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Speaker 1: Good evening, America, Happy Friday, or Happy Boxing Day, as

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Speaker 1: it's known the day after Christmas in mighty parts of

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Speaker 1: the world. Welcome to the latest edition of Just the News,

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Speaker 1: No Noise. You had a great Christmas yesterday, I know

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Speaker 1: I did. I mean I was John Solomon reporting to you,

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Speaker 1: as always from the Nation's capital of Washington, DC. Tonight,

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Speaker 1: we are going to lean into what is on the

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Speaker 1: legislative agenda for Congress in twenty twenty six. And I'm

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Speaker 1: going to waste no time bringing in my coast Amanda

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Speaker 1: Head tonight because recently she sat down with several members

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Speaker 1: of Congress and women from the Republican Study Conference.

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Speaker 2: We're going to play those interviews over the next hour.

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Speaker 1: Amanda, A lot of big ideas on the agenda twenty six.

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Speaker 1: Typically an off election, or in an off election Yurope,

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Speaker 1: legislative stuff grinds to a halt because everybody's focused on campaigning.

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Speaker 1: I think you picked up that most members of Congress

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Speaker 1: have big plans for next year, not just campaigning.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, and one of those big agenda items represents the

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Speaker 3: first time that Republicans have a formidable answer to Democrats.

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Speaker 4: Lean towards medicare, for all.

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Speaker 3: And we've actually got a story coming out on the

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Speaker 3: site about this, so everybody make sure you go to

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Speaker 3: justinews dot com and look for the story. But Democrats

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Speaker 3: have been pushing for Medicare for all. It's what you

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Speaker 3: and I have spoken to Congresswoman Maryett Miller Meeks and

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Speaker 3: a number of other officials, including the ones that we're

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Speaker 3: going to talk to today about how that basically was what

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Speaker 3: Obamacare was. It was a push towards a single payer

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Speaker 3: system system, Obamacare for all. And this is the first

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Speaker 3: time that Republicans have actually had some usable solutions and

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Speaker 3: fixes and alternatives to what Democrats are trying to do.

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Speaker 3: So I I loved these conversations. I was able to

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Speaker 3: really glean some of those specific fixes to Obamacare. So

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Speaker 3: people are going to learn a lot about that, and

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Speaker 3: that's going to be something that going into midterms that

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Speaker 3: will put a huge amount of wind in the sales

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Speaker 3: of Republicans who are trying desperately to keep that majority.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's going to be fun. I can't wait to

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Speaker 1: watch some of these interviews. I know how good they are.

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Speaker 1: Before we do that, I wanted to talk about one

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Speaker 1: thing that happened just before Christmas.

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Speaker 2: It's still resonating today.

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Speaker 1: Secretary of State Marco Rubio sanctioning members of Europe European

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Speaker 1: governments who were nonprofits who were involved in censoring Americans

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Speaker 1: in Westerns free speech. We got a glimpse of this

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Speaker 1: last summer when Jadevance went to Europe and gave that

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Speaker 1: stinging speech rebuking Europe from turning from its Western values

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Speaker 1: of freedom. But this is going to be a significant humiliation.

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Speaker 1: There will be members of Europe who will not be

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Speaker 1: able to come to the United States because they were

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Speaker 1: involved in what Marco Rubio called the industrial censorship complex,

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Speaker 1: chronicling that complex for.

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Speaker 2: Two or three years here with Mike ben and others.

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Speaker 1: But Europe got quite a swat on the Family the

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Speaker 1: last couple of days.

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Speaker 3: And deservedly so, John, because as we have seen in

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Speaker 3: recent years, free speech in the UK and Europe in

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Speaker 3: general has been contracting as it is expanding here in

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Speaker 3: this country. And another update right before Christmas that we

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Speaker 3: got Samantha Fulnecki, who is a student at the University

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Speaker 3: because she cited the Bible as proof that there are

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Speaker 3: only two genders. Well, University of Oklahoma put out a

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Speaker 3: graduate teaching assistants prior grading standards and patterns, as well

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Speaker 3: as the graduate teaching assistant's own statements related to this matter,

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Speaker 3: it was determined that the graduate teaching assistant was arbitrary

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Speaker 3: So you see a tale of two regions of the world,

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Speaker 3: the United States, where free speech is still alive and

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Speaker 3: you can use the Bible to defend your opinion, and

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Speaker 3: and it's very, very scary. And we spoke to Liz

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Speaker 3: and we do not want that coming to our shores.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no, there's no doubt about it.

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Speaker 1: In the surest way to make sure it doesn't is

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Speaker 1: to create consequences, and that's what Marco Rubio did. That's

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Speaker 1: what the Oklahoma University system did. You got to create consequences.

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Speaker 1: We'll see if Pam Bondi does that the Justice Department

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Speaker 1: for weaponization in twenty six. I think that's one of

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Speaker 1: the things that a lot of members of Congress are

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Speaker 1: warnering about. All right, man, you had amazing interviews. I

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Speaker 2: I think you talk about healthcare.

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Speaker 3: How a watch here with someone who is on our

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Speaker 3: show all the time. Congressman Rich McCormick, Sarah, thank you

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Speaker 3: so much for being here. Pleasure. All right, So you

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Speaker 3: are a medical doctor yourself, youre doctor, So you have

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Speaker 3: a great overall perspective on the healthcare system. What worked

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Speaker 3: before Obamacare? What can possibly work now? I know that

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Speaker 3: there are so many problems and it's really hard to

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Speaker 3: have an expertise in this matter. So what do you

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Speaker 5: First of all, we need more competitions, less regulation. What's

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Speaker 5: driven Obamacare to be so bad is the lack of

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Speaker 5: any accountability to the insurance companies. Even if the surprise

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Speaker 5: billion ac right, which has been horribly abused, insurance companies

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Speaker 5: still do the same thing as.

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Speaker 6: Matter fact on the pre approval process.

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Speaker 5: They promised us one thing in my office recently within

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Speaker 5: the last year, they said, oh, we're going to fix that.

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Speaker 6: They promised the president they're going to do that. But

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Speaker 5: They're literally saying, Okay, I'll prove that, and then when

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Speaker 5: the biopsy can come back negative on that pre approved process,

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Speaker 5: they're like, well, obviously you didn't need that because it

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Speaker 6: Therefore we're going to deny your claim. Is that crazy?

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Speaker 6: And they do it over and over again.

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Speaker 5: This bad actors, These people who a third of the

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Speaker 6: This is after I have one hundreds of millions of dollars.

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Speaker 5: Spent per hospital system on an electronic medical record system,

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Speaker 5: I have a coder, I have a scribe, I spent

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Speaker 5: hours after my shift, and they still deny it a

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Speaker 6: So what does that mean? That means that they get

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Speaker 5: Your insurance premiums have gone up around ninety percent since

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Speaker 5: they Portable Care Act. Meanwhile, the insurance companies are making

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Speaker 5: two hundred and thirty percent more in profits, and you

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Speaker 5: know who, there's stuff in the pockets of people like

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Speaker 5: Rafael Warnock, the biggest recipient for healthcare dollars in his

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Speaker 5: last election in a swing state by the way of Georgia.

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Speaker 5: And then they pretend like, oh, no, the idea is

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Speaker 5: we need to increase premium supplementation from the government.

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Speaker 6: To what the insurance companies.

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Speaker 5: Are making record profits in the of the top ten

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Speaker 5: big insuranceans or big pharma seven in the top twenty,

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Speaker 5: making record profits, and we're supposed to supplement them and

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Speaker 5: that's the solution. That's not the solution. We need competition.

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Speaker 5: We need to hold them accountable. They have to have

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Speaker 5: real financial consequences when they misbehave shame on them for

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Speaker 5: what they're doing, and we're not doing anything to we

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Speaker 6: Going to solve the problem.

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Speaker 5: By the way, that supplementation of talking about only benefits

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Speaker 5: a very few Americans. We need to have something that

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Speaker 5: gets rid of all that, that make sure that people

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Speaker 5: aren't using their insurance company inappropriately. For example, if you

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Speaker 5: use your car insurance the same way you're using health insurance,

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Speaker 5: you'd be using it to change your car oil and

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Speaker 5: your blinker and anything goes wrong, and it would be unaffordable.

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Speaker 6: It would be the biggest cost you have.

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Speaker 5: You couldn't afford it, and it would cost hundreds of

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Speaker 5: dollars to change your car oil. But yet we've been

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Speaker 5: conditioned to use your insurance company to fill up prescription

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Speaker 5: that costs more for your deductible and then it goes

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Speaker 5: under premium too. By the way, then if you just

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Speaker 5: paid out of pocket, but we're trained to use our

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's an amazing analogy and I've never thought about

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Speaker 3: it like that, but you're right. I mean, if you

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Speaker 3: you don't.

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Speaker 7: File an insurance claim.

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Speaker 3: I want to ask you from the doctor side of things,

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Speaker 3: because I remember the Obamacare rollout, and I remember Obama

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Speaker 3: to let doctors be doctors again. We're going to take

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Speaker 3: away the paperwork. It seems like that is the inverse.

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Speaker 6: Just the opposite they've forced we.

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Speaker 5: Used to have when the VideA of Affordable Care Act,

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Speaker 5: we had about twenty four percent of all doctors working

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Speaker 5: hospital systems or healthingcare insurance companies. It's and that's why

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Speaker 5: the Affordable Care Act. So they've been forcing these systems

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Speaker 5: do nice things for people. We can't have any benefit

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Speaker 5: by what big corporations, big hospital systems, big insurance companies, PBMs,

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Speaker 6: We are sold out to them.

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Speaker 3: How much does healthcare costs the American people?

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Speaker 7: Because you know, when you.

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Speaker 3: Talk about what Democrats were fighting for to keep the

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Speaker 3: government shut down, these subsidies that ultimately you know, as

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Speaker 3: it was explained to me, these were subsidies that could

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Speaker 3: they didn't even know that it was available to them,

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Speaker 3: so it got left in the coffers of the insurance companies,

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Speaker 3: and the insurance companies obviously lobby They pay out people

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Speaker 7: What's the number we're talking.

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Speaker 5: So when you talk about the average American family of four,

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Speaker 6: Now realize biggest expense to government.

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Speaker 5: Over thirty percent of probably about thirty three to thirty

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Speaker 5: four percent of our mandatory spending, is Medicaid and Medicare,

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Speaker 5: and it's increasing by dramatic percentages every year by automatically.

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Speaker 5: We don't take a vote on it. It just happens. Now

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Speaker 5: we now pay i think over eighty percent of Medicaid,

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Speaker 5: which is supposed to be a state program in at

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Speaker 5: least five states. It is basically now just expected that

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Speaker 5: we bought into the system. Now the federal government, which

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Speaker 5: used to be one third of all government spending which

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Speaker 6: Fed, now it's two thirds. That's happened in dramatic fashion because.

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Speaker 5: Of the expansion of these federal programs that we're supposed

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Speaker 6: States have accountability, they have a budget, they have to

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Speaker 5: We just print the money on the backs of our children,

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Speaker 5: and we're going to deflate our currency to the point

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Speaker 6: By insurance, has got better. And that's it.

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Speaker 6: But we always have an excuse not to address it.

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Speaker 5: We all know it's a problem, but guess what, it's

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Speaker 6: Wat's where the money's going.

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Speaker 5: And pay attention, folks, because they're ripping you off, and

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Speaker 7: Sir, I want to finish.

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Speaker 3: I know that you have served the people of Georgia

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Speaker 5: The tragedy of the way we withdrawal from Afghanistan can

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Speaker 6: There was a gut punch.

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Speaker 5: It was only one of the worst days of my

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Speaker 5: me and wats The recruiting effort just declined dramatically, where

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Speaker 5: First of all, you watched the recruiting just skyrocket. There's

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Speaker 3: Hegseeth someone who like you has seen combat. How important

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Speaker 5: No matter how you spin it, popular guy in the military.

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Speaker 5: When you see the response to the troops to he

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Speaker 5: He said, you can do that by yourself. But great guy,

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Speaker 6: And even he knows the things he doesn't know, which

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Speaker 5: When I asked him about contracting, about preparing the future

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Speaker 3: It's incredible. And I actually just saw a recent clip

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Speaker 3: And it seems like the secretary is the same way.

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Speaker 6: And he's done. President Trump's done such a good job.

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Speaker 5: And his second realizing that he had vestages of the

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Speaker 3: Well, folks like you make people excited to be a

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Speaker 4: Welcome back everybody. Happy Boxing Day to all of you.

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Speaker 3: We are continuing our special look tonight at Congress, and

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Speaker 3: a few weeks ago, I sat down with Montana Congressman

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Speaker 4: So take a listen.

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Speaker 3: Returning to the show, this time live and in person,

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Speaker 7: You, Sara.

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Speaker 8: It's great to be live and in person. I mean,

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Speaker 9: This is a great opportunity.

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Speaker 3: Well you know, as you know, our offices are over

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Speaker 8: Yeah, you get so used to like being on this

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Speaker 4: Because we had four three days of nothing happened.

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Speaker 3: Now, I happen to know from folks like you and

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Speaker 8: Well, yeah, and thank you for acknowledging the part that,

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Speaker 8: light of day and being refined into you know, consensus policy,

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Speaker 8: getting that to the House and Senate floor, getting that passed,

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Speaker 8: getting that reconciled, and doing that before the deadline of

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Speaker 8: shutting down the government. And one of the things I'll

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Speaker 8: say in this last shutdown is, I think the Republicans

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Speaker 8: were very good at having a policy that didn't have

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Speaker 8: any poison pills in it. We just said, let's give

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Speaker 8: us seven weeks, seven weeks of current policy. Let's not

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Speaker 8: put any you know, partisan anything in there, so there's

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Speaker 8: no reason to say no, and it.

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Speaker 6: Just goes down.

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Speaker 8: I gotta tell you, I'm proud of House leadership, of

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Speaker 8: Senate leadership. I'm proud of the Republican Conference of actually

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Speaker 8: sticking to their guns and saying we're not gonna negotiate

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Speaker 8: with terrorists. What happens when you negotiate with terrorists. Eventually

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Speaker 8: the terrorists realize that they have a way of doing something.

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Speaker 8: And you're gonna see that again and again and again.

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Speaker 8: And I think the fact that this shutdown was so

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Speaker 8: long enforced upon the American people with no wins to

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Speaker 8: be shown there, I think that is going to discourage

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Speaker 8: this from happening again, and we can get calmer heads

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Speaker 8: to the table and actually start appropriating like the you know,

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Speaker 8: the people of America sent us to do. So I

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Speaker 8: think there's a lot of energy to do that. I

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Speaker 8: think that we're we're posed to be able to get

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Speaker 8: that done. I'm hoping we don't see any tom foolery

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Speaker 8: and getting into January, and I'm hoping that the leadership, uh,

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Speaker 8: and the in the White House, the administration, I hope

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Speaker 8: everybody works, you know, together to try to get this

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Speaker 8: through well in advance of the end of January, so

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Speaker 8: that we're not looming at another you know, uh deadline.

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Speaker 8: We're we're stuck in another situation like that. But I

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Speaker 8: am hopeful that we don't see that again.

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Speaker 7: Me too, So you do think that.

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Speaker 3: Let me, I don't know how to phrase this because

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Speaker 3: I don't think that Democrats learned their lesson, but I

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Speaker 3: do think that you any one can always hope. I too,

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Speaker 3: was very impressed at the fact that Republicans stuck to

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Speaker 3: their guns, because, let's face it, there are some squishy

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Speaker 3: folks in Congress on both sides of the aisle. But

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Speaker 3: do you think that it was enough of a lesson

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Speaker 3: learned by Democrats that they won't try to push Shenanigan's

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Speaker 3: next year.

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Speaker 8: Well, I think that there's been some pushback in their leadership,

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Speaker 8: and I think they're kind of at each other's throats

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Speaker 8: right now. Yeah, and also with their own their own base,

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Speaker 8: their own voters. So I you know, I'm gonna, you know,

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Speaker 8: stick to the positive. But you know, some of the

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Speaker 8: stuff that got thrown into here is stuff that we

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Speaker 8: do need to address.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 8: They they tried to make this about, you know, healthcare.

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Speaker 8: They tried to make it about the Affordable Care Act.

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Speaker 9: And I will tell you.

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Speaker 8: One of the things that has come out in this

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Speaker 8: recent process that makes me really happy is that finally

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Speaker 8: we have something that's very meaningful to the to to Americans,

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Speaker 8: to everybody in the country. And the Republicans and the

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Speaker 8: Democrats wholeheartedly believe that the Affordable Care Act has been

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Speaker 8: a horrible failure. It's caused prices to go up, it's undeniable.

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Speaker 8: Everybody's seen that over fifteen years, nothing has done more

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Speaker 8: to increase the cost of health care than the Affordable

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Speaker 8: Care Act. You know, it's ridiculous, But now you've got

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Speaker 8: both Republicans and Democrats agreeing that it's a failed system.

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Speaker 8: So now let's yeah, at least they recognize it. And

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Speaker 8: so they're trying to push a smoke screen of let's

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Speaker 8: throw more subsidies to hide the fact that it's failing,

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Speaker 8: because really we were sold a fake bill of goods.

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Speaker 8: They said, here's something. We're going to add all of

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Speaker 8: this coverage, and we're going to make your policy go down.

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Speaker 8: It makes no sense even on its surface. I mean,

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Speaker 8: you can't say, hey, you want to buy a soda

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Speaker 8: from a restaurant, we're going to keep the price down,

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Speaker 8: but you're gonna get a free hamburger with it.

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Speaker 6: It doesn't work. I mean, it's going to make cost

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Speaker 6: go up.

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Speaker 8: And once you have costs go up, what happens is

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Speaker 8: people make a decision on whether that price increase is

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Speaker 8: worth it or not, and some people go uninsured, or

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Speaker 8: they find alternatives like a healthcare sharing ministry, or find

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Speaker 8: find something else rather than traditional insurance. And the people

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Speaker 8: who come off tend to be those who least need services,

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Speaker 8: you know, the healthier, younger folks come off. And so

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Speaker 8: what that does is that creates adverse selection. So you

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Speaker 8: have a higher risk pool, which causes prices to go up.

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Speaker 8: And that's a cycle. Prices go up, more healthy people

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Speaker 8: come off, increases the risk, which makes prices go up again.

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Speaker 8: And so we're at the end of fifteen years of that.

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Speaker 8: And so the false narrative that we got from the

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Speaker 8: Democrats is that somehow these enhanced premium tax credits, these

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Speaker 8: Obama character credits, were going to affect the whole market,

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Speaker 8: which is not true. And they made this false narrative

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Speaker 8: that these were what we're driving prices up, which is

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Speaker 8: not true. You know, in my state, from you know,

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Speaker 8: the major payers we have, you know, the smallest is

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Speaker 8: like a single digit increase because of the enhanced premium

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Speaker 8: tax credits on a small minority in the individual market.

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Speaker 8: So it doesn't affect a small group, you know, like

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Speaker 8: a business that use a small group or a selfe

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Speaker 8: or a large it doesn't affect any of those, just

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Speaker 8: the individual market. And it's a small amount.

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Speaker 6: Because the prices.

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Speaker 8: Are going up for the reasons I just told you

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Speaker 8: this adverse election, and because the cost of health care

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Speaker 8: going up, and that's just economics one on one. You

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Speaker 8: put more money into a system, it doesn't make prices

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Speaker 8: go down.

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Speaker 9: It makes prices go.

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Speaker 8: Up in any system. You see that with subprime lending

549
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Speaker 8: making housing prices go up. You see that with you know,

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Speaker 8: student loan access growing and makes tuition go up. You

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Speaker 8: see that in healthcare, in health insurance that you start

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Speaker 8: seeing the price of health care going up. So we

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Speaker 8: need to start attacking and addressing the issues that are

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Speaker 8: causing prices to go up. And if we can do

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Speaker 8: that and deal with the you know, the rising costs

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Speaker 8: of you know, pharmaceuticals or prescription drugs, start looking at

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Speaker 8: alternatives to you know, to a ala carte you know healthcare.

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Speaker 8: Start looking at you know, value based care, Start looking

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Speaker 8: at all these different things. Start you know, programs to

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Speaker 8: recruit more providers, more nurses. So the hospitals aren't paying

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Speaker 8: you know, huge rates for traveler nurses. So we need

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Speaker 8: to start enticing people to enter you know, these these

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Speaker 8: career fields so that we can start deal with the

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Speaker 8: you know the fundamental problem of the prices. And if

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Speaker 8: you can do that and slow down the increase of

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Speaker 8: these rates going up, more people will decide to cover

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Speaker 8: themselves or be in the program, and you start you

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Speaker 8: start to slow down that adverse selection. And the other

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Speaker 8: thing I think that the President is one hundred percent

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Speaker 8: correct on is give the power back to the people.

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Speaker 8: I mean, I grew up in a poor family. Yeah,

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Speaker 8: I grew up in a poor family. And when I

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Speaker 8: was a kid, you know, single, single income family.

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Speaker 9: From a grocery store.

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Speaker 6: And when I would go to the doctor, I.

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Speaker 8: Would walk out and my mom would get out her

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Speaker 8: check book and she'd write a check to pay for

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Speaker 8: the services.

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Speaker 6: And that's how it worked back then.

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Speaker 8: And we've gotten so far away there because the doctor

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Speaker 8: patient relationship needs to be exactly us right now. Let's

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Speaker 8: say one of is a doctor, one of us a patient.

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Speaker 8: This is the connection. Now, you've got so many people between,

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Speaker 8: so many middleman, so many people taking a piece of

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Speaker 8: that pie. We're you know, a mile apart, and we

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Speaker 8: need to get you know, we need to find solutions

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Speaker 8: to get that closer and closer, to drive those costs

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Speaker 8: down and start dealing with the underlying problems that are

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Speaker 8: pushing these rates up, because right now it's collapsing under

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Speaker 8: its own weight. And the Democrats knew that when they

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Speaker 8: started this in the beginning. And my opinion is they

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Speaker 8: design this to fail. Just force our hands into a

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Speaker 8: single payer system. And I'm going to tell you for

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Speaker 8: me personally, I don't want to be in a system

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Speaker 8: where I go take one number to register my car

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Speaker 8: and take another number to see a doctor. And I

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Speaker 8: think most Americans feel the same. They don't want the

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Speaker 8: government in control of their healthcare. Government control of anything

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Speaker 8: just doesn't work.

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Speaker 3: Congress and Troy Downing, always a pleasure, Thank you so much, Sarah, all.

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Speaker 4: Right, everybody coming up next.

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Speaker 3: I spoke to Congressman Mark Harris of North Carolina on

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Speaker 4: That's coming up right after these commercials.

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Speaker 1: A couple of weeks ago, at a Republican study committee

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Speaker 1: at the US House of Representatives, Amanda's had time with

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Speaker 1: a number of Republican congressmen and women. This next interview

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Speaker 1: is North Carolina Congressman Mark Harris.

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Speaker 2: They focus specifically on cleaning up crime.

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Speaker 1: An issue that hit Congressman Harris is state hard the

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Speaker 1: state of North Carolina.

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Speaker 2: Take a look.

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Speaker 3: Returning to our show, Congressman Mark Harris from the tar

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Speaker 3: Heel State Congressman, thanks so much for being here.

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Speaker 10: Thank you so much for having me, Amanda. It's great

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Speaker 10: to see you.

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Speaker 7: I know it live and in person. I love this.

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Speaker 3: I love when we get to come up here and

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Speaker 3: see the faces in person who we oftentimes it's just

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Speaker 3: across the digital airwaves. We have had a lot of

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Speaker 3: conversations with you over over the years about crime in

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Speaker 3: North Carolina. Obviously, the tragic crime that happened this summer

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Speaker 3: with Irena Rymy of her last name Zeruska, that was

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Speaker 3: something that was shocking to the nation. And it wasn't

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Speaker 3: just Republicans or Democrats. It was something that we saw

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Speaker 3: with our own eyes via the surveillance footage, and I

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Speaker 3: a lot of Americans and not just Republicans.

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Speaker 4: Is that what you hear when you talk to your constituents.

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Speaker 10: Oh, I think it is. I think you know the

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Speaker 10: fact that the reaction was so across the board in

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Speaker 2: It was.

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Speaker 10: It brought to light really the problem of crime and

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Speaker 10: our major cities across this country. And I think just

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Speaker 10: the innocence of Arena when she stepped onto that train

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Speaker 10: and just sat down and the guy was already on

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Speaker 10: the train, sitting in the road behind her like he

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Speaker 10: was asleep, and then to pull out that knife and

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Speaker 10: stab her. Just the atrocity that people saw it brought

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Speaker 10: it all to light. And then of course we took

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Speaker 10: the Judiciary Committee down to Charlotte, North Carolina and did

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Speaker 10: a field hearing, and I think that again began to

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Speaker 10: shed light on just what was happening here.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and the mayor there, Vyly Isles, etc. She came

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Speaker 3: out with a really interesting reaction to it all and

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Speaker 3: tried to attribute it to mental illness, which sure that

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Speaker 3: might be part of it, but it comes down to

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Speaker 3: a criminality issue and a recidivism issue. To her credit,

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Speaker 3: she did pivot. But I don't see many Democrats doing

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Speaker 3: this these days. They pretty much double down on whatever

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Speaker 3: they want to blame the crime DuJour on.

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Speaker 10: Well, they do, and that became the real important part

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Speaker 10: of this whole issue was the recivitism that you just

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Speaker 10: mentioned when we talk about that that this guy had

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Speaker 10: been arrested fourteen times, and yet he was on the streets.

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Speaker 10: And when you look at the breakdown in the system

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Speaker 10: to where you had a magistrate who literally just had

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Speaker 10: this person less than a month sitting in front of

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Speaker 10: them and it simply had him sign a statement that

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Speaker 10: he would appear in court, and yet he was out

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Speaker 10: walking the streets. And someone that had spent five years

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Speaker 10: in prison, someone that was known during his prison time

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Speaker 10: that he had a problem going on, a mental health issue,

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Speaker 10: that should have been all the more reason to keep

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Speaker 10: this person behind bars. Even his own mother was very

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Speaker 10: clear and said he should have never been out on

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Speaker 10: the streets, and she herself had been reaching out and

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Speaker 10: begging for them to put him somewhere.

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Speaker 3: I want to ask you, speaking of crime, the shocking

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Speaker 3: thing that we saw happen in Washington, d C. And

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Speaker 3: November leading up to Thanksgiving, the seditious six, as everyone

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Speaker 3: is starting to call them, how much.

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Speaker 7: Of a role do they have in what happened?

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Speaker 3: Because there is a villainization of not only our soldiers,

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Speaker 3: but anyone basically who's a first responder, most notably, you know,

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Speaker 3: law enforcement, but they were serving in a law enforcement capacity.

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Speaker 3: So I frankly am surprised that it took this long

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Speaker 3: because of Democrats rhetoric.

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Speaker 10: Well, the rhetoric has been over the top, and I

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Speaker 10: think that when you stop and look at just the

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Speaker 10: irresponsibility that we've seen not only from these but from

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Speaker 10: elected leaders across the country that have been willing to

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Speaker 10: say things that they shouldn't be saying and forget that

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Speaker 10: these folks are law enforcement. I've said that about the

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Speaker 10: border patrol that was part of Operation Charlotte's Web. These

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Speaker 10: are law enforcement officers, and we are to give them

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Speaker 10: our respect, We're to give them our honor. Same thing

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Speaker 10: with ice agents. They are law enforcement. These people risk

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Speaker 10: their lives each and every day. And when we know

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Speaker 10: that the vast majority of Americans back the blue and

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Speaker 10: say we support our police, you've got to support all

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Speaker 10: law enforcement. And we've got to continue to bring that

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Speaker 10: message home. And elected leaders have got to be careful

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Speaker 10: about the language they're using in the way that it

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Speaker 10: undermines the authority. We saw that when you start telling

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Speaker 10: people in the military you don't have to follow orders

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Speaker 10: if you don't think they're legal.

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Speaker 9: I mean again, that.

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Speaker 10: Is a step that, at the end of the day,

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Speaker 10: is undercutting authority. That is a principle that we've seen

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Speaker 10: happening in this nation that has always led to destruction

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Speaker 10: and ultimately death. You don't undercut authority, sir.

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Speaker 3: As I walk through the halls of this beautiful Cannon building,

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Speaker 3: there is there's an interesting dichotomy between Republicans offices and

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Speaker 3: Democrats offices. I walk down and I see Democrats' offices

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Speaker 3: and there there's various paraphernalia around their doors pertaining to

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Speaker 3: trans issues and immigrant whatever, you know. And I say

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Speaker 3: immigrant whatever, because it's usually illegal immigrants. And then I

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Speaker 3: walk past Republicans offices and you guys have the standard flags.

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Speaker 4: You have the American flag, your state flag, this flag

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Speaker 4: for the House.

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Speaker 3: You guys, you've got Democrats out there who are.

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Speaker 7: Saying things to the public.

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Speaker 3: They are spewing rhetoric, and you have Republicans who are

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Speaker 3: keeping their nose to the grindstone. And that was clearly

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Speaker 3: evident throughout the forty three day shutdown, because even though

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Speaker 3: you guys weren't technically working, it's still working hard.

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Speaker 10: We were working hard. We were all in our districts.

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Speaker 10: We were trying to meet constituent needs. We were going

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Speaker 10: to businesses, we were trying to see what they were doing,

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Speaker 10: how we could best help. So it was a great

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Speaker 10: time in many ways. You're in the shutdown for us

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Speaker 10: to be educated because it gave us a chance to

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Speaker 10: be out in the district on a more regular basis

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Speaker 10: than we typically are about one week a month. We

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Speaker 10: have an opportunity to be in the district and do

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Speaker 10: constituent work. But this was an extended period of time

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Speaker 10: as well as trying to discuss and recognize how we

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Speaker 10: were going to deal with this short term we were

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Speaker 10: going to have once the shutdown was over to be

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Speaker 10: able to move some things.

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Speaker 7: All right, So it is very short term. What's going

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Speaker 7: to happen between now and January, Well.

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Speaker 10: We're going to work all the way up. I'm being

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Speaker 10: told that we're going to be here up till the

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Speaker 10: week of Christmas up through the nineteenth, I believe, and

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Speaker 10: we're going to be taking care of business. I hope

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Speaker 10: we're going to see some appropriation bills.

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Speaker 2: I'm hoping.

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Speaker 10: I think they're nine left, and I think that we'll

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Speaker 10: hopefully get something of that done before we get to Christmas, And.

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Speaker 3: Well, what's the lowest hanging fruit by the way of

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Speaker 3: those nine, what do you think is most likely to

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Speaker 3: get buttoned up before James.

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Speaker 10: I can't speak specifically of which ones may get buttoned up,

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Speaker 10: but I can say that there has been the number

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Speaker 10: I have heard that there should be several that we

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Speaker 10: should not be controversial at all, that we should be

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Speaker 10: able to get across the finish line. Oh yeah, I

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Speaker 10: think then THEAA probably is going to happen in the

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Speaker 10: next week. But I do think that we've got to

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Speaker 10: get some things done to make sure the American public

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Speaker 10: recognizes that we can accomplish some things. As you said,

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Speaker 10: there's such a diversity up here in terms of the environment,

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Speaker 10: and it's a sense that we've got work to do.

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Speaker 10: We showed in the shutdown that when Republicans stand together,

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Speaker 10: and when we work together, and when we allow the

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Speaker 10: leader to be the leader, and then we can move

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Speaker 10: things and we can get things done and good things happen.

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Speaker 10: So my hope is that we're going to continue to

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Speaker 10: work together and we're going to be able to move

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Speaker 10: the needle as we go.

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Speaker 3: For Well, you are always working so hard on Capitol

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Speaker 3: Hill next year. I've heard a lot of I've actually

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Speaker 3: had a lot of conversations today with members about how

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Speaker 3: to I guess kind of cobble together solutions for Obamacare.

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Speaker 3: It sounds to me like a lot of you feel

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Speaker 3: like it is too deeply ingrained in the system to

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Speaker 3: completely do away with. But there are some patches that

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Speaker 3: can be done. What are some of your favorites.

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Speaker 10: I think some of the things that we keep hearing

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Speaker 10: we talk about are some of the ideas that were

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Speaker 10: there when we were talking about repealing Obamacare. That we

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Speaker 10: need to be able to make sure that HSA's health

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Speaker 10: savings accounts become a big issue, that we're able to

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Speaker 10: let folks purchase their health insurance across state lines. All

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Speaker 10: those things add to the competition and let the marketplace

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Speaker 10: guide this thing. Anything that's going to put people in

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Speaker 10: control of their own health care. I mean, health care

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Speaker 10: freedom are three words that we've got to be able

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Speaker 10: to say and mean. And I think when we start

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Speaker 10: taking these ideas and making them part of the solution,

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Speaker 10: you've got to remember only seven percent of the population

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Speaker 10: is on Obamacare. I mean, when you really stop and

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Speaker 10: think about it, the reality is more than fifty percent

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Speaker 10: of American people are on their insurance plans through where

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Speaker 10: they work in private insurance, and then you can look

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Speaker 10: at how the percentages all break down, but only seven

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Speaker 10: percent that we're talking about. And yet at the same time,

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Speaker 10: it is ingrained that has gone so far that we've

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Speaker 10: got to look at what can be the fixes that

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Speaker 10: we can put here to somehow make it more competitive,

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Speaker 10: to not let the insurance companies continue to be making

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Speaker 10: out with all of the taxpayer's money. That's where it's

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Speaker 10: gone wrong desperately.

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Speaker 3: Congress and Mark Hare is always a pleasure chatting with

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Speaker 3: you and pulling all that wisdom.

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Speaker 4: Thank you so much, Thank you absolutely all right.

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Speaker 1: Folks, after the break, amend and I will speak with

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Speaker 1: the Senior Vice president of aid Back Action, Andy man Gion,

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Speaker 1: need to see what they will be working on coming

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Speaker 1: up into journy six. They have an ambitious agenda too.

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Speaker 1: We'll cover that next.

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Speaker 3: Right for these messages, Welcome back everybody. I can't believe it.

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Speaker 3: Twenty twenty six is almost here, and the Trump administration

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Speaker 3: has been looking ahead to what it needs to get

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Speaker 3: done in the new year, as well as the policy

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Speaker 3: wins that they have gotten, of course this year since

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Speaker 3: President Trump's inauguration. So joining us now to talk about

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Speaker 3: some of those wins as well as what comes next

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Speaker 3: is AMAC Action. Senior Vice President Andy MANGIONI Andy, great

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Speaker 3: to see you, and early Marry Christmas.

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Speaker 9: Merry Christmas to you, thank you.

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Speaker 7: Thank you.

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Speaker 11: All right, So you know, the federal wins, those are

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Speaker 11: always the newsy bits, and I know that AMAC is

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Speaker 11: right in the middle of all of these efforts talk

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Speaker 11: about some of the most consequential wins we've got at

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Speaker 11: the federal At the federal level, but we.

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Speaker 12: Supported the l Riley Act, which became the first bill

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Speaker 12: President Trump signed into law during his second administration. And

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Speaker 12: if you recall, Lincoln Riley was a nursing student who

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Speaker 12: was tragically and violently killed at twenty twenty four at

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Speaker 12: the hands of an illegal alien. The bill requires Immigration

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Speaker 12: and Customs enforcement to detain illegal aliens arrested and charged

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Speaker 12: with theft related crimes or those accused of assaulting a

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Speaker 12: police officer, and the law also grants states the rights

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Speaker 12: to sue the Department of Homeland Security if illegal aliens

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Speaker 12: victimized their citizens. Another bill we supported was the Hall

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Speaker 12: Fentanyl Act, which was also signed into law. This bill

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Speaker 12: permanently places FENTONYL related substances in Schedule one, which designates

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Speaker 12: them among the most dangerous controlled substances, and is part

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Speaker 12: of President Trump's effort to stop the scourge of fentanyl

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Speaker 12: from wreaking havoc in American communities.

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Speaker 9: But perhaps the highest.

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Speaker 12: Profile bill that AMAC Action was directly involved in was

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Speaker 12: the One Big Beautiful Bill. We pulled our members on

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Speaker 12: the bill, and after they overwhelmingly supported it, we ran

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Speaker 12: several campaigns that resulted in nearly forty thousand messages being

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Speaker 12: sent to Congress by AMAC members in support of the bill.

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Speaker 12: No other grassroots organization in the country made such an

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Speaker 12: impact during the bill's deliberations, and in the end, many

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Speaker 12: AMAC priorities were codified into law, including the six thousand

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Speaker 12: dollars tax deduction from middle class seniors, health savings accounts

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Speaker 12: being eligible for direct primary care, construction of the border wall,

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Speaker 12: and the small business tax cut.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and a lot of those are going to take

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Speaker 1: effeck to the beginning of the year. People going to

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Speaker 1: really see it show up in their wallet and their

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Speaker 1: checkbooks soon. Andy, our founding fathers always intended the states

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Speaker 1: to be laboratories of the great ideas that would one

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Speaker 1: day make it to Washington. You guys had a ton

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Speaker 1: of victories in the last year when it comes to

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Speaker 1: state legislatures.

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Speaker 2: Tell about a few of them.

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Speaker 12: Absolutely, John. Just very recently, AMAC members helped secure significant

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Speaker 12: election to tegery victory in Ohio when the governor signed

884
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Speaker 12: a bill just this past Friday that mandated that all

885
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Speaker 12: absentee ballots must be received by election day. This legislation

886
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Speaker 12: establishes a clear and uniform standard for absentee ballot receipt

887
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Speaker 12: and builds confidence in Ohio's elections. AMAC members sent over

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Speaker 12: one thousand messages directly to the governor compelling him to

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Speaker 12: sign this bill. And on the healthcare front, AMAC members

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Speaker 12: in Oklahoma pressure the legislature there to help get a

891
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Speaker 12: hospital price transparency bill enacted. What this bill does It

892
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Speaker 12: requires hospitals to publicly post their prices for hundreds of

893
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Speaker 12: so called shoppable medical services. These are non emergency services,

894
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Speaker 12: and it makes them susceptible to penalties for non compliance.

895
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Speaker 12: This means that patients can shop for the best prices

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Speaker 12: for their non emergency medical services, much like the way

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Speaker 12: they offer any other major purchase they make in their

898
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Speaker 12: lives and John, this is free market medicine, which is

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Speaker 12: something that AMAC Action has been advocating for over the

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Speaker 12: past several years.

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Speaker 4: Well in Andy. It's so common sense.

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Speaker 3: I think that people in other countries look at our

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Speaker 3: healthcare system, which is supposed to be modeled around the

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Speaker 3: free market, and they think to themselves, how do people

905
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Speaker 3: just go into a doctor's office and not have any

906
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Speaker 3: idea what they're going to be charged? And we've dealt

907
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Speaker 3: with that forever, So this is something that I know

908
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Speaker 3: so many people appreciate that upfrontness when they go to

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Speaker 3: the doctor. Speaking of the free market, there have also

910
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Speaker 3: been a lot of corporate wins for AMAC.

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Speaker 4: Tell us about those well, Iman.

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Speaker 12: Our advocacy also extends into the corporate boardroom. In twenty

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Speaker 12: twenty five, we battled WULP policies and we also fought

914
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Speaker 12: for the right to life. AMAC members brought the grassroots

915
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Speaker 12: muscle with over four four hundred messages sent to IBM executives.

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Speaker 9: These are people in the C suites to complement the legal.

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Speaker 12: And shareholder pressure to compel the company to adopt a

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Speaker 12: viewpoint neutral policy for media buying and content policies with

919
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Speaker 12: respect to political and religious views.

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Speaker 9: This was in direct.

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Speaker 12: Support to President Trump's efforts to eradicate the country of

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Speaker 12: harmful DEI policies and shows the depth of AMAC members

923
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Speaker 12: engagement on this issue.

924
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Speaker 9: And in another.

925
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Speaker 12: Significant corporate win, this time for the pro life movement,

926
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Speaker 12: Costco has confirmed it will not stock or dispense the

927
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Speaker 12: abortion drug the Fetterstone, in any of its hundreds of pharmacies.

928
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Speaker 12: This decision followed a multi year shareholder and advocacy effort

929
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Speaker 12: on the part of AMAC action in conjunction with the

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Speaker 12: Alliance Defending Freedom and Inspire Investing. AMAC members are so

931
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Speaker 12: passionate about the sanctity of life, and their involvement here

932
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Speaker 12: shows that they're willing to turn this passion into action.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, pretty amazing.

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Speaker 1: When you mobilize that grassroots army, things really get done.

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Speaker 1: So that begs your question, what's on your top priority

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Speaker 1: list for twenty twenty six eighty.

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Speaker 9: It's going to be a busy year, John.

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Speaker 12: Legislatively, there are a few bills we're looking at, but

939
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Speaker 12: we're going to aggressively pursue the passage of the Safeguarding

940
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Speaker 12: American Voter Eligibility or SAVE Act in the Senate. AMAC

941
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Speaker 12: members help get this built through the House earlier this year.

942
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Speaker 12: The bill requires states to obtain documentary proof of citizenship

943
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Speaker 12: and identity where registering people to vote for federal elections.

944
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Speaker 12: It also requires states to take action to remove non

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Speaker 12: citizens from their existing voter roles. And it's a priority

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Speaker 12: issue for AMAC members and we need to get this

947
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Speaker 12: to President Trump's desk. And I believe we'll also spend

948
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Speaker 12: a significant amount of time priming people to get out

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Speaker 12: and vote in the twenty twenty six midterms. Our side

950
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Speaker 12: usually doesn't show up and off your elections, and we

951
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Speaker 12: need to change that. We'll be warning our members what

952
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Speaker 12: will happen if President Trump doesn't maintain congressional majorities, namely

953
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Speaker 12: NonStop impeachment and disruption of his agenda. And we also

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Speaker 12: want to encourage people to work the elections as poll

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Speaker 12: up servers and election workers, much like we successfully did

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Speaker 12: in twenty twenty four and I anticipate these efforts being

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Speaker 12: a year long initiative.

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Speaker 4: Annie. We love the message of your organization.

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Speaker 3: You look at at some of the priorities of organizations

960
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Speaker 3: like AAAR and for freedom loving Americans, your organization just

961
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Speaker 3: tops that in so many ways, and we appreciate you

962
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Speaker 3: being here. Tell everybody where they can find out more

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Speaker 3: about AMAC.

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Speaker 12: Go to AMAC dot us www dot AMAC dot us.

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Speaker 12: One look at our homepage and he'll tell you exactly

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Speaker 12: what our priorities are and where we're coming from.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely all right, everybody, mag Axton Senior Vice President Andy

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Speaker 3: MANNGIOI Merry Christmas to you and your family and to

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Speaker 3: our audience.

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Speaker 4: We're going to take a very quick break and we'll be.

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Speaker 11: Right back on the other side.

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Speaker 3: Welcome back everybody, to close out this Boxing day episode

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Speaker 3: of our show, John, I know that you and I,

974
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Speaker 3: because of our partnerships with some of our more health

975
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Speaker 3: centered partners, we both tried to be better this holiday

976
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Speaker 3: when it comes to conforming to the tenets of Make

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Speaker 3: America Healthy Again. I did try to not imbibe in

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Speaker 3: so much sugar, because that's something that we've spoken about

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Speaker 3: a lot with our MAHA guests. Did you hold back

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Speaker 3: or did you just let it rip because hey it's

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Speaker 3: the holidays.

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Speaker 1: I let it rip for a couple of days. But

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Speaker 1: I'm going to get back on program this weekend. I

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Speaker 1: promise back on the path. As our friends at Native

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Speaker 1: Paths say, yeah, you know, there's too much good food around.

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Speaker 1: But the good news is that we have quick and

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Speaker 1: easy ways to get back on course.

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Speaker 2: And I think that's what's exciting.

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Speaker 1: I think about the Wellness Company and their new product,

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Speaker 1: new new product drop Or, which helps you lose weight.

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Speaker 1: Obviously the great nutritional stuff, the shakes. We do Field

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Speaker 1: of Greens, which is a daily Even on Christmas Day,

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Speaker 1: I had my shape from Field of Greens. It's easy

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Speaker 1: to get back on the path now because you get

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Speaker 1: that mindset. And of course we have a lot of

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Speaker 1: great products that our own community has brought us. So

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Speaker 1: I will be back on the schneid tomorrow at Saturday.

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Speaker 3: But John, as I was listening to these conversations that

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Speaker 3: I had a few weeks ago, I was refreshing my mind.

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Speaker 3: And it's interesting because a lot of the priorities for

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Speaker 3: Republicans for next year resemble what President Trump's priorities looked

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Speaker 3: like going into the twenty twenty four election, with the

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Speaker 3: exception of one thing.

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Speaker 4: The two main things are crime and affordability.

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Speaker 3: That's something that Republicans have to address and have to

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Speaker 3: ameliorate before the midterm elections take place. But the third thing,

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Speaker 3: as we talked about all throughout the show with these

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Speaker 3: guests healthcare, and as we talked about at the top,

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Speaker 3: Republicans finally have done the innovative thinking to find ways

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Speaker 3: to fill in and patch work Obamacare such that the

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Speaker 3: American people can feel tangible results and tangible benefits. And

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Speaker 3: if they can achieve all three of those things, I

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Speaker 3: think that November might look good for them. Despite what

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Speaker 3: we just saw in Miami, despite what we just saw

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Speaker 3: in Virginia, in New Jersey and these other elections that

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Speaker 3: everybody said were bellweathers.

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Speaker 1: Listen, I think Scott Rasmison has it right. If the

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Speaker 1: economy turns well, and it'd be there are real signs

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Speaker 1: that it's turning well, whether it is inflation slowing down

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Speaker 1: or economic growth accelerating, which were two of the big

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Speaker 1: issues going into Christmas week, then the Americans will be

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Speaker 1: in a good mood. And usually when Americans are in

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Speaker 1: a good economic mood, the party in power does well,

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Speaker 1: and when they're not, they do poorly. And so the

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Speaker 1: first and second quarter will really dictate what the debate

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Speaker 1: and the twenty sixth election will be. I think you

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Speaker 1: see Democrats and you wrote about this already preparing for

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Speaker 1: healthcare because they see the economy is probably.

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Speaker 2: Not going to be their issue. So that tells you something.

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Speaker 3: And that's one of those big wins for Republicans. That

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Speaker 3: will help to demoralize Democrats and keep them away from

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Speaker 3: the polls in November, so that could be another side

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Speaker 3: step of a win for Republicans.

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Speaker 4: All Right, everybody, thanks so much for being with us.

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Speaker 3: Happy Boxing Day, have a wonderful weekend, and we'll be

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Speaker 3: back here on Monday at six pm Eastern