Transcript
Glenn Beck (0:34)
It's a new day outside the rain. Welcome to the fusion of entertainment and enlightenment. This is the Glenn Beck Program.
Liz Wheeler (0:48)
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. My name is Liz Wheeler, and we will be joined in just a moment by Glenn Beck himself. Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program. I am honored. I am privileged. I'm excited to be here sitting with Glenn today for this show. Glenn will join us in. He's on remote location today, and they're getting his technical, his technical stuff all set up. But we have a fabulous show for you today. We are nearing Christmas, the joyous season. But the people in our country who are not feeling the joy as much as they should, that joy is not happening on Capitol Hill. On Capitol Hill, they're trying to do what swamp creatures do best. They're trying to ram through an omnibus spending bill while all of us are spending time with our families and decorating our Christmas trees and making sure that all of our packages are tied with ribbons and bows, have a 1547 page document that they want to ram through and giving our members of Congress, our representatives, barely enough time to get through 10 of those pages. We're going to talk about exactly what's in that report today because, ladies and gentlemen, you and I have a unique role to play in this incoming Trump administration. Even during this transition period. For the first time in American history, when we raise our voices, we have an incoming president elect and his team who are listening to us. We are helping guide choices which will ultimately guide our destiny. And once you see what's in this horrible, abominable, terrible spending bill, I think you'll join me in raising your voices to put a stop to that. We also have a new report that shows that 41% of Americans under the age of 30 find the killing of the UnitedHealthcare CEO to be acceptable. It's a shocking statistic. It means that with all the joy and all the happiness and all the hope we feel after the election of President Trump, we still have a lot of work to do in our culture war. I'm gonna tell you today my story of how insurance is difficult. It's challenging. I quit my insurance. In fact, we're gonna talk about that and how young people really shouldn't be turning to murder as an answer to this. All of this and more today on the Glenn Beck Program. All right, a new report from The Hill says 41% of adults under the age of 30 consider the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson to be acceptable. That's more than the 40% in that demographic who consider it to be unacceptable. When I read this statistic, I thought, you know, this is shocking because there's no other word for it than to call it evil. To think that the outright assassination of someone who runs a company, even if you disagree with that company, to think that the murder of that man is acceptable in our nation, a nation of laws of order, it's evil. It's completely evil. Why are people feeling this way? And I would propose that there are two reasons they're feeling this way. Reason number one is because there are problems, legitimate grievances with our health care system. Legitimate. Not just bureaucratic nonsense, but corruption. Corruption that causes people suffering, pain and even death. Those are legitimate grievances. But acting on those legitimate grievances, murdering someone as a way of retribution for those grievances, that is always and will always be wrong. And this generation of young people, I myself am towards the upper levels of millennials. But millennials and gen zers have been indoctrinated their entire lives. From the moment they started watching television till when they were put in universal pre K programs through the public school system with Hollywood and TikTok. They've been indoctrinated into being one thing. They've been indoctrinated into having a revolutionary mindset. They've been indoctrinated into feeling self loathing for themselves based on the color of their skin or their country, based on our history as fallen human beings. And that is what we are seeing today. We are seeing that that indoctrination has been effective. It's not a hopeless situation, it's a discouraging situation. To see so many young people embracing an evil ideology or celebrating the murder of a man, a husband and a father, even if you disagree with what his healthcare, his insurance company was doing. But this revolutionary mindset makes it all the more incumbent on on us to understand where that indoctrination is coming from and to raise our voices and encouraging President elect Donald Trump and vice president elect J.D. vance to really abolish the corruption in these institutions which have formed the minds of young people to think that it's okay to murder a man, Brian Thompson, just because he was the CEO of a health insurance company. Let me share with you a story about our healthcare system because I think a lot of us watched this summer as RFK Jr. Married Make America Healthy again with Make America Great Again. And we thought, we never thought this was possible. To have the marriage of two such powerful movements representing the anti corruption side of each issue, the anti Big Pharma For RFK and the anti administrative state with Donald Trump. They hadn't worked together before. And we saw this and we thought this is a once in a lifetime opportunity to undercut forces. That became clear to us during COVID when we saw how the Public Health Administration and Big Pharma, the FDA and the CDC collude with each other in order to first instill fear, manipulate our behavior, control us and profit off of us, oftentimes at our bodily harm being the cost. And we saw this and we realized this marriage between make America healthy again and make America great again is a once in a lifetime opportunity to take back that which is rightfully ours. So all that being said, the grievances against the health insurance industry and against the health care, the health care industry as a whole are valid health insurance, by the way, these young people, they have never experienced health insurance except under Obamacare. Their entire experience with insurance has either been on their parents insurance or under Obamacare. And what these young people clearly don't know is that claim denials, while they're extremely common now, probably every single one of us listening and watching this show today has experienced that. And the despair and the anger and the fear that you feel when you, when you're stuck with a bill that you expected your health insurance to cover because of Obamacare, because health insurers were forced to accept sick, expensive patients with preexisting conditions. And that caused an imbalance in the entire system of how health insurance is supposed to work. Claim denials have increased by tenfold thanks to Obamacare. Glenn and I were talking this morning on the pre production call and he was saying, this is what I warned, this is what I warned 10 years ago when, more than that, 15 years ago, when universal government run, government subsidized health insurance was on the line, when Obamacare was being celebrated by the left and even some squishes on the right. He said, I warned that this would happen, that not only would it cause government to be more in control, that Big Pharma would be empowered, that politicians would be making decisions about your health that you and your family ought to be making. And he's like, I warned that claim denials would increase. So you know what I did, ladies and gentlemen, after the birth of my second daughter this past March, our family's health insurance, I have an almost 4 year old and an 8 month old. Our family's health insurance deductible increased significantly. We were paying more than I could stomach paying in health insurance premiums. And we don't really use it the kind of healthcare that I take part in, I'm kind of crunchy minded, I go to the chiropractor, I eat healthy, I try to drink my green smoothies, all the stuff you know, that I'm mocked for in the morning when I'm drinking my green smoothie instead of eating my, instead of drinking my milkshake coffee. And I just couldn't stomach a health insurance premium being over two grand a month for a family of four when we don't use it. So my husband and I quit our health insurance. We actually took action. Instead of, you know, murdering a health care CEO, we quit, we called our health insurance and we said we're done, we're out, we're completely done with this because it's just not fair. It just, it, it, it costs us so much every year for what, so what is covered so that we can subsidize people who are making unhealthy life decisions, self destructive life decisions. This is not it. And I told and oh, Glenn is joining us now.
