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Speaker 1: It's no longer the economy, it's no longer inflation. It's

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Speaker 1: not immigration, it's not crime, it's not even energy prices.

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Speaker 1: According to the latest Gallup poll, the top concern for

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Speaker 1: Americans is now healthcare, sixty one percent saying they worry

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Speaker 1: a great deal about it. That puts it ahead of

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Speaker 1: all other categories. And this is the first time since

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Speaker 1: around twenty twenty covid era that healthcare has reclaimed the

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Speaker 1: top spot in national polling. And it has a lot

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Speaker 1: to do with fixing fraud, It has to do with

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Speaker 1: the cost of healthcare. It also has to do with

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Speaker 1: the availability of healthcare.

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Speaker 2: You got to talk about fixing it before you can

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Speaker 2: expand it. You can't build on a foundation that's rotting

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Speaker 2: from the inside. And I understand that you're also talking

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Speaker 2: about the cost of prescription drugs as being a big

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Speaker 2: concern for Americans. Healthcare number one issue. Now, Yeah, we talk.

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Speaker 3: About a lot of polls because they are interesting and

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Speaker 3: they do give us a snapshot into what the American

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Speaker 3: people are thinking at that specific moment in time. But

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Speaker 3: what I found fascinating about this specific Gallup pole and

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Speaker 3: you're right, number one, sixty one percent of Americans say

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Speaker 3: they worry a great deal about healthcare. Number two is

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Speaker 3: the economy. Number three is inflation. Number four is federal

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Speaker 3: spending and inequality. But what all four of those really

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Speaker 3: mean at the end of the day, what all four

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Speaker 3: of those really have to do with is life being

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Speaker 3: unaffordable for Americans in this country.

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Speaker 2: So you're saying that these are all just subsets of

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Speaker 2: that one top category exactly.

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Speaker 3: And I remember a couple of months ago that we

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Speaker 3: had another pole that talked about what were the top

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Speaker 3: issues of the time, and unaffordability. Life being unaffordable was

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Speaker 3: number one in that poll a couple of months ago,

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Speaker 3: and like immigration was second. That it was way way

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Speaker 3: down the list. But yeah, these are all the same thing.

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Speaker 3: The reason why healthcare is a problem for people because

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Speaker 3: health insurance is expensive, Prescription drugs are expensive, going to

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Speaker 3: the doctor is expensive. Even though if you have health insurance,

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Speaker 3: going to the doctor, you still write in a check

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Speaker 3: or paying with your credit card to pay that bill,

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Speaker 3: and it's a lot of money. But that's the same

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Speaker 3: thing as the economy. Number two, number three, inflation, number four,

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Speaker 3: federal spending, and inequality. All of that has to do

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Speaker 3: with the fact that life is unaffordable for many, many

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Speaker 3: Americans in this country right now, and that really collectively

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Speaker 3: is the biggest problem that we are facing as a country.

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Speaker 3: It's the biggest problem that the Republicans have going into

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Speaker 3: these midterm elections, because that's what they ran on in

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Speaker 3: twenty twenty four, both President Trump and all the Republicans

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Speaker 3: in Congress in twenty twenty four, they ran on making

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Speaker 3: life more affordable. And here we are eighteen months later,

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Speaker 3: and it is still the number one problem in this country,

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Speaker 3: and actually it's getting worse.

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Speaker 2: Do you remember when Democrats used to say that the

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Speaker 2: issue was democracy in America? It's not even ranking.

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Speaker 3: Right saving democracy number democracy? Oh that was we were

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Speaker 3: on fire. That was a three alarm fire, it was

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Speaker 3: an emergency. During the twenty twenty four election, if you

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Speaker 3: vote for Donald Trump, it is all over. We are

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Speaker 3: losing our nation, We're losing all of our rights, we

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Speaker 3: are losing democracy. And now you see in all those polls,

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Speaker 2: But the fact is, if you can't afford to go

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Speaker 2: to the doctor or pay a hospital bill, none of

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Speaker 2: the other issues matter, because this is practicality every day

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Speaker 2: worry right there. I mean, you've heard the old saying

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Speaker 2: a healthy person has a million wishes, a sick person

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Speaker 2: only has one. And Americans are saying healthcare is now

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Speaker 2: their top concern. It's not surprising, It's been true for years.

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Speaker 2: It's just now top of the list. What is surprising

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Speaker 2: is that Washington keeps pretending that the solution is more government,

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Speaker 2: when actually the government programs we have are hemorrhaging billions

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Speaker 2: in fraud. They need to stop that, fix the system

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Speaker 2: before they can continue to grow anything.

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Speaker 3: Well, and you can make argument that those government problems,

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Speaker 3: those government subsidies, are the source of the problem. This

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Speaker 3: is what we always run into. Whatever the government subsidizes anything,

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Speaker 3: we see the price of that thing skyrocket. For decades now,

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Speaker 3: the government said everybody should go to college. Everybody's got

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Speaker 3: to go to college. So we're gonna give everybody as

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Speaker 3: much money and loans as they want to go to college.

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Speaker 3: And then surprisingly, the cost of college went through the roof,

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Speaker 3: far out pacing inflation or anything else. And the government

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Speaker 3: said everybody's got to have health care. In fact, we're

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Speaker 3: gonna sign this law, Obamacare, and everybody has to have

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Speaker 3: health care. Oh and by the way, the government will

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Speaker 3: subsidize it for huge portions of the population. And then

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Speaker 3: but we see to not only prices of health care

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Speaker 3: of health insurance, but the prices of the health care

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Speaker 3: itself continued to rise rapidly, out pacing inflation. Whenever the

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Speaker 3: government subsidizes anything, the price of that thing goes up,

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Speaker 3: and usually dramatically.

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Speaker 2: So my issue is not even the price of it. Well,

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Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, that's an issue because health care costs

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Speaker 2: have gone up so much, and health insurance. My issue

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Speaker 2: is trying to actually get into the doctor or get

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Speaker 2: into the specialist our listeners. No, beginning of this year,

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Speaker 2: I had an issue, a kidney issue, and I'm still

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Speaker 2: to this day trying to get into a urologist. It's like,

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Speaker 2: you know what, if you're a urologist and you're listening,

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Speaker 2: call me. If you're a nurse who works at a

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Speaker 2: urologist's office, call me. If you're a nurse practitioner who

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Speaker 2: works at a eurologist, call me. If you're a janitor

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Speaker 2: who works at an office next to a urologist, call me.

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Speaker 3: If you can.

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Speaker 2: Spell eurologists, call me. Yeah, the wait time to get

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Speaker 2: into a specialist is so incredibly long.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and it didn't always what wasn't always that way.

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Speaker 3: It seemed like COVID changed that. There were a lot

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Speaker 3: of changes obviously in the medical system when it relates

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Speaker 3: to COVID, but it seemed like after COVID just getting

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Speaker 3: in to see your family doctor was difficult and a

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Speaker 3: long wait, and now getting into see specialists for a

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Speaker 3: lot of healthcare systems, it's a long lawng long time

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Speaker 3: and you're you're going to be probably what six months

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Speaker 3: after you started first having these issues before you can

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Speaker 3: end up having your appointment with a specialist.

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Speaker 2: Yes, that's a really long time. So it's not only

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Speaker 2: the cost, but it's it's the waytime and no wonder

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Speaker 2: that according to this Gallup poll, you've got healthcare as

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Speaker 2: the top concern