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The Shutdown's Over For Now, But January Is Coming · Conversations: Special Guests with Preston Scott

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  Speaker 1: And we're joined by US Congresswimman Cat Camick, Florida's third district, Cat, how.
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  Speaker 2: You doing, good morning? Sorry for the delay, any mom
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  Speaker 2: or dad and the kneborn sings. You know. It is unpredictable.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, it is what's Thanksgiving shaping up to look like
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  Speaker 1: you know.
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  Speaker 2: Again, having having the baby makes it real easy for us,
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  Speaker 2: Like we bring the plates or a dessert. We are
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  Speaker 2: not doing the turkey, we are not doing the sides.
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  Speaker 2: We are for keeping it.
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  Speaker 1: Simple, making making the run of publics, grabbing the pecan
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  Speaker 1: or the pumpkin pie and head nine.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, but I will say I will say for
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  Speaker 2: our family Thanksgiving while there is pie. Everyone seems we
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  Speaker 2: tend to gravitate towards like the dumb cake or like
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  Speaker 2: I do a total sheet app app cobbler in the crockpot,
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  Speaker 2: and that to me is the easiest thing in the world.
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  Speaker 1: There you go. Crock blocks are a thing of beauty.
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  Speaker 1: Cas gets there. How frustrated should Americans be by what
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  Speaker 1: follows the shutdown ending and the fact that we are
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  Speaker 1: we're going to be looking at this again in January.
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  Speaker 2: I would say frustration absolutely, But also we should be
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  Speaker 2: constantly optimistic and use that to push members to get
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  Speaker 2: the appropriation bills done. So just recap for everybody listening.
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  Speaker 2: You got twelve appropriation bills. You have to pass them
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  Speaker 2: out of the Committee of Jurisdiction as an authorizer, get
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  Speaker 2: them to the appropriators. Appropriators pass them out, We then
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  Speaker 2: vote them on the floor of the House. We're representative,
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  Speaker 2: and we could come to the Senate and then we
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  Speaker 2: conference them. That hasn't been done in thirty years, and
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  Speaker 2: so that's where you get all these crs and the
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  Speaker 2: omnibuses coming from. For the first time, we actually the
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  Speaker 2: House and a Senate. We agreed on three of the
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  Speaker 2: twelve in the reopening of the government, So that is
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  Speaker 2: a sign of hope. Last night, I was in a
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  Speaker 2: meeting with about forty five of my colleagues and they
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  Speaker 2: were saying, listen, we're ready to rock and roll. We're
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  Speaker 2: gonna get all of our appropriations done. The scary part
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  Speaker 2: is the Senate hasn't even taken up a bill or
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  Speaker 2: we're on their side on many of these. So basically
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  Speaker 2: it's going to be the House leading and we the
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  Speaker 2: people have to keep the pressure on the House and
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  Speaker 2: the Senate, but mostly on the Senate, because they're just
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  Speaker 2: going to drag their feet and then they'll stick us
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  Speaker 2: with another omnibus. And I don't want to do that,
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  Speaker 2: and so I think it's important that we stay engaged
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  Speaker 2: on this and be pushing for a full blown appropriation
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  Speaker 2: season to take place by January thirtieth.
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  Speaker 1: What would happen if the House just dug in its
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  Speaker 1: heels and said to the Senate, just like we didn't
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  Speaker 1: budge on Obamacare getting subsidized any more than it already is,
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  Speaker 1: we're not budget on this. It's time for us to
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  Speaker 1: do a proper set of appropriations. Until you do them,
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  Speaker 1: we're not moving.
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  Speaker 2: I think you would see a lot of the same
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  Speaker 2: kind of gnashing of teeth that you saw in the
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  Speaker 2: shutdown of you know, you had senators coming out of
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  Speaker 2: the woodwork being like, well, but what if we did
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  Speaker 2: a three year And I can tell you from my standpoint.
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  Speaker 2: I was texting my Senate colleague saying, I will be
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  Speaker 2: an absolute hard no on anything that involves keeping Obamacare
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  Speaker 2: in place. It is the Unaffordable Care Act, it is
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  Speaker 2: a broken system. Throwing money at it does not fix it.
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  Speaker 2: And in the House we only have two votes to lose.
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  Speaker 2: They can't tinker with our margins, and so they know
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  Speaker 2: like they're basically unnoticed. And this, this, I think is
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  Speaker 2: going to be the key going into not only the appropriations,
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  Speaker 2: but then addressing the broken healthcare system. The House has
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  Speaker 2: to lead on this because the Senate, the Senate just
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  Speaker 2: they don't have the capability to lead in this space.
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  Speaker 2: We're the ones with the tight margins. So I think
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  Speaker 2: I think the message has been sent and.
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  Speaker 1: Received inappropriations help those of us that may not fully
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  Speaker 1: understand the process. And the Senate do they have to
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  Speaker 1: get to sixty.
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  Speaker 2: They would have to get to sixty in order to
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  Speaker 2: if we have the filibuster in place. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: we've heard that Trump and others have President Trump and
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  Speaker 2: others have said, you know, it's do away with the filibuster.
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  Speaker 2: I am torn on this because it was designed specifically
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  Speaker 2: to avoid rash decisions, but we've also seen where it
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  Speaker 2: can be used to obstruct. And we know full well
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  Speaker 2: that not a matter of if, but when, Because the power,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it swings back and forth all the time. Eventually, Democrats,
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  Speaker 2: some point down the road, many years from now, will
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  Speaker 2: be in charge and they will make Puerto Rico estate,
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  Speaker 2: they will make DC estate, they will pack the Supreme Court,
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  Speaker 2: they will do all the things. And that's why abolishing
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  Speaker 2: the filibuster is very dangerous at times. But we look
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  Speaker 2: at it say, well, hey, we need to get our
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  Speaker 2: election integrity measures through, we need to get our budget
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  Speaker 2: on track, we need to reduce the size and scope
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  Speaker 2: of spending. We've got to fix all these things. And
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  Speaker 2: if we can't get seven Democrats to join with us
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  Speaker 2: in that, then we're going to have to make decisions.
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  Speaker 2: And so that's where that sixty vote threshold versus a
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  Speaker 2: simple majority is kind of the key.
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  Speaker 1: Right now, joining us for one more segment here, busy
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  Speaker 1: member of Congress, busy mom, busy wife, and with us
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  Speaker 1: here on the morning show, Kat Camick, congress woman, tell
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  Speaker 1: me this what can be done to you talked about
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  Speaker 1: the unaffordable Obamacare. What can be done to start to
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  Speaker 1: move the needle in the other direction to get a
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  Speaker 1: handle on healthcare in this country.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I don't think we have enough segments to go
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  Speaker 2: through it all. But right, I mean, obviously it has
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  Speaker 2: been proven. We said it back when Obamacare came into existence.
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  Speaker 2: You know, when you hurt from Nancy Pelosi herself. You
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  Speaker 2: have to pass it to see what's in it. They claimed,
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  Speaker 2: you know, if you like your doctor, you can keep them.
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  Speaker 2: It was supposed to drive down costs. We know all
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  Speaker 2: that to be completely false. It was a lie, and
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  Speaker 2: we knew it then. It's been proven today. So this
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  Speaker 2: notion of we're going to send four hundred billion dollars
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  Speaker 2: to insurance companies, No, that's not going to fix the problem,
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  Speaker 2: especially when people are finding that there's less access, less
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  Speaker 2: opportunities to get with a specialist or a doctor, and
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  Speaker 2: nine times out of ten you've got insurance companies making
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  Speaker 2: medical decisions for you, basically going around your doctor saying, sorry, doc,
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  Speaker 2: we're not going to do that. We're going to recommend this,
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  Speaker 2: and we're only going to pay for that. And that's
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  Speaker 2: just wrong. So we need to get back to a
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  Speaker 2: place of a mindset that is preventative not maintenance. First
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  Speaker 2: and foremost, we need to acknowledge that the system in
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  Speaker 2: place is a sick care system, not a healthcare system.
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  Speaker 2: We need to put the decision making capability back in
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  Speaker 2: the hands of doctors and patients, not insurance companies. I
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  Speaker 2: would love to see us get rid of the in
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  Speaker 2: network versus out of network. I think we should expand HSAS,
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  Speaker 2: increased choice, get the price transparency back into it, because
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  Speaker 2: if people are actually seeing what everything is costing, then
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  Speaker 2: it puts these companies on notice, like, oh, maybe you
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  Speaker 2: can't charge one hundred and forty five dollars for an aspirin.
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  Speaker 2: You know. It's things like that. I think competition is
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  Speaker 2: the way to go. There's a number of things that
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  Speaker 2: we're working on right now. In fact, we're working with
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  Speaker 2: the White House on an expansion of HSAS that anyone
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  Speaker 2: who needs that that help to cover a plan would
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  Speaker 2: go directly to the consumer rather than to the insurance companies.
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  Speaker 2: And that's something that we're looking at, and some cost
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  Speaker 2: reduction savings element. There's so much we could do, but
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  Speaker 2: it's clear that the system is broken. We have to
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  Speaker 2: address maternal health deserts. Under Biden, thirty eight percent increase
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  Speaker 2: of maternal health deserts across America, meaning women have to
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  Speaker 2: drive hours and hours and hours to see an ob
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  Speaker 2: or a gynecologist. I mean, heck, in our area, if
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  Speaker 2: you're in Valdosta or Lake City, you got to drive
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  Speaker 2: to Gainesville to find an ob that can deliver your baby,
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  Speaker 2: it's just stuff like that. It's common sense and putting
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  Speaker 2: people back in the driver's seat and taking the beer
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  Speaker 2: crafts out of it. That's what we're aiming for. And
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  Speaker 2: there's going to be a lot of proposals here in
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  Speaker 2: the next few weeks and months, and we're excited to
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  Speaker 2: be a part of that conversation.
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  Speaker 1: Kat does tort reform fall into this, Is that a
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  Speaker 1: federal issue or is tort reform need to be left
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  Speaker 1: to states?
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  Speaker 2: You know, everyone has always talked about tort reform as
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  Speaker 2: part of it, and it is incredibly important, right, but
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  Speaker 2: we have found that typically when the states are leaving
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  Speaker 2: the charge on tor reform, and in Florida we've done
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  Speaker 2: that a few years ago, we need to make another
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  Speaker 2: round at it because it affects all of the insurance elements,
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  Speaker 2: absolutely the home insurance to the car insurance, and in
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  Speaker 2: Florida we have been clamoring for relief. And I can
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  Speaker 2: tell you I have talked to my state representatives and said,
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  Speaker 2: you guys got to do something. This is out of control.
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  Speaker 2: That is something that typically I think is best left
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  Speaker 2: at the states because that also will help foster competition
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  Speaker 2: and driving costs lower across the country. But there's elements though,
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  Speaker 2: certainly regulatory reform. You and I have talked about that.
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  Speaker 2: That's my passion is really taking on the red tape
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  Speaker 2: and the regulatory bureaucrats that are driving costs up everywhere.
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  Speaker 2: That's a huge part of it, for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Kat, thanks for the time. I appreciate you letting us
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  Speaker 1: break into mom duty and congresswoman duty and husband and
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  Speaker 1: wife duty and all that. But hey, have a great
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  Speaker 1: Thanksgiving and don't get bullied into anything beyond the dessert.
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  Speaker 2: I appreciate it. You have a good one and Thanksgiving.
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  Speaker 2: Happy Thanksgiving to you too,