Andy, we
52:40
Speaker 5: must run. The news is coming up. You have a
52:42
Speaker 5: great weekend, sir, You do the same, and for you
52:46
Speaker 5: until Saturday morning or Monday morning, live so long and
52:50
Speaker 5: thanks for all the fish.
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