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Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning the breakfast Club.

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Speaker 2: Morning, everybody is j n V Charlamagne de goud. We

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Speaker 2: are to breakfast Club. We got a special guest joining

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Speaker 2: us today, one gentleman. He's running for Stockton City Council

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Speaker 2: District six. He's a friend to the room. You know him,

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Speaker 2: ladies and gentlemen. Jason Lee any other brother is a

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Speaker 2: CEO and owner of Enhance Health. Matt Hermy, Good morning,

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Speaker 2: good morning, good morning. So, uh let's start off with you, Matt.

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Speaker 2: What is Enhanced Health?

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Speaker 3: So enhance SEUTH today is the largest ACA provider in

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Speaker 3: the United States today. Primarily most people don't know that

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Speaker 3: you can get affordable health insurance for free. Around the

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Speaker 3: COVID era, the government put in place a what do

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Speaker 3: you call a low income subsidy. So what we do

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Speaker 3: is we help the underserved and unprivileged population get health insurance. So,

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Speaker 3: for example, this past year, we got about a little

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Speaker 3: bit more than a million policies out to people who

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Speaker 3: never even knew that they can get average for free,

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Speaker 3: nor did they ever have health insurance. So not only

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Speaker 3: do we do that, but we educate these consumers on

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Speaker 3: how to access health care. So a lot of people

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Speaker 3: just run to the emergency room, they run to urgent care.

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Speaker 3: They don't even know that they can get a primary

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Speaker 3: care physician. So not only do we help them get coverage,

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Speaker 3: but then we pair them up with the doctor and

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Speaker 3: really help people get healthy.

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Speaker 2: Now, now, how do people do that? I know a

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Speaker 2: lot of people that actually have to go to emergency

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Speaker 2: room or urgent care when something happens because they don't

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Speaker 2: have a primary physician. So what's the process of gaining

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Speaker 2: a primary physician and for free? So there's no copays

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Speaker 2: in nothing.

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Speaker 3: Depends on your state, depends on the policy and from

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Speaker 3: the policy that you have. But usually yes, usually you

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Speaker 3: will find policies with no copay, but the premium that

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Speaker 3: but that would be free to the individual.

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Speaker 4: How how long you've been in the healthcare field and

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Speaker 4: I've been at you into it.

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Speaker 3: I've been doing about healthcare for about fifteen plus years.

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Speaker 3: Always been passionate and and helping people. Always thought health

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Speaker 3: insurance is important. And when found out that we can

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Speaker 3: give coverage now the individuals for free, it really sparked

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Speaker 3: an interest for me to really help people. You have

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Speaker 3: you know, diabetes, mental health, special needs kids that need

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Speaker 3: And that's really what my message is is to really

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Speaker 3: spread that amongst the communities. And that's why we partnered

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Speaker 5: Before we get into the collaboration, you and Jason got

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Speaker 5: why should somebody choose Enhance Health over other healthcare program?

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Speaker 3: Sure, so in hand self is not competing with any carrier.

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Speaker 3: So what we do basically is we are a brokerage

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Speaker 3: if you want to call it, where we have access

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Speaker 3: to every care you're within the exchange. The exchange is

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Speaker 3: where you go to get coverage. So based on your demographics,

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Speaker 3: your zip code, what medications you may take, well actually

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Speaker 3: just say hey, we're going to put you here because

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Speaker 3: we make more money. We place individuals where they should

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Speaker 2: How difficult is it, you know, as far as age

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so that's a great question. So in prior years,

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Speaker 3: you would go through something called underwriting. Underwriting is where

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Speaker 3: so anybody with press and conditions can get approved guaranteed issue.

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Speaker 3: So it's just like anybody if you had no condition

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Speaker 4: How did this partnership come together, Jason?

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Speaker 1: So I met Matt, you know, at the Floyd Mayweather

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Speaker 1: We immediately met after that. And you know my background

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Speaker 1: before entertainment, I spent eleven years with the Labor Union,

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Speaker 1: that preventative care was important instead of managed care. So

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Speaker 1: I've been like heavily involved in my process. I lost

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Speaker 1: understand that there's a lot of us that may not

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Speaker 1: So we sat down and I said, you know what,

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Speaker 1: do it. So why don't we create a partnership. And

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Speaker 1: that's where we establish healthcare Unlocked. And so we have

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Speaker 1: Hollywood Unlocked, and then we have enhanced health And I said,

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Speaker 1: because we should want the young twenty year olds who

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Speaker 2: And not only that, I think a lot of kids

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Speaker 2: to ask you, besides that, is this part of the

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Speaker 2: reason why you're running for a Stockla City Council District

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Speaker 2: six to help people in the neighborhood with things like

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Speaker 2: healthcare jobs. I've seen you want to pick it line

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Speaker 2: you're doing it?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? I mean, you know those folks shout out to

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Speaker 1: those benefits are always at stake because those become one

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Speaker 1: that is part of it. But it's also you know,

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Speaker 1: at my kickoff on December eleventh, we're going to have

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Speaker 1: this will be a part of my campaign because healthcare

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Speaker 1: is important and my district definitely needs to have access

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Speaker 5: We talked about this earlier, Jason like at the top

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Speaker 5: Charlotte Mane. But do you think you're you're going to

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Speaker 4: Do you think others will?

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Speaker 1: You know, we live in a different time right now,

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Speaker 1: it applies to people that don't look like us. And

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Speaker 1: why I did Simone Sanders show. The reason why I'm

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Speaker 1: allowing black storytellers to interview me is because we're not

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Speaker 1: then they're not for me. You know, I'm in the

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Speaker 1: to come up with mess Yeah? I already got one

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Speaker 1: person that email me and said, I heard you own

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Speaker 1: You own only fans and are only fans model? I'm like, well,

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Speaker 1: only fans is worth eighteen billion dollars and if I

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Speaker 1: for public office. But I'm expecting it. But you know,

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Speaker 1: if they know my job, they know that I've pulled

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Speaker 1: up every receipt I can find, and I'm ready for

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Speaker 1: it and I look forward to it. And what would

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Speaker 1: you say to people as sales?

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Speaker 4: Okay, we a match receipt, your seat for receipt? Baby.

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Speaker 1: I mean the person I'm running against right now, I

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm taking this serious one. I went and got

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Speaker 2: And when you're talking health coverage, does your health coverage

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Speaker 3: It just depends on you know which carrier it is

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Speaker 1: And honest, what about Medicaid redetermination because that's a big

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so you have you have twelve fifteen million people

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Speaker 5: Right now, what do you say to people who say

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Speaker 2: It's free?

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Speaker 3: You know, it's free.

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Speaker 5: That's why that's why partner with folks like Hollywood unlocked

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Speaker 1: And the other thing that's crazy when you talk about

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Speaker 5: How come people don't know healthcare is free because you

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Speaker 1: You're spending less than one percent of advertising with black

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Speaker 1: You know. So when you wonder why people are excited

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Speaker 4: Is shoved it for his interest, is shoved off for

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Speaker 1: Yep.

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Speaker 2: You know, we appreciate you guys for joining us. Tell

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Speaker 2: you know, support your campaign, both of us.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you can go to Hollywood Unlocked, dot com, slash Healthcare,

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Speaker 1: and I believe twelve hours a day, Monday through Friday,

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Speaker 2: All right, Well, it's Jason Lee, It's Matt Herman.

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Speaker 1: It's the Breakfast Club.

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Speaker 4: Good morning, thank you.

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Speaker 1: Wake that ass up Earth in the morning. The Breakfast

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Speaker 1: Club