If republicans still spending hundreds of billions on healthcare is mean, tell me what constitutes nice . Its still covering people with preexisting conditions is heartless, what shows heart . If keeping kids on your policy longer matters when democrats do it, how about republicans . If democrats bemoaning the republicans about paying for it, makes then clueless . If barack obama calls it a massive transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich, wasnt he the one that started this transfer in reverse exploding costs on the poor and the rich . No, this is not about a massive transfer of wealth. Its about a massive departure from reality. Im the geek here. Ive done the math. What is mean, my friends, is doubling premiums you promised would stay low. What is mean is limiting options for care when you promised they would have plenty of options for care. What is mean is saying you can keep your doctor when you cant keep your doctor. What is mean is forcing young people to pay up for coverage when maybe they cant afford that coverage. What is mean is saying government subsidies will help when they wont or plenty of state exchanges will have their back when they cant. What is mean, premium increases. Keeps soaring. Coverage that keeps shrinking. What is mean the telling folks healthcare is like money in the bank even if it means theres no money left in their pocket. Thats whats mean. That is what is heartless. Not republicans introducing democrats to something called math, but democrats that concocted this mess ignoring that math. Its deplorable to do things in secret. Remember the closed doors . Theyre not pretty. But Chuck Schumer lecturing anybody on keeping them open . That is pretty stupid. What is heartless is when the same Chuck Schumer says this Senate Measure will send costs soaring while refusing to see those costs are already soaring. What is heartless is saying republicans are killing people. They actually said that. When in fact what is really heartless is year after year of obamacare lemming, lying to people, all the people, about deductibles pricier than some premiums and more than they can afford. If that is compassion, what counts for clueless . If that shows heart, how to explain this present day healthcare bill . That is what is heartless. That is over the top hypocrisy on the left. That is what is mean. It shows the cavalier disregard for facts the left chooses to ignore and a phony interest of folks for liberals couldnt care less. Those republican plans are not perfect. Ive said so and reported many times. Theyre out there because the law they hope to replace is not remotely close to even passable. You could argue, republicans arent doing any favors by replaying one Healthcare Program with a slightly less big old Healthcare Programs. That does not mean that republicans are moral sinners. I just find it odd that the same folks that feared republicans would repeal healthcare have in fact gone to great lengths, those republicans to security healthcare. Oddly keeping the one thing that they said they would rip apart. God knows its not helping the grand old party, but dont you find it somehow that theyre getting the blame for the disaster of obamacare . Thats not party. There are facts. Not president obama himself who is getting the blame who seems to have forgotten the empty promises behind obamacare. He made the promises. Now theyre lecturing republicans about breaking promises . Theres enough blame to go around for program that promise too much. For democrats to call on republicans for doing too little. We need a stethoscope all right. To confirm whether democrats have any heart at all. Im very sorry to ramble on to kickoff the show but this narrative of blaming republicans for this mess, it is way off. More than a bit much. I just gave you the facts. I just broke down the numbers. I just told you the good and bad on each. But for one party to claim the other party is all bad . That republicans are the one who concocted a mess theyre trying to fix . Thats a bit rich. To betsy mccoy, author of beating obamacare, the first to seize on developments that didnt add up then, she joins us now. Betsy, i heard this mainstream narrative and it was identical. Identical. Thats right. Its appalling. Its divisive at its height. This bill doesnt transfer wealth from the poor to the rich. It transfers money from the government to the economy where its intended to boost jobs and land in the pockets of working people. Thats the trump agenda. Rewarding work. Dignifying work. So repeals the jobkilling employer mandates and repeals about 600 billion in jobkilling taxes including the 3. 8 surcharge on investments. The republican will be a booming economy. In many ways, this repeal bill is the beginning of the economic recovery. We can argue over the particulars and whether this will do that and deliver the goods, but i just found it shocking in a lot of very popular newspapers today to say republicans are to blame for the mess that is the healthcare now as if they created this. As things stand now, the problems are with the law itself exists. When americans are asked, we dont like the republican plan, first of all, theyve not been given on honest assessment. We just got this one. The point in the dissatisfaction and the frustration with healthcare coverage is what is out there and available right now. A lot of americans are very anxious about it. Right now. Also, the democrats are demagoguing the issue of putting some sort of frame work of controls and responsibility on medicaid. Medicaid was intended as a safety net. Now 74 million americans are enrolled in medicaid. 20 million more than in medicare, the program for the elderly. In fact, heres an astounding fact. Half of all the women in the United States that give birth have medicaid paid for. Half. Thats not a safety net. Its an unsustainable one. You could tax the rich at 100 to keep this going and couldnt possibly keep up with this. So to acknowledge the faultiness of the math misses the bigger points that its not a republican or democratic issue, its a real issue. We get into this talking point nonsense and crap to go off on a tangent that has nothing to do with the reality of the numbers that are not sustainable. Thats right. Youll hear in this divisive demagoguery, the talk of blood money im quoting Elizabeth Warren neil can you believe that . Its astounding. Everybody enrolled in medicaid is grandfathered in. So the concept of losing coverage, thats a total lie. It is true that this bill will slow down future enrollment in medicaid. That is desperately needed. What obamacare did is to say that the states to the governors, enroll as many people as you can and the federal government will pick up the entire tab. So of course, they irresponsibly expanded medicaid way beyond what is affordable to rake in all of those federal dollars. Not only that, but they didnt even Pay Attention to how the money was spent. Astounding, 9. 8 , 10 of medicaid spending are wrong payments. Any business with that record would be out of business. Neil the bottom line, when its characterized as mean i see it in the media. Theres not an attempt to balance it out. A great sense of this person will be deprived of this or this person is deprived of this. Were all stuck with the costs that have accelerated because of this. When people are sold a bill of goods, its incumbent on us to step back, look at the numbers. I dont care if youre right or left, republican or democrat, look at the math and the math isnt sustainable. To fix this you can have plenty of problems with the way republicans are going about fixing it or now a fifth senator that is considered about this measure, is a sign that its doomed. The fact of the matter is none of this would be attempted right now and none of this would be considered right now if it wasnt such a crappy measure in the first place and people were losing money hand over fists and costs were rising at trip italian rate they were. We wouldnt even be in this position if it was working like a charm. It wasnt and it isnt. Obamacare is also weighing down and depressing the economy. We cant get the 1 growth to 3 growth, the president s goal, unless we repeal the parts of obamacare that are killing job creation. Thats what this senate bill does. It repeals the employer mandate and the taxes repressing job growth. Neil thanks, betsy. I apologize for getting so worked up and i hope you folks at home that he see me getting worked up. I could care less. The president doesnt come on the show, doesnt flip over me. I have no agenda here. My agenda is the truth. Youre being sold a bill of goods based on the notion that people are trying to make one party look heartless simply because it sees a program and an initiative and a healthcare measure that has proven clueless. The facts are there. This cant work. This cannot be sustained. Its got to stop. Into this break, socialize. More after this. [vo] when it comes to investing, looking from a fresh perspective can make all the difference. It can provide what we call an unlock a realization that often reveals a better path forward. At wells fargo, its our expertise in finding this kind of insight that has lead us to become one of the largest investment and Wealth Management firms in the country. Discover how we can help find your unlock. Im ryan and i quit smoking with chantix. I tried to quit cold turkey. I tried to quit with the patch; that didnt work. 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Many insurance plans cover chantix for a low or 0 copay. [bleep], [bleep]. Dude what are you saying it to us for . What are you telling us for . I wish you were [bleep]. A nebraska official fired after that rant against steve scalise. In the hospital, only taken out of intensive care. A new report this 30 republican lawmakers have been threatened or attacked since may. Al Alex Griswold has more on that. I couldnt believe it either. Honestly, i thought it would be one, two or three. I looked at the threats after the scalise shooting. When i realized that there were four, it was mind boggling. Its 30 total for nine or ten incidences. The scalise shooting skews things because theres 20 or so republican lawmakers targeted there. This is happening all over the nation, happening to republican congressmen everywhere. Neil i can understand. They dont flip over donald trump. They cannot fathom how he won the election. So they cling to the russia thing and everything else, the collusion thing. Anything they can. Whether you like him or not. And all right. I can see the hatred or fine. Run with it. Man, oh, man, theyre crossing a dangerous line with this sort of talk with these kind of threats. If it were done in reverse, which was the consensus before the election that it would be the trump folks you had to worry about, nobody thought it would be these folks youd have to worry about what do you think . Almost had a preview of what happened in reverse. The media assumed that it happened in reverse during the Gabby Giffords shooting four years ago and hammered republicans. They acuesed them of fermenting this environment of hate. Turns out, they werent even responsible. Here you have 30 gop congressmen that have been threatened in two months. Theres no narrative about it. Neil even after this scalise incident, it was taken, depending on the channel you watch, enough Strong Language there, but its fair to say that sense the president s inauguration, a lot of that anger and fermenting hostility has been on the left, not too pleased with him and expressing in all sorts of ways, including protesting the day of his inauguration and continuing nonstop ever since. Now its extended hollywood types including johnny depp saying its time for an actor to take down a president. Its nuts. It is nuts. Probably the worst that weve seen since the civil war. Politization of this factor. Its been fermenting for years. This is the first time its gotten as violent as it has. We have 30 people being threatened, a republican congressman in tennessee almost driven off the road by someone because they didnt like his stance on the healthcare bill. Its nuts. Neil there is sort of in the dna to have a tolerance for all points of view, all sorts of issues, races and creed, which is fine, then practice it, believe it, illustrate it. Show it. Thats what almost hurts me the most. This is not a left wing way of thinking. I know most liberals are better than this. So we talk about the media calling this behavior out. Liberals, its on you, too. You should be calling it out. Its not part of your tradition. This is nothing its not liberal at all. Its not even american. Neil i guarantee you, if someone add a trump rally punched someone, that would get crazy coverage. This sort of thing, not so much. Man, oh, man. Really is affecting my appetite today, by the way. Thats just me. Alex, thanks very much. Very good seeing you. Thanks for having me. Neil get a load of this trump supporter in texas that got so fed up with the media coverage, he built a billboard calling out abc. Wait till you hear this after this. Usaa gives me the peace of mind and the security just like the marines did. The process through usaa is so effortless, that you feel like youre a part of the family. I love that i can pass the membership to my children. Were the williams family, and were usaa members for life. Wenit gave me a leafput in the names almost right away. First. Within a few days, i went from knowing almost nothing to holy crow, im related to george washington. I didnt know that using ancestry would be so easy. Neil lets say you dont like the way the media is covering President Trump. Would you make a billboard about it . This guy did. He made this billboard in response to something that he saw. Kyle, good to have you. Thanks for coming. Thanks, neil. Im a big fan. Neil very good to have you. What happened . What got you to do this . Neil, like i said, i had a press release that went along with the billboard. Ive been watching abc news since i was a little kid. The only channel on tv. My parents watched it. Its just what we did when we ate dinner, thats what was on. You know, theyre part of the family. I believed what they said. They used to be news. They used to be journalists. Unfortunately 18 years ago, that started to change. Started to look like a little bit of Something Else was going on. In the last three or four years, it started look like propaganda. It hurt. Those people were part of my family. I dont have somewhere to go to news anymore, so were through. Its as simple as that. Neil what is it particularly about abc that your goat . You could make an argument, its part of the mainstream media, they sing for the same choir. Youre right. I dont watch them either. I singled out abc news because they were my friends. They were the point i believed in. Did not watched cnn, nbc. Neil was there a Tipping Point . To put a billboard. Theyre not cheap to do. The President Trump coverage, the russian collusion coverage . What . Neil it started when they started telling us to hate george bush. I didnt hate george bush. I started back then but i continued to watch. You know, just didnt turn the channel. I read the newspaper every day and i watch the news. I want to be an informed citizen. As an american, as a human being, you need to be informed. So i watched. Neil when did abc say, kyle, to hate george bush . Was it the criticism of him or. That you got tired of the coverage it was the daytoday thing. Looked systematic to me. Then they handed us barack obama on a silver platter. I dont have anything against barack obama. I believe in the twoparty system, in the proper change of power in our country. But it went from george bush was the antichrist and barack obama was the savior. Thats the way they portrayed it. Night after night, thats how they handed it to us. I kept watching. And then when they started this trump is a russian thing, it was too much for me. Just too much. Neil what kind of reaction have you gotten to the billboard . Unbelievable reaction. Its been overwhelmingly supportive. Neil has the abc affiliate or anybody at the abc network called you . They have not. They have not. I have probably gotten 40 or 50 different interview requests from different media sources. And my email is blown up. Im net a facebook game. What Facebook Page i do have is off the charts. My daughter is handling that for me. Neil shes handling the social media stuff. Shes good at it. Im 58 years old. Im not that social. On the media side. Neil it shows what an individual can do on his or her own part to play a role and just let their grief and angst be known. Kyle courtney, thanks very much. I appreciate it. Youre very welcome. Thanks for having me. Neil speaking of things about the media, more about this story that Loretta Lynch may have tried to interfere with this clinton email information. We know that for a fact and now the Senate Judiciary committee is asking for answer. Im waiting for a lot of coverage of this tomorrow. A lot. Really . After this. So the incredibly minor accident that i had tonight four weeks without the car. Okay, yup. Good night. With accident forgiveness your rates wont go up just because of an accident. Switching to allstate is worth it. Finding the best hotel price is now a safe bet. Because tripadvisor searches over 200 booking sites so you save up to 30 on the hotel you want. Lock it in. Tripadvisor. Neil all right. We have some boon going on in the housing industry. New homes have soared to a record 406,000, the average price. Its percolating. Xiidra is the first and only eye drop approved for both the signs