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State Senator Jon Husted · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: Just had a quick conversation with one of our engineering
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  Speaker 1: staff out and what used to be a hallway, it's
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  Speaker 1: just a vacant space now. But uh and and he
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  Speaker 1: came through and he was he was singing band on
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  Speaker 1: the run, so of course I joined in and uh
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  Speaker 1: and he goes, you know what, I ended up backstage,
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  Speaker 1: get out of here. He he managed to uh to
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  Speaker 1: snag through. I think he said his cousin, uh snag
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  Speaker 1: tenth throw tickets to McCartney. And then he ended up
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  Speaker 1: backstage at the show. Yeah. I talked to him before
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  Speaker 1: the show. Wow.
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  Speaker 2: Pretty cool.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, just to stand in the vicinity of the great
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  Speaker 1: Paul McCartney, that would that would have been awesome.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it would have been cool. And that engineer that
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  Speaker 2: you're speaking of is a pretty cool dude.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, who knows how some coolness. But anyway, I
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  Speaker 1: just yeah, I was enthusiastic for him because that was
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  Speaker 1: a that's a that's a monumental thing to be that
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  Speaker 1: close to a you know, such a legendary performer. I
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  Speaker 1: have not heard from anyone except him with that quick
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  Speaker 1: little conversation that went to the show.
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  Speaker 2: Have you no, no, no, no, But I don't talk
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  Speaker 2: to anybody any.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's nobody talks to you is probably more to
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  Speaker 1: the point. But yeah, we had we had McCartney, we
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  Speaker 1: had the Jonas brothers, and we had who else there
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  Speaker 1: was somebody else. There was another big one in town. No,
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  Speaker 1: not Hammer, No, I can't even remember who it was.
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  Speaker 1: But anyway, November eighth, twenty twenty five will go down
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  Speaker 1: as a great night for big, big concerts here in Columbus, Ohio.
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  Speaker 1: It was just it was a wonderful thing. And h
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  Speaker 1: and everybody who did go, I hope that you enjoyed it.
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  Speaker 1: Speaking of wonderful things, it looks like it sounds like
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  Speaker 1: it feels like it appears that perhaps it's over. And
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  Speaker 1: by it's over, I mean the uh, the federal government
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  Speaker 1: shut down, which to a greater or lesser degree for
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  Speaker 1: most Americans wasn't really felt, but for you know, for
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  Speaker 1: a forty two million or so they say, and definitely
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  Speaker 1: felt with the snap and EBT money not there. Definitely
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  Speaker 1: felt by some federal employees, including the air traffic controllers.
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  Speaker 1: And I awoke this morning to news that there had
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  Speaker 1: been a vote and that we managed to get a
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  Speaker 1: sixty forty split, which means a lot of Democrats came over,
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  Speaker 1: which was wonderful. Some continue to posture and put politics
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  Speaker 1: ahead of the good of the people of this country.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just telling you exactly what I think about Bernie.
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  Speaker 1: Did you see Bernie, did you see? Well? The problem
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  Speaker 1: is a party should have stood firm and really forty
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  Speaker 1: two million people without food stamp benefits or snap benefits,
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  Speaker 1: whatever you call them these days, and the party should have,
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  Speaker 1: in the name of politics, should have stood firm. Hakem.
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  Speaker 1: I wish I was Barack Jefferies with no matter what
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  Speaker 1: comes over from the Senate, it doesn't stand a chance
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  Speaker 1: here putting politics ahead of people. How very sad. But
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  Speaker 1: at the same time, let's hope that they're just blowing
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  Speaker 1: smoke in this. Uh, this is resolved far sooner rather
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  Speaker 1: than later. Joining me right now on the Legacy Retirement
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  Speaker 1: Group dot com phone lines representing the Great State of
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  Speaker 1: Ohio Senator John Hughestead, who for some reason, somehow someway
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  Speaker 1: I'm not real sure gonna I'm gonna have to ask
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  Speaker 1: him how he managed to get the honor of being
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  Speaker 1: the person who announced the sixty forty John Houstaed, how
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  Speaker 1: are you, sir.
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  Speaker 2: I'm doing great.
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  Speaker 1: Oh what did you do to get such an honor?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that's a big deal to be able to
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  Speaker 1: bring that kind of news to the people.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I was scheduled to preside that in the evening,
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  Speaker 2: and it ran a little long, and I just told
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  Speaker 2: the other members who were going to fill in, I said,
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  Speaker 2: I'll take it. I'll take it until we get there.
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  Speaker 2: And I just stayed up on the podium or on
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  Speaker 2: the rostrum and and presided over the Senate until we
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  Speaker 2: got the sixtieth vote, and then I was It was
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  Speaker 2: an honor to announce it. You know, I felt felt
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  Speaker 2: good about it, felt like forty days and forty nights
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  Speaker 2: of like being on Noah's Ark out there in the
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  Speaker 2: in the wilderness trying to get the government reopened. To
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  Speaker 2: bring that all to a close was great, and it
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  Speaker 2: was an honor to preside over over the final vote.
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  Speaker 1: Now to steal and paraphrase the Alan Parsons project, where
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  Speaker 1: do we go from here? Now that some of the
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  Speaker 1: Democrats are acting up? What well? What happened?
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  Speaker 2: So I'm I'm I'm just left the Senate floor. We're
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  Speaker 2: beginning votes on this final package. You know, the good
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  Speaker 2: news with this it takes, you know, like t fifty
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  Speaker 2: one votes to get this pass. Now that we passed
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  Speaker 2: the sixty vote filibuster cloture vote last night, and so
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  Speaker 2: this should go well. I know that there will be
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  Speaker 2: some people who will post amendments that are trying to
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  Speaker 2: derail this, but I hope that we will vote those
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  Speaker 2: down and keep things on track as we move forward.
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  Speaker 2: But this should be done tonight, get it to the
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  Speaker 2: House tomorrow. Hopefully they'll pass it on Veterans Day or
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  Speaker 2: the day after, because we have a lot of stuff
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  Speaker 2: in here for veterans, and you know, we're passing the
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  Speaker 2: passing three appropriations bills along with the continuing Resolution to
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  Speaker 2: keep the government funded not through June or January thirtieth.
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  Speaker 1: I am wondering, and I'm assuming there probably has been,
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  Speaker 1: even if even behind closed doors, the conversation amongst Senate
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  Speaker 1: Republicans about now keeping whatever promises were made. I don't
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  Speaker 1: care how the negotiations come out, but if we have
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  Speaker 1: promised we will sit down and talk about this, we
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  Speaker 1: will sit down and hash this out. We will get
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  Speaker 1: this to the floor for a vote. We as and
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  Speaker 1: I say we as Republican Americans, need to honor that,
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  Speaker 1: and we need to do so very visibly with the
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  Speaker 1: microphones on and so the American people can see that
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  Speaker 1: there's so much propaganda only goes so far. Whatever we
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  Speaker 1: said we need to now do.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, they wanted to vote on the Biden COVID
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  Speaker 2: bonuses that we're bailing out the failed Obamacare program, and
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  Speaker 2: we'll give them a vote on that. What I hope
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  Speaker 2: they'll do during an intervening time is to work with
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  Speaker 2: us so that we can eliminate the fraud that we
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  Speaker 2: know is in that program. Instead of subsidizing the insurance companies,
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  Speaker 2: I hope we can get the payments directly to consumers
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  Speaker 2: and additionally put some income caps on it. We don't
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  Speaker 2: need to be subsidizing the insurance for millionaires. This should
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  Speaker 2: be targeted at working people who need a little help
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  Speaker 2: with their premiums. But send it to the insurance companies
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  Speaker 2: and hope they reduce the premiums. Send it to people
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  Speaker 2: so that they can shop and get a better deal
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  Speaker 2: for themselves.
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  Speaker 1: The uh, it's again, the accounting is so visible, so blatant,
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  Speaker 1: so obvious, that I don't I find it hard to believe,
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  Speaker 1: and it's hard to say it without I guess sounding
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  Speaker 1: insulting when when people stand up and blatantly misrepresent the
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  Speaker 1: reality of the should have been Affordable Care Act and
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  Speaker 1: expect Americans to just full hook line and sinker for
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  Speaker 1: the BS just as a citizen, it offends me that
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  Speaker 1: these people are are even part of running the show.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Chuck, you know, I emphasize for the citizens out
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  Speaker 2: there who are struggling under Obamacare. You know, they were
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  Speaker 2: promised that that you know, if you if you could
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  Speaker 2: keep your doctor, their promise that they wouldn't kicked off
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  Speaker 2: their Now they have very limited options. The deductibles are
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  Speaker 2: very high. Premiums have been increasing on an average at
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  Speaker 2: eighteen percent a year. It doesn't work. We said it
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  Speaker 2: wasn't going to work. The Democrats have created it. It's failing.
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  Speaker 2: They think the way to save a failing market that
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  Speaker 2: they created is more subsidies. Well, understand, when you subsidize something,
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  Speaker 2: what are you asking asking for the rest of the
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  Speaker 2: taxpayers or in this case, the children and grandchildren of
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  Speaker 2: those taxpayers, Because it's borrowed money to subsidize the system. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: we can do better at driving down the cost and
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  Speaker 2: even if we are going to help with some subsidies
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  Speaker 2: for this make the market based so that people can
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  Speaker 2: shop for lower prices and they that they have some
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  Speaker 2: control rather than just being like, hey, this is the deal,
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  Speaker 2: you'll pay what we say. You have no agency yourself
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  Speaker 2: to make any of these decisions. You've got to structure
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  Speaker 2: it so we're driving down costcous healthcare is the number
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  Speaker 2: one driver of inflation in twenty first century, and it's
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  Speaker 2: because Obamacare doesn't work right. But we want to make
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  Speaker 2: sure everybody can purchase insurance, and we've got to make
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  Speaker 2: it affordable for them to do that.
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  Speaker 1: We were just talking a little while ago. This is,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, in case you jumped on Ladohouse. Senator
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  Speaker 1: John Housted joining me right now on six tn WTV
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  Speaker 1: and just talking a little wit ago about the one
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  Speaker 1: of the builders here in the United States, New Home Builders,
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  Speaker 1: is subsidizing new home buyers below one percent for the
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  Speaker 1: first year in anticipation of an improving economy so that
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  Speaker 1: they can refinance at a more comfortable rate a year
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  Speaker 1: from now, Which tells you that private industry. The way
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  Speaker 1: capitalism works is if there's an audience, if there's a
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  Speaker 1: buyer for your product, you will adjust what you do
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  Speaker 1: and how you do it in order to get as
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  Speaker 1: much of that audience as possible. The healthcare system defies
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  Speaker 1: that by limiting what is available to the consumer. And
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  Speaker 1: when you sign into healthcare dot govern you see you
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  Speaker 1: got one provider. Nobody else is fighting for your business.
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  Speaker 1: If you had a pool of companies fighting for your business,
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  Speaker 1: they're going to give you as much as they can
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  Speaker 1: for as little as they can, to get as much
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  Speaker 1: of the business as they can as possible.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and it we know this just it's just the
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  Speaker 2: way it's structured isn't working. And you just can't. You
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  Speaker 2: just can't stick your head in the sand and say, well,
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  Speaker 2: this is the way it is and we're not going
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  Speaker 2: to change it. Here here's how I know that Obamacare
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  Speaker 2: benefits are going to the insurance companies and not to
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  Speaker 2: the consumer, because the the UH stock price of all
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  Speaker 2: of the healthcare insurance companies since Obamacare went in place
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  Speaker 2: has grown. They've grown at double the rate. It's over
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  Speaker 2: six hundred percent for health insurance companies. Thence Obamacare is
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  Speaker 2: what their stock prices increase versus a little over three
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  Speaker 2: hundred percent for the for the Dow Joes Industrial Average. Well,
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  Speaker 2: how does that happen. It only happens because the Obamacare
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  Speaker 2: subsidies and and you know, you see the political contributions
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  Speaker 2: from health insurance companies ninety to ten go to Democrats
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  Speaker 2: versus Republicans, And you know that that kind of says
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  Speaker 2: it all about where the subject who's benefiting from the
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  Speaker 2: way the subsidy structure is. Right now, that's why we've
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  Speaker 2: got to get into consumers, because I remind my Republican collexists,
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  Speaker 2: we didn't break the system, we didn't create the system,
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  Speaker 2: but we need to be constructive in fixing the system
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  Speaker 2: because the American people depend on the ability to afford
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  Speaker 2: insurance to have security in their daily lives.
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  Speaker 1: Well, just a couple of minutes here senter you said,
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  Speaker 1: let me ask you this. This fix, assuming it goes
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  Speaker 1: through the the planet's lineup for us the next day
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  Speaker 1: or two, this is still a very temporary fix. What
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  Speaker 1: is the commitment? What is the game plan for moving
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  Speaker 1: on and getting something permanent in place? With the holidays
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  Speaker 1: coming up, Christmas, Break New Year's, Thanksgiving and so forth,
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  Speaker 1: the time to fix it is limited.
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  Speaker 2: So well, the healthcare system is not going to be
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  Speaker 2: fixed in that time period. What was First of all,
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  Speaker 2: we have to get the government back open. We're going
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  Speaker 2: to do that. We're going to get appropriation spill for agriculture,
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  Speaker 2: which will take care of snaps in the next year.
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  Speaker 2: But we're going to we're doing military, military construction, and
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  Speaker 2: other things like the Capitol police and air traffic controllers
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  Speaker 2: and people. We're getting them paid. That will be done
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  Speaker 2: and off the table for the next year after that.
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  Speaker 2: A vote has been promised to the Democrats to take
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  Speaker 2: up the Biden COVID bonuses that subsidize the affordable care
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  Speaker 2: for the unaffordable care at Obamacare as it is now.
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  Speaker 2: What's unknown is will they want a bipartisan compromise with
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  Speaker 2: us on this or do they just want a show vote.
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  Speaker 2: And I hope that they will work with us on
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  Speaker 2: trying to truly get at the drivers of the costs
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  Speaker 2: under the system.
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  Speaker 1: I am very I'm happy that we are moving forward
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  Speaker 1: and hopefully hopefully quickly and productively. So I kind of
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  Speaker 1: figured that is, once we got through the through the
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  Speaker 1: election process this time around, that a few folks would
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  Speaker 1: start making some decisions that were beneficial to the people.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, look, it was here's the tough thing. I feel
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  Speaker 2: those eight Democrats that finally voted with us. We knew
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  Speaker 2: eventually they would had three of them all along. Five
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  Speaker 2: more came along, but they're just getting beat up because
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  Speaker 2: their party is controlled by the radical left that just
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  Speaker 2: wanted the government never to open up again until Republicans
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  Speaker 2: capitulated to their every demand. And remember what their initial
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  Speaker 2: demands were is restoring the ability for Blue states to
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  Speaker 2: pay for medicaid for illegal immigrants, people who were in
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  Speaker 2: this country illegally. That's what their original demand was. They
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  Speaker 2: sense backed off that and narrowed it down to just
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  Speaker 2: the Biden COVID bonuses. But we'll see, we'll see when
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  Speaker 2: they're serious about trying to negotiate in good faith with
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  Speaker 2: this we are with them. A vote has been promised.
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  Speaker 2: But the good news is we've got to get the
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  Speaker 2: government open, get the government open, start serving the people again.
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  Speaker 2: It's been forty days a lot of time, you know.
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  Speaker 2: I think of all the the you young people and
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  Speaker 2: the people who are struggling, not going with a paycheck
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  Speaker 2: for that long. That's hard. I remember when I was young,
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  Speaker 2: I couldn't have gone a month without a paycheck. And
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  Speaker 2: it's time that we get these people paid and help
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  Speaker 2: put them back to work.
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  Speaker 1: Senator John houstaid, I appreciate you making some time for
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  Speaker 1: me this afternoon, and would you mind if I put
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  Speaker 1: you've got a contact form on your website? Would you
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  Speaker 1: mind if I put that up on my Facebook and
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  Speaker 1: Twitter and so forth in case anybody wants to get
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  Speaker 1: in touch with you.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely please, please, We love to hear from people.
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  Speaker 1: Wonderful all right, and hopefully we'll get a chance to
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  Speaker 1: talk again soon and smile about all the victories and
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  Speaker 1: the forward momentum. Great, thanks, Chuck, Senator, thank you very much.