Oct. 11, 2025

Continuing Resolutions, Continuing Chaos: The Truth About S.2882

Continuing Resolutions, Continuing Chaos: The Truth About S.2882
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In this episode of The World of Payne, we expose what Congress buried inside Senate Bill 2882 — the so-called “Continuing Appropriations Act.” Behind the headlines, S.2882 quietly reverses major healthcare reforms from the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, restoring federal funding for non-citizens, expanding Medicaid costs, and making temporary ACA subsidies permanent. We break down how this bill changes Medicaid eligibility, FMAP rates, ACA income caps, and executive budget controls, and what it means for taxpayers, lawful residents, and America’s healthcare future. From border hospitals to federal impoundment powers, this is the story Congress hoped you’d never read.

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Hello, and welcome back to the World of Pain podcast,

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where we read what Congress hopes that you'll ignore. Today,

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we're going to be digging into a bill that looks

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like a harmless surface, just another budget extension, but from

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the inside it actually hides some of the most significant

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policy reversals in the last decade. I'm talking about Senate

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Bill two eight eighty two, the continuing resolution that the

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Democrats have put through the Senate, the one that is

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kind of holding up our country right now. It's officially

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titled the Continuing Appropriations Extension and Other Matters Act of

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twenty twenty six. Now it sounds like bureaucratic nonsense, but

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that's the point. These bills that slip through quietly. They're

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labeled continuing resolutions or funding measures, and politicians vote for

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them just to avoid government shutdowns, all while rewriting major

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policies inside the fine print, This one, Senate two eight

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eight two, doesn't just keep the lights on. It reverses

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a lot of the healthcare reforms from last year's well

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this year's technically One Big Beautiful Bill Act, or the OBBBA.

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It sneaks in provisions that change how presidents control budgets,

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how Congress manages spending, and even how much oversight taxpayers

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can expect in the years ahead. It's not just a

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healthcare bill. It's a power bill, and it's a story

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about how Washington uses complexity as camouflage and takes advantage

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of other people's hardships. Using a government shut down that

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affects government employees, benefits, paychecks, everything, our military, They just

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affects everybody, and they're taking advantage of this. They're trying

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to use this to be able to push through a

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measure that is just completely absurd. Pass the continuing Resolution,

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allow the government to open back up, and then sit

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here unless debate the one big beautiful bill's healthcare changes.

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You guys allowed that to pass because you knew in

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just a few short months that you guys could sit

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here and try and hinder the government based on a

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spending bill. It's a bunch of bs led by Democrat

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senators to try to hold off and try to profit

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and push through something based on other people's hardships. It's

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a bunch of bs. Grab your coffee, because this one's

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going to be a deep one. We're gonna try and

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break it down piece by piece. At this point, the

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One Big Beautiful Bill Act had just been passed. It's

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been marketed as a return to fiscal sanity after years

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of reckless pandemic era spending and massive entitlement growth, which

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we have our Medicare and Medicaid spending is growing almost

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out of control. The context here matters. Medicare spending is exploding.

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The Medicare costs exploded to over eight hundred billion dollars

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a year, with more than ninety million Americans enrolled, which

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is roughly twenty seven percent of the entire US population.

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Many of those are people who are receiving coverage temporarily

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under pandemic waivers that were that weren't supposed to expire

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but didn't. Hospitals were billing the federal government for billions

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in uncompensated care of through Medicaid, including treatment for people

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who are not lawfully in this country. The GOAO and

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CBO both warned that the system was unsustainable, and in

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several states lawmakers openly admitted that the emergency care reimbursements

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for non citizens were being used as a backdoor funding

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stream to keep hospitals solvent. It's also being used as

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a back door to provide illegal immigrants healthcare. So OBBA

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was written up to clean it up. It wasn't perfect,

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but it was an attempt to bring order, fairness, and

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responsibility back to a system that is bleeding cash. Before

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what the OBBBA states that had a lot of freedom

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to define who counted as a qualified alien for Medicaid purposes.

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That term deceptively broad. Under the pre OBBBA law is

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considered and covered not all only lawful permanent residents, Green

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card holders, but also refugees, assylies, paroleis, trafficking victims, certain

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abused spouses or children, and even people with pending immigration

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cases who had temporary work authorization. Some of those categories

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made sense, others were ripe for abuse because once a

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state declared someone was qualified, it could build a federal

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government for a share of that person's health care costs.

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So when the Democrats are trying to sit here and

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tell you that illegal immigrants are not getting Medicaid or

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Medicare funds, it is not true. They are deceptively trying

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to say this because not only does do they get

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Medicaid funding through the Amtala Act, the Emergency Medical Treatment

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and Labor Act, but there are also getting it through

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these roundabout ways of of of a kind of a

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vague kind of a a outlandish definition definitional loophole. But

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that is that is exactly what they're doing. They're using

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these loopholes, these these vague definitions to be able to

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push this stuff through while the average working American is

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still having to pay increased health care health insurance, while

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illegal immigrants are getting it for free, if not discounted,

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if they're paying anything at all. Before the o BB

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had changed, that we were paying way too much for

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these illegal immigrants. And and and that's part of the

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reason why we have had Medicare costs just exploding over

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the past few years. Obib's authors saw that as a physical,

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as a fiscal and moral problem. If Congress doesn't doesn't

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appropriate funds for these populations, states shouldn't be allowed to

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pass the bill to Washington. So that really is where

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this came into place. Under the Big Beautiful Bill Alien,

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under a section seven to one one nine, Alien Medicaid

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eligibility was established. It rewrote the law. From this point forward,

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federal medicaid dollars could only go to US citizens lawful

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permanent residents, So people with a green card, people who

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have completed the five year waiting period, because you are

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required to have a five year consistent work history, among

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other things, pay taxes, not break ice law, immigration law.

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You have to be in good compliance with the United States.

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They're just asking you to be a good citizen. Cuban

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or Haitian entrance covered by special humanitarian laws, citizens of

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freely associated states such as those from the Marshall Islands,

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Micronesia or palou that's it. Everyone else, even the what's

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technically considered a lawful migrant, the asylum seekers and stuff

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like that, because there is that five year waiting period.

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Once you have applied for asylum or the other technical

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lawful ways of becoming a citizen, you have to wait

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five years before your technically are eligible to be able

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to get into the medical care medicaid systems, because by

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doing so, we know that as a country that you

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have paid in to those systems and not just mooching

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off those systems. So who lost coverage The refugees in

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Assylis who hadn't yet received the permanent resident status paroles,

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the people who are granted temporary humanitarian entry, victims of

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human trafficking, and certain abuse survivors covered under the Violence

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Against Women Act, and people who with pending asylum or

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adjustment of status applications who were lawfully present but not

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yet permanent residents. Many of these people who were here legally,

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they worked, they paid taxes, and in many states qualified

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under for medicaid under the old federal guidance. Really, what

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they're doing, why they're saying this is and why I'm

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saying this is because under the old guidance, they weren't

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reinforcing the five year minimum, which which is used to

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make sure that you're paying into the systems that you

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were also going to then pull from. So that five

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year minimum made sure that you at least paid in

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and have had a good work history, have done these

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things that normal Americans would have to do before they're

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before they get their benefits too. I mean, this is

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what's expected of an American citizen. It's just being extended

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now to the legal immigrants. They're expected to be good

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and good, good citizens. I mean really, critics rule has

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said that it was cruel. They it's punishing the very

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people that the USA pro mus to protect. Supporters said

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that it was about priorities citizens first, legal residents next,

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and everything else handled by the States, charities or the

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private sector, which I understand that people who want to

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pay for healthcare for the people who were sex trafficked,

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for the people who were domestic abuse survivors, and stuff

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like that, because that's just being human. It's wanting to

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take care of others, the people who are in those situations.

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There are a ton of charities that are already helping

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those people. There are charities and shelters set up to

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help those people, and in a lot of cases, they

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get free legal aid to be able to help get

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themselves asylum, to help get applications process through. The only

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thing that they're waiting on is that five year waiting

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period where they are in good standing with the United States.

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They are working, they've provided a work history, they have

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provided all this stuff to be able to help put

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them on the right track, and then they would be

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able to collect medicator medicare too. If they fell on

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hard times, they would still have to follow the same

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exact other guidelines set in this bill, which I'll cover

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here in a minute, but they would qualify. Is it

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really that bad to request for five years that someone

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stays in good standing with the United States and is

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a good citizen before they are able to start pulling

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our citizens programs. It's just that's not too that should

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not be too much to ask. Next, the OBBA took

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aim at little known programs which I talked just kind

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of mentioned briefly, the Emergency Medicaid, which reimburses hospitals for

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treating undocumented migrants who arrive in life threatening condition. Hospitals

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must provide care under the MTALA Act, the Emergency Medical

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Treatment and Labor Act. That's federal law, but under earlier rules,

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states could build Washington for up to ninety percent of

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those costs enhanced match with enhanced matching rates, the Beautiful

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Bill reduced that reimbursement to the standard f MAP, which

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is it's the acronym used for your reimbursement rate. The

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regular federal share every state gets for Medicaid. Now f MAP,

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which if you really want to know what that is,

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it's Federal medic Medical Assistance percentage is calculated by state income.

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By law, the federal share can't fall below fifty percent,

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but it also can't exceed eighty three percent. Wealthier states

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like Massachusetts sit near the fifty percent floor. Of all

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poorer states such as Mississippi get the seventy eight percent.

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That means under the Big Beautiful Bill, Washington still covered

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roughly half to three quarters of emergency medical Medicaid costs,

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but not ninety or one hundred percent, which in some

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cases the percentage was just slightly higher than ninety percent

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that they were able to get reimbursed for. The logic

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was simple, if states want to provide care to undocumented immigrants, fine,

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but they should have to have some skin in the game.

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Very true, which is why you have states like California

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who allowed for Medicaid to be given to illegal immigrants

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because they were these increased rates through the hospitals and

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and things like that. Not only that, but they were

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also providing which I'll cover here in a minute. They

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were messing with something called the provider tax. They really

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just had found a way to be able to work

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around federal law. Well, of course, they really hated when

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the Big Beautiful Bill actually passed and actually went through

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the Senate and went through the House. It had it

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went through the democratic process, but they hated it because

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it cut off there. It cut off their gravy. They

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ran a gravy train. They were able to get everything

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that they really wanted. They were able to give free

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health care illegals, they were able to get them to

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qualify for their their state Medicaid programs. They were able

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to do everything that they felt was necessary at the

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expense of a federal taxpayer. Technically, we're going to cover

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the We're to move on to the next section, because

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I could go into the rip into California for a

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long time over this because they did. They used loopholes,

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tax loopholes, everything that they could to be able to

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make it to where the federal taxpayer was paying more

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into their Medicaid program into their state run Medicaid program,

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which they then took that money and allocated it to

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get illegal healthcare. The One Big Beautiful Bill also reintroduced

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the idea of work requirements for certain Medicaid rollies, something

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the Trump administration had pushed and courts had repeatedly struck

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down at the state level. The bill required able body

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adults without dependence those aged nineteen to sixty four to work, volunteer,

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or study at least eighty hours per month. This law

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exempted the elderly, pregnant women, people with disabilities, caregivers of

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dependence and the medically frail so ablebody meant exactly what

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it sounds like, adult capable of employment, not incapacitated, and

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not caring for dependence. It was about linking welfare to work,

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a principle that goes back to the nineteen ninety six

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Clinton welfare reforms. A Democrat provider tax caps and verification.

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This is what I was just talking about earlier. The

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one Big Beautiful Bill at capped state provider taxes, preventing

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states from taxing hospitals just to inflate federal matching rates.

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Entiten eligibility verification in redetermination rules to prevent fraud. In short,

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the Big Beautiful Bill wasn't anti healthcare. It was anti

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abuse because what they were doing is they were taxing hospitals,

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taxing providers a certain rate as high I think I

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believe it was as high as even eight percent. And

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then then what they were doing is they were taking

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those funds, they were using them for their medicaid, but

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then they were also giving them back to hospitals as refunds.

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were recovering this amount of money from provider taxes, and

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then once they were receiving their federal funds, they would

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turn around and give that money that provider tax back

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to the provider, so through grants or trying to make

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it as legal as possible. A year later, we're in

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a budget standoff, and instead of debating this topic openly

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and debating the reform openly, they're trying to hide this

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in this sign it to eight a two bill. They're

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trying to push this as a must pass legislation. But

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what's going on with the to eight eight two bill.

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We're not talking about the Big Beautiful Bill anymore. I've

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covered kind of what you need to know out of

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this that is being affected by to eight eight two,

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this new bill that is being pushed to the Senate.

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Inside Division B section two one four one, it says

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Subtitle B of Title seven of the One Big Beautiful

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Bill Act is repealed, and any law or regulation referred

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to and such subtitle shall be applied as if such

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subtitle had not been enacted. So, in reality, what they're

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trying to say is that we're just gonna take an

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eraser and scratch that part out of the Big Beautiful Bill.

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We're just gonna completely redact it and then just call

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it good. We're just gonna, you know, this, this bill

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that went through the democratic process three or four months ago,

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We're just gonna say this whole sections and valid. Now

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you tell me how that's right when you're trying to

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push it through a continuing resolution to be able to

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keep the government funded and keep the government operating at capacity.

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Under Senate Bill to eight eight two. With that single

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repeal of just that, section S two eight A two

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restores pre Beautiful Bill definitions of qualified aliens, which means

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that the states can once again define eligibility broadly covering

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lawful immigrants still in waiting periods. That five year waiting period.

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I was talking about refugees, asylum applicants, paroleees, and certain

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humanitarian entrants and still get federal reimbursement for them. Supporters

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call that justice. Opponent's call fiscal suicide. From a conservative view,

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it invites the same problems the Big Beautiful Bill was

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designed to fix federal dollars flowing for populations that states

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can't or won't verify. That's the big thing. These states

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cannot verify that these people actually qualify for Medicaid dollars.

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I feel like in the next three four years you're

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going to see a lot of Medicare Medicaid fraud cases

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being brought, like you've seen in Minnesota. From a progressive standpoint,

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it corrects what they see is discrimination, reopening coverage to

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people who were lawfully present but in paperwork limbo. Well,

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I mean, under current legislation, if they really need help,

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they really need healthcare, they can go to the they

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can go to the emergency room. If they're in a

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state like California or New York who really wants to pay.

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It seems like for these illegal immigrants to get health care,

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then they can just go and do the am Tala Act.

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They can use that bill. I mean, if they're in

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paperwork limbo, like, if they really need health care, it's

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not like they can't get it, they're just the hospitals

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and the states won't be reimbursed at levels of which

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they were seeing now, where it allows for states like California,

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New York, Massachusetts to be able to abuse the am

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Tala Act and to abuse Medicaid in a way that

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should be fraudulent and should people should face charges for it,

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which two eight eight two also repeals section one one

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one zero, restoring the enhanced federal match for emergency Medicaid,

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which is what I was just talking about. So instead

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of states splitting the cost half the cost, Washington once

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again covers roughly ninety percent of the care for undocumented

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undocumented my immigrants treated in emergency rooms. Hospitals love it.

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Taxpayers fit the bill for context. In twenty twenty four,

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broader state hospitals build over two point two billion dollars

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in emergency Medicaid tied to undocumented immigrants under the Big

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Beautiful Bill, that states would have to pay about half.

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Under Senate two eight eight two, Washington eats the cost again.

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And I'm not talking state of Washington, I'm talking the

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federal government in Washington DC. The Big Beautiful Bill had

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also tightened Medicare rules so only citizens and long term

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legal resonance with full contribution histories qualified. Senate to eight

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eight two wipes that out, bringing back eligibility for some

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non citizens with partial work records, and it also blurs

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the line between earned benefit and federal handout by repealing

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an entire subtitle. Senate to eight eight two deletes every

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regulatory hook that made the Big beautiful bill. Enforceable work

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requirement authority gone, Verification systems gone, data sharing and audit

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provisions gone. What's left is the framework and name only.

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No muscle, no enforcement, no accountability. The extra add ons

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that they've also added to this Because Senate Too two

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does not just end at medic at the Medicare and

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Medicaid healthcare issue, they also made other edits to other

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healthcare laws. Medicare Rural Hospital add on. It extends the

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extra Medicare payments for low volume hospitals through twenty twenty seven,

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important for rural America, but another permit spending increase. Section

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two one three one delays disappropriate disproportionate share hospital cuts

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for another year and adds one month tennessee allotment. Hospitals win,

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taxpayers lose time and savings. The Behavioral Health Demo. Section

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two one three to two extends Certified Community Behavioral Health

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Clinic program by one month. What is the point of

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extending it in a bill for one month? Small change?

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But what's the point? Why would you extend it for

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one month? Then it also makes the ACA subsidy expansion permanent.

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Section two one four two rewrites the IRS Code to

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remove the four hundred percent of poverty level cap for

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premium tax credit eligibility. That means that there is no

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maximum income limit for subsidies. Before this change, subsidies phased

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out completely once a family earned above four hundred percent

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of the federal poverty line roughly fifty eight k for

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an individual, one hundred and twenty thousand for a family

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of four. And now anyone can receive some subsidy if

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their premiums exceed a set percentage of income. So yes,

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millionaires technically qualify through the subsidy. Though it would be small.

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A CEO of a company and could technically qualify for

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an ACA subsidy. That make a ceo that makes forty

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million a year, he technically can qualify for ACA subsidies.

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Progressive see that is leveling the playing field. Conservatives see

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it is dismantling the link between the need and the

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benefit entirely. You tell me this, Why is it that

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there is not? Because here's the thing, four hundred percent

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of poverty cap for the premium tax credit eligibility. I

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don't think anyone can disagree with families of one hundred

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and twenty thousand, family of four making one hundred and

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twenty thousand dollars should not qualify for a subsidy to

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make sure that they can still put food on the table.

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I don't think, even on the conservative side of the side,

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that you can see people that would really disagree with that,

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because they in today's time, one hundred and twenty thousand

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does not go as go that far and you still

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have to take taxes out of them one hundred and

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twenty thousand or even fifty eight k for an individual.

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I mean, I don't think you're really going to have

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a bunch of people that are just throwing massive fits

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about something like that. Where the issue where my issue

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with this is is why is it that we that

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we can allow someone who makes millions of dollars a

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year to still qualify under the ACA for ACA subsidies.

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It just makes no sense. At some point, both sides

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have drawn their battle lines. The left says healthcare is

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a human right. They argue that the Beautiful Bills restrictions

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or means spirited punishing lawful immigrants, refugees, and working families.

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They believe that expanding coverage saves lives and long and

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money long term by preventing untreated illnesses from becoming expensive

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emergencies to them. Senate Bill to eight eight to two

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restores humanity and stability to chaotic system. If where my

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issue is with this is if it's really an emergency,

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if it's really something that is life or death, they're

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going to You're going to go to the er anyways,

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you're and if if it's a situation of if it's

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a situation where the person is Medicare eligible or Medicaid eligible,

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it's taking care of anyways. Now you can you can

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go on and still get your subsidies, but you're just

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not going to be a person making a million dollars

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a year getting subsidies. The Right says compassion without control

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isn't compassion, it's chaos, which I have to agree. They

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argue that the One Big Beautiful Bill was the first

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real attempt in decades to restore accountability to say that

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benefits must be earned, verified, and limited to those who qualify.

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From the view S two eight A two rewards non

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compliance absolutely does undermines the rule of law, absolutely does,

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and pilots debt on future generations. Both sides talk about fairness,

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they just define it completely different. And you know what

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I've had this. I've had multiple conversations about this bill,

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just talking about how it affects stuff, And I've had

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the conversation with multiple left leaning individuals, some more extreme

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left than others, and I've sat there, I've moderated a

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few debates on this, and every single time when you

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have left leaning people and right leaning people talking about

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this discussion, they both want the same thing, they just

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have different ways of getting to it. Every conservative that

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I've talked to about this does not agree with everybody

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losing their health care. If they're citizens, if they're in

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programs and actually being verified and actually actually providing into

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this country and paying into the system that they're draining,

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they don't have an issue. The people on the left,

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they want compassion, they want they they want healthcare for all,

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but they don't realize that you still have to pay

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for it. And almost every single one of them doesn't

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realize that one of our biggest expenditures as a country

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is just the sheer amount of money that we pay

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on interest on our debts, and at some point in

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time we have to slow our spending so that we

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slow our inflation rate. The reason why you had such

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an increase in cost of living, such an increase and

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cost of everything, I mean just houses. All of it

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is because we printed a majority of our money in

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the last five years. A majority of the money in

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circulation was put into circulation in the last five years.

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And that is why everything is so much more expensive.

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That is why your dollar goes not as far as

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it used to. That is why your grocery bill on

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something that you would have bought five years ago, in

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some cases is double. And you can sit here, you

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can blame it on tariffs and stuff like that, but

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tariffs are a drop in the bucket compared to what

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inflation has done to our dollar in the last five,

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if not ten years. If you really want to go

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back ten years, it's even worse. The real world effects

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of two eight A two the rural and border hospitals

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will see an immediate financial relief financial check. The federal

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checks will start flowing again for a regirocy care regardless

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of patient status. But there's a dark side. When the

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federal government pays almost everything, the incentive to control costs

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or verify eligibility disappears. Border states breathe easier. Non border

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states will pay federal matching means taxpayers in Iowa or Ohio,

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Ohio will subsidize hospital care in Texas or California. That

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disconnect completely erodes the accountability that these states need to

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face taxpayers. The Congressional Pudget Office estimates that one hundred

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and forty billion dollars in new spending over the next

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decade from these healthcare provisions, add permanent ACA studies, and

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you're talking about trillions of dollars over time. Think about that.

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And the thing is is the ACA subsidies weren't planning

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on going away. They just want to repeal the covid

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era that makes it to where there's no income level cap.

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The Republicans, if you sit and actually listen to the Senates,

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the senators and stuff on the Republican side, they don't

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want the ACA subsidies to completely go away. Marjorie Taylor

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Green's talking about how she wants to lower health insurance

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and health care costs, and I don't think anyone really

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in her party disagrees with her. But she also I

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don't think she realizes is that most of them, and

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this comes from the amount of time that I have

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over the last week just sat and listened to Republican

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senators and Republican House Chamber members talk about ACA subsidies,

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they don't most of them don't really want the the

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actual ACA subsidies that were within the ACA Act to

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go away. They want these covid era ACA subsidies that

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leave an open ended income, that make it to where

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someone even your sitting in Congress members could technically could

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qualify their cousin who owns a business making eight million

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dollars a year qualifies. The person that gave them kickbacks

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or donated to their campaign qualifies. Like they always say,

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follow the money and it'll lead you where it needs

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to go, where you need to find out immigration. When

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word spreads that the emergency care in the United States

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is regardless of status, it becomes another magnet because reason

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another reason people come here expecting free treatment. I mean,

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it's not racist or xenophobic to say that, but a

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lot of them do come here expecting to be able

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to receive stuff, whether it's if they get a job.

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I'm not saying every immigrant's bad to not get me

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wrong on that we need immigration in this country because

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I'm sorry, the newer generations are lazier than hell and

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are never going to be are never going to fulfill

471
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all the jobs that we need to fill. Most of

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the newer generations. We're starting to see an uptick in trades,

473
00:38:48.880 --> 00:38:51.679
but a lot of them don't want to do trade work.

474
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Most of them don't even want to go to the

475
00:38:53.719 --> 00:38:58.440
office for forty hours a week. Some of them do,

476
00:38:59.239 --> 00:39:01.760
some of them want to work their butts off, but

477
00:39:01.800 --> 00:39:04.239
there's a good amount of them that they don't want

478
00:39:04.239 --> 00:39:05.840
to go to the office for forty hours a week,

479
00:39:05.920 --> 00:39:08.000
which is why they want to push for universal health care,

480
00:39:08.119 --> 00:39:17.239
free college tuition, a student loan debt, forgiveness. They just

481
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don't They don't want to put the work in to

482
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achieve the American dream. And to those people who say

483
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that the American dream is dead, it's not dead. You

484
00:39:27.599 --> 00:39:36.639
just you just can't see it. What's S two eight

485
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A two does not change is some O BBA B

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I'm just gonna call it the Big Beautiful Bill provisions.

487
00:39:47.639 --> 00:39:53.360
The provider tax cap remains, though it's weakly enforced. The

488
00:39:53.400 --> 00:39:57.079
work requirement language technically exists, but there's not there's not

489
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any real real authority to be able to implement it.

490
00:40:01.679 --> 00:40:06.039
Restrictions on abortion and gender transition procedures remain but are

491
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being challenged separately through courts, and the framework of reforms

492
00:40:11.440 --> 00:40:17.480
still exists, but its substance has been hollowed out. This

493
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is what the most parts of the media skip. And

494
00:40:20.440 --> 00:40:23.679
this is this is what you guys really need to

495
00:40:24.000 --> 00:40:26.840
listen to, because this is this is really where the

496
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Republican friction point is. S. Two eight eight two does

497
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not just rewrite the healthcare part of the big beautiful bill.

498
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It doesn't just focus on healthcare. They push the healthcare

499
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because it's what you can connect with, It's what you

500
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can what you can have feelings for, It's what each

501
00:40:44.519 --> 00:40:50.000
and every person who watches a news story can feel

502
00:40:50.079 --> 00:40:54.760
the direct result of. But under two eight eight two,

503
00:40:56.719 --> 00:41:01.559
the they are trying to change language within the Empowerment

504
00:41:01.559 --> 00:41:05.960
Control Act in nineteen seventy four. Presidents cannot uni laterally

505
00:41:06.079 --> 00:41:10.280
withhold or delay spending that Congress has approved. Is what

506
00:41:10.320 --> 00:41:16.039
they're trying, is what that acts says. But however, for

507
00:41:16.159 --> 00:41:22.039
decades presidents have used apportionment and withholding tools through the

508
00:41:22.119 --> 00:41:26.960
Office Management and Budget to slow or redirect funds. It's

509
00:41:26.960 --> 00:41:30.239
a checks and balances gray zone. S. Two eight eight

510
00:41:30.320 --> 00:41:34.159
two Titans at grayzone dramatically. It adds clauses requiring funds

511
00:41:34.159 --> 00:41:38.920
to be dispersed as scheduled unless Congress explicitly authorizes a delay.

512
00:41:39.880 --> 00:41:44.320
It restricts reprogramming, moving money between accounts, and limits the

513
00:41:44.360 --> 00:41:49.639
executive's ability to rescind funds without congressional approval. In effect,

514
00:41:50.039 --> 00:41:56.800
s two eight eight two makes every apportion necessary, appropriation necessary,

515
00:41:57.559 --> 00:42:01.800
and makes it mandatory execute Once Congress rights to check,

516
00:42:01.880 --> 00:42:05.239
the president must cash it. And that might sound like accountability,

517
00:42:05.800 --> 00:42:09.599
but it also means no future president, Republican or Democrat,

518
00:42:10.199 --> 00:42:14.079
can slow runaway spending without a new law. It lacks it,

519
00:42:14.159 --> 00:42:18.880
locks in expansion, and locks in runaway debt. So the

520
00:42:18.920 --> 00:42:22.599
same bill that restores open ended healthcare eligibility also ensures

521
00:42:22.599 --> 00:42:27.400
that no president can stop spending later. And these aren't

522
00:42:27.400 --> 00:42:32.920
even programs that like, let's just say it's a for example,

523
00:42:34.719 --> 00:42:38.239
Congress rights a bill that says we're going to fund

524
00:42:38.360 --> 00:42:42.800
a program in the Middle East, pick whatever country you want,

525
00:42:44.840 --> 00:42:52.079
and it's under the guise of a humanitarian a humanitarian effort,

526
00:42:52.599 --> 00:42:55.800
whether it's to help feed the Hungary or whatever. Well,

527
00:42:55.880 --> 00:42:59.119
let's find out. Let's let's just say that the president

528
00:42:59.159 --> 00:43:06.159
finds out through our intelligence through bank records, through bank tracing,

529
00:43:07.119 --> 00:43:10.679
transaction tracing, that that money is now being used to

530
00:43:10.760 --> 00:43:14.400
buy weapons, to be able to buy chemicals that might

531
00:43:14.400 --> 00:43:18.400
be used for later for chemical warfare, those types of situations.

532
00:43:18.840 --> 00:43:22.239
It's being used for, not the purpose of what Congress

533
00:43:23.760 --> 00:43:29.280
had wrote it out to be. Now, technically he can

534
00:43:29.320 --> 00:43:31.679
put a freeze on those funds and make it to

535
00:43:31.760 --> 00:43:34.880
where we can kind of be like, haha, got you,

536
00:43:35.000 --> 00:43:39.239
we found out you're doing this. But under this bill,

537
00:43:39.280 --> 00:43:43.679
it actually makes it to wear Oops. Sorry, we're just

538
00:43:43.679 --> 00:43:48.280
gonna he's got no control over it anymore. You can

539
00:43:48.360 --> 00:43:52.119
use those chemicals to do whatever you want. It could

540
00:43:52.119 --> 00:43:54.000
be a bomb to bomb us, could be a bomb

541
00:43:54.039 --> 00:43:57.599
to use on their own citizens, could could be a

542
00:43:57.800 --> 00:44:02.280
something to that could harm a lot of people under

543
00:44:02.320 --> 00:44:12.639
the guise of humanitarian efforts they had now have this money.

544
00:44:12.760 --> 00:44:21.559
It's just it's not a good situation. The bigger picture. Oh,

545
00:44:21.800 --> 00:44:26.360
the one Beautiful Bill said government can help, but only

546
00:44:26.400 --> 00:44:29.920
with rules and S two eight A two says rules

547
00:44:30.000 --> 00:44:33.639
or barriers, Let's tear them down. The Big Beautiful Bill

548
00:44:34.519 --> 00:44:40.480
drew boundaries citizens first, lawful residence second, then accountability always

549
00:44:40.360 --> 00:44:43.760
a s too AITA two blurs those lines. Everyone qualifies,

550
00:44:43.960 --> 00:44:47.519
federal taxpayers pick up the tab, and presidents can't tighten

551
00:44:47.559 --> 00:44:53.519
the reins. This is more than just a policy disagreement.

552
00:44:53.559 --> 00:44:58.039
It's a philosophical one about whether America will operate as

553
00:44:58.039 --> 00:45:02.800
a nation of earned rights or entitled benefits. The true

554
00:45:02.800 --> 00:45:11.400
bottom line is, before One Big Beautiful Bill, Medicaid was

555
00:45:11.400 --> 00:45:15.119
an open gate. States could enroll nearly anyone they labeled qualified.

556
00:45:15.480 --> 00:45:20.159
Federal reimbursements were generous, and oversight was midable. The One

557
00:45:20.159 --> 00:45:25.239
Big Beautiful Bill closed that gate, restricted eligibility to citizens

558
00:45:25.239 --> 00:45:29.320
in a few lawful categories. It reduced federal match for

559
00:45:29.360 --> 00:45:33.800
emergency care, added work requirements for able bodied adults, capped

560
00:45:33.880 --> 00:45:40.039
provided games, and boosted verification. It was imperfect, but it

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00:45:40.079 --> 00:45:43.760
restored order. As two eight A two tears down those

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00:45:43.760 --> 00:45:47.920
walls completely, reopens eligibility to a broader array of legal

563
00:45:48.280 --> 00:45:55.079
and quasi illegal immigrants, restores higher federal reimbursement from emergency

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00:45:55.079 --> 00:46:00.880
care even for undocumented migrants, the police enforcement authority for work

565
00:46:01.000 --> 00:46:06.239
roles and verification, and makes pandemic era as subsidies permanent

566
00:46:06.480 --> 00:46:10.360
with no income cap. Let me repeat that, because I

567
00:46:10.400 --> 00:46:12.920
think you guys need to realize this more than anything

568
00:46:13.360 --> 00:46:16.920
that is a no income cap. Someone who absolutely could

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00:46:16.920 --> 00:46:20.159
afford insurance on their own can still get a tax

570
00:46:20.360 --> 00:46:34.639
payer funded tax credit subsidy through the ACA Act, and

571
00:46:34.679 --> 00:46:37.360
it ensures that once money is spent, the president can't

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00:46:37.400 --> 00:46:40.480
stop it. In playing language as two eight eight, who

573
00:46:40.599 --> 00:46:46.000
spends more, regulates less, and removes the last executive lever

574
00:46:46.320 --> 00:46:50.280
that can control it. If you care about health care, fairness,

575
00:46:50.599 --> 00:46:55.079
border security, or fiscal responsibility, this isn't an abstract fight.

576
00:46:55.159 --> 00:46:59.280
It's a direct question. Should federal compassion have a budget?

577
00:47:00.079 --> 00:47:03.440
S two A A two says no compassion first, balance later,

578
00:47:04.519 --> 00:47:09.920
but later never comes. It's just like Washington. Washington is

579
00:47:10.079 --> 00:47:15.039
completely okay with spending our tax dollars willing nilly with

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00:47:15.280 --> 00:47:23.360
no recourse by doing the one big beautiful bill Congress

581
00:47:23.400 --> 00:47:30.679
signaled a fiscal restraint is temporary and expansion is forever.

582
00:47:31.239 --> 00:47:34.440
By limiting the presidential impoundment powers, it guarantees that no

583
00:47:34.480 --> 00:47:40.440
one in the executive branch, Republican or Democrat, can restore

584
00:47:40.440 --> 00:47:43.679
that restraint. So next time you hear continuing resolution or remember,

585
00:47:43.719 --> 00:47:46.000
it is not a pause button, it's a permanent rewrite.

586
00:47:46.400 --> 00:47:49.599
This is how Washington works. This is not through big,

587
00:47:49.679 --> 00:47:54.679
flashy bills, but through quiet reversals buried inside funding extensions.

588
00:48:00.079 --> 00:48:03.079
As I'm closing out, I want you guys to remember that,

589
00:48:05.559 --> 00:48:10.559
because we hear about these big bills, that one hundred,

590
00:48:10.639 --> 00:48:15.159
two hundred, three hundred thousand page, one hundred maybe a

591
00:48:15.239 --> 00:48:21.719
thousand page bills. But it's the it's sometimes it's even

592
00:48:21.719 --> 00:48:23.840
the short ones, like this was a sixty eight page

593
00:48:23.880 --> 00:48:27.719
bill that they hit. All this in that they hit,

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00:48:27.840 --> 00:48:31.719
the the removal of executive powers that they they hit

595
00:48:31.800 --> 00:48:38.320
all this small what can be considered small stuff that

596
00:48:38.400 --> 00:48:46.280
has big legal recourse. I want you guys to just

597
00:48:46.320 --> 00:48:49.679
think about that for a second and think about the

598
00:48:49.719 --> 00:48:54.039
fact that the ACA subsidies now just the ones that

599
00:48:54.039 --> 00:48:56.960
they're trying to extend, the thing that they're throwing these

600
00:48:57.039 --> 00:49:03.039
huge fits about, because the other ACA sub cities were

601
00:49:03.079 --> 00:49:05.880
not this. This is this was just an extension of

602
00:49:06.360 --> 00:49:15.760
pandemic pandemic era subsidies. They they're sitting here and they're

603
00:49:15.800 --> 00:49:22.320
throwing fits about that because there's no income limit, so

604
00:49:22.599 --> 00:49:28.000
anyone qualifies, even the people who could spend, who can

605
00:49:28.039 --> 00:49:37.719
afford to spend absorbent amounts on healthcare, the millionaires, I

606
00:49:37.719 --> 00:49:44.639
mean even technically a billionaire qualifies. Any billionaire would qualify

607
00:49:45.039 --> 00:49:50.239
for ACA subsidies under the S two eight eight two

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00:49:51.559 --> 00:49:56.599
because they technically qualify for him. Now here's the bottom line,

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00:49:56.800 --> 00:49:59.079
S two eight eight two. It's not about keeping the

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00:49:59.159 --> 00:50:07.159
lights on. It's not about putting constraints on our money.

611
00:50:07.440 --> 00:50:13.320
It's not about putting constraints or helping illegal immigrants. It's

612
00:50:13.360 --> 00:50:16.119
about keeping the spending flowing. No matter who's in the

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00:50:16.119 --> 00:50:21.159
White House. It undos hard fought reform before they even

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00:50:21.199 --> 00:50:25.280
take effect and ensures that they can't easily be rebuilt

615
00:50:25.920 --> 00:50:28.559
in a world where every dollar is borrowed and every

616
00:50:28.639 --> 00:50:34.079
temporary subsidy becomes permanent. This bill isn't a budget measure.

617
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It's a warning. It's absolutely a warning because if they're

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going to continue a lot of these programs that help,

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which that's the other thing they want to talk about,

620
00:50:46.000 --> 00:50:48.519
tax tax the rich. Well, if you want to tax

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00:50:48.559 --> 00:50:50.800
the rich, why are you providing an ACA subsidy for

622
00:50:50.840 --> 00:50:56.719
people who can afford to have health insurance? But instead

623
00:50:56.719 --> 00:51:03.360
we're going to subsidize it on the taxpayer's dollar. It

624
00:51:03.440 --> 00:51:06.480
makes no sense to me, and it shouldn't make any

625
00:51:06.519 --> 00:51:11.280
sense to you. It's time to repeal some of these

626
00:51:12.119 --> 00:51:16.800
pandemic era programs that just have cent our spending through

627
00:51:16.840 --> 00:51:24.480
the roof. It's time. It's gonna be interesting to see

628
00:51:24.480 --> 00:51:29.480
what the last what Biden's total deficit was for his

629
00:51:29.559 --> 00:51:34.760
four years in office, because his deficit just through three

630
00:51:34.840 --> 00:51:37.599
years is almost as high as Trump's was through four years.

631
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And Trump had the first stimulus bill in the first

632
00:51:44.880 --> 00:51:48.599
the paycheck protection program and all these other programs that

633
00:51:48.679 --> 00:51:57.199
were used as pandemic stimulus on his record, because before

634
00:51:57.239 --> 00:52:03.960
that he was pretty on paw with Obama's deficit, and

635
00:52:04.079 --> 00:52:07.480
actually he was going to blow out of the water

636
00:52:08.320 --> 00:52:15.519
Biden comparatively. If you just take the three years besides

637
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the pandemic here, it'll be interesting. I just want you

638
00:52:23.519 --> 00:52:27.239
guys to with my parting note, I want you guys

639
00:52:27.280 --> 00:52:30.639
to really think about the way that they do business

640
00:52:30.639 --> 00:52:35.000
in Washington, the way that they pass these bills, the

641
00:52:35.039 --> 00:52:37.400
way that they try to sneak this stuff in on

642
00:52:37.639 --> 00:52:40.280
bills that just are trying to keep the lights on.

643
00:52:41.960 --> 00:52:44.480
Because right now, this bill that they're trying to sneak

644
00:52:44.519 --> 00:52:50.920
all this stuff through is a bill that is preventing

645
00:52:51.480 --> 00:52:57.440
federal workers from their paycheck, preventing military members from their paycheck,

646
00:52:58.840 --> 00:53:04.760
preventing wick program from happening. It's affecting the snap benefits,

647
00:53:04.320 --> 00:53:14.400
It's affecting everybody all because the Democrats want to grandstand

648
00:53:15.320 --> 00:53:17.480
and sit here and act like they give a shit

649
00:53:18.239 --> 00:53:24.000
about you or I. They don't care. You want to

650
00:53:24.039 --> 00:53:26.920
talk about how they want to tax the rich and

651
00:53:27.000 --> 00:53:32.199
stuff like that and increase taxes on those people. But

652
00:53:32.280 --> 00:53:37.400
those people are the ones that stimulate the economy by

653
00:53:37.400 --> 00:53:43.599
purchasing stuff that qualifies them for write offs. So you

654
00:53:43.599 --> 00:53:47.000
can increase that tax percentage as much as you want.

655
00:53:49.400 --> 00:53:58.079
There is just like Trump said in the like Trump

656
00:53:58.159 --> 00:54:02.679
said in his debate with Hillary, she was talking about

657
00:54:02.679 --> 00:54:05.679
his tax returns and about how he paid He paid

658
00:54:06.719 --> 00:54:10.280
very little in taxes. Will He even turned and looked

659
00:54:10.280 --> 00:54:12.559
at her and said, well, I use the same loopholes

660
00:54:12.599 --> 00:54:15.760
that you use. Same to use the same loopholes that

661
00:54:16.360 --> 00:54:20.480
your donors use. I use all these tax loopholes you

662
00:54:20.480 --> 00:54:24.400
want to talk about. People who about tax the rich, well,

663
00:54:24.440 --> 00:54:26.760
they know it. They know it's not going to make

664
00:54:26.800 --> 00:54:30.079
a big difference because the rich are the ones that

665
00:54:30.119 --> 00:54:33.679
are able to afford to do these tax write offs,

666
00:54:34.079 --> 00:54:37.480
these tax deductions. And then on top of that, you're

667
00:54:37.480 --> 00:54:42.519
gonna add ACA tax credits. Tell me where that makes sense.

668
00:54:43.360 --> 00:54:45.840
Your grand standing and you're talking about all this stuff,

669
00:54:48.280 --> 00:54:53.400
but they don't give a shit. They've had multiple they've

670
00:54:53.400 --> 00:54:59.519
had bills be proposed and to vote on to be

671
00:54:59.519 --> 00:55:03.079
able to can continue paying military members, to be able

672
00:55:03.079 --> 00:55:08.880
to continue to do all this. It was the clean resolution.

673
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But instead they're going to grandstand on a bill that

674
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is filled to the brim with bureaucratical bs and filled

675
00:55:24.119 --> 00:55:28.039
to the brim with stuff that's not needed at this

676
00:55:28.159 --> 00:55:29.800
point in time in our government. If you're going to

677
00:55:29.840 --> 00:55:32.440
actually pass something like the bill that they're trying to pass,

678
00:55:32.840 --> 00:55:35.599
it is a bill that you sit there and you

679
00:55:35.760 --> 00:55:39.400
have debate on. But their debate would not work because

680
00:55:39.760 --> 00:55:43.239
they know it's bs. They know that the bill is

681
00:55:43.280 --> 00:55:50.880
not worth the paper that it's wrote on. I hope

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you guys enjoyed the show. Don't forget to check out

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my socials. Don't forget to check out our valor built.

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All those links are in the description below. It's time

685
00:56:07.119 --> 00:56:11.119
for us to do something in this country to cut spending.

686
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It's time for us to do something in this country

687
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that is good for the citizens and not for the

688
00:56:18.119 --> 00:56:22.960
people that just walked in. I hope you guys have

689
00:56:23.000 --> 00:56:25.679
a good day, a good night whenever you guys are

690
00:56:25.719 --> 00:56:34.199
watching this podcast, but definitely share the show. Get us

691
00:56:34.199 --> 00:56:36.320
out to people who don't actually know what this bill

692
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is about. Get us out to people who have probably

693
00:56:40.440 --> 00:56:43.679
never read a Senate or House bill in their state

694
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or federal level. We're going to try and spend time

695
00:56:49.280 --> 00:56:52.800
on this podcast talking about this stuff, talking about the

696
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bills that they're trying to push through the House or

697
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the Senate that may not be beneficial to any American citizen,

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or even if they are beneficial. I want to be

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able touch on those bills too, but it's there are

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few and far between anymore. You guys, have a good night,

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and don't forget to share the show.