WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.040 --> 00:00:02.600 The Mandy Connell Show is sponsored by Belle and Pollock 2 00:00:02.680 --> 00:00:04.160 Accident and injury Lawyers. 3 00:00:04.799 --> 00:00:14.359 No, it's Mandy Connell and Donall on KLA ninety one FM. 4 00:00:15.119 --> 00:00:24.079 Got Way can the NYSRA Bendy Connell, Keithy you real 5 00:00:24.320 --> 00:00:27.039 sad bab Welcome, Welcome. 6 00:00:26.719 --> 00:00:29.120 Welcome to a Thursday edition of the show. 7 00:00:29.199 --> 00:00:32.039 I'm your host for the next three hours, Mandy Connell, 8 00:00:32.159 --> 00:00:34.079 joined by my right hand man. 9 00:00:34.119 --> 00:00:37.280 He's Anthony Rodriguez. You can call him a Rod. Mandy Laurian. 10 00:00:37.560 --> 00:00:38.039 Let's go. 11 00:00:40.479 --> 00:00:42.719 And today We've got a bunch of stuff to talk about, 12 00:00:42.880 --> 00:00:45.280 plus a Rod, and we're just having our own sports 13 00:00:45.280 --> 00:00:46.039 show off the air. 14 00:00:46.600 --> 00:00:48.240 Because I listened to the. 15 00:00:48.039 --> 00:00:51.960 Press conference introducing the new chief of baseball operations for 16 00:00:51.960 --> 00:00:58.359 the Colorado Rockies, John excuse me, Paul de Podesta, and oh, 17 00:00:58.840 --> 00:01:01.119 I hope I'm not Charli Brown lining up to get 18 00:01:01.159 --> 00:01:01.920 the football again. 19 00:01:02.560 --> 00:01:05.599 I hope I'm not. But I'm so excited now you 20 00:01:05.840 --> 00:01:06.200 are not. 21 00:01:06.719 --> 00:01:10.519 The Rockies clearly got the right guy. I hope they 22 00:01:10.599 --> 00:01:14.040 let him have total control and do his thing, because 23 00:01:14.120 --> 00:01:15.879 I gotta say it, and I say this in a 24 00:01:15.920 --> 00:01:19.400 complimentary way. He's a masochist in the way that. I 25 00:01:19.519 --> 00:01:23.200 love that he is accepting this challenge. He knows it's unique, 26 00:01:23.280 --> 00:01:26.239 he knows it's not easy. He came for it and 27 00:01:26.280 --> 00:01:28.159 he's here for it, and he's I think he's up 28 00:01:28.200 --> 00:01:30.519 to the challenge. I hope they let him get his 29 00:01:30.599 --> 00:01:33.519 guy he wants as manager, even though in true moneyball style, 30 00:01:33.519 --> 00:01:35.599 which would be ironic, if they get a guy that 31 00:01:36.280 --> 00:01:38.519 fights all of the stuff he will bring to the table, 32 00:01:38.519 --> 00:01:40.599 that'd be kind of funny and maybe that would work. 33 00:01:40.640 --> 00:01:43.200 But let him work. He's the right guy, and he's 34 00:01:43.239 --> 00:01:46.319 a smart baseball sports guy in general. 35 00:01:46.400 --> 00:01:48.159 And if you didn't hear the press conference, we already 36 00:01:48.239 --> 00:01:51.480 here live on KOA. In the press conference, people ask 37 00:01:51.560 --> 00:01:54.879 Dick Montfort directly, so what is your role here? Essentially, 38 00:01:54.879 --> 00:01:56.319 I mean he just basically was like, so, what's your 39 00:01:56.400 --> 00:02:00.319 job here? And Dick Montfort, you guys. His comments they 40 00:02:00.319 --> 00:02:03.599 were so good, And I'm just going to say this, 41 00:02:03.840 --> 00:02:08.919 I have been very disappointed in the leadership of the 42 00:02:08.960 --> 00:02:11.639 Montfort family as a Rockies fan. And there's no other 43 00:02:11.639 --> 00:02:15.479 way to put it. And I was not at all 44 00:02:15.599 --> 00:02:17.439 certain that whoever they were going to hire was going 45 00:02:17.479 --> 00:02:19.560 to have the kind of autonomy that Arod's talking about 46 00:02:19.599 --> 00:02:23.439 that has to be had in order to remake the 47 00:02:23.439 --> 00:02:26.000 culture of this baseball team, which is exactly what has 48 00:02:26.000 --> 00:02:28.520 to happen, and not just the team, not just the players, 49 00:02:28.639 --> 00:02:30.840 the front office. They got to change, they got to 50 00:02:30.919 --> 00:02:32.840 kind of start over, they got to hit the reset button. 51 00:02:33.560 --> 00:02:36.479 And after hearing Dick today, I think we're there. I 52 00:02:36.520 --> 00:02:40.759 think this is serious. I think Dick Montfort wants to 53 00:02:40.800 --> 00:02:43.759 win more badly than he wants to be in charge. 54 00:02:44.280 --> 00:02:46.560 This is a blank canvas for Paul Deepodesta, but there's 55 00:02:46.560 --> 00:02:47.919 a lot of red in the ledger you want to 56 00:02:47.960 --> 00:02:52.080 clear out, and that red is just what fandom is 57 00:02:52.159 --> 00:02:55.280 right now as a Colorado Rockies fan, So it's a 58 00:02:55.280 --> 00:02:59.120 big challenge. But man, it's easy to buy in to 59 00:02:59.520 --> 00:03:04.919 what Paul messaging is right now. I love the higher 60 00:03:05.080 --> 00:03:07.199 I think he's the right kind of guy. I've told everyone. 61 00:03:07.240 --> 00:03:09.800 I think this is the way baseball works in Colorado. 62 00:03:09.919 --> 00:03:12.400 I think you have to come at it from such 63 00:03:12.439 --> 00:03:16.680 a baseball nerd analytical way and get the right manager 64 00:03:16.719 --> 00:03:19.840 that will follow true to that identity as well. Yep, 65 00:03:20.120 --> 00:03:23.960 and I think they're steering towards that that right direction. 66 00:03:24.039 --> 00:03:26.000 Now. I believe it. I'm ready. 67 00:03:26.280 --> 00:03:29.840 I am there's like little remember when you were here 68 00:03:29.879 --> 00:03:31.759 when I was talking about like this little you know, 69 00:03:31.800 --> 00:03:33.840 a seed is starting to germinate and pretty soon a 70 00:03:33.840 --> 00:03:35.840 little green sprout is going to come through this. So oil, 71 00:03:36.719 --> 00:03:39.680 that's my baseball heart right now. It's growing, but it's 72 00:03:39.719 --> 00:03:41.199 not growing three sizes yet. 73 00:03:41.599 --> 00:03:43.439 It's just hopeful. We're actually we've reached out to. 74 00:03:43.360 --> 00:03:45.439 The Rockies and I'm hoping that we can get Paul D. 75 00:03:45.520 --> 00:03:47.800 Fadesta on the show for a long conversation, not just 76 00:03:47.840 --> 00:03:52.039 about baseball, but I'm interested to know about his leadership style. 77 00:03:52.120 --> 00:03:55.159 I'm interested to know what motivates him, as a Roger said, 78 00:03:55.199 --> 00:03:58.520 to come out and take on this challenge, which is significant. 79 00:03:58.840 --> 00:04:01.800 You're coming into a a baseball team that has had 80 00:04:02.199 --> 00:04:06.240 absolutely embarrassingly bad seasons for three seasons in a row. 81 00:04:07.159 --> 00:04:09.319 This is not a temporary blip on the radar, right, 82 00:04:09.400 --> 00:04:13.120 So I'm hopeful, and I hope that other Rockies fans. 83 00:04:12.879 --> 00:04:13.599 Are hopeful as well. 84 00:04:13.599 --> 00:04:15.120 We've got a lot of other stuff to talk about, 85 00:04:15.120 --> 00:04:17.040 so let's jump to the blog. I do have to 86 00:04:17.079 --> 00:04:20.879 answer one listener question on the Common Spirit health text line, 87 00:04:22.120 --> 00:04:24.680 and it just says, Mandy. 88 00:04:25.480 --> 00:04:29.160 Wait, hang on, hang on, hang on, Mandy. 89 00:04:29.199 --> 00:04:31.120 I know it's not asked me anything Friday, but I 90 00:04:31.120 --> 00:04:34.399 remember you mentioning a massage wand which one do you like? 91 00:04:34.480 --> 00:04:37.399 I was talking about a massage gun, which is far 92 00:04:37.399 --> 00:04:40.560 different than a massage wand not that there's anything wrong 93 00:04:40.600 --> 00:04:42.519 with a massage wan, but the massage gun is like 94 00:04:42.560 --> 00:04:48.360 a percussion instrument like that. And I tried to send 95 00:04:48.360 --> 00:04:50.480 you a link for the link is too long, Chuck, 96 00:04:50.519 --> 00:04:53.759 and I bought a Sharper Image massage gun years ago 97 00:04:53.920 --> 00:04:57.959 and I love this thing, absolutely love it. Just don't 98 00:04:57.959 --> 00:05:00.439 do it on your neck. Guys and girls, don't use 99 00:05:00.480 --> 00:05:02.040 the massage gun on your neck where you could hurt 100 00:05:02.040 --> 00:05:04.360 your carotid artery. There that's your PSA for the day. 101 00:05:04.920 --> 00:05:06.759 Let's do the blog. Find the blog by going to 102 00:05:06.800 --> 00:05:10.600 mandy'sblog dot com. That's mandy'sblog dot com. Look for the 103 00:05:10.600 --> 00:05:13.920 headline that says eleven thirteen to twenty five blog the. 104 00:05:13.920 --> 00:05:15.160 Shutdown is Oba. 105 00:05:15.439 --> 00:05:18.040 Yeah, click on that and here are the headlines you 106 00:05:18.079 --> 00:05:18.800 will find within. 107 00:05:18.959 --> 00:05:21.240 I think in office half American all with ships and 108 00:05:21.240 --> 00:05:22.879 clipmas have seen that's going to press. 109 00:05:22.639 --> 00:05:27.800 Plant today on the blog Ding Dong the Shutdowns Dead. 110 00:05:28.240 --> 00:05:32.279 Wendy Correa has seen some stuff. Who's afraid of do better? 111 00:05:32.360 --> 00:05:32.680 Denver? 112 00:05:33.079 --> 00:05:36.600 This can't be right, Rocky's fan. Denver public Schools is 113 00:05:36.680 --> 00:05:39.560 led by a race baiting liar, but they still aren't 114 00:05:39.560 --> 00:05:42.839 as bad as Adam's fourteen Polis is gutting care for 115 00:05:42.959 --> 00:05:47.120 kids with autism. Lauren Bobert wants Epstein's files released. 116 00:05:47.759 --> 00:05:49.639 Oh, uranium, I found it. 117 00:05:50.000 --> 00:05:52.680 Trump has no business demanding a pardon for Net and Yahoo. 118 00:05:52.839 --> 00:05:56.639 We'll check bought romances and marriages. EV subsidies were for 119 00:05:56.720 --> 00:06:00.360 rich people. The James Comy evidence is strong. We are 120 00:06:00.399 --> 00:06:04.279 a charitable lock. Colorado minimum wage hikes are killing fast 121 00:06:04.360 --> 00:06:08.000 food jobs. Surveillance for thee but not for me. The 122 00:06:08.079 --> 00:06:10.839 FDA removes the black box warning from hormone replacement. 123 00:06:11.279 --> 00:06:12.920 I think you have my stapler. 124 00:06:13.240 --> 00:06:15.399 Want to play of the Day with me Friday and 125 00:06:15.439 --> 00:06:17.040 maybe win a fabulous prize. 126 00:06:17.160 --> 00:06:19.720 This isn't the normal pageant talent for sure. 127 00:06:20.040 --> 00:06:22.800 Hockey players are just like us. Trump is wrong on 128 00:06:23.000 --> 00:06:25.480 h one. B V says Kyle Clark, and I. 129 00:06:25.279 --> 00:06:26.519 Agree on something. 130 00:06:26.839 --> 00:06:30.720 The last penny has been produced. We'll target feel friendlier. 131 00:06:31.000 --> 00:06:34.920 Those are the headlines on the blog at mandy'sblog dot com. 132 00:06:35.000 --> 00:06:36.279 Tic Tech tow. 133 00:06:38.040 --> 00:06:41.639 A winner. Yeah. I like the dramatic pause when I've 134 00:06:41.639 --> 00:06:43.160 done a good job. I know it's coming. 135 00:06:43.720 --> 00:06:45.639 But it's kind of like when the bands get up 136 00:06:45.680 --> 00:06:47.519 and leave the stage and we all stand there and 137 00:06:47.560 --> 00:06:49.800 clap because we've been trained like monkeys to clap for 138 00:06:49.839 --> 00:06:51.160 the encore. 139 00:06:50.720 --> 00:06:51.600 Are yeah, and. 140 00:06:51.519 --> 00:06:53.639 Then they come out doing the same encore that they've 141 00:06:53.680 --> 00:06:57.319 been in every single stadium, and you know, it's just 142 00:06:57.439 --> 00:06:59.600 like a thing we do now. It's this little play 143 00:06:59.639 --> 00:07:02.759 that we do. And when Nancy teases me like that, 144 00:07:02.800 --> 00:07:03.360 I'm ready. 145 00:07:03.480 --> 00:07:03.959 I'm ready. 146 00:07:04.680 --> 00:07:06.680 We have a lot of stuff that I want to 147 00:07:06.759 --> 00:07:09.480 jump into, and we have a couple of guests. 148 00:07:09.279 --> 00:07:09.959 Coming up today. 149 00:07:10.000 --> 00:07:13.120 Wendy Correa is a Fello radio dame and she's written 150 00:07:13.120 --> 00:07:18.519 a very good memoir about sort of her life, which, 151 00:07:18.680 --> 00:07:22.360 you know, it never ceases to amaze me how you 152 00:07:22.800 --> 00:07:24.920 have someone someone who lived in the public eye, right 153 00:07:24.959 --> 00:07:27.199 you feel like you know them a little bit, and 154 00:07:27.240 --> 00:07:30.720 then you find out later that in their personal lives 155 00:07:30.800 --> 00:07:33.279 or their childhood or whatever, they've had all of these 156 00:07:34.079 --> 00:07:37.040 incredibly significant challenges that they've overcome. 157 00:07:37.160 --> 00:07:38.600 And I love a good memoir. 158 00:07:38.680 --> 00:07:41.360 This one is not very long, so if you're a 159 00:07:41.360 --> 00:07:43.480 fast reader like me, you can knock it out very quickly. 160 00:07:44.120 --> 00:07:46.040 She's coming on at one to talk about the book, 161 00:07:46.120 --> 00:07:50.120 and then at two thirty Paul Crowley of the City 162 00:07:50.160 --> 00:07:52.680 Cast podcast. He also writes on occasion for fifty two 163 00:07:52.720 --> 00:07:55.720 eighty magazine. He did a story about Do Better Denver 164 00:07:56.040 --> 00:07:59.240 and he wrote the story in the midst of all 165 00:07:59.279 --> 00:08:02.279 that nonsense of you know, the fake account coming up 166 00:08:02.319 --> 00:08:05.000 after do Better Denver deleted her account. It was just 167 00:08:05.240 --> 00:08:07.240 all the drama and he talked to me about it, 168 00:08:07.680 --> 00:08:10.360 and I'm quoted in the story, and he's coming in 169 00:08:10.480 --> 00:08:12.279 not I mean, you know, but he's coming in to 170 00:08:12.279 --> 00:08:15.199 have a bigger conversation about what he found out in 171 00:08:15.240 --> 00:08:17.680 his long conversations with people about do Better Denver. So 172 00:08:17.759 --> 00:08:20.879 that's coming up at two thirty. Now, I'm gonna be 173 00:08:20.959 --> 00:08:23.720 honest today, guys. There's a lot of big stories. Obviously, 174 00:08:24.360 --> 00:08:27.759 the shutdown is over, and this is good news for 175 00:08:27.800 --> 00:08:30.920 those of you who have airline tickets for Thanksgiving or 176 00:08:31.079 --> 00:08:35.279 next week, like Anthony does. It'll take a few days, 177 00:08:35.320 --> 00:08:38.240 by the way, maybe a week or so, because now 178 00:08:38.399 --> 00:08:41.799 all of the airplanes are out of position, and that 179 00:08:41.960 --> 00:08:44.480 is the biggest problem when they have any kind of 180 00:08:44.559 --> 00:08:47.559 massive shutdown. It was like after nine to eleven when 181 00:08:47.600 --> 00:08:49.919 they went to reopen the airspace, everybody was like, wait, 182 00:08:49.960 --> 00:08:51.720 we got pilots in the wrong place, we got flight 183 00:08:51.759 --> 00:08:53.440 attendants in the wrong place, we got planes in the 184 00:08:53.480 --> 00:08:55.759 wrong place. So all of the puzzle pieces have to 185 00:08:55.799 --> 00:08:58.919 sort of settle back down into where they're supposed to go. 186 00:08:59.080 --> 00:09:01.840 But my is is by the time a rod leaves 187 00:09:01.879 --> 00:09:04.720 on what Thursday or Friday of next weekday Friday of 188 00:09:04.759 --> 00:09:07.919 next week, you should be fine. So I'm feeling good 189 00:09:07.960 --> 00:09:13.399 about things. It has been absolutely fascinating to watch the 190 00:09:13.480 --> 00:09:18.879 Democrats glom onto the message that this shutdown was because 191 00:09:18.960 --> 00:09:24.639 Republicans didn't fix the healthcare mess they created. It's a 192 00:09:24.679 --> 00:09:28.440 great line unless you actually know the truth, and the 193 00:09:28.519 --> 00:09:33.519 truth is so undeniable and crystal clear and easy to 194 00:09:33.639 --> 00:09:40.159 demonstrate that it's stunning to me that men and women 195 00:09:40.360 --> 00:09:42.879 that we've elected to the US Senate are running around 196 00:09:43.320 --> 00:09:46.440 sharing a lie as our members of the US House, 197 00:09:46.559 --> 00:09:47.559 like we can't look it up. 198 00:09:48.519 --> 00:09:50.120 Let me explain it to you just one more time, 199 00:09:50.159 --> 00:09:50.799 really quickly. 200 00:09:51.080 --> 00:09:52.440 This is not going to take long at all, but 201 00:09:52.600 --> 00:09:54.080 you need to be able to push back on people 202 00:09:54.120 --> 00:09:56.320 who are trying to blame any part of this on 203 00:09:56.399 --> 00:10:01.080 the Republican Party, because the reality is is that Democrats, 204 00:10:01.320 --> 00:10:05.519 the same Democrats, many of them, who are demanding negotiations 205 00:10:05.879 --> 00:10:11.559 on different parts of the Continuing Resolution, same exact people. 206 00:10:12.440 --> 00:10:15.840 They did not take any Republican input before they passed Obamacare. 207 00:10:17.120 --> 00:10:21.240 They did it without Republican votes. And then in twenty 208 00:10:21.320 --> 00:10:23.679 twenty two, when they were in control and Joe Biden 209 00:10:23.720 --> 00:10:27.240 was president, they wanted to pass the COVID what was 210 00:10:27.279 --> 00:10:32.159 it called the American Rescue Plan. They expanded the Obamacare 211 00:10:32.200 --> 00:10:35.759 subsidies to a point that it's well beyond what they 212 00:10:35.759 --> 00:10:37.919 were ever intended to do. Remember, we were sold to 213 00:10:38.000 --> 00:10:40.919 Obamacare on a few promises. We were sold on the 214 00:10:40.919 --> 00:10:43.399 promise of if you like your doctor, you can keep them, 215 00:10:43.639 --> 00:10:47.000 which was a lie. If you like your plan, you 216 00:10:47.039 --> 00:10:51.039 can keep it, which was a lie. And that all 217 00:10:51.080 --> 00:10:53.919 of these subsidies, all of this taxpayer money, my money, 218 00:10:53.919 --> 00:10:56.399 your money, a Rod's money, was only going to go 219 00:10:56.440 --> 00:10:58.639 to the people at the bottom of the food chain 220 00:10:58.679 --> 00:11:01.919 it really really needed it. We were all like, sure, yes, 221 00:11:02.559 --> 00:11:06.279 that's better than Medicaid, let's help those people out. Well, 222 00:11:06.399 --> 00:11:12.399 during COVID, the Democrats and the Democrats only crafted the 223 00:11:12.399 --> 00:11:14.759 American Rescue Plan in twenty twenty and. 224 00:11:14.720 --> 00:11:17.240 As part of that, they blew off. 225 00:11:17.080 --> 00:11:21.600 The income limits at the upper end of Obamacare, so 226 00:11:21.720 --> 00:11:24.039 people making over four hundred percent of the poverty level 227 00:11:24.039 --> 00:11:28.360 would now be eligible for subsidies. And it's those subsidies 228 00:11:28.600 --> 00:11:30.799 that they wrote in that we're going to expire in 229 00:11:30.799 --> 00:11:33.440 two years. So in twenty twenty two they expired. They 230 00:11:33.480 --> 00:11:37.360 passed another continuing resolution with zero Republican votes. So let's 231 00:11:37.399 --> 00:11:41.919 go back. Let's just check the math. Obamacare zero Republican votes, 232 00:11:42.679 --> 00:11:47.519 American Rescue Plan zero Republican votes, the continuing resolution in 233 00:11:47.559 --> 00:11:54.480 twenty twenty two that sunset those expanded Obamacare provisions until 234 00:11:54.639 --> 00:11:56.360 today twenty twenty five. 235 00:11:56.960 --> 00:11:58.679 They expire at the end of this year. 236 00:11:59.279 --> 00:12:03.840 The Democrat wrote those bills. The Democrats passed those bills 237 00:12:03.840 --> 00:12:08.120 without a single Republican vote, And now they are trying 238 00:12:08.159 --> 00:12:11.240 to tell you that the fact the subsidies are going 239 00:12:11.279 --> 00:12:14.480 to run out in a bill that they wrote to 240 00:12:14.639 --> 00:12:18.200 amend other bills that they wrote is somehow the Republican's 241 00:12:18.200 --> 00:12:21.559 fault is just I mean, y'all, they have stones the 242 00:12:21.600 --> 00:12:24.960 size of candloafs on this. And what's super frustrating is 243 00:12:24.960 --> 00:12:28.000 that there's too many in the news media who haven't 244 00:12:28.080 --> 00:12:29.600 bothered to look anything up. 245 00:12:30.799 --> 00:12:34.000 It took me four seconds to look this up this morning, 246 00:12:34.799 --> 00:12:37.000 four seconds. I didn't even have to use chat. It 247 00:12:37.120 --> 00:12:42.399 was that easy. And yet they're out there John Hickenlooper, 248 00:12:42.679 --> 00:12:44.000 Michael Bennett. 249 00:12:44.559 --> 00:12:50.240 Britney Patterson, Joe Na Goose, Chason Crow, They're all out 250 00:12:50.279 --> 00:12:55.679 there telling you that this was of Republican creation. I 251 00:12:55.720 --> 00:12:59.519 don't even understand that. I mean, that's just that is literally, 252 00:13:00.080 --> 00:13:04.279 that is just absolutely denying reality on every sense of 253 00:13:04.279 --> 00:13:04.639 the word. 254 00:13:06.840 --> 00:13:08.120 Maybe this is what they've been doing. 255 00:13:08.360 --> 00:13:12.080 Maybe this did not occur to me until right now. 256 00:13:12.120 --> 00:13:15.159 Maybe the entire trans mania thing where they've been telling 257 00:13:15.240 --> 00:13:17.360 us that if a man decides today that he is 258 00:13:17.360 --> 00:13:19.039 a woman and puts earrings on, he should be able 259 00:13:19.039 --> 00:13:20.840 to walk into a ladies room because he's a woman. 260 00:13:21.159 --> 00:13:24.320 Maybe maybe this is just an effort to get them to. 261 00:13:24.440 --> 00:13:28.720 Undermine reality in such a way that when they decide 262 00:13:28.720 --> 00:13:31.600 to come out and create a yarn out of whole 263 00:13:31.639 --> 00:13:35.919 cloth that is completely fabricated, has no basis in reality, 264 00:13:36.200 --> 00:13:38.279 they can sell it with a straight face, because hey, 265 00:13:38.279 --> 00:13:40.360 they've convinced us that men can declare their women and 266 00:13:40.440 --> 00:13:40.960 walk into. 267 00:13:40.840 --> 00:13:45.559 A locker room. It's amazing, I mean really amazing. 268 00:13:46.799 --> 00:13:50.440 So in any case, the shutdown is over, there will 269 00:13:50.480 --> 00:13:51.960 be a vote in the Senate. 270 00:13:52.120 --> 00:13:54.039 It will not be a vote in the House. There 271 00:13:54.039 --> 00:13:54.360 will be a. 272 00:13:54.399 --> 00:13:58.720 Vote in the Senate to expend, extend those expanded subsidies 273 00:13:58.879 --> 00:14:02.440 that the Democrats rode into a bill to sunset. 274 00:14:03.799 --> 00:14:06.720 Now, what we should be doing, what the argument should. 275 00:14:06.480 --> 00:14:12.960 Be about, is to how to just reshape Obamacare in 276 00:14:13.000 --> 00:14:14.720 such a way, because you know what, there are provisions 277 00:14:14.720 --> 00:14:18.120 and Obamacare that are very popular. The pre existing conditions 278 00:14:18.159 --> 00:14:20.600 one that's not going away, you guys, It's just not 279 00:14:20.720 --> 00:14:22.279 going away. 280 00:14:22.480 --> 00:14:25.759 But what we need to do is make assurance work 281 00:14:25.799 --> 00:14:29.039 for people and then start to do things to drive 282 00:14:29.080 --> 00:14:31.000 down the actual cost of healthcare. 283 00:14:32.080 --> 00:14:34.960 Things like imagine if you guys knew how much stuff 284 00:14:35.000 --> 00:14:39.120 was going on behind the scenes, Like and I'm talking 285 00:14:39.159 --> 00:14:40.919 about hospital billing and things like that. 286 00:14:43.480 --> 00:14:46.759 There are ways to bring. 287 00:14:46.919 --> 00:14:50.639 Certain aspects of the hospital industry in check. Now, I 288 00:14:50.720 --> 00:14:52.759 just want to I'm just gonna say this. I don't 289 00:14:52.759 --> 00:14:54.720 want to go to a hospital that looks like a 290 00:14:54.759 --> 00:14:57.919 Soviet Soviet polit bureau, right, Like I don't want to 291 00:14:57.919 --> 00:15:00.000 go to a hospital that feels like I'm in prison, 292 00:15:00.480 --> 00:15:04.200 But have you been to some of the new hospitals 293 00:15:04.200 --> 00:15:08.759 that they built with the marble tile and the ridiculous 294 00:15:08.759 --> 00:15:13.080 fixtures in the bathrooms, And I mean they're nicer than 295 00:15:13.080 --> 00:15:13.919 some hotels. 296 00:15:14.799 --> 00:15:19.360 Because there's no incentive anywhere in our entire healthcare system 297 00:15:19.399 --> 00:15:21.799 for anyone to try and save money. 298 00:15:22.759 --> 00:15:26.240 Insurance companies have negotiated their rates, they're getting the premiums, 299 00:15:26.240 --> 00:15:31.320 they've done the math, they believe, and it's demonstrated that 300 00:15:31.399 --> 00:15:32.039 they have. 301 00:15:32.200 --> 00:15:34.960 A pretty good deal right now, a really good deal. 302 00:15:34.840 --> 00:15:36.919 Because for most of you, most of you in this 303 00:15:36.960 --> 00:15:39.759 listening audience, maybe you got a five thousand dollars deductible 304 00:15:39.759 --> 00:15:41.960 per person, maybe you got a ten thousand dollars deductible 305 00:15:42.000 --> 00:15:44.679 per person. Plus you're paying what, I don't know, a thousand, 306 00:15:44.759 --> 00:15:48.600 couple thousand a month the insurance company. For most people, 307 00:15:49.519 --> 00:15:52.679 you're never gonna make any claims. You're just gonna give 308 00:15:52.720 --> 00:15:55.440 them money all year long for coverage that you're not 309 00:15:55.440 --> 00:15:58.519 gonna use, So they have no incentive to control costs. 310 00:15:59.080 --> 00:16:02.200 The healthcare system has no incentive to control costs because 311 00:16:02.279 --> 00:16:05.720 between Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurance, they can pretty much 312 00:16:05.759 --> 00:16:09.279 cost shift around to make sure they're covering the most people, 313 00:16:10.000 --> 00:16:12.639 and they're putting the burden on the private insurance companies 314 00:16:12.840 --> 00:16:14.759 because Medicare and Medicaid both underpay. 315 00:16:14.960 --> 00:16:16.159 It's just a fact. 316 00:16:16.320 --> 00:16:19.039 That's the other thing about a single payer system. If 317 00:16:19.080 --> 00:16:23.240 people understood if a doctor's office only takes Medicaid Medicare, 318 00:16:23.799 --> 00:16:27.000 I'm going we'll leave Medicaid for a further conversation later today, 319 00:16:27.039 --> 00:16:30.679 because the cuts that Governor Jared Polis is proposing to 320 00:16:30.759 --> 00:16:34.240 Medicaid are heartless. And this is from someone who thinks 321 00:16:34.360 --> 00:16:38.679 Medicaid needs to be scaled back. But nonetheless, Medicare, Medicare 322 00:16:38.759 --> 00:16:42.600 doesn't pay market rates for most things, and some very 323 00:16:42.600 --> 00:16:45.440 common things, they're actually losing money every time they deliver 324 00:16:45.480 --> 00:16:46.039 that service. 325 00:16:46.960 --> 00:16:49.120 So if we go to single payer, there. 326 00:16:49.000 --> 00:16:52.399 Won't be any private insurance really to shift the cost to. 327 00:16:52.799 --> 00:16:55.159 Right. That's the thing people don't understand. 328 00:16:57.000 --> 00:17:00.799 The consumer who has insurance, the consumer is going to 329 00:17:01.080 --> 00:17:02.840 go to the doctor and the doctor says, look, you 330 00:17:02.840 --> 00:17:05.160 know what, we're pretty sure it's this, but we could 331 00:17:05.160 --> 00:17:07.400 do this test, this test, this test, and this test 332 00:17:07.440 --> 00:17:10.200 and just make sure and the consumer who's going to 333 00:17:10.240 --> 00:17:13.440 pay a copay for that visit goes sure do it. 334 00:17:13.440 --> 00:17:15.880 It's fine because they have no incentive to say, do 335 00:17:15.920 --> 00:17:17.920 I really need all that? How sure are you that 336 00:17:17.960 --> 00:17:20.240 I just have this simple illness that can be treated 337 00:17:20.279 --> 00:17:24.720 with antibiotics. So there's no incentive in any part of 338 00:17:24.759 --> 00:17:27.519 this three legged stool for anybody to try and save money. 339 00:17:27.799 --> 00:17:30.920 That is unacceptable. I am I am going. 340 00:17:31.240 --> 00:17:33.359 I've been thinking about this a lot, and I want 341 00:17:33.359 --> 00:17:36.480 to ask you guys a question if you were if 342 00:17:36.480 --> 00:17:39.160 you had an insurance plan that was just like this, 343 00:17:39.319 --> 00:17:42.119 like just hear me out right. So you find out 344 00:17:42.160 --> 00:17:45.119 you need a hit replacement because you went to reach 345 00:17:45.160 --> 00:17:47.319 in revolution too late and it was too late to 346 00:17:47.319 --> 00:17:47.680 save you. 347 00:17:47.720 --> 00:17:48.960 But you need a hit replacement. 348 00:17:49.880 --> 00:17:52.880 And your insurance company looks at your policy and says, okay, 349 00:17:52.960 --> 00:17:56.480 you get fifteen thousand dollars for hit replacement, we're gonna 350 00:17:56.480 --> 00:17:59.200 write you a check for fifteen grand. Anything over that 351 00:17:59.240 --> 00:18:03.400 you're on your own. Anything below that you can keep, well, that's. 352 00:18:03.279 --> 00:18:04.119 Quite the incentive. 353 00:18:04.839 --> 00:18:08.519 So then you start calling around to private medical centers 354 00:18:08.559 --> 00:18:11.559 around the air, surgical centers, things like that. Maybe there's 355 00:18:11.559 --> 00:18:14.160 a website, a clearing house where people can post their 356 00:18:14.160 --> 00:18:16.440 prices and try and earn your business. You can have 357 00:18:16.480 --> 00:18:19.880 a robust system of reviews, and every year you can 358 00:18:20.119 --> 00:18:22.720 make a report on who had more complaints or more 359 00:18:22.720 --> 00:18:24.880 bad outcomes, so people can make a decision based on 360 00:18:24.960 --> 00:18:28.240 price and quality. Now, obviously this is not going to 361 00:18:28.279 --> 00:18:31.319 work for emergency care. That is a completely different category. 362 00:18:31.519 --> 00:18:35.759 But just doing what I'm saying right now injects free 363 00:18:35.799 --> 00:18:36.759 market into the. 364 00:18:36.720 --> 00:18:38.079 System where none exists. 365 00:18:38.160 --> 00:18:43.119 Now, strip out as many middleman as you can, and 366 00:18:43.240 --> 00:18:45.759 everything gets a million times cheaper. I've learned this from 367 00:18:45.799 --> 00:18:49.039 working with Pinnacle Advanced Primary Care. Their pricing is so 368 00:18:49.119 --> 00:18:50.640 much lower because they don't deal. 369 00:18:50.480 --> 00:18:51.319 With any of that crap. 370 00:18:52.160 --> 00:18:55.400 We've got to do something because what we've got now 371 00:18:55.759 --> 00:18:59.640 isn't working. But the choice between Obamacare and what we 372 00:18:59.720 --> 00:19:03.079 used to have as the only two choices is not 373 00:19:03.519 --> 00:19:08.920 where we need to start the conversation. When we get back, 374 00:19:09.799 --> 00:19:11.440 Let's talk for a minute about I didn't mean to 375 00:19:11.440 --> 00:19:13.880 go in that whole other direction, but I do want 376 00:19:13.920 --> 00:19:20.319 to talk about who really demanded the shutdown. It certainly 377 00:19:20.359 --> 00:19:22.279 wasn't the people on the snap. I do want to 378 00:19:22.279 --> 00:19:24.759 get this in really quickly because there's an opinion piece 379 00:19:25.440 --> 00:19:30.039 by a guy named Barton SWAYM Barton Sway he's a 380 00:19:30.200 --> 00:19:32.079 writs for the General, has a book reviewer, and then 381 00:19:32.079 --> 00:19:34.680 he's been got an editorial page right in twenty nineteen, 382 00:19:34.720 --> 00:19:36.680 and now he's got a weekly column on politics and 383 00:19:36.680 --> 00:19:40.400 culture at the Wall Street Journal. And in his column 384 00:19:40.440 --> 00:19:43.559 he writes about what caused the government shutdown, And yes, 385 00:19:43.920 --> 00:19:46.640 the biggest thing that was talked about was, of course 386 00:19:46.680 --> 00:19:51.440 the extension of the expanded ACA credits. But in this 387 00:19:51.519 --> 00:19:55.799 column he points out something very, very different. And I'm 388 00:19:55.799 --> 00:19:58.880 just going to share it, this one little paragraph. 389 00:19:59.160 --> 00:20:00.599 So why did the democra let's do it. 390 00:20:01.480 --> 00:20:03.720 From the beginning of the dispute, everyone seems to have 391 00:20:03.799 --> 00:20:07.759 understood that mister Schumer, Chuck Schumer, forced to shut down 392 00:20:07.799 --> 00:20:10.920 because he needed to show his states progressive voters that 393 00:20:11.000 --> 00:20:13.680 he could take it to mister Trump and so avoid 394 00:20:13.720 --> 00:20:17.880 a primary challenge from the left, perhaps from Representative Alexandria 395 00:20:17.920 --> 00:20:21.440 Acossio Cortes. The Senate leader's Democratic colleagues went around with 396 00:20:21.440 --> 00:20:23.079 a shutdown for a parallel reason. 397 00:20:23.920 --> 00:20:25.079 The whole stunt. 398 00:20:24.839 --> 00:20:28.640 Quote was about Trump's authuitarianism, wrote as Recline of The 399 00:20:28.640 --> 00:20:31.519 New York Times on Monday, it was about showing their 400 00:20:31.599 --> 00:20:33.839 base and themselves that they. 401 00:20:33.720 --> 00:20:34.519