WEBVTT - Shocking Medicaid Fraud 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:02.000 I does round up an information on a low hour. 0:00:02.040 --> 0:00:04.559 Here's our toll free telephone number if you want to 0:00:04.559 --> 0:00:06.040 be a part of the program at S eight hundred 0:00:06.519 --> 0:00:09.280 nine four one sean if you want to join us. 0:00:09.520 --> 0:00:09.840 Now. 0:00:09.960 --> 0:00:13.600 You've been hearing for over a week, really about a 0:00:13.640 --> 0:00:18.160 week and a half about Minnesota fraudsters and Tim Walls. 0:00:18.160 --> 0:00:22.120 The governor of Minnesota was warned repeatedly by whistleblowers how 0:00:22.160 --> 0:00:25.680 over a billion dollars from medicaid you know was stolen 0:00:25.720 --> 0:00:31.159 by these fraudsters. Now, doctor Oz is the administrator for 0:00:31.320 --> 0:00:36.040 the Center for Centers for Medicare Medicaid Services, and more 0:00:36.080 --> 0:00:40.519 than anybody else by far in the country, he understands 0:00:40.960 --> 0:00:45.120 the depth of this scheme, the scam to the tune 0:00:45.120 --> 0:00:47.760 of over a billion dollars, and he joins us now, 0:00:48.040 --> 0:00:49.760 Doctor Oz's great to have you, Baxter. 0:00:49.520 --> 0:00:50.360 How are you want? 0:00:50.400 --> 0:00:53.280 It will be with you, But unfortunately it's under this condition. 0:00:53.440 --> 0:00:57.920 This is a stunning studying change in how I think 0:00:57.960 --> 0:01:04.040 Americans should wininess and participate in discussion around medicaiding services 0:01:04.040 --> 0:01:07.040 of this nature that again designed to help are most vulnerable. 0:01:07.120 --> 0:01:09.759 But when you pull healthcare in the services that are 0:01:09.760 --> 0:01:12.800 not strictly around health like housing which should be had, 0:01:13.160 --> 0:01:16.800 or the transportation of people, which should be Department of Transportation, 0:01:17.000 --> 0:01:20.880 or education of autistic children children the spectrum, which again 0:01:20.920 --> 0:01:23.640 should be part of education. You end up with holes 0:01:23.920 --> 0:01:28.080 in the architecture of our social network of security, and 0:01:28.120 --> 0:01:31.000 they are being taken advantage of. In the case of Minnesota, 0:01:31.040 --> 0:01:34.800 of course, the somalion pop and involved in an overwhelmingly 0:01:35.200 --> 0:01:38.440 important way. But these prosters toll over a billion dollars 0:01:38.440 --> 0:01:40.959 from Medicaid, which means it's your money, Your federal tax 0:01:41.000 --> 0:01:44.520 dollars got taken by individuals, many of them again from 0:01:44.560 --> 0:01:48.040 Smilling descent, who are now spending that money overseas buying 0:01:48.080 --> 0:01:53.800 real estate and Nigeria, potentially putting it into terrorist organizations, 0:01:53.840 --> 0:01:57.960 buying flashy cars, homes, kickbacks to the parents of the 0:01:58.000 --> 0:01:59.960 kids who are falsely lying and seeing that their care 0:02:00.160 --> 0:02:02.640 of autism. These are the kind of stuff that makes 0:02:02.680 --> 0:02:05.840 you so upset, as especially the administrator, because when you 0:02:05.840 --> 0:02:08.320 get transparency into these numbers, Sean, you can't sleep. 0:02:08.080 --> 0:02:12.240 At night when you talk about the depth of this, 0:02:12.880 --> 0:02:15.399 and a lot of people, you know, the knee jerk 0:02:15.440 --> 0:02:19.120 reaction is, oh, you're picking on the Somalis and Congresswoman 0:02:19.120 --> 0:02:21.920 Omar is out there saying the same thing. And you know, 0:02:21.960 --> 0:02:25.040 but Tim Walls was warned about this, but he did 0:02:25.080 --> 0:02:28.280 not take the warnings from whistleblowers that this was out 0:02:28.320 --> 0:02:31.360 of control. You know, I've heard that, for example, the 0:02:31.400 --> 0:02:35.280 claims of autism rates were so out of the norm 0:02:35.560 --> 0:02:40.840 and skyrocketing to massive amounts in terms of percentage of 0:02:40.919 --> 0:02:44.360 people in the Somali community. Now, I just want to 0:02:44.400 --> 0:02:49.280 know if there was systemic, this systemic practice of committing 0:02:49.360 --> 0:02:52.960 fraud to on the American people, and how much money 0:02:53.000 --> 0:02:55.080 it's costing us, and who was involved in it. 0:02:55.240 --> 0:02:57.680 I share your desire, which is why we've gotten a 0:02:57.840 --> 0:03:01.480 very strict set of guidelines rules that wals is going 0:03:01.560 --> 0:03:03.000 to have to play by. But let me get let 0:03:03.000 --> 0:03:05.360 me answer the questions as you ask them. So the 0:03:05.400 --> 0:03:08.960 autism program will loom from about three million dollars in 0:03:08.960 --> 0:03:13.680 twenty eighteen to four hundred million dollars. That's more than 0:03:13.720 --> 0:03:17.320 one hundred and thirtyfold increase in twenty twenty three. That's 0:03:17.320 --> 0:03:18.760 that I've been including the last year and a half, 0:03:18.800 --> 0:03:21.040 by the way, so I'm sure it's much much worse now. 0:03:21.200 --> 0:03:24.079 We don't have that many more autistic children, And what 0:03:24.160 --> 0:03:26.600 was happening was these scammers. And it's true that many 0:03:26.600 --> 0:03:30.760 were some millions. We're paying parents thousand bucks, fifteen hundred 0:03:30.760 --> 0:03:32.920 bucks more. And in fact, there was a whole bidding 0:03:32.960 --> 0:03:35.560 war to get these parents to lie about their kids 0:03:35.560 --> 0:03:38.520 for your program versus another program. Now, why what happens? 0:03:38.960 --> 0:03:42.640 They were educating these high school graduates with a forty 0:03:42.680 --> 0:03:45.200 hour at home class. Right, take a test, you pass it. Good. 0:03:45.400 --> 0:03:48.800 You take these these now credentialed quote unquote people, you 0:03:48.880 --> 0:03:51.720 put them in playgrounds, have them take a child to 0:03:51.880 --> 0:03:54.760 quote unquote has autism, and they get paid up to 0:03:54.800 --> 0:03:57.920 thirty six dollars every fifteen minutes. I'm one hundred and 0:03:57.960 --> 0:03:58.480 fifty bucks. 0:03:58.680 --> 0:04:00.720 So these are the numbers that I have. And if 0:04:00.720 --> 0:04:03.440 I'm wrong, please tell me. And this is what we've researched, 0:04:03.440 --> 0:04:06.520 and we've been able to find. The housing program was 0:04:06.560 --> 0:04:09.520 supposed to cost two point six million dollars annually. Last 0:04:09.560 --> 0:04:13.360 year they paid out over one hundred million. You mentioned autism. 0:04:13.400 --> 0:04:17.120 That program went from three million dollars in twenty eighteen 0:04:17.200 --> 0:04:21.360 to over to nearly four hundred million in twenty twenty three. 0:04:21.680 --> 0:04:24.799 So explain this this it's it's. 0:04:24.680 --> 0:04:28.920 Impossible to have a dramatic increase in autism at that 0:04:29.080 --> 0:04:32.479 level that would warrant or justify that amount of money impossible. 0:04:32.640 --> 0:04:35.159 You also pervert the data. Now we're looking at you know, 0:04:35.200 --> 0:04:37.599 I got me. How much more autism do we really have? 0:04:37.960 --> 0:04:41.040 And here's the other thing, Sean, when every child has autism, 0:04:41.160 --> 0:04:44.040 the kids with real autism don't get the benefits. So 0:04:44.160 --> 0:04:48.080 the fraud increases are that was money in the pockets 0:04:48.160 --> 0:04:51.320 of these scammers, but it's actually hurting our most vulnerable 0:04:51.360 --> 0:04:54.840 Americans more than in any other group. So again I'm 0:04:54.839 --> 0:04:56.279 going to go through this list. It is important you 0:04:56.279 --> 0:04:59.120 mentioned autism. You mentioned housing, and this is housing for 0:04:59.160 --> 0:05:01.280 people were supposed to be homeless and trying to get 0:05:01.320 --> 0:05:03.159 them home from a hospital so it don't cost so 0:05:03.240 --> 0:05:05.280 much of sitting around waiting to get out. This is 0:05:05.279 --> 0:05:07.120 supposed to be well to used money. Two point six 0:05:07.160 --> 0:05:09.240 million dollars. You probably save a lot more than that, 0:05:09.400 --> 0:05:11.800 but at one hundred million dollars doesn't make any sense. 0:05:11.960 --> 0:05:15.159 Personal care, home healthcare, right, someone my family is going 0:05:15.200 --> 0:05:17.799 to take care of me. Now, everybody again, some Allians 0:05:18.640 --> 0:05:21.720 have the predominance of this. Everybody needs personal home care. 0:05:22.360 --> 0:05:24.719 Every there and their relatives are all the caregivers, so 0:05:24.760 --> 0:05:28.159 you get paid twice. Right. Transportation, again, we're not the 0:05:28.200 --> 0:05:30.280 Department of Transportation, but once in a while you need 0:05:30.279 --> 0:05:33.360 a car service or uber to get to the doctor's office. 0:05:33.360 --> 0:05:36.719 But not if you're getting scammed at you know, many 0:05:36.720 --> 0:05:39.720 many times more which you expect have substance use disorder. 0:05:39.839 --> 0:05:42.720 All these things get perverted. And Sean, here's the crazy part. 0:05:42.920 --> 0:05:45.440 In the case of Minnesota, we're talking about a scenario 0:05:45.440 --> 0:05:47.840 where they knew there was an issue, they were raising 0:05:47.880 --> 0:05:52.800 the concerns people in the Healthy Human Services were whistle blowers, 0:05:52.920 --> 0:05:55.560 and they were being told cut it out. First of all, 0:05:55.680 --> 0:05:59.760 some millions are an important voting block. They overwhelmingly vote them, 0:06:00.600 --> 0:06:02.840 and so they would cause the political backlash. This is 0:06:02.880 --> 0:06:06.120 what people on the ground are telling us. And again 0:06:06.160 --> 0:06:08.800 we got folks from Minnesota in the program here, and 0:06:08.839 --> 0:06:10.520 so we're asking them to call their friends what was 0:06:10.560 --> 0:06:12.800 really going down. But the other part that would really 0:06:12.839 --> 0:06:15.279 bothersome to me is there was the perception they'd be 0:06:15.320 --> 0:06:18.119 perceived as racist if they started to bring this stuff 0:06:18.120 --> 0:06:22.279 out because Somalians are overwhelmingly dark skinned. Well that's I mean, 0:06:22.520 --> 0:06:24.960 that's not the point here. It doesn't matter you know 0:06:24.960 --> 0:06:27.640 what your ethnic background is. If you're stealing money from 0:06:27.680 --> 0:06:30.760 the US government and from the federal taxpayers, you should 0:06:30.800 --> 0:06:34.120 be prosecuted independent of any other variable that you might 0:06:34.200 --> 0:06:37.039 think might make it look bad. So once again, it's 0:06:37.080 --> 0:06:40.800 not about pretending that you're nice or kind, or equitable 0:06:40.880 --> 0:06:43.680 or fair. It's are you truly doing what's right for 0:06:43.720 --> 0:06:46.440 the American people, because that will allow you to take 0:06:46.480 --> 0:06:51.479 care of everybody. Right now, you have people in Mississippi, Alabama, Texas, Florida, 0:06:51.720 --> 0:06:55.039 in California paying extra money into the tax system to 0:06:55.120 --> 0:06:57.760 make up for the theft of money in Minnesota, and 0:06:57.800 --> 0:07:00.400 we're seeing this Sewan across the country. We have more 0:07:00.640 --> 0:07:04.600 durable medical equipment suppliers in South Florida five times more 0:07:04.600 --> 0:07:08.560 in fact, than McDonald's franchises. Why, we've been told by 0:07:08.600 --> 0:07:11.320 some that might be the embolvement of the Cuban government 0:07:11.520 --> 0:07:14.280 scamming us. We know that there are Armenian gangs who 0:07:14.280 --> 0:07:18.800 have dramatically increased spending on hospice care. Remember these fragile 0:07:18.840 --> 0:07:21.080 people at the end of their life being taken advantage 0:07:21.080 --> 0:07:24.040 of by these programs. You have now home health care 0:07:24.200 --> 0:07:28.360 dramatically increasing and scanning of money from the federal taxpayer. 0:07:28.440 --> 0:07:33.040 In Los Angeles, we have Russian gangs, multinational groups scamming 0:07:33.080 --> 0:07:35.560 the healthcare system because we're big, right, one point seventy 0:07:35.600 --> 0:07:37.920 five trillion dollars is a big target on our back, 0:07:38.160 --> 0:07:40.800 and you can take advantage of us. We as Americans 0:07:40.840 --> 0:07:43.240 have to get serious about this. The fraud extends into 0:07:43.240 --> 0:07:45.640 the Affordable Care Act, where there's now a debate about 0:07:45.680 --> 0:07:48.480 whether they throw more money at this program, which because 0:07:48.480 --> 0:07:50.480 it's the unaffordable care right at right now. 0:07:50.440 --> 0:07:53.400 All those so affordable, as my friend Mark Simone says, 0:07:53.600 --> 0:07:55.400 why do you need all those subsidies and why do 0:07:55.440 --> 0:07:57.120 you need subsidies in perpetuity? 0:07:57.560 --> 0:07:58.920 After all, it is affordable. 0:07:59.200 --> 0:08:02.120 But never mind that people will promise that they wouldn't 0:08:02.120 --> 0:08:05.560 lose their doctor, their their health care plan, and the 0:08:05.640 --> 0:08:08.239 average family would pay, you know, save up for twenty 0:08:08.240 --> 0:08:11.440 five hundred dollars a year. The results are in millions 0:08:11.480 --> 0:08:14.880 lost their doctors, millions lost their care. We're paying anywhere 0:08:14.880 --> 0:08:17.240 from two hundred and twenty five to three hundred percent and. 0:08:17.280 --> 0:08:19.080 More than we used to pay. 0:08:19.280 --> 0:08:22.640 And there's fully forty percent of the country they're lucky 0:08:22.680 --> 0:08:26.040 if they have two Obamacare Exchange options. 0:08:26.040 --> 0:08:29.560 Many only have one, and that means bad or awful. 0:08:29.840 --> 0:08:30.800 That's your choice. 0:08:31.280 --> 0:08:35.000 And it's not using any innovative medicine, telemedicine, it's not 0:08:35.120 --> 0:08:38.560 using health care cooperatives, it's not using you know, we're 0:08:38.559 --> 0:08:42.720 not getting most favored pricing on pharmaceuticals, et cetera. There 0:08:42.760 --> 0:08:45.560 are alternatives that can save a ton of money and 0:08:45.600 --> 0:08:47.040 provide much better care. 0:08:47.520 --> 0:08:49.840 And Sean this s part's going to anger the audience. 0:08:50.880 --> 0:08:53.720 About forty percent of people on the Affordable Care Act 0:08:53.880 --> 0:08:56.600 never use the policy. We believe this because they don't 0:08:56.640 --> 0:08:59.360 either know they have a policy, or weren't on the policy, 0:08:59.440 --> 0:09:01.760 or some other policy like maybe, well, how. 0:09:01.640 --> 0:09:04.000 Many people are on the policy but don't even use it. 0:09:04.080 --> 0:09:05.960 And by the way, and you look at the amount 0:09:06.000 --> 0:09:08.800 of money that these insurance companies. Their stock prices have 0:09:08.920 --> 0:09:12.840 gone up one thousand percent when the average stock price 0:09:13.040 --> 0:09:16.200 and this is since they quote Affordable Care Act Obamacare, 0:09:16.840 --> 0:09:23.040 where the average increase for any other listed company is 0:09:23.120 --> 0:09:24.560 up like two hundred and fifty percent. 0:09:24.640 --> 0:09:26.839 That's gone off that dramatically. They're doing very well. 0:09:27.240 --> 0:09:31.400 The horrible reality is we're buying full freight insurance for 0:09:31.440 --> 0:09:34.160 at least four and a half million people who don't 0:09:34.480 --> 0:09:37.680 need it, aren't appropriately on it, are illegal immigrants, they're 0:09:37.679 --> 0:09:39.920 already on Medicaid, or they're in two states at once, 0:09:39.960 --> 0:09:43.800 but the federal taxpayer is spending thousands and thousands of 0:09:43.840 --> 0:09:47.000 dollars a year to buy them full priced insurance. Again, 0:09:47.040 --> 0:09:49.240 going to the insurance companies is what drives the president 0:09:49.280 --> 0:09:51.439 crazy because he wants to make sure the money goes 0:09:51.440 --> 0:09:53.480 to the people. And the other benefit is if the 0:09:53.520 --> 0:09:55.719 people get the money, they know they have the coverage. 0:09:55.880 --> 0:09:58.320 And so we have now a system in place where 0:09:58.360 --> 0:10:01.120 we're pretending to do the right thing. Same big narrator, Shawn, 0:10:01.360 --> 0:10:04.600 We're pretending like we're helping, but in fact you're spending money, 0:10:04.720 --> 0:10:07.640 throwing money at issues without addressing the core reality. So 0:10:07.840 --> 0:10:09.840 let me just announce right now what we're going to do. 0:10:10.200 --> 0:10:12.439 Just to go back to Minnesota. Per second, we are 0:10:12.480 --> 0:10:16.840 demanding weekly updates on an audit on all fourteen of 0:10:16.880 --> 0:10:20.080 these programs like autism. How can we shut down already? 0:10:20.240 --> 0:10:22.800 We're going to put a moratorium on things like personal care, 0:10:23.280 --> 0:10:27.760 home care, transportation, peer recovery services, all these things we've done. 0:10:27.800 --> 0:10:30.400 By the end of this month, Walts must provide a 0:10:30.440 --> 0:10:34.160 comprehensive corrective action plan with a specific timeline and accountability. 0:10:34.160 --> 0:10:36.400 We're not going to allow the American tax perier to 0:10:36.640 --> 0:10:39.120 be defrauded anymore, and Seawan to help me. By the 0:10:39.240 --> 0:10:42.520 end of January, if they have not addressed this fraud, 0:10:42.760 --> 0:10:45.720 we are going to withhold federal Medicaid funding. I just 0:10:45.760 --> 0:10:49.000 posted something and I said to the governor Wall, start 0:10:49.000 --> 0:10:51.120 looking for loose change under your couch, because if you 0:10:51.160 --> 0:10:53.800 don't fix this problem, Minnesota is going to have a 0:10:53.840 --> 0:10:56.920 major financial crisis. We will no longer tolerate this. And 0:10:56.960 --> 0:10:59.240 I got bigger news. We're looking at all the other 0:10:59.320 --> 0:11:02.040 states or are potentially in the same bucket because we 0:11:02.080 --> 0:11:04.439 believe this fraud is happening at a national level. 0:11:04.559 --> 0:11:07.920 It's unbelievable. I'm glad you're holding him accountable. And one 0:11:07.960 --> 0:11:10.240 of you brought up the race factor earlier. I mean 0:11:10.720 --> 0:11:15.200 Congressman Omar Somali's were the real victims of fraud. I'm 0:11:15.240 --> 0:11:18.600 confident there's no link between medicare fraud and the scheme 0:11:18.679 --> 0:11:19.880 and terrorist activity. 0:11:20.240 --> 0:11:23.040 All the eighty seven people charged, all but eight are 0:11:23.080 --> 0:11:26.760 of Somali descent, and that has added to the spotlight 0:11:26.920 --> 0:11:32.319 being put specifically on your community. Why do you think 0:11:32.320 --> 0:11:35.080 this fraud was allowed to get so widespread? 0:11:36.960 --> 0:11:39.840 I want to say, you know, this also has an 0:11:39.920 --> 0:11:46.880 impact on Somali's because we are also taxpayers in Minnesota. 0:11:47.720 --> 0:11:52.560 We also could have benefited from the program and the 0:11:52.600 --> 0:11:57.160 money that was stolen, and so it's been really frustrating 0:11:57.600 --> 0:12:02.080 for people to not acknowledge the fact that we're you know, 0:12:02.160 --> 0:12:07.400 we're also as Minnesota as the tax payers, really upset 0:12:07.600 --> 0:12:10.240 and angry about the fraud that has occurred. 0:12:10.400 --> 0:12:13.000 House Republicans and the Treasury Secretary just now talked about 0:12:13.000 --> 0:12:16.440 a link to terrorism, a possible link. He said they're 0:12:16.600 --> 0:12:20.719 just now beginning to look into it. How confident are 0:12:20.720 --> 0:12:21.800 you that that's a false claim. 0:12:22.200 --> 0:12:26.360 I'm pretty confident at the moment because there are people 0:12:26.400 --> 0:12:30.280 who have been prosecuted and who have been sentenced. If 0:12:30.280 --> 0:12:33.199 there was a linkage in that the money that they 0:12:33.200 --> 0:12:36.640 had stolen going to terrorism, then that is a failure 0:12:37.200 --> 0:12:42.640 of the FBI and our court system in not figuring 0:12:42.679 --> 0:12:48.960 that out and basically charging them with these with these charges. 0:12:49.440 --> 0:12:53.680 If money from US tax dollars is being sent to 0:12:54.240 --> 0:12:59.160 help with terrorism in Somolia, we want to know and 0:12:59.200 --> 0:13:02.240 we want those people prosecuted and we want to make 0:13:02.280 --> 0:13:04.240 sure that that doesn't ever happen again. 0:13:04.880 --> 0:13:07.760 I don't have confidence in anything that congress Woman Omar says. 0:13:08.240 --> 0:13:13.160 Well, I'm reporting what Somalian Americans in the area are 0:13:13.200 --> 0:13:16.480 saying they were witnessing amongst their former countrymen. So this 0:13:16.600 --> 0:13:19.400 is not even mem Atas or Sean Hannity saying this. 0:13:19.480 --> 0:13:22.600 We're literally sharing with you information from the ground people 0:13:22.840 --> 0:13:24.679 who come to this country. I think of my father 0:13:24.760 --> 0:13:27.920 was an immigrant, legal right legal immigrant, came as a doctor. 0:13:28.600 --> 0:13:31.400 He was incredibly proud that he was allowed to come 0:13:31.440 --> 0:13:33.719 here and saw America as a shining city on the hill. 0:13:33.760 --> 0:13:36.719 He couldn't believe America existed and will let him come 0:13:36.720 --> 0:13:39.400 here and partake in the American dream. So I do 0:13:39.480 --> 0:13:42.280 believe that people in the Surmalian community are witnessing this. 0:13:42.440 --> 0:13:46.280 They see their countrymen getting ill gotten profits and then 0:13:46.320 --> 0:13:52.320 buying luxury cars, big huge houses, incredible vacations properties overseas. 0:13:52.400 --> 0:13:55.280 They're not happy about that. They see us as kindly 0:13:55.559 --> 0:13:57.640 having taken them in and they're mad about this. So 0:13:57.800 --> 0:14:00.720 they're becoming allies. In fact, across the bold, the people 0:14:00.800 --> 0:14:02.880 wakened us up to some of this fraud. For example, 0:14:02.920 --> 0:14:05.559 in hospice and home healthcare. Are people in the industry 0:14:05.640 --> 0:14:07.920 to say, what are you guys doing? Where have you 0:14:08.040 --> 0:14:10.320 been for the last four years? And I think that's 0:14:10.320 --> 0:14:12.320 a good wake up call for everybody because they've been 0:14:12.320 --> 0:14:15.360 crying about this for several years. Nobody was at home. 0:14:15.840 --> 0:14:18.320 Now we're home. Let's go deal with these issues. When 0:14:18.360 --> 0:14:21.040 I had Cuban Americans in South Florid telling me that 0:14:21.240 --> 0:14:24.280 other Cubans are taking advantage of the system, they're mad 0:14:24.280 --> 0:14:26.440 about it. They're not just well been animated. 0:14:26.680 --> 0:14:28.560 We're going to bring you back on a regular basis 0:14:28.560 --> 0:14:30.880 and get updates on it. Thank you for explaining it, 0:14:30.960 --> 0:14:34.040 because nobody knows this better than you. But the amount 0:14:34.040 --> 0:14:36.800 of money we're talking about is so astronomical. And if 0:14:36.840 --> 0:14:40.080 we don't eliminate weight, waste, fraud, abuse, corruption like this, 0:14:40.240 --> 0:14:42.960 then we will never We're just going to continue to 0:14:43.000 --> 0:14:46.560 continue to rob from our children and grandchildren. Doctor Oz, 0:14:46.760 --> 0:14:51.520 the administrator for the Centers for Medicare Medicaid Services, we 0:14:51.560 --> 0:14:52.680 always appreciate your time. 0:14:52.720 --> 0:14:54.280 Thank you, God bless you. 0:14:54.440 --> 0:14:55.400 I'd bless you. Thank you. 0:14:55.520 --> 0:14:57.760 All right, I got to go back in time. President 0:14:57.800 --> 0:15:02.000 Trump posting a roundtable focus on the economy and farmers 0:15:02.160 --> 0:15:06.440 and people that again, it takes a while for all 0:15:06.480 --> 0:15:08.680 of his policies to make it into the bloodstream of 0:15:08.720 --> 0:15:14.120 the economy. And we're seeing positive effects on the economy. 0:15:14.120 --> 0:15:16.400 We're seeing the price of gas come down, we're seeing 0:15:17.320 --> 0:15:19.200 the price of other goods come down. 0:15:19.520 --> 0:15:21.800 But he inherited a mess his policies. 0:15:21.960 --> 0:15:25.320 Again, my prediction around the end of second quarter next year, 0:15:25.760 --> 0:15:29.080 things are going to be dramatically improving and everybody's going 0:15:29.160 --> 0:15:31.960 to benefit from it like they did in his first term. 0:15:31.960 --> 0:15:34.520 And here's what he said at this roundtable today. 0:15:34.840 --> 0:15:39.680 We had three states in the last two days recorded 0:15:39.720 --> 0:15:46.280 by our energy a group of very strong energy people 0:15:46.800 --> 0:15:49.320 who said we hit one dollar in ninety nine cents 0:15:49.400 --> 0:15:50.200 to gallon. 0:15:50.840 --> 0:15:52.120 In three different states. 0:15:52.400 --> 0:15:56.560 And it's an amazing accomplishment because the gasoline presses are 0:15:56.600 --> 0:15:59.360 company dow. When gasoline comes down every day, it's such 0:15:59.360 --> 0:16:02.280 a big category that when gasoline comes down, sort of 0:16:02.320 --> 0:16:07.760 everything sort of follows. But we inherited a mess affordability. 0:16:07.800 --> 0:16:10.480 But you can call it affordability or anything you want. 0:16:10.520 --> 0:16:16.120 But the Democrats caused the affordability problem, and we're the 0:16:16.120 --> 0:16:17.280 ones that are fixing it. 0:16:17.440 --> 0:16:20.680 So it's a very simple statement. They ca it. 0:16:20.840 --> 0:16:23.440 We're fixing it, and they have a tendency to just 0:16:23.520 --> 0:16:28.080 say this election is based on affordability, and nobody questions them. 0:16:28.120 --> 0:16:28.360 John. 0:16:28.440 --> 0:16:30.680 You know, nobody says, well, what do you mean by that? 0:16:31.800 --> 0:16:34.800 But they just say the word. They never said anything 0:16:34.800 --> 0:16:37.960 else because they caused the problem. But we're fixing the problem. 0:16:38.360 --> 0:16:40.200 And we're pleased to be joined today by many of 0:16:40.240 --> 0:16:43.280 the wonderful members of the farming community, as well as 0:16:43.880 --> 0:16:48.320 the Secretary of Agriculture Brook Rollins Brook, thank you, Thank you, 0:16:49.400 --> 0:16:53.400 Treasury Secretary Scott Vessons, thank you very much, Scott. 0:16:54.720 --> 0:16:59.760 Senator John Boseman, thank you, John. Good job. John Hoven, 0:17:00.640 --> 0:17:03.920 thank you, John. And Deb Fisher, thank you. 0:17:03.960 --> 0:17:07.359 Very much, as well as Representative Austin Scott, who has 0:17:07.400 --> 0:17:09.160 been with us right from the beginning. 0:17:09.200 --> 0:17:10.320 Thank you us in good job. 0:17:11.200 --> 0:17:14.320 I'm delighted to announce this afternoon that the United States 0:17:14.320 --> 0:17:17.399 will be taking a small portion of the hundreds of 0:17:17.440 --> 0:17:21.600 billions of dollars we receive in tariffs. We are making 0:17:21.640 --> 0:17:23.840 a lot of money from countries that took advantage of 0:17:23.920 --> 0:17:26.960 us for years. They took advantage of us like nobody's 0:17:27.000 --> 0:17:31.200 ever seen. Our deficits are way down because of tariffs. 0:17:31.600 --> 0:17:32.560 I guess because of the. 0:17:32.480 --> 0:17:34.879 Election, because without the election, you. 0:17:34.880 --> 0:17:37.480 Wouldn't have tariffs, should be sitting there losing your share. 0:17:38.920 --> 0:17:42.360 But we're taking in billions. We're really taking in trillions 0:17:42.400 --> 0:17:44.760 of dollars if you think about it, Scott, because they're 0:17:44.800 --> 0:17:46.440 real numbers, you know, when you think of all the 0:17:47.080 --> 0:17:51.400 money being poorted to the country for new auto plants 0:17:51.440 --> 0:17:52.680 and all of the other things. 0:17:52.720 --> 0:17:53.040 AI. 0:17:54.240 --> 0:17:59.040 So what we're doing is we're taking a relatively small 0:17:59.119 --> 0:18:02.360 portion of that and we're going to be giving and 0:18:02.400 --> 0:18:06.560 providing it to the farmers in economic assistance. And we 0:18:06.640 --> 0:18:10.240 love our farmers, and as you know, the farmers like 0:18:10.320 --> 0:18:15.240 me because based on voting trends, you could code voting 0:18:15.280 --> 0:18:18.280 trends or anything else, but they're great people. 0:18:18.480 --> 0:18:20.080 They're the backbone of our country. 0:18:20.480 --> 0:18:24.080 So we're going to use that money to provide twelve 0:18:24.119 --> 0:18:27.760 billion dollars in economic assistance to American farmers. 0:18:27.800 --> 0:18:30.399 Twelve billion. There's a lot of money. Metal. What do 0:18:30.440 --> 0:18:34.639 you think, peanuts? Do you though? Right? He's a farmer 0:18:34.680 --> 0:18:35.119 of rice. 0:18:36.359 --> 0:18:41.760 This release, this relief will provide much needed certainty to 0:18:41.840 --> 0:18:44.760 farmers as they get this year's harvest to market and 0:18:44.840 --> 0:18:48.280 look ahead to next year's crops and they'll help them 0:18:48.359 --> 0:18:52.080 continue their efforts to lower food prices for American families. 0:18:52.119 --> 0:18:55.119 And again we inherited something. 0:18:54.760 --> 0:19:00.119 That we inherited, the worst inflation in the history of 0:19:00.119 --> 0:19:05.200 our country, and we're taking care of it. Farmers are 0:19:05.600 --> 0:19:09.960 an indispensable national asset, part of the backbone of America. 0:19:10.600 --> 0:19:13.720 I've always felt it so strongly. They's so important. Unfortunately, 0:19:13.840 --> 0:19:18.800 under sleepy Joe Biden, who was a sleepy guy, our 0:19:18.840 --> 0:19:22.280 farmers were crushed by the worst inflation in modern history 0:19:22.320 --> 0:19:27.919 and crippling restrictions on energy, water, and capitless other necessities 0:19:28.119 --> 0:19:30.439 for farmers. And what they did to the farmer in 0:19:30.520 --> 0:19:36.080 terms of putting the brakes on was just absolutely unacceptable. 0:19:36.680 --> 0:19:40.159 In my first term, we had an agricultural trade surplus 0:19:40.200 --> 0:19:40.720 by a lot. 0:19:40.800 --> 0:19:42.600 We had a big surplus. 0:19:42.640 --> 0:19:45.880 Meaning that we were exporting American agricultural products all over 0:19:45.920 --> 0:19:49.120 the world making a net profit and in many cases 0:19:49.119 --> 0:19:50.520 a very substantial profit. 0:19:50.600 --> 0:19:51.679 He came in and ruined it. 0:19:52.359 --> 0:19:57.199 Biden turned that surplus into a gaping agricultural deficit that 0:19:57.320 --> 0:20:00.359 continues to this day. But we're knocking it down to 0:20:00.440 --> 0:20:03.080 go very good. In fact, my China, as you know, 0:20:03.240 --> 0:20:07.879 is buying a tremendous amount of sleebeams and the number. 0:20:07.920 --> 0:20:12.639 I spoke with President she recently, very recently, and I 0:20:12.640 --> 0:20:14.680 think he's going to do even more than he promised 0:20:14.680 --> 0:20:17.679 to do, so I think the relationship is a very 0:20:17.720 --> 0:20:19.880 good one. I think he's going to do more than 0:20:19.880 --> 0:20:21.639 he promised to do, and what he promised to do 0:20:21.720 --> 0:20:24.639 is a lot, So we're very happy with that. In 0:20:24.800 --> 0:20:29.720 the last year, Biden bankruptcies rose by fifty five percent 0:20:29.880 --> 0:20:33.840 having to do with farms, So farm bankers ruptcies under 0:20:33.920 --> 0:20:36.760 Joe Biden went up fifty five percent. 0:20:36.840 --> 0:20:37.640 That's not good. 0:20:38.400 --> 0:20:42.199 But now we're once again at a position where a 0:20:42.280 --> 0:20:45.560 president is able to put farmers first. But unfortunately I'm 0:20:45.560 --> 0:20:48.480 the only president that does that. One day one, I 0:20:48.600 --> 0:20:52.640 terminated the Green new scam. Energy prices are down, gasoline 0:20:52.640 --> 0:20:57.600 prices are down, with slash record numbers of crippling regulations, 0:20:57.640 --> 0:21:01.919 and we're working on huge trade already, securing sixty billion 0:21:02.000 --> 0:21:06.240 dollars in agricultural purchase commitments. And you know, Biden made none. 0:21:06.320 --> 0:21:08.240 He didn't make any trade deals having to do with 0:21:08.280 --> 0:21:12.520 the farmers or any of It's crazy. China committed he 0:21:12.600 --> 0:21:13.960 was the worst president. 0:21:13.520 --> 0:21:15.119 In the history of our country man, I want to 0:21:15.160 --> 0:21:16.760 kiss anybody has any questions. 0:21:17.560 --> 0:21:21.560 China committed to over forty billion dollars of soybean purchases, 0:21:22.080 --> 0:21:25.239 and that's a commitment. And I asked President She if 0:21:25.240 --> 0:21:28.480 he could even up it, and I think he'll do that. 0:21:28.640 --> 0:21:31.879