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Medical debt ad EXPOSES party divide on affordability, rural healthcare · THE DAILY BRIEF

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  Speaker 1: One of the red states giving Republicans a surprising run
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  Speaker 1: for their money is Kansas. There, Republican Senator Roger Marshall
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  Speaker 1: continues to face criticism after recent New York Times reporting
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  Speaker 1: revealed that he, as a doctor, he sued hundreds of
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  Speaker 1: patients over unpaid medical bills.
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  Speaker 2: Can I ask you, Rev, in 2026, is there a
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  Speaker 2: worse sort of ad to be able to run against
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  Speaker 2: an opponent than... Somebody in the medical field suing a
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  Speaker 2: single mother and her ultimately going to jail over unpaid
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  Speaker 2: medical bills because unpaid medical bills right now. You talk
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  Speaker 2: about epidemics, pandemics. That's what's going on right now because
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  Speaker 2: people can't afford to pay their medical bills.
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  Speaker 3: And for the millions of people, millions that can't pay
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  Speaker 3: their medical bills either on time or for prolonged periods
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  Speaker 3: of time. To hear about people that literally went to
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  Speaker 3: jail because of this guy.
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  Speaker 2: Because a rich guy.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And why can't.
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  Speaker 5: They afford their medical bills?
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  Speaker 3: And they can't because of affordability. And here's a guy
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  Speaker 3: making money off of it. And you want to put
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  Speaker 3: him back in government to continue to do what he's doing.
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  Speaker 3: And he's oblivious to this kind of pain on regular people.
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  Speaker 3: And this goes across racial lines and economic lines.
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  Speaker 2: And they passed their bill. What they call the big,
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  Speaker 2: beautiful bill. It was a nightmare for Americans. They slashed
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  Speaker 2: so much in health care spending while extending tax cuts
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  Speaker 2: to billionaires and multinational corporations.
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  Speaker 6: The other thing I don't understand about this candidacy is
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  Speaker 6: Kansas is a fairly small state. So you've got to
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  Speaker 6: figure that this guy has a reputation locally. I mean,
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  Speaker 6: the hubris it takes. To treat people in your care
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  Speaker 6: that way as a doctor and then run for public office?
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  Speaker 3: And he's running against the pastor of the largest Methodist
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  Speaker 3: church in the country, who's very much humanitarian. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: you couldn't have had a larger example of the contrast
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  Speaker 3: of what parties are representing what party. This guy is
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  Speaker 3: a almost looked upon almost saintly in Kansas that he's
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  Speaker 3: running against.
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  Speaker 1: So speaking of his challenger, Adam Hamilton is out with
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  Speaker 1: a new political ad featuring one of the senator's former patients.
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  Speaker 4: Take a look.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Adam Hamilton, and I approve this message.
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  Speaker 5: One evening I see lights. I open the door and
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  Speaker 5: it's a police officer.
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  Speaker 4: They arrested me because I didn't make a $ 50 payment
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  Speaker 4: to Roger Marshall. I was eight months pregnant and I said,
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  Speaker 4: please do not handcuff me in front of my two-year-old daughter.
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  Speaker 4: Roger Marshall preyed on the low-income families of Kansas. The
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  Speaker 4: healthcare system is broken, but not for Roger Marshall. He's
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  Speaker 4: absolutely profiting from it.
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  Speaker 2: A guy that is worth $ 10 million begins legal actions
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  Speaker 2: that has a mom who is eight months pregnant. handcuffed
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  Speaker 2: in front of her children. It neatly, I just got
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  Speaker 2: to say, it just sort of neatly summarizes the difference
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  Speaker 2: between how these two parties look at medical debt and
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  Speaker 2: how they look at affordability and how they look at
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  Speaker 2: the world.
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  Speaker 7: And We've had the privilege around this table of traveling,
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  Speaker 7: I think, to other countries where it just doesn't have
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  Speaker 7: to be like this.
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  Speaker 5: This is the most important thing.
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  Speaker 7: It just doesn't have to be like this. It is
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  Speaker 7: a choice to have people in circumstances like that. It
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  Speaker 7: is a social choice we collectively make, and we can
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  Speaker 7: make very different choices.
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  Speaker 2: And the Republicans made that choice this year. They made
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  Speaker 2: the choice to take money away from people like her.
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  Speaker 2: to take away health care from people like her, and
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  Speaker 2: to have millionaires and billionaires like Roger Marshall get tax cuts.
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  Speaker 2: It's that simple. They made that choice. And yeah, to
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  Speaker 2: cause a growing crisis with rural hospitals across Kansas, across Nebraska,
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  Speaker 2: across Iowa. They made that choice. And it's not like
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  Speaker 2: we're like, Monday morning quarterbacking here. We warned Republicans every
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  Speaker 2: day while they were thinking about voting for that bill
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  Speaker 2: that if they did it, they were going to savage
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  Speaker 2: rural health care. And they did it because they had
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  Speaker 2: to give tax cuts to millionaires like Roger Marshall, billionaires,
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  Speaker 2: multinational corporations. And this is where it ends up. Take
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  Speaker 2: a look at this ad again. That's when I was mouthing,
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  Speaker 2: play the ad again while he was talking here. Here,
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  Speaker 2: watch here. Hold on, hold on. Let go, let go.
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  Speaker 2: That's what that means, TJ.
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  Speaker 8: Just roll the ad.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Adam Hamilton, and I approve this message.
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  Speaker 5: One evening, I see lights. I open the door, and
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  Speaker 5: it's a police officer.
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  Speaker 4: They arrested me because I didn't make a $ 50.
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  Speaker 5: Payment to Roger Marshall.
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  Speaker 4: I was eight months pregnant and I said, please do
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  Speaker 4: not handcuff me in front of my two-year-old daughter. Roger
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  Speaker 4: Marshall preyed on the low-income families of Kansas. The health
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  Speaker 4: care system is broken, but not for Roger Marshall. He's
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  Speaker 4: absolutely profiting from it.
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  Speaker 9: That's a devastating ad, one we might be talking about
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  Speaker 9: for a long time. It is certainly a microcosm of
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  Speaker 9: where these two parties stand right now. But also in
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  Speaker 9: this moment, the fact that we're seeing ads like this,
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  Speaker 9: that we're talking about the Senate race in Kansas, shows
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  Speaker 9: you Republicans are on.
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  Speaker 4: Their back foot.
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  Speaker 5: Well, there's no question.
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  Speaker 6: But I also think that what's powerful about the ad,
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  Speaker 6: not just the story itself, but it's doing something that
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  Speaker 6: I think establishment Democrats and leadership leaders Don't lean into
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  Speaker 6: hard enough, which is it's not just talking about affordability
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  Speaker 6: as this concept that you can pull from the air.
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  Speaker 6: It's talking about real people. And it's also explaining who
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  Speaker 6: is to blame and who has been profiting and benefiting
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  Speaker 6: off this deeply unequal and increasingly unfair country with corrupt
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  Speaker 6: officials at the top. And that is why, by the way,
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  Speaker 6: the Democratic socialists understand that, which is why they're making
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  Speaker 6: inroads elsewhere. But that doesn't have to be a far
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  Speaker 6: left message. This is about fairness. And I think people,
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  Speaker 6: even in red states, of course, they understand this. This
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  Speaker 6: isn't a red-blue issue. And that's why the Republicans are struggling,
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  Speaker 6: because it's clear to American voters that they're not working
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  Speaker 6: for them. They're working for their billionaire friends.
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  Speaker 5: There's an opening.
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  Speaker 2: You know what else is looking clear to me as
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  Speaker 2: I'm as I'm watching the ads, at least in the
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  Speaker 2: ad wars, you know, two years ago, I was saying
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  Speaker 2: on the show and anybody would listen. Hey, listen, that
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  Speaker 2: Trump ad or that Republican ad about trans prisoners, taxpayer,
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  Speaker 2: trans surgeries, convicts. It all lines up. This is going
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  Speaker 2: to kill you with working class men. And they just
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  Speaker 2: kept hammering that. And, you know, in 22, the trans
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  Speaker 2: issue didn't work, didn't work in 20 or 18, but
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  Speaker 2: it worked in 24, that ad. So I thought it
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  Speaker 2: was very interesting seeing that ad and gasping and seeing
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  Speaker 2: a lot of random Republican ads. Josh, Terry, there's a
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  Speaker 2: liberal socialist. They're all over the place. They've got no message.
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  Speaker 2: They've got no purpose. Things to hide. They can't even
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  Speaker 2: scare people. Like, they're... It's it's interesting. And so I
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  Speaker 2: saw that through the college football games across the Midwest.
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  Speaker 2: The only thing that's broken through this weekend is this
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  Speaker 2: horrible to add where Donald Trump reminds everybody everything he's
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  Speaker 2: done wrong and then has the U.S. government pay for
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  Speaker 2: it at the end.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, great.
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  Speaker 2: That is a net negative negative for the Republicans.
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