Speaker 1: Well, we have come in.
Speaker 2: Your city, gets saying you a console will all be.
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Speaker 2: And if you want a little banging Uni, I come along.
Speaker 3: I'm really looking to make our country successful. I'm not
Speaker 3: looking to go back into the past. I'm looking to
Speaker 3: make our country successful. Retribution will be through success. Mainstream
Speaker 3: media totally.
Speaker 4: American people repeatedly that the biggest issue was Hillary's emails.
Speaker 4: That's what they said. We should focus on deporting those
Speaker 4: who are truly a danger to America, and we should
Speaker 4: give the rest a chance to earn legal status. Freedom
Speaker 4: is back in style. Welcome to the revolution.
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Speaker 1: four one, Sean, if you want to be a part
Speaker 1: of the program. National security happens to be an area
Speaker 1: of great concern for me. We have talked at length
Speaker 1: about known terrorists in the country, but we don't know
Speaker 1: where they are. Cartel members in the country, we don't
Speaker 1: know where they are. Gang members now recorded in sixteen
Speaker 1: staates just the trend de Arragua gang from Venezuela, and
Speaker 1: according to reports, they're getting more violent by the day.
Speaker 1: We have no murderers, rapists, other violent criminals in the country.
Speaker 1: Many will have to be deported. Many will be deported,
Speaker 1: and then we have a gap of vulnerability with our
Speaker 1: national security, the same thing Reagan faced when he became
Speaker 1: president in nineteen eighty. It's never been this bad our
Speaker 1: top geopolitical foes. Countries like China, Russia, they have hypersonic technology.
Speaker 1: My sources say that we're probably deficient, and not just hypersonics,
Speaker 1: but also probably twenty other areas that are necessary. We've
Speaker 1: got to prepare for what the future of modern warfare
Speaker 1: will be. I don't believe it's going to be fought
Speaker 1: in a battlefield, there will be some of that. I
Speaker 1: believe future wars will be fought with in air conditioned
Speaker 1: offices and people pushing buttons. And we've got to have
Speaker 1: the most advanced technology stay ahead of our adversaries. And
Speaker 1: I think President Trump's idea of an iron dome is
Speaker 1: going to be critical long term to the safety and
Speaker 1: security of our homeland, and I'm very, very worried about
Speaker 1: where we are as a country at this moment in
Speaker 1: terms of national security and defense. The twelve and a
Speaker 1: half million unvetted Harris Biden illegals is the biggest national
Speaker 1: security disaster ever. I would assume that the terrorists that
Speaker 1: we know are in the country, but we don't know
Speaker 1: where they are are plotting and planning and scheming another
Speaker 1: nine to eleven or worse. It is a monumental job
Speaker 1: to defend this country and we've got a lot of
Speaker 1: work to do. Anyway, here to weigh in on this
Speaker 1: and so much more. Our friend, Congressman Mike Waltz, although
Speaker 1: we're not going to be calling him Congressman much longer,
Speaker 1: he was selected by President Trump for the role of
Speaker 1: National Security Advisor. Former Colonel US Army Green Beret, by
Speaker 1: the way, also best selling author of Hard Truths and
Speaker 1: Warrior Diplomat. Anyway, we couldn't be happier for you, as
Speaker 1: a longtime friend of this program. We were very happy
Speaker 1: people like you are willing to serve in this administration.
Speaker 2: Well, thanks, Sean, and it's the honor of the lifetime.
Speaker 2: President Trump literally is going to save the world. We're
Speaker 2: already seeing the Trump effect with just with the election,
Speaker 2: the entire world is reaching out to engage him, friends
Speaker 2: and foe alike, and so to be a part of
Speaker 2: that and to serve the American people through him and
Speaker 2: advising him is really tremendous. And I'll just say one
Speaker 2: more things, Sean. You know, as compared to the first
Speaker 2: Trump administration, we are going to continue so many of
Speaker 2: those policies, from the border, from taking it to the terrorists,
Speaker 2: from bringing people to the peace table for big deals.
Speaker 2: But you have a team that he is putting around
Speaker 2: himself now that are bought into his vision, that don't
Speaker 2: dare to believe that they know better, and that often
Speaker 2: have worked together. We know each other, we actually like
Speaker 2: each other, and so we're all moving in the same
Speaker 2: direction to restore peace through strength.
Speaker 1: Okay, what about the vulnerabilities I just laid out? Am
Speaker 1: I wrong? Please tell me I'm wrong, because if I'm wrong,
Speaker 1: If you no, you you you.
Speaker 2: Shouldn't feel better. You shouldn't be sleeping well right now.
Speaker 2: But but the cavalrys coming, so to speak. But yeah,
Speaker 2: we have we still have a wide open border. We
Speaker 2: have the Caliphate in Afghanistan with ISIS and al Qaeda
Speaker 2: trying to come roaring back. It's still not clear to
Speaker 2: me what kind of eyes and ears we have on
Speaker 2: that right now. You just saw blinking uh, you know,
Speaker 2: testifying before the House Committee and the investigation on that
Speaker 2: debacle of a withdrawal. You have a grinding World War
Speaker 2: One style warfare, a meat grinder of people in Ukraine,
Speaker 2: with the potential of nuclear escalation, and thanks to the
Speaker 2: actions of BBI in Israeli leadership, at least some bright
Speaker 2: spot is that Hezballah has been largely defeated on their
Speaker 2: back foot. Iran is in a terrible position right now,
Speaker 2: probably the worst they've been since the Islamic Revolution. Hamas
Speaker 2: is increasingly isolated, and now we need to bring home
Speaker 2: a deal to get our to get our hostages out.
Speaker 2: But it's a tough situation. But President Trump will clean
Speaker 2: it up. He had to do this in twenty sixteen,
Speaker 2: twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen, and we'll clean it up again
Speaker 2: because he has the right instincts and the right approach.
Speaker 1: Do you think our intelligence community needs an overhaul? Is
Speaker 1: our intelligence community up and working to the degree that
Speaker 1: we would need to have the level of security in
Speaker 1: a world that has the likes of Kim Jong un
Speaker 1: and President Chi and Vladimir Putin and the mullas in Iran,
Speaker 1: et cetera.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think John, it needs a reprioritization. I mean literally,
Speaker 2: in the global threat briefs coming from Biden's intelligence community,
Speaker 2: climate change was at the top of the global threats
Speaker 2: brief right, So it needs to get refocused on lethality.
Speaker 2: Stop with the social justice nonsense and real work, I think,
Speaker 2: better with the amazing technologies that are spinning out of
Speaker 2: our private sector. And then finally, and this is something
Speaker 2: that I think is one of the most unreported headlines
Speaker 2: right now in the cyber space. First there was volt Typhoon,
Speaker 2: which was essentially cyber time bombs and our critical infrastructure
Speaker 2: that we discovered. So it's one thing to be stealing,
Speaker 2: it's another thing to be spying, but it's another thing
Speaker 2: to actually have the ability to destroy our water system,
Speaker 2: our ports, our grids. And the response has been frankly feckless.
Speaker 2: And then number two with Salt Typhoon. And I would
Speaker 2: encourage you to in your listeners and viewers to really
Speaker 2: look into this. I mean, this has been a massive
Speaker 2: penetration of our entire telecommunications system, and we need to
Speaker 2: go start going on offense when it comes to cyber.
Speaker 2: You know, when the Soviets were building up their missiles
Speaker 2: in the nineteen fifties, we didn't try to build the
Speaker 2: most perfect defense. We created a doctrine and theory of
Speaker 2: mutually assured destruction that kept the peace for the next
Speaker 2: seventy years. We need to take a hard look at
Speaker 2: that a both cyber and space, because in every war game,
Speaker 2: the first shots are fired in cyber and in space,
Speaker 2: and often it's checkmate because it's destroying our entire fabric
Speaker 2: of our economy, and so we need to establish the
Speaker 2: terrens economically there too. And President Trump knows that and
Speaker 2: is absolutely prepared to do that. We're prepared to help
Speaker 2: them do that. But I think it's just our cyber
Speaker 2: and our intelligence community has got to get their legs
Speaker 2: back underneath them. Our enemies bullets and our enemies spies
Speaker 2: aren't worried about race, gender, you know, economic background, or
Speaker 2: anything else. They're just focused on whether we're America or
Speaker 2: we're not. And they do not mean us well. And
Speaker 2: we need to take that same attitude with our adversaries.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let me ask you about the spy below. Oh,
Speaker 1: the drones, I should call them and.
Speaker 4: All of this.
Speaker 1: How is it possible? The first sighting was November the eighteenth.
Speaker 1: They have all these drones flying over the state of
Speaker 1: New Joysy of all places, and over key installations is
Speaker 1: the electric grid and power stations and military installations. They're
Speaker 1: the size of a bus and they sound like a
Speaker 1: Harley in terms of how loud they are. They're flying
Speaker 1: at low altitudes. People are seeing them every single day.
Speaker 1: There are fifty sightings and one day on Sunday. They've
Speaker 1: known about it since the eighteenth and there's not one
Speaker 1: person in our government that can tell us a single
Speaker 1: thing about these massive drones. They don't know where they
Speaker 1: originate from. They don't know who's manning them. They don't
Speaker 1: know if they're surveilling. They don't know if they have
Speaker 1: a payload on it. They don't know a thing about it.
Speaker 1: How is it possible that that's the case. I don't
Speaker 1: either they're lying to us, which I believe is a possibility,
Speaker 1: or they don't know, And frankly both are bad.
Speaker 4: It's so Sean.
Speaker 2: I think it's pointing out both a cultural problem, a
Speaker 2: leadership problem, and a technical problem. The cultural and leadership
Speaker 2: problem is everybody, you know, DHS is pointing the finger,
Speaker 2: FBI's pointing the finger, the Department Offensus pointing the finger.
Speaker 2: We don't know, you know, where President Biden is. And
Speaker 2: it's just not reflective of where our priorities should be,
Speaker 2: which is defending the homeland.
Speaker 4: First.
Speaker 2: We have all these capabilities and sensors all over the world,
Speaker 2: we don't seem to have them really focused on our borders,
Speaker 2: our sovereignty, our homeland. And that's really what President Trump
Speaker 2: is getting at when he's talking about an iron dome
Speaker 2: over the United States of America. The technical problem is
Speaker 2: we still have cold where era kind of sensors. They're
Speaker 2: great at detecting if we've got Russian or Chinese bombers
Speaker 2: coming near our airspace. They're great at out there finding submarines.
Speaker 2: When it comes to these small drones that fly very low,
Speaker 2: or when it comes to say hypersonics that fly or
Speaker 2: the spy balloon that flies in between where say a
Speaker 2: bomber would be and then a ballistic missile up in space,
Speaker 2: those in between layers we need to invest in and
Speaker 2: do a lot better in so it's a cultural problem,
Speaker 2: focusing on the homeland. It's a technical problem. And when
Speaker 2: President Trump says we're going to create an iron dome
Speaker 2: from space all the way to the ground to make
Speaker 2: sure this stuff can't happen, that's what you mean.
Speaker 4: That's what we're going to implement.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, take a quick break. We'll come back
Speaker 1: more with Congressman Mike Waltz, soon to be a national
Speaker 1: security advisor. We'll get to your calls on the other side.
Speaker 1: All right, we continue with the soon to be National
Speaker 1: security advisor, Congressman Mike Waltz of my free state of Florida.
Speaker 1: So when the news broke today the Biden commuted the
Speaker 1: sentences of three Chinese nationals as his term is drawing
Speaker 1: to an end. Among the charge charges possession of child pornography,
Speaker 1: plotting to old trade secrets, espionage on behalf of China. Uh,
Speaker 1: why does my mind go to the the what's app message?
Speaker 1: I'm sitting here with my father and to the one
Speaker 1: of the one of the CEOs of that energy conglomerate
Speaker 1: out of China CEFC, and between all everybody, he knows
Speaker 1: my ability to hold the grudge. You're going to regret
Speaker 1: not doing what you said you'd do, and then millions
Speaker 1: of dollars transferred to Hunter Biden. Uh, why does my
Speaker 1: mind go there? Is that just a suspicious mind from
Speaker 1: somebody that grew up in a very cynical place called
Speaker 1: New York.
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, we No, it's not. It's not a suspicious
Speaker 2: conspiracy theory mind there Sean. It goes to all of
Speaker 2: the evidence that that Jamie Comer and the Oversight Committee,
Speaker 2: that Jim Jordans, you know, everything that we've uncovered the
Speaker 2: last two years. And it's it's far even deeper that
Speaker 2: it's minds in Africa that have critical minerals that Hunter facilitated.
Speaker 4: It is.
Speaker 2: It is just left right and center selling America out
Speaker 2: to our greatest adversary. I just that with the China
Speaker 2: Select Committee, the chairman and ranking member, and they said,
Speaker 2: you know what do I think they should be focused on?
Speaker 2: I said, I think they should be focused on the
Speaker 2: state level, the local level, the county level. So you know,
Speaker 2: the levels of Chinese penetration in our society is it
Speaker 2: was horrific with the sun of a sitting president, but
Speaker 2: I think it is at every level, from our farmland
Speaker 2: to our factories, to our minds and our critical minerals.
Speaker 2: They are seeking to defeat the United States as a
Speaker 2: global power, but they're seeking to do it economically and
Speaker 2: through natural resources as much as they're seeking to do
Speaker 2: it militarily. And it's something the President knows well. He
Speaker 2: shifted us to focus on China in twenty seventeen. But
Speaker 2: it's really I think the American people have to appreciate
Speaker 2: how deep this goes. Number one and number two for
Speaker 2: everybody out there when you see, you know, made in China,
Speaker 2: put it down. Made in America is not just a
Speaker 2: jobs program. It is It's not about just unions or
Speaker 2: what have you. It is a national security issue. We've
Speaker 2: got to bring those supply chains back home so that
Speaker 2: they are secure. Uh. And we our greatest strength is
Speaker 2: our economy in our markets, and that's what President Trump
Speaker 2: will be focused on.
Speaker 1: I bet you're really really excited, ready to go. My
Speaker 1: understanding is the Biden administration that now that they're leaving
Speaker 1: and outgoing, they're not they have not been particularly helpful
Speaker 1: to anybody that is assuming positions like yours. Have they
Speaker 1: been helpful to you?
Speaker 2: You know, Sean, We don't agree on a lot, But
Speaker 2: I have to say the coordination has been relatively good,
Speaker 2: especially when it comes to getting our people out in
Speaker 2: the Middle East and and and closing that that down
Speaker 2: on all of these other issues, we'll work on it.
Speaker 2: Like I said, we discoreined.
Speaker 1: Well, did you ever get a briefing on the drone issue?
Speaker 1: For example?
Speaker 4: I have not.
Speaker 3: I have not.
Speaker 1: I think the incoming National Security Advisor might deserve such,
Speaker 1: don't you.
Speaker 2: I do, and I'll be back over there.
Speaker 4: I'll be back over there shortly.
Speaker 1: Tell him I said hello, and don't let the door
Speaker 1: hit him in the ass on the way out.
Speaker 2: Okay, fair enough, But we have to be Team USA
Speaker 2: from now on January twentieth. I don't want our adversaries
Speaker 2: thinking this is a moment of opportunity.
Speaker 1: No, that's a good point. I do agree with that. Anyway,
Speaker 1: we appreciate it. We wish you the best, Mike Waltz,
Speaker 1: soon to be National Security Advisor. Thank you, Mold Inspired
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Speaker 1: talked a lot about what's going on with healthcare and
Speaker 1: the assassination of the United Healthcare CEO. I mean, what
Speaker 1: happened to this man, and the reaction of the left
Speaker 1: is unbelievable. I mean, Elizabeth Warren on the killing and
Speaker 1: the assassination of the United Healthcare ceo. Well, you can
Speaker 1: only push people so far. She said this on MSDNC. Listen,
Speaker 1: and what happens.
Speaker 6: When you turn this into the billionaires run at all
Speaker 6: is they get the opportunity to squeeze every last penny. Yeah,
Speaker 6: and look, we'll say it over and over. Violence is
Speaker 6: never the answer. This guy gets a trial who's allegedly
Speaker 6: killed the CEO of United health But you can only
Speaker 6: push people so far, and then they start to take
Speaker 6: matters into their hands.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Oh, you can only push him so far. She's
Speaker 1: rationalizing assassination because oh I don't like what Sean Hannity says,
Speaker 1: so yeah, or I don't like what I'm watching on TV,
Speaker 1: or I don't like the slow service at a restaurant.
Speaker 1: Is that the same Does the same rule apply? You
Speaker 1: can only push people so far. You can only make
Speaker 1: them wait so long for a stake or a hamburger.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is insane. There are smart, creative alternatives
Speaker 1: to the current healthcare system. We have discussed many of
Speaker 1: them at length on this program over the years. Many
Speaker 1: years ago, I read a book. It was called Patient Power,
Speaker 1: and it was printed by the Cato Institute about healthcare
Speaker 1: savings accounts. You pay into it every year. It's tax free.
Speaker 1: Your money builds up in your younger, healthier years, and
Speaker 1: if you die of a heart attack, all that money
Speaker 1: you save for healthcare, which is usually for later in life,
Speaker 1: is available to your family. You give it to them,
Speaker 1: otherwise you use it. And then you couple that with
Speaker 1: catastrophic insurance with a high deductible. Again you'd be able
Speaker 1: to take it out of your health savings account. And
Speaker 1: that catastrophic care is for you know, God forbid you
Speaker 1: get cancer, God forbid you have the stroke, the heart attack,
Speaker 1: or God forbid you have the bad accident. There are alternatives,
Speaker 1: are healthcare cooperatives, we have, you know, catastrophic care. People
Speaker 1: underestimate the power of catastrophic care, but you also have
Speaker 1: to know what it would provide for and anyway. For
Speaker 1: years on this program we have featured doctor Josh Humber
Speaker 1: and he founded a group in Wichita, Kansas called Atlas MD,
Speaker 1: and he's been able to duplicate that model all around
Speaker 1: the country. And at the time he was charging patients
Speaker 1: fifty dollars. You know, for unlimited care. You can go
Speaker 1: to the doctor every day if you want to go
Speaker 1: to the doctor. And they take care of most of
Speaker 1: people's general health needs. You couple that with a catastrophic
Speaker 1: plan for the big issues I mentioned, and you fully covered.
Speaker 1: And he would negotiate directly with pharmaceutical companies and you'd
Speaker 1: pay like ninety nine percent less. Amazing guy, amazing idea
Speaker 1: very successful practice. Well he's now taken it to a
Speaker 1: new level and he's created a new healthcare provider that
Speaker 1: I happen to be a fan of. But you do
Speaker 1: what you want, consult with your own doctor, see if
Speaker 1: it works for you. But it's called Atlas Direct and
Speaker 1: in a lot of ways, it's reinventing supplemental health insurance
Speaker 1: and providing modern quality coverage. And you know there's no deductible,
Speaker 1: no copays, no network restrictions, Payments go directly to you.
Speaker 1: Payments can be used for any expense, fully transparent pricing.
Speaker 1: You can enroll at any time. Doctor Umber. When you
Speaker 1: started Atlas MD, how successful was it in Wichita.
Speaker 4: Well, it's great to be back with you, Sean, and
Speaker 4: it's exciting. When we started at LISS in twenty ten,
Speaker 4: this was such a new idea. People weren't used to
Speaker 4: paying for health care without insurance. But it's taken off
Speaker 4: in ways we could have never expected. We now have,
Speaker 4: you know, over sixteen hundred doctors on our platform alone,
Speaker 4: and we're just a piece of the direct care movement.
Speaker 4: We helped forty five doctors open direct care practices last
Speaker 4: month alone, which is more than we did in the
Speaker 4: first year of helping doctors. The momentum just keeps growing
Speaker 4: in all these exciting ways. Because healthcare continues to get
Speaker 4: more expensive every year, people are increasingly looking for just real,
Speaker 4: simple objective answers to make health care more accessible and affordable,
Speaker 4: but also health insurance more affordable. You know, the national
Speaker 4: average is twenty five thousand per family per year. That's
Speaker 4: taking money out of the pockets of families that they
Speaker 4: need for credit card debt or loans or preparing for
Speaker 4: college or retirement. I think it's hit that, you know,
Speaker 4: tipping point. They're ready for common sense solutions.
Speaker 1: How important can a catastrophic plan, the right catastrophic plan
Speaker 1: be for people's overall healthcare strategies Because people are looking
Speaker 1: for answers alternatives so that they don't have the gaps
Speaker 1: and coverage, they don't have fights with insurance companies because
Speaker 1: let me tell you, some of these companies are are awful,
Speaker 1: and people have every right to be angry. They think
Speaker 1: they're covered, they're not covered. So what is what is
Speaker 1: the best alternative for the average person.
Speaker 4: I think you have to remember that health insurance is
Speaker 4: really financial insurance. It's to protect us in case of
Speaker 4: big events, and thankfully, those big events are rare. So
Speaker 4: if you have an insurance that is smarter, more direct,
Speaker 4: and actually pays the true cost of care, it goes
Speaker 4: directly to the patient, doesn't reward the system for these inflated,
Speaker 4: outrageous bills. Get you get back to a really affordable solution.
Speaker 4: Right model, and the thirteen states were approved. In a
Speaker 4: family for under forty five would be under four fifty
Speaker 4: a months. If the national average is north is two
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Speaker 4: one thousand and fifteen hundred dollars saved every month help
Speaker 4: the average family, Right? That's that's real money for regular America.
Speaker 4: And they're just tired of throwing their money at insurance
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Speaker 4: that in the right model, the money goes back to
Speaker 4: the patient, not the system.
Speaker 1: It's it's we no tell me, tell me exactly how
Speaker 1: your because Atlas MD was. If you lived in Wichita,
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Speaker 4: Bim medison, yeaes, stitches, biopsies, injections, procedures, meds as much
Speaker 4: as we could. We were incentivized too.
Speaker 1: And what happened two people when they got the cancer,
Speaker 1: the heart attack, stroke, or bad.
Speaker 4: Accident, Well, we at least post a pretty Affordable Care Act.
Speaker 4: We had really great options for customizing insurance through different brokers.
Speaker 4: Post Affordable Care Act, most of that went away, and
Speaker 4: the best thing you could do would be work with
Speaker 4: small businesses who had a bit more flexibility in their
Speaker 4: insurance model to save ten, twenty thirty percent, but never
Speaker 4: really got back to a common sense insurance model really
Speaker 4: like car insurance, home insurance, life insurance, where the payment
Speaker 4: goes back to the customer, not into the system. And
Speaker 4: because of that you have so many middleman brokers, agents, hospitals,
Speaker 4: all these other reasons for inflating the price, so that
Speaker 4: ends up making it unaffordable. We feel like we've tried
Speaker 4: to answer the healthcare solution in bite sized steps. First
Speaker 4: it was primary care, which most people think isn't the
Speaker 4: place to start, but we touch everything. So once you
Speaker 4: have unlimited access, no copays, free telemedicine, free procedures you've
Speaker 4: joked with you for years. Ekg's cost me thirty six cents.
Speaker 4: The coffee in the waiting room costs seventy cents a cup.
Speaker 4: So why are we using insurance for these types of things?
Speaker 4: And then that normal progression of wholesale meds, wholesale labs,
Speaker 4: doctor to doctor, teleconsults for thirty dollars, MRIs for three hundred,
Speaker 4: cts for two hundred. What you realize is the imperson
Speaker 4: new clothes. We expected insurance to lower the price of things,
Speaker 4: and it probably used to, but it hasn't for a
Speaker 4: very long time. And now the cash price of things
Speaker 4: is faster, simpler, easier, and more affordable than trying to
Speaker 4: go through this big, complicated bureaucracy.
Speaker 1: I think quick break, we'llcome back more. With doctor Josh
Speaker 1: umber Of at Liss Direct. There are alternatives to traditional
Speaker 1: healthcare insurance policies, and we're learning about it. We continue
Speaker 1: now with our friend doctor Josh Umber. He is with
Speaker 1: Atlas Direct, an alternative health insurance solution. Many people rightly
Speaker 1: unhappy with their current insurance policies, and he's giving you
Speaker 1: an education on alternatives that are smart ways you can
Speaker 1: save money and improve the quality of your care. So
Speaker 1: let me ask you the question, because there are people
Speaker 1: in all fifty states that listen to this show, and
Speaker 1: you're trying to and this is two minutes for you
Speaker 1: to give the answer. What do you recommend for the
Speaker 1: average person that they would be fully covered under any
Speaker 1: scenario that they that they might encounter health wise in
Speaker 1: the future. What is your best recommendation?
Speaker 4: Well, sir, the states that we're in, it's get yourself
Speaker 4: a direct primary care physician and then combine that with
Speaker 4: the most affordable insurance you can find, whether that's Atlas
Speaker 4: Direct or something else. In all the other states that
Speaker 4: we hope to come to, it's the same thing, but
Speaker 4: your best option is likely through your employer and letting
Speaker 4: your employer know you'd rather decrease the insurance premiums and
Speaker 4: work with your direct care doctor to absorb the difference, right.
Speaker 1: Because and how do you know that everything's going to
Speaker 1: be covered and you get to go to the doctor
Speaker 1: you want.
Speaker 4: That's a good question. At least with direct care you're
Speaker 4: getting to choose the doctor you want and you're an
Speaker 4: empowered consumer now. And the damage that people are experiencing
Speaker 4: on the front end every mind.
Speaker 1: What if it's cancer treatment that goes on for ten years,
Speaker 1: and do you run out of money at any point?
Speaker 4: Well, depending on the insurance model, ours is renewable every
Speaker 4: year for those types of situations, and that's the tough thing.
Speaker 4: What risk do you cover? And so the individualized answer
Speaker 4: ends up being, you know, do you want to cover
Speaker 4: a point oho percent risk but then have less money
Speaker 4: every month? So threading the impossible needles kind of how
Speaker 4: we look at that. But even Medicare doesn't cover everything, right,
Speaker 4: we had to get insurance license, which is kind of
Speaker 4: funny being the non insurance guys. Medicare has a blood deductible.
Speaker 4: Medicare doesn't the three first three pints of blood. So
Speaker 4: everything's got a place where it doesn't cover. Working with
Speaker 4: you know, good insurance, peopulltipate.
Speaker 1: Right, this is this is a good primer or this
Speaker 1: is a good preliminary discussion, but we're going to have
Speaker 1: an ongoing discussion because I think people, especially at the
Speaker 1: beginning of the new year, they're going to maybe update
Speaker 1: their insurance with their employer or whatever. If people want
Speaker 1: to get in touch with your company and find out more,
Speaker 1: how do they do it.
Speaker 4: The website's the best place to go. It's at list
Speaker 4: dot direct, www. Dot Atlas direct, the email Hello at
Speaker 4: Atlas Direct. We have live chats, phone number, email, We're
Speaker 4: happy to help wherever you're at.
Speaker 1: Then and people can ask questions how much would it
Speaker 1: cost for full insurance, you know, cradle to grave, and
Speaker 1: you can give them that answer, or if they want,
Speaker 1: we want to pay less a month, you can give
Speaker 1: them the next best option and then the next best.
Speaker 4: Option, right, yeah, it's one. It's based on age and
Speaker 4: gender only and the state you live in, so right
Speaker 4: now that the states were approved in are all the
Speaker 4: same price, so you can you don't even have to
Speaker 4: put in any information. You can go and look and
Speaker 4: then see if you qualify. So we tried to make
Speaker 4: it as absolutely simple and customer friendly as possible, the
Speaker 4: way insurance should be. Put the people back in charge.
Speaker 1: All right, we appreciate it, doctor josh Umber, thank you.
Speaker 1: Eight hundred nine one shown is on number you want
Speaker 1: to be a part of the program.