WEBVTT - 12-9-25 Bill Cunningham Show 0:00:07.120 --> 0:00:09.799 Billy cunning in the Great America. Welcome the streets Afford 0:00:09.880 --> 0:00:12.399 in the tri State. As you know, Kyle Schwarber has 0:00:12.440 --> 0:00:15.800 signed a long term deal with the Philadelphia Phillies who 0:00:15.800 --> 0:00:18.840 stay there, and so that's not a good sign. But nonetheless, 0:00:18.840 --> 0:00:20.520 the weather is going to get rather hippy the next 0:00:20.520 --> 0:00:23.439 few days. But until then, Senator ran Paul is the 0:00:23.560 --> 0:00:26.080 junior Senator from the Great State of Kentucky. I look 0:00:26.120 --> 0:00:28.520 for today he'll be the senior Senator from the Great 0:00:28.520 --> 0:00:31.360 State of Kentucky. And of course he's intimately involved in 0:00:31.400 --> 0:00:33.960 the healthcare crisis in the country that we have in 0:00:34.000 --> 0:00:38.680 which many Americans are concerned about ever increasing premium bills 0:00:38.720 --> 0:00:42.480 because of Obamacare. There's only about eight percent of Americans 0:00:42.479 --> 0:00:44.800 are on the Obamacare Exchange. Is the great majority to 0:00:44.800 --> 0:00:48.239 get their healthcare through an employer. And nonetheless joining us 0:00:48.280 --> 0:00:50.880 now is the Great Senator Ran Paul, the Great State 0:00:50.880 --> 0:00:54.760 of Ohio and Senator about several weeks ago, when the 0:00:54.800 --> 0:00:58.639 Democrats shut down the Congress for forty four days, you 0:00:58.720 --> 0:01:01.560 and the Senate agreed to have a vote on Obamacare 0:01:01.600 --> 0:01:04.959 subsidies continuance sometime in the middle of December. 0:01:04.959 --> 0:01:05.960 It's getting pretty. 0:01:05.720 --> 0:01:08.959 Close and so how's the status of those negotiations to 0:01:08.959 --> 0:01:11.560 have a vote. Of course, when I speak to the 0:01:11.640 --> 0:01:14.600 Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, he tells 0:01:14.600 --> 0:01:16.360 me there's no way it's going to pass in the House. 0:01:16.600 --> 0:01:19.360 But that wasn't the original agreement. So as we sit here, 0:01:19.720 --> 0:01:21.559 how does it look to have a vote in the Senate? 0:01:21.600 --> 0:01:23.040 And if so, how will you vote. 0:01:24.520 --> 0:01:26.560 I think the vote's going to happen on Thursday of 0:01:26.560 --> 0:01:30.160 this week. I will vote against extending the Obamacare subsidies. 0:01:30.720 --> 0:01:32.200 I think you have to look at the facts, and 0:01:32.240 --> 0:01:36.399 the facts are that they've been an abysmal failure. They 0:01:36.480 --> 0:01:39.959 keep providing higher and higher subsidies, many of which go 0:01:40.040 --> 0:01:42.640 to rich people, go to people making up to four 0:01:42.720 --> 0:01:45.560 hundred thousand dollars a year. And I don't know any 0:01:45.640 --> 0:01:47.920 Kentucky and who comes up to me and says, oh, yeah, 0:01:48.120 --> 0:01:50.360 four hundred thousand dollars a years poor and you should 0:01:50.400 --> 0:01:51.960 really get subsidies. 0:01:51.440 --> 0:01:52.080 From the government. 0:01:52.560 --> 0:01:55.960 But as as the government has subsidized insurance, the premiums 0:01:55.960 --> 0:01:58.880 have just gotten hired and hire so big. Insurance is 0:01:58.920 --> 0:02:01.640 made off like a bandit on these things, and it 0:02:01.720 --> 0:02:05.360 isn't really making insurance more affordable. So I have a 0:02:05.400 --> 0:02:10.359 competing plan. My plan is called association health plans, and 0:02:10.400 --> 0:02:13.480 it would let people join a group like either Costco 0:02:13.760 --> 0:02:16.920 or Sam's Club or Amazon, and then you would buy 0:02:16.919 --> 0:02:18.960 your insurance as a group. So instead of being in 0:02:18.960 --> 0:02:22.519 the individual market, you now have group insurance like somebody 0:02:22.520 --> 0:02:24.880 who works for General Motors or. 0:02:24.840 --> 0:02:26.320 Toyota or a big company. 0:02:26.800 --> 0:02:28.760 But as you join this big group, the big group 0:02:28.800 --> 0:02:32.560 would have leverage to bid prices down. Costco's got forty 0:02:32.560 --> 0:02:36.120 four million members, So if one person negotiated for forty 0:02:36.120 --> 0:02:39.280 four million members, you'd have a meeting with the CEO 0:02:39.440 --> 0:02:41.840 of the major big insurance companies and you'd build a 0:02:41.880 --> 0:02:44.919 demand that prices are lower. And so if we did that, 0:02:45.200 --> 0:02:48.839 I think we could transform the marketplace and get more, 0:02:48.960 --> 0:02:51.480 less expensive insurance for everyone. 0:02:51.800 --> 0:02:54.440 Well, you know, from my perspective, that makes a lot 0:02:54.480 --> 0:02:57.239 of sense. If you take Amazon and Costco and a 0:02:57.240 --> 0:02:59.720 bunch of others, obviously you'll be close to one hundred 0:02:59.760 --> 0:03:02.639 million people would have accessed The great majority of people 0:03:02.760 --> 0:03:06.400 have Medicare, Medicaid and or employer sponsored healthcare. We're talking 0:03:06.400 --> 0:03:09.800 about a small number, but an important constituency. And so 0:03:10.240 --> 0:03:12.360 I don't think the Democrats would like that, though, Senator, 0:03:12.440 --> 0:03:16.960 because right now the Obamacare subsidies largely go to insurance 0:03:17.000 --> 0:03:20.440 companies who promised to hold down premiums and deductibilities, which 0:03:20.440 --> 0:03:23.000 they don't do, and so right now and then the 0:03:23.040 --> 0:03:26.840 insurance companies kick money back to the Democrats called campaign donations. 0:03:27.200 --> 0:03:29.920 When this great idea to let the marketplace work to 0:03:29.960 --> 0:03:33.120 hold down cost is advanced by people like you, just 0:03:33.240 --> 0:03:35.440 out of a snowballs chance in hell of getting passed 0:03:35.480 --> 0:03:38.480 by the Democrats, there's. 0:03:38.240 --> 0:03:40.000 A lot of support on the Republican side. 0:03:40.040 --> 0:03:40.160 You know. 0:03:40.200 --> 0:03:43.800 I've talked to President Trump about this in his first administration. 0:03:44.080 --> 0:03:46.000 I got him to sign an executive order. 0:03:45.920 --> 0:03:46.960 That put this into place. 0:03:47.400 --> 0:03:50.720 But the Democrats sue. The Democrats State Attorney General sued 0:03:50.760 --> 0:03:54.200 and kind of steining it in court. But I don't 0:03:54.200 --> 0:03:56.200 know why. I talk to Democrats all the time about it. 0:03:56.200 --> 0:04:00.600 It's basically letting the consumer bargain collectively. You think Democrats 0:04:00.640 --> 0:04:02.720 would be for that, but as we get into the 0:04:02.800 --> 0:04:06.560 nitty gritty, Democrats will say, well, people are too stupid, 0:04:06.760 --> 0:04:09.760 you know, public they can't let them make choices and 0:04:09.800 --> 0:04:11.680 what kind of insurance they want, So we have to 0:04:11.760 --> 0:04:15.360 dictate what goes into each insurance policy. Well, once you 0:04:15.400 --> 0:04:18.400 start doing that, you raise the price. So, for example, 0:04:18.400 --> 0:04:20.280 if you're a sixty year old woman, you've had your 0:04:20.360 --> 0:04:22.599 children and you're not planning on having any more children, 0:04:23.400 --> 0:04:25.320 shouldn't you be allowed to buy insurance that doesn't have 0:04:25.360 --> 0:04:28.200 pregnancy coverage. Well, if you allow that, then you allow 0:04:28.240 --> 0:04:30.800 some options. They're going to be less expensive. Let's say 0:04:30.800 --> 0:04:33.560 you're twenty five years old, but you're responsible and you're 0:04:33.600 --> 0:04:35.880 not ready to have kids. You'd like for the next 0:04:35.920 --> 0:04:39.880 three years to buy insurance without pregnancy coverage. Shouldn't you 0:04:39.880 --> 0:04:42.559 be allowed to? You know, because a young single person 0:04:42.640 --> 0:04:44.839 might want to save money until they're married, and then 0:04:44.880 --> 0:04:46.680 when they're married they might want to have something as 0:04:46.720 --> 0:04:50.400 pregnancy coverage. But you also might join cost co and 0:04:50.440 --> 0:04:52.560 if there were forty four million members, you might get 0:04:52.560 --> 0:04:56.320 pregnancy coverage thrown in for free because they've negotiated that 0:04:56.360 --> 0:04:58.919 with the insurance company because the group is so huge. 0:04:59.160 --> 0:05:00.839 But it is already Get democrats. 0:05:00.839 --> 0:05:03.520 I haven't gotten any Democrat on board. They perk up 0:05:03.560 --> 0:05:06.240 and they listen and they say, well maybe, But then 0:05:06.279 --> 0:05:08.000 when you get to the nitty gritty, they say, well, 0:05:08.000 --> 0:05:10.720 we have to regulate what people buy because people aren't 0:05:10.760 --> 0:05:13.479 smart enough to make these decisions. And it's really this 0:05:13.680 --> 0:05:17.359 disdain for the intelligence of the American public from the left, 0:05:17.400 --> 0:05:20.760 which is, you know, they don't state it outright. That's 0:05:20.800 --> 0:05:22.760 essentially what they're saying is that the American public is 0:05:22.760 --> 0:05:25.919 not smart enough to buy the insurance that they need. 0:05:26.080 --> 0:05:28.479 If I want to go through the Obamacare exchanges, I 0:05:28.560 --> 0:05:31.479 doubt you and I would ever need abortion services. I 0:05:31.560 --> 0:05:33.680 doubt we're going to ever need that. But part of 0:05:33.720 --> 0:05:36.320 our premium pays for that. And that is can you 0:05:36.400 --> 0:05:40.320 go back in time is tell us why Obamacare, which 0:05:40.400 --> 0:05:43.279 promised like your doctor, keep your doctor, like your plan, 0:05:43.440 --> 0:05:46.159 keep your plan, my plan, Obama said, is going to 0:05:46.200 --> 0:05:49.320 reduce premiums by twenty five hundred dollars a month, and 0:05:49.360 --> 0:05:52.080 that that's going to be a great benefit. 0:05:52.160 --> 0:05:53.600 It's going to reduce the deficit. 0:05:53.720 --> 0:05:56.159 And if the deficit is that reduced, it's going to 0:05:56.160 --> 0:05:59.279 trigger automatical any reductions in Obama. The whole thing was 0:05:59.279 --> 0:06:02.800 built upon a how cards and it's failed. And can 0:06:02.839 --> 0:06:05.160 you get me from the senatorial perspective, you're one of 0:06:05.200 --> 0:06:09.600 the power brokers in Washington as to why Obamacare failed. 0:06:09.680 --> 0:06:12.480 So miserably, and the media will not report on that. 0:06:14.120 --> 0:06:16.480 It was all predicated upon a lie. It was all 0:06:16.520 --> 0:06:20.120 predicated upon a government program that was never going to work, 0:06:20.480 --> 0:06:23.000 and it was past simply with Democrat votes. You know, 0:06:23.080 --> 0:06:26.600 no Republicans voted to start it. And so what we 0:06:26.640 --> 0:06:29.880 wound up with was a government directed plan wasn't based 0:06:29.920 --> 0:06:32.640 on the market, wasn't based on market forces, and it 0:06:32.680 --> 0:06:34.880 had all kinds of mandates within it as to what 0:06:34.960 --> 0:06:37.640 kind of insurance you would buy, when you paid, when 0:06:37.680 --> 0:06:40.240 you didn't pay, And in the end it's been a 0:06:40.240 --> 0:06:43.960 cossal failure. Premiums didn't go down, premiums went up. And 0:06:44.000 --> 0:06:45.960 in fact, you have the worst of all worlds. You 0:06:46.000 --> 0:06:49.200 have high deductibles and high premiums. They used to be 0:06:49.279 --> 0:06:52.880 the marketplace would offer you high deductible plans for lower premiums, 0:06:53.200 --> 0:06:54.800 but now you have, you know, like I say, the 0:06:54.839 --> 0:06:57.160 worst of all worlds. You have high deductible plans and 0:06:57.240 --> 0:07:01.200 high premiums. And you'll you'll hear examples of somebody making 0:07:01.240 --> 0:07:03.599 eighty thousand dollars a year there's a thirty thousand dollars 0:07:03.600 --> 0:07:07.000 insurance policy. Well that's just obscene. So we have to 0:07:07.040 --> 0:07:09.440 do something different. We can do the same thing. If 0:07:09.640 --> 0:07:12.200 you know, just extending Obamacare we're going to work. We 0:07:12.200 --> 0:07:15.800 could debate that, but it hasn't worked. It's objectively failed. 0:07:16.240 --> 0:07:19.000 So we need to do something different, and it works 0:07:19.040 --> 0:07:22.600 everywhere else. Look, television sets are ninety nine percent cheaper 0:07:22.640 --> 0:07:25.200 than they were forty years ago. I mean, you know, 0:07:25.920 --> 0:07:30.120 as iPhones, everything, all the technology. We have amazing things 0:07:30.120 --> 0:07:32.560 at our fingertips, and the price has been going down 0:07:32.600 --> 0:07:36.760 every year. So we need to bring a real marketplace. 0:07:36.840 --> 0:07:39.120 Let capitalism work in healthcare help. There's one of the 0:07:39.120 --> 0:07:42.480 few areas where prices go up dramatically greater than any 0:07:42.520 --> 0:07:43.960 other segment of the economy. 0:07:44.200 --> 0:07:46.640 It's about one sixth of the entire economy, and so 0:07:46.720 --> 0:07:50.240 it's almost impossible to have inflation affected in a positive 0:07:50.280 --> 0:07:53.480 way if one sixth of the economy have ten percent 0:07:53.520 --> 0:07:56.280 increases every year and people are unhappy with it. You 0:07:56.320 --> 0:07:58.920 can imagine if I have car insurance and you I 0:07:58.920 --> 0:08:02.080 assume you have car insurance. Imagine if my car insurance 0:08:02.080 --> 0:08:06.200 policy would cover oil changes, it would cover cleaning out 0:08:06.200 --> 0:08:10.200 my car, it would cover rotating the tires. My insurance policy, 0:08:10.240 --> 0:08:12.440 my car insurance would be through the roof. Well, why 0:08:12.480 --> 0:08:14.560 not have a catastrophic plan, so that if I have 0:08:14.600 --> 0:08:17.720 an accident or hurt somebody, then it's covered, but all 0:08:17.720 --> 0:08:20.040 the other expenses are borne by the consumer. 0:08:20.160 --> 0:08:22.360 Wouldn't that be a good plan for medical insurance. 0:08:23.640 --> 0:08:26.600 Yeah, and then you combine a catastrophic plan for a young, 0:08:26.680 --> 0:08:30.920 healthy person with a health savings account. And so currently 0:08:31.040 --> 0:08:34.200 only ten percent of insurance plans are legally allowed to 0:08:34.240 --> 0:08:38.240 offer health savings accounts. So my plan would do the 0:08:38.280 --> 0:08:41.600 association health careing co ops or buying groups, but also 0:08:41.640 --> 0:08:44.600 would allow everybody to get health savings account. So I've 0:08:44.600 --> 0:08:46.679 had three kids that I had to put in braces, 0:08:46.920 --> 0:08:48.520 but I did it with pre tax money that I 0:08:48.520 --> 0:08:50.560 put in my HSA, so I was able to save 0:08:50.640 --> 0:08:53.480 on their prices. But why shouldn't every other American get 0:08:53.559 --> 0:08:55.880 say thing that I was able to get. You know, 0:08:55.920 --> 0:08:59.040 it's ridiculous that ninety percent of insurance plans in our 0:08:59.080 --> 0:09:02.760 country don't allow health savings accounts. So my plan will 0:09:02.840 --> 0:09:05.280 let everybody have a health savings account. It would let 0:09:05.280 --> 0:09:07.480 you pay your premiums out of your health savings account. 0:09:07.800 --> 0:09:10.880 It would let you do more things like diet programs 0:09:10.920 --> 0:09:14.480 and gymnasium out of your health savings account, vitamins out 0:09:14.480 --> 0:09:17.520 of your health savings account. So the idea of wellness 0:09:17.520 --> 0:09:20.120 that you know Bobby Kennedy's talking about, we would let 0:09:20.160 --> 0:09:22.360 it go with pre tax dollars to do things that 0:09:22.400 --> 0:09:25.960 are good for you. And I think there's all kinds 0:09:25.960 --> 0:09:26.280 of things. 0:09:26.320 --> 0:09:27.760 And you know the greatest thing about. 0:09:27.480 --> 0:09:30.360 My plan bill, you know what it costs zero doesn't 0:09:30.360 --> 0:09:33.960 cost a taxpayer anything because we basically just legalize the 0:09:34.000 --> 0:09:36.880 purchase of insurance to these co ops and then we 0:09:37.000 --> 0:09:41.120 legalize the establishment of health savings accounts for everybody. But 0:09:41.559 --> 0:09:44.480 it isn't the government funding these things. It would be 0:09:44.520 --> 0:09:45.959 private individuals funding them. 0:09:46.200 --> 0:09:47.319 I would love that approach. 0:09:47.559 --> 0:09:50.640 I think Democrat's eyes glaze over like a great white 0:09:50.920 --> 0:09:54.400 shark eating a tuna, because there's not government control, there's 0:09:54.440 --> 0:09:58.400 not government power, there's not campaign finance dollars raised, and 0:09:58.440 --> 0:10:01.040 the Republicans are taking the hitd on this, I think politically, 0:10:01.160 --> 0:10:03.319 even though I think most Americans understand what you and 0:10:03.400 --> 0:10:07.280 I are saying, but most Americans aren't covered by Obamacare, 0:10:07.320 --> 0:10:10.480 so it's someone else's problem now. Secondly, on the filibuster, 0:10:10.600 --> 0:10:12.360 I have many of my friends say it's time to 0:10:12.440 --> 0:10:15.480 nuke the filibuster. Donald Trump, the President wants to nuke 0:10:15.480 --> 0:10:19.080 the filibuster two years ago or three years ago, except 0:10:19.080 --> 0:10:22.640 for Cinema and Mansion, the filibuster would have been nuked already, 0:10:22.679 --> 0:10:25.040 which means the Democrats could have done anything they wanted 0:10:25.080 --> 0:10:28.240 to do. Where do you stand on the filibuster? Is 0:10:28.240 --> 0:10:30.199 it going to be nuke the next time? The Democrats 0:10:30.200 --> 0:10:33.000 control everything, God forbid, and they will at some point, 0:10:33.120 --> 0:10:36.560 which means Puerto Rico, Washington, DC will be states god 0:10:36.640 --> 0:10:39.240 knows what's male in balloting would look like? Where do 0:10:39.280 --> 0:10:41.960 you stand on nuking the filibuster by the Republicans knowing 0:10:42.000 --> 0:10:43.880 the Democrats are going to do it the next time 0:10:43.920 --> 0:10:44.280 they can. 0:10:45.840 --> 0:10:48.720 I think the natural state of man is to be free. 0:10:49.080 --> 0:10:53.600 We're born free, and most government, most legislation takes away, 0:10:53.640 --> 0:10:56.880 either incrementally or in great chunks, takes away our freedom. 0:10:57.280 --> 0:10:59.880 So I don't want more legislation to pass easily with 0:11:00.000 --> 0:11:04.960 simple majority. We have several impediments to a direct democracy. 0:11:05.400 --> 0:11:07.600 We indirectly elect our representatives. 0:11:08.240 --> 0:11:10.280 We give each state two votes. 0:11:09.960 --> 0:11:12.679 Which isn't very democratic. Kentucky has the same amount of 0:11:12.760 --> 0:11:15.880 votes that California has in the Senate, and then we 0:11:15.920 --> 0:11:17.840 have this filibuster, which means you have to get a 0:11:17.840 --> 0:11:21.960 super maginity to pass anything. It's frustrating because, like right now, 0:11:22.000 --> 0:11:24.840 we want to undo a lot of the crazy programs 0:11:24.840 --> 0:11:28.280 and Democrats put in place, but we you know, are 0:11:28.400 --> 0:11:31.160 unable to do it because of the filibuster. But you know, 0:11:31.200 --> 0:11:33.160 when the shoes on the other foot, you know, if 0:11:33.200 --> 0:11:35.200 we get rid of the philibuster, now we pass. 0:11:35.000 --> 0:11:35.920 A lot of good stuff. 0:11:36.320 --> 0:11:39.439 Immediately when the Democrats take over and there's no filibuster, 0:11:39.640 --> 0:11:42.400 they pass it and so we'll ping pong back and 0:11:42.440 --> 0:11:46.079 forth from one to the other. And as much as 0:11:46.080 --> 0:11:48.480 I want to undo their programs, I think getting rid 0:11:48.520 --> 0:11:53.000 of the philibuster probably means more legislation passes. And there's 0:11:53.040 --> 0:11:54.760 a lot of bad ideas on both. 0:11:54.600 --> 0:11:55.360 Sides of the aisle. 0:11:55.480 --> 0:11:58.959 Most of the legislation passed in Washington takes away your freedom. 0:11:59.200 --> 0:12:01.760 So I still believe even the filibuster, because I think 0:12:02.080 --> 0:12:04.240 most of the ideas up here are rotten and we 0:12:04.280 --> 0:12:05.880 shouldn't encourage these people. 0:12:06.559 --> 0:12:10.360 When you and the Senate continued things status quo until 0:12:10.440 --> 0:12:14.200 January the thirtieth, part of that was doing something many 0:12:14.200 --> 0:12:17.040 people aren't happy in Kentucky about hemp. I don't know 0:12:17.080 --> 0:12:22.520 how hemp was relatable to the Obamacare, But tell the 0:12:22.559 --> 0:12:26.360 American people what happened in that bill that angered many 0:12:26.360 --> 0:12:29.040 of the hemp farmers and marijuana grows in Ohio, Kentucky, 0:12:29.040 --> 0:12:31.280 and Indiana. Explain that to the American people. 0:12:33.559 --> 0:12:36.720 Well, you know, they kept talking about a clean cr 0:12:37.000 --> 0:12:41.520 CRS fancy the title for continued resolution or a spending bill, 0:12:41.840 --> 0:12:44.400 and a clean means that there weren't any extra policies 0:12:44.440 --> 0:12:48.360 on it. Well, Senator McConnell snuck in a policy change, 0:12:48.720 --> 0:12:51.520 and what his policy change does is it overrides all 0:12:51.559 --> 0:12:54.360 of the state laws on hemp. Doesn't really apply to 0:12:54.400 --> 0:12:57.520 cannabis or marijuana, but it applies to hemp. So in 0:12:57.600 --> 0:13:01.480 Kentucky we had passed laws regulate help. If you want 0:13:01.480 --> 0:13:03.080 to get a drink that has a little bit of 0:13:03.720 --> 0:13:06.920 THC in it from hemp, you can buy it in 0:13:06.920 --> 0:13:09.240 a liquor store. You have to be twenty one and 0:13:09.320 --> 0:13:14.680 it's significantly regulated. McConnell's language came in and changed the 0:13:14.720 --> 0:13:17.360 definition of the plant. It comes from a plant, So 0:13:17.480 --> 0:13:20.679 the farmers will all have to destroy all their plants. 0:13:21.000 --> 0:13:24.959 They will also have to destroy all their seeds, so 0:13:25.080 --> 0:13:28.079 the farmers will have to start over. But then the numbers, 0:13:28.160 --> 0:13:31.199 the percentage that he allow is way below what the 0:13:31.280 --> 0:13:32.880 Kentucky legislature voted on. 0:13:33.280 --> 0:13:34.760 So really these drinks will. 0:13:34.559 --> 0:13:35.600 No longer be legal. 0:13:36.000 --> 0:13:38.800 So ninety eight percent of the products that are made 0:13:38.800 --> 0:13:42.480 from hemp are made illegal by Center McConnell's language. So 0:13:42.559 --> 0:13:45.240 he's destroyed the hemp industry. He helped to get it started, 0:13:45.520 --> 0:13:48.800 and now he's going to destroy it. But I'm still 0:13:48.840 --> 0:13:52.640 working on legislation. My legislation says that any state that 0:13:52.840 --> 0:13:56.839 chooses to regulate hemp, that their regulations would actually supersede 0:13:56.840 --> 0:14:00.040 the munconnell language. It's still a long shop, but I 0:14:00.080 --> 0:14:03.120 have one year until his language takes place that I'm 0:14:03.120 --> 0:14:06.040 going to try to see if we can let states 0:14:06.080 --> 0:14:08.160 have their own laws instead of being bullied by the 0:14:08.200 --> 0:14:08.920 federal government. 0:14:09.480 --> 0:14:13.880 And lastly, there's a truck driver crisis in this country. 0:14:13.920 --> 0:14:17.000 I look at Texas setting the traffic stop of an 0:14:17.040 --> 0:14:20.040 eighteen wheeler took a wild turn when troopers realized the driver, 0:14:20.400 --> 0:14:23.840 guy named David Amaya, didn't have a commercial icense, didn't 0:14:23.840 --> 0:14:26.840 have a CDL. The group was part of a clan 0:14:27.040 --> 0:14:31.920 of Nicaraguans Guatemalans, El Salvadorans, Hondurans and Mexicans turn over 0:14:32.000 --> 0:14:36.080 to border patrol. And every day there's thousands of illegal 0:14:36.080 --> 0:14:39.880 truckers with made up CDLs operating over the super slabs 0:14:39.880 --> 0:14:42.360 of this great country. My old good friend truck and 0:14:42.360 --> 0:14:44.840 Boz who would be enraged? What can you do to 0:14:44.920 --> 0:14:48.280 make sure the illegals do not drive seventy five thousand 0:14:48.440 --> 0:14:52.320 pound trucks that are destroying American trucking and secondly causing 0:14:52.400 --> 0:14:54.400 death and destruction all over the country. 0:14:54.520 --> 0:14:55.840 Senator, what can we downe about that? 0:14:58.360 --> 0:14:58.920 Enforcement? 0:14:59.080 --> 0:15:03.320 So legal, enforced, capturing, stopping, arresting, put these people in jail, 0:15:03.560 --> 0:15:07.880 but also liability. You know, there was some tragic cases 0:15:07.920 --> 0:15:11.320 of you know, whole families being killed by these truck 0:15:11.400 --> 0:15:14.480 drivers that don't speak English, you know, trying to make 0:15:14.520 --> 0:15:17.640 a U turn on the freeway recently. Well, that company 0:15:17.680 --> 0:15:19.640 should be liable for that. Now, that doesn't bring the 0:15:19.680 --> 0:15:24.200 family back, but it certainly will give a caution to 0:15:24.320 --> 0:15:27.840 these truck companies to quit by hiring people who are illegal, 0:15:27.920 --> 0:15:31.680 don't have licenses, or can't speak English or read English. 0:15:32.160 --> 0:15:35.720 So liability but also enforcement. If you're captured doing this, 0:15:36.040 --> 0:15:39.160 you go to prison, and so I think that there's 0:15:39.200 --> 0:15:42.760 going to be what we'll find over time is hopefully 0:15:42.760 --> 0:15:43.720 we'll have less of this. 0:15:44.280 --> 0:15:47.000 Well, we'll see what happens. Senator rand Paul, thanks for 0:15:47.040 --> 0:15:48.960 coming on the Bill Cunningham Show. And you're saying on 0:15:49.000 --> 0:15:50.880 Thursday is going to be the vote on the extension 0:15:50.880 --> 0:15:53.880 of these subsidies, and what does your crystal ball say 0:15:54.000 --> 0:15:54.760 yay or nay? 0:15:54.800 --> 0:15:55.400 In the Senate. 0:15:57.520 --> 0:16:00.600 I think no Republican will support it. We'll get about 0:16:00.600 --> 0:16:04.560 forty seven votes, all Democrats. I don't think any Republicans 0:16:04.600 --> 0:16:06.960 are going to support just extending it without reforming it 0:16:06.960 --> 0:16:09.640 at all. I'm not for extending it period. I'd try 0:16:09.680 --> 0:16:11.120 to replace it with the free market. 0:16:11.520 --> 0:16:12.560 God bless America. 0:16:12.720 --> 0:16:15.520 Senator Ran Paul, thanks for coming on the Bill Cunningham 0:16:15.600 --> 0:16:18.760 Show this Tuesday afternoon. And stay warm. Senator Ran Paul, 0:16:18.800 --> 0:16:23.280 thank you very much. Thank you, God bless America. Let's 0:16:23.280 --> 0:16:25.320 continue with more if a line becomes available, you know, 0:16:25.360 --> 0:16:27.520 the routine news coming up at your home of the 0:16:27.560 --> 0:16:30.960 Reds and Bengals. Looks like Kyle Schwarber signed back with 0:16:31.000 --> 0:16:36.320 the Phillies on News Radio seven hundred WLW. All right, 0:16:36.360 --> 0:16:38.800 Billy Cunningham, the great American and a voice of reason 0:16:38.840 --> 0:16:42.000 and a sea of intranquilities. I want to thank Senator 0:16:42.080 --> 0:16:44.840 Ran Paul for coming on. We're going to talk about 0:16:44.880 --> 0:16:48.640 the settlement of the city with the protesters in a moment. 0:16:48.680 --> 0:16:53.120 But thanks are screwed up completely in medical care, and 0:16:53.200 --> 0:16:56.200 they have been for years. There's a system available that 0:16:56.240 --> 0:17:00.840 would provide better medical care at lower expenses. Democrats can't 0:17:00.840 --> 0:17:03.800 agree to that because the insurance companies to whom they 0:17:03.800 --> 0:17:07.399 pay fifty billion dollars a year under Obamacare, is using 0:17:07.440 --> 0:17:11.439 that money to screw blue and tattoo the policyholders of Obamacare, 0:17:11.480 --> 0:17:13.840 which is only I use the term only twenty two 0:17:13.920 --> 0:17:16.960 million people, about eight percent the great majority of us 0:17:17.080 --> 0:17:19.920 like me and I assume you get medical care through 0:17:20.000 --> 0:17:24.560 our employer that has some negotiating power. iHeartMedia has about 0:17:24.560 --> 0:17:28.480 fifty thousand employees, so iHeart Media has a plan. Most 0:17:28.480 --> 0:17:30.399 of the people here are happy with the plan. They 0:17:30.440 --> 0:17:34.520 don't want to go to Obamacare. A giraft as a 0:17:34.600 --> 0:17:39.400 horse defined, describe and created by a committee. The committee 0:17:39.400 --> 0:17:44.000 created Obamacare in which individuals who are not employed, not 0:17:44.119 --> 0:17:48.040 eligible for Medicaid or Medicare, or not with other plan 0:17:48.240 --> 0:17:52.240 can go online four or five companies are given subsidies 0:17:52.280 --> 0:17:55.159 by the federal government of about fifty billion dollars, and 0:17:55.200 --> 0:17:58.399 over the last several years, deductibles of skyrocket and the 0:17:58.440 --> 0:18:02.040 premiums are going up. Those that are young and healthy 0:18:02.320 --> 0:18:04.880 do not want to pay anything for medical insurance. 0:18:04.880 --> 0:18:06.760 They don't need it. And for those who. 0:18:06.680 --> 0:18:09.440 Do get it, if you're a male, you probably don't 0:18:09.440 --> 0:18:12.560 need abortion services, and if you're a woman, say fifty 0:18:12.640 --> 0:18:16.560 years old, you probably don't need maternity care. But the 0:18:16.760 --> 0:18:23.000 democratically controlled Obamacare requires every person with no presisting condition 0:18:23.760 --> 0:18:26.320 extras to have the same medical plan, no matter what 0:18:26.359 --> 0:18:29.560 it is. So the coster through the roof, so as 0:18:29.600 --> 0:18:32.800 the premiums kept going up, people under the age of forty, 0:18:32.840 --> 0:18:34.720 young and healthy said, you know what, I don't need that. 0:18:34.840 --> 0:18:36.840 I'm paying all this money. I don't need it. 0:18:37.160 --> 0:18:40.119 So therefore they opted out of the system, leaving behind 0:18:40.160 --> 0:18:44.199 those with special medical needs. The cost of skyrocketing. The 0:18:44.240 --> 0:18:47.480 government's got to provide the subsidy, So no one could 0:18:47.480 --> 0:18:50.680 have described to find or created Obamacare with the idea 0:18:51.000 --> 0:18:54.720 of helping Americans without medical care to get it. Because 0:18:54.800 --> 0:18:58.520 right now you can go to an emergency room and 0:18:58.600 --> 0:19:01.280 by law, you get free medical care, and if you 0:19:01.320 --> 0:19:03.919 can't pay for it, you get it for nothing. And 0:19:03.960 --> 0:19:07.040 those who do pay off to the side, their premiums 0:19:07.119 --> 0:19:09.680 go up. But if you can't pay and you get 0:19:09.720 --> 0:19:13.040 the same medical care, guess what, you don't pay, but 0:19:13.160 --> 0:19:17.600 someone else does. And secondly, we've done the topic for years. 0:19:18.080 --> 0:19:21.359 There's thirty to forty million illegals in this country right now. 0:19:21.520 --> 0:19:23.720 No other country in the world has close to ten 0:19:23.760 --> 0:19:27.560 percent of his population here illegally, and they have free 0:19:27.600 --> 0:19:31.560 medical care through the ers. They don't pay anything. Those 0:19:31.600 --> 0:19:35.400 who do pay more. And so it is a multifaceted 0:19:35.440 --> 0:19:39.120 problem that neither side wants to fix. The fix by 0:19:39.160 --> 0:19:42.400 Senator Ran Paul would be perfect, but the Democrats don't 0:19:42.400 --> 0:19:45.160 want to do that. They lose control and they lose 0:19:45.240 --> 0:19:49.240 power over the ability to say Republicans don't care about 0:19:49.240 --> 0:19:49.840 your healthcare. 0:19:50.119 --> 0:19:50.840 We do care. 0:19:51.320 --> 0:19:54.679 I'm a conservative libertarian, not necessarily a Republican. 0:19:54.960 --> 0:19:56.159 I'll vote for Democrats. 0:19:57.200 --> 0:20:00.880 I'll keep voting for Democrats that are reasonable, like Charmaine 0:20:00.920 --> 0:20:05.000 McGuffey the sheriff, for example. Absolutely, I voted for Dusty 0:20:05.080 --> 0:20:08.520 Rhodes for years. Absolutely, So it isn't about party with me, 0:20:08.840 --> 0:20:12.200 It's about passing on our great nation to the next 0:20:12.200 --> 0:20:15.479 generation of Americans having a functional society, and it's not 0:20:15.560 --> 0:20:18.040 happening right now. It's going to get worse, not better, 0:20:18.320 --> 0:20:22.800