Speaker 1: So back in the day when we first got acquainted
Speaker 1: with Craig got Walls, we called him Craig the Obamacare
Speaker 1: Lawyer because helps us understand what the legislation actually was
Speaker 1: and what it would mean, as opposed to all the
Speaker 1: political spin flying around at the time. If you like
Speaker 1: your doctor, you can keep your doctor, et cetera. I
Speaker 1: think it's worth mentioning that always came to the conclusion
Speaker 1: that Obamacare is going to lead to single payer payer
Speaker 1: healthcare all across America. It's inevitable. Get ready for it? Well,
Speaker 1: and Craig was almost always one percent right. He is
Speaker 1: now known as Craig the Healthcare Guru, and he joins
Speaker 1: us to discuss cal Unicornia leading the way friends toward
Speaker 1: bringing socialized health healthcare to everyone, including illegal alien aliens.
Speaker 1: Craig got Walls, Joses, Now, Craig, how are you. I'm well,
Speaker 1: how are you, gentlemen? Good? So, unbeknownst to many people,
Speaker 1: Gavin Nucelini of cal Unicornia proposed something like universal healthcare
Speaker 1: the other day in the budget. What do you actually proposed?
Speaker 1: What does it mean? Well, I've got a couple of
Speaker 1: things going on at the state level right now, Gavin's
Speaker 1: proposal was was kind of a quiet and the easy
Speaker 1: one because in the past, in the past two years,
Speaker 1: we extended medical which is California's version of Medicaid, and
Speaker 1: that that is the that is the government sponsored healthcare,
Speaker 1: the taxpayer funded healthcare that is designed to help the
Speaker 1: low income. Now, it is worth noting before we go
Speaker 1: ahead in when the government passed Medicaid, it was designed
Speaker 1: to cover the lowest two percent of income folks in
Speaker 1: the United States. As of the latest government research in
Speaker 1: California alone, of all children are on medicaid and fifty
Speaker 1: percent of all births are now covered by Medicaid. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm glad you mentioned that because not to get too
Speaker 1: far off track, but that's why you gotta fight things
Speaker 1: like build Back Better, all those programs that they're trying
Speaker 1: to get started where it'll just help this many people
Speaker 1: for this long. These are how these things start and
Speaker 1: you go from it's gonna cover two percent to it's
Speaker 1: fifty anyway back to you, Craig, that's right. And one
Speaker 1: more fun fact on this in nive when the government
Speaker 1: passed Medicare and Medicaid, the government actuaries which I heard
Speaker 1: earlier or on a podcast yesterday from you all that
Speaker 1: that's one of the number one jobs in America. Yeah,
Speaker 1: government actuary said, you know what, it's gonna cost twelve
Speaker 1: billion in nineteen ninety. So they looked out, they said,
Speaker 1: this is this whole thing is gonna cost clubly. Well,
Speaker 1: it actually cost a hundred and seven billion, and nineteen
Speaker 1: ninety they were only by a factor of nine. So
Speaker 1: you know, we whatever we're doing here in California, you
Speaker 1: can assume they're going to be off by a factor
Speaker 1: of nine as well. So back to what Newsom did
Speaker 1: with respect to unlawful residents. Um, we had two years
Speaker 1: ago we had made it so that anybody here, whether
Speaker 1: they're legal or illegal, can have free government medical through
Speaker 1: the age of twenty six. Last year they said, well,
Speaker 1: you know, it's not fair to just give it to
Speaker 1: the young people. We ought to give it to the
Speaker 1: old people too, So last year they made it legal
Speaker 1: to give it to anybody over the age of fifty.
Speaker 1: And this year, of course, they closed donut Hole because
Speaker 1: we don't want to discriminate against the middle aged. And
Speaker 1: so now the proposal is everybody who's here illegally can
Speaker 1: get free medicaid. For all, perfect example of entitlement creep.
Speaker 1: How you know, those just outside the window can reasonably
Speaker 1: make the argument, hey, I'm just two years old or
Speaker 1: what hell am I getting? That's why entitlements always grow.
Speaker 1: Like yeah, it's just like going back to whatever that
Speaker 1: book was we've talked about, where it was for Civil
Speaker 1: War veterans, then it was civil Civil War veterans wives,
Speaker 1: and it was for the children and the wives of
Speaker 1: Civil War well, anybody who was alive during the Civil War.
Speaker 1: And then pretty soon it's everybody. Um, while up to
Speaker 1: over fifty now closed the gap. Everybody incredible, everybody now everybody,
Speaker 1: And and that's how you get from two percent of
Speaker 1: people are going to be covered by this low income program.
Speaker 1: So now half of all births are covered by the
Speaker 1: low income program. And everybody listening should know that Craig
Speaker 1: absolutely knows what he's saying when he uses the word free.
Speaker 1: Um oh yeah, free. You know, Craig, one of the
Speaker 1: one of the most interesting and revealing things you've taught
Speaker 1: us through the years is that whether Congress or a
Speaker 1: state legislature like California, one of the tricks they use
Speaker 1: is they say, well, this will be affordable because we
Speaker 1: will cut the compensation to doctors by and they'll just
Speaker 1: take it so the numbers work. But of course that
Speaker 1: never happens because the legislature in question never makes that
Speaker 1: cut because no doctor would see any patients. What sort
Speaker 1: of high jinks have you seen in the California build
Speaker 1: it that make it dishonest? Well, you you absolutely nailed at, Joe.
Speaker 1: That's that's exactly what happens is they say we're gonna
Speaker 1: trim this, We're gonna trim that, we're gonna cut this
Speaker 1: so so far in the California. So the Gavin this
Speaker 1: is just the Gavin proposal. This one's the easy one.
Speaker 1: This one's gonna pass, the one we're talking about here
Speaker 1: where we're going to give free healthcare to all all people,
Speaker 1: whether they're here lawfully or not. The other one that
Speaker 1: Democrats proposed just recently is an even more aggressive I
Speaker 1: would call it beyond Medica to care for all. So
Speaker 1: it's confusing when we've got medical that Medicaid, which is
Speaker 1: low income Medicare which is for seniors, and at the
Speaker 1: federal level they talk about Medicare for all, Medicare for all,
Speaker 1: but that's never gonna happen honestly, because Medicare costs something
Speaker 1: like fourteen thousand dollars per citizen, whereas Medicaid only costs
Speaker 1: something like four thousand dollars per citizen because it reimburses
Speaker 1: doctors so low. What what they're doing is they're setting
Speaker 1: the targets out at Medicare for All. But ultimately what
Speaker 1: they're gonna do is what they've done exactly here with
Speaker 1: this illegal alien bill, and that's they're they're going to
Speaker 1: slide in Medicaid for all because Medicaid, even though it
Speaker 1: would blow up our budget, would blow up our budget
Speaker 1: only to the tune of one third of what Medicare
Speaker 1: for All would blow up our budget. So what California
Speaker 1: has done simultaneously with what Gavin's proposing is in the
Speaker 1: legislative level, we're proposing cow Care, which will be one
Speaker 1: step beyond Medicare for All, because this will be a
Speaker 1: government run agency and a bore of government directors that
Speaker 1: will coordinate all of our health care in the state
Speaker 1: of California. This is the one that gets rid of
Speaker 1: insurance companies and says basically, it's kind of like VA
Speaker 1: for California. So UM I believe that this is going
Speaker 1: to happen. It's just going to happen. Get used to it,
Speaker 1: bend over and take it. So what is what is
Speaker 1: the world gonna look like in terms of access to doctors,
Speaker 1: number of doctors care, that sort of stuff in your prediction. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I wanted to share. I wanted to share a few
Speaker 1: just my opinion is I guess useful, right, But I
Speaker 1: wanted to share some statistics with you on this. If
Speaker 1: you right now are seeking a disability, and you have
Speaker 1: a disability and you have to get that disability through
Speaker 1: the Social Security Administration at the federal level, your average
Speaker 1: right time to get paid is six hundred and thirty
Speaker 1: three days. Okay, that's how wealth government handles insurance. Now.
Speaker 1: One more, just with respect to healthcare in the VA,
Speaker 1: because this California Care thing is gonna look a lot
Speaker 1: like the v A if they get it done. In
Speaker 1: the v A reported, hey, we've got weight times down
Speaker 1: to eight days. Great, because they had so many from
Speaker 1: independent audit showed it was twenty seven days. Point being guys,
Speaker 1: we're going to see these kinds of weight times or
Speaker 1: more whether you're trying to get a claim paid to
Speaker 1: see a doctor, to see a specialist right now because
Speaker 1: of all the people we've thrown in the Medicaid kids
Speaker 1: can't see kids in the Medicaid system, of which half
Speaker 1: of them were born into the Medicaid system, can't get
Speaker 1: mental health expertise because the reimbursements are too low. A
Speaker 1: few mental health providers and we can't we can't do it.
Speaker 1: Why that's rough. Do you see any sort of like
Speaker 1: I know that they have in Canada and Great Britain
Speaker 1: where they have you know, government paid for healthcare where
Speaker 1: you have a different sector for people who can afford
Speaker 1: it of private healthcare. That that that that pops up
Speaker 1: in California and becomes popular with a certain sector. Yes,
Speaker 1: depending on how they ultimately craft this legislation. Jack Sometimes
Speaker 1: sometimes they talk about making that illegal in the state,
Speaker 1: and what happens, You're just going to have all the
Speaker 1: high end folks leave the state. But if they make
Speaker 1: it legal that you can buy up, of course that'll happen,
Speaker 1: and we'll have a bifurcation in California and we'll have
Speaker 1: this the haves and the have not. You end up
Speaker 1: with more inequality, inequity, whatever you want to call it.
Speaker 1: Then and then you have now, right, and I think
Speaker 1: you'll see a lot of folks from the middle class
Speaker 1: to leave, just out of principle to even you know,
Speaker 1: if they're not the rich folks who are being screwed directly,
Speaker 1: not just to mention the taxes it's gonna take to
Speaker 1: pay for all this. Well, right, But here's a question
Speaker 1: for you, Craig. And I asked this partly because I'm
Speaker 1: looking an email from a listener whose daughter gets their
Speaker 1: insurance through essentially Obamacare, and cannot find a single medical
Speaker 1: professional to take her business in the medium sized California
Speaker 1: city she lives. She asked to drive an hour away
Speaker 1: to a much larger city to even see a doctor.
Speaker 1: Will these laws compel force doctors and specialists and nurses
Speaker 1: to see people in spite of the paltry compensation rates? Well,
Speaker 1: of course these the proposed legislation does not state that.
Speaker 1: But you're you're going to have to get there. You're
Speaker 1: going to have to get there if you're going to
Speaker 1: make it work. And there's under our constitution there's no
Speaker 1: way you can compel a doctor to not retire, for example,
Speaker 1: So it just won't work. Um, But yes, ultimately that's
Speaker 1: where you have to go. They're not. They're not saying
Speaker 1: that out loud, of course, and it's I'm constitutional um.
Speaker 1: But that's the mess will be in and your your
Speaker 1: note with that listener on Obamacare is remember Obamacare still
Speaker 1: reimbursing significantly more than medicaid. And where I think all
Speaker 1: this is gonna end up is medicaid for all, and
Speaker 1: it's going to be that much worse because Medicaid for
Speaker 1: all is within the realm of possibility on the budget.
Speaker 1: On the budget by the way, right now fo dollars
Speaker 1: liability per citizen in the US they like to talk about,
Speaker 1: you know, the thirty trillion dollar debt. Fine, but thirty
Speaker 1: trillion means nothing to you and me. What means something
Speaker 1: to you and me is that each of us oh
Speaker 1: four dollars to bring us back to neutral on the
Speaker 1: US dead clock. Isn't medicaid the one that they say
Speaker 1: you're better off with no health insurance than that. There
Speaker 1: have been large university studies in the state of Oregon
Speaker 1: that showed that that showed heart health outcomes and cancer
Speaker 1: outcomes were actually better if you didn't have that insurance
Speaker 1: because you weren't compelled to wait so long for such
Speaker 1: poor care. Wow. Now, now you'll hear people debate that point.
Speaker 1: Obviously that but but there are studies that show that,
Speaker 1: repeated studies that show for certain times of care, you're
Speaker 1: better off with no insurance than with Medicaid. Craig got
Speaker 1: walls online, the healthcare Guru, um, anything else of note
Speaker 1: that we should cover before we let you go? God,
Speaker 1: dang it, don't you ever have a good news I
Speaker 1: want to explain a piece of that, by the way, folks,
Speaker 1: and it's I think it's something Tim Tim the lawyer
Speaker 1: Tim Sander first mentioned with you. When you start governmentizing everything,
Speaker 1: like you say, oh, there's a program for that, there's
Speaker 1: a program for that, you you lose out on charity.
Speaker 1: So part of the reason that the expansion of Medicaid
Speaker 1: has made outcomes worse for those with Medicaid is that
Speaker 1: you see less charity care because hospital systems and doctors
Speaker 1: and so forth say, look, we don't need to do
Speaker 1: as much charity care because the government's paying for it.
Speaker 1: So that's why you end up with those kinds of
Speaker 1: situations unintended consequences. Well, and keep in mind that the
Speaker 1: result of failure in the private sector is you get fired.
Speaker 1: You lose your accounts, etcetera. Which is why a guy
Speaker 1: like Craig, for instance, he has to be right. He's
Speaker 1: not trying to pitch a political point of view because
Speaker 1: he wants to get you to the police. He has
Speaker 1: to be right for his clients or he will lose.
Speaker 1: In the public sector and government, if you fail, you
Speaker 1: get a bigger budget. So you're gonna see cascading failure
Speaker 1: in the in the world of medicine, if I worked
Speaker 1: with one disability carrier that made you wait six and
Speaker 1: thirty three days to get your disability money, I'd be
Speaker 1: fired in a second. That carrier to be out of business.
Speaker 1: But you know what, that's the standard and our u
Speaker 1: US social Security system. Yeah, thanks, complicated and troubling. Yeah,
Speaker 1: thanks for crag. Good to talk to you. You're welcome.
Speaker 1: Jan's good to hear from you. This is gonna happen
Speaker 1: in the state of California, then it's gonna happen nationally.
Speaker 1: Everything is dragging it that direction, and you know, and
Speaker 1: and people because most people don't understand what it means.
Speaker 1: Enough people are in favor of it. It's gonna happen,
Speaker 1: and you'll have a you know, the the older generation
Speaker 1: will die off, and then you won't have anybody left
Speaker 1: who remembers a time when health care was good and
Speaker 1: fast and affordable. You've got this story from these folks
Speaker 1: living in France and beloved, arm strong and giddy. Listener,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure I'll read it to you now because
Speaker 1: it's too depressing. Um uh. And and you know, at
Speaker 1: the risk of making you, you know, put your head
Speaker 1: in the oven, and don't do it, because you can't
Speaker 1: get good medical care if you do. Um. You know.
Speaker 1: Stephen Bill put it in his fabulous book Bitter Pill
Speaker 1: about the state of American medical care. The government is
Speaker 1: involved where it should be, and not involved where it
Speaker 1: should be, or not involved whar it should. It's non
Speaker 1: involver it should be involved, and it is involved where
Speaker 1: it shouldn't be involved. And it is so screwed up.
Speaker 1: And it has to do with lobbyists and people being
Speaker 1: bought off and the rest of it. I'm not sure
Speaker 1: there is any fixing it since among the public, the
Speaker 1: greatest will for quote unquote reform is for government healthcare,
Speaker 1: which will be a nightmare just and and and I
Speaker 1: can understand. I mean, I deal with a lot of
Speaker 1: prescriptions with my son. I've had my health stuff in
Speaker 1: the last couple of years. It's easy to want to
Speaker 1: throw up your hands, stake just fine, just have the
Speaker 1: government take it over, just so I don't have to
Speaker 1: go through this again to try to figure out how
Speaker 1: to get my prescription and the the insurance to pay
Speaker 1: for it, and now commen, I have to go to
Speaker 1: this farmer blah blah blah. But it ain't gonna be better. No,
Speaker 1: no that right then? Oh right then, isn't that just dandy?
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