Mark (5:03)

Much people can take. Now we could talk about the problems with the healthcare industry, which are very real for people. And I would argue in part because of Obamacare's failure. The Lack of innovative ideas like health savings accounts, health care cooperatives. There's one in Wichita, Kansas. It's been duplicated all over the country. Concierge care, 50 bucks a month, you get catastrophic coverage. And guess what? That'll cover just about everything. We don't talk about innovative healthcare ideas.

Midas (5:34)

And by the way, that was a consistent message. So here was earlier in the day they had a Fox senior medical analyst, that's what they call him, Dr. Mark Siegel. Go on and watch what he says here. Kind of blaming it on like Hillary Clinton and saying, you know, remember Hillary Clinton in the 90s with HMOs where no doctors get paid anymore? Play this clip.

Mark (5:57)

The most important point I want to make is how dare the Democrats talk about this being anger towards the healthcare system that they broke. I mean, United Healthcare HMOs. Remember Hillary Clinton in the 1990 with HMOs where no doctors get paid anymore, where insurance runs the world. That's the Democrats fault that did that. And now they're saying, oh, this anger is justified. Murderous anger is never justified.

Midas (6:21)

Well said. If only you could impart that wisdom.

Ryan (6:23)

To some in the media.

Midas (6:24)

Okay, remember, they're trying to flip the whole script here. You know, Hillary Clinton, former President Barack Obama, President Biden, they have been all about trying to lower prescription drug prices, make medical services as cheap as possible, allow access to medical care to be as cheap, if not free. That's been Biden's initiative. I mean, one of Biden's initiative is to allow the government to negotiate on behalf of Medicare to reduce prescription drug prices. Now what's going on right now though, on Capitol Hill over the past few weeks, Elon Musk, an unelected co president, right now, that's what exists. The wealthiest man in the world, he goes on Congress and just listen to what they say here. Play this clip.

Richard (7:16)

Nothing is psychosocial.

Midas (7:17)

Nothing. They're gonna put everything on the table.

Mark (7:20)

That's what they told lawmakers. Everything is on the table. And that includes Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.

Midas (7:27)

Did you hear that? He says Social Security, Medicare, healthcare, it's all on the table.

Alford (7:33)

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Midas (9:33)

Way, the MAGA Republicans, While Fox pushes and tries to link this message with Luigi Mangione, think about. Think about how nefarious it is, what they're doing while they're doing that. You then have the MAGA Republican Congress members on as well and they're basically saying, look, we got to get rid of Medicare and Medicaid and Social Security. We got to have a hard look at this is MAGA Republican Congress member Richard McCormick. Play this clip the problem with the.

McCormick (10:01)

Democrats is they've never run out of things that they can give away for free, quote unquote. When you talk about $1 trillion in debt payment just on interest alone every year, we can't just talk about the military, though. The military can do some things better. We can save some money just in the way of contract. We can be careful that we don't decrease our abilities because China is right on our heels. However, if you talk about 75% of the budget, 75% is non discretionary. We're going to have to have some hard decisions. We got to bring the Democrats in and talk about Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare. There's hundreds of billions of dollars to be saved and we know how to do it. We just have to have the stomach to actually take those challenges on. But we can't just talk about our discretionary budget. That's less than 25% of our budget. We have to have some real hard discussions.

Mark (10:48)

Well, we talk about this all the time.

Midas (10:49)

You know, it's so interesting, or interesting is probably not the word. You know, Congress member McCormick, he did that cross examination of Dejoy, actually did a good job. So you're like, okay, McCormick, you know, did a good cross examination of Dejoy, the Postmaster. But then McCormick says that. And McCormick's a former physician. Like, how out of touch can you be? Here's MAGA Republican Mark Alford saying that Social Security and Medicare is on the table to get cut. Play this clip.

Richard (11:20)

And so we've got to right the ship. And it's going to mean cuts. It's going to mean cuts to the 24% of the discretionary spending that we have. And it's also going to mean looking long term at the front end of some programs like Social Security and Medicare, not taking anyone off of what they paid into so far. But there is some waste, abuse and fraud in Medicare that we can, we can take those numbers back and add to our general coffers and our treasury. And on the front end on Social Security, I think there's a way when people are living longer, they're retiring later, that on the front end, we can move that retirement age back a little bit.

Midas (11:56)

Here's a post from just the other day. You know, over 21 million people are enrolled in Medicaid via the ACA Medicaid expansion in 41 states, including D.C. nearly a quarter of all people on Medicaid. Any potential effort to cut repeal federal financing for the expansion would affect red and blue states alike. Just to zoom in on any State here, Floridians, 453,000 Floridians, including 32,000 children, could lose health insurance if Republicans in Congress let the ACA subsidies expire. Families can't afford these devastating cuts. It's time to stand up for affordable health care. Trump's got no plan. He's trying to gut it. And now Fox is trying to link Luigi Mangione to Obamacare and they're doing that to try to get rid of Obamacare. That's how they operate and they try to program people with whatever the kind of current news is to undermine, you know. You know, and use whatever it is to undermine programs that help people. I mean, it's really disgusting stuff right there, but I wanted to show you how it's done and why, what they're doing and how they pump that. I could show you close to a dozen more clips of them doing that throughout the day, but I think you get the point. Hit subscribe let's get to 4 million subscribers together. Thanks for watching.

Alford (13:21)

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