Healthcare Traps: Medicare Dangers, Drug Bans, and Cash Solutions

Healthcare Traps: Medicare Dangers, Drug Bans, and Cash Solutions

Oct. 14, 2026

Host: Hon. Sam Rohrer

Guest: Twila Brase

Note: This transcript is taken from a Stand in the Gap Today program aired on 10/14/26 To listen to the podcast, click HERE.

Disclaimer: While reasonable efforts have been made to provide an accurate transcription, the following is a representation of a mechanical transcription and as such, may not be a word for word transcript. Please listen to the audio version for any questions concerning the following dialogue.

Sam Rohrer:

Hello, and welcome to this midweek edition of Stand in the Gap today as we consider headline news, as we do generally here on this program, news of greatest import, but considered through the lens of a biblical worldview and where applicable, the constitutionally framed view of law and freedom. Now, today my recurring guest is Twila Brase, president and co-founder of Citizens Council for Health Freedom, and they have a website which I’ll give now and later cchfreedom.org. And today we’re going to consider the matter of health freedom in this, our monthly program, we’ve been doing this for a long time now, a focus on what we call health freedom update. Now, for decades, the American healthcare landscape has grown increasingly tangled in, well, federal mandates and corporate insurance monopolies, bureaucratic oversight, and together they have produced a myriad of what I’m going to call healthcare traps. But nowhere perhaps is the friction more acute than right now, and we’re using this as a window to launch today’s program, but we’re in this critical window of Medicare open enrollment, it’s called, and amidst rising restrictions on how citizens actually access prescription treatments.

Now that’s only one part. We’re going to be talking about broader application, but as we know, these traps extend far beyond this deception surrounding promised lower prescription drug prices and more patient friendly will hold healthcare laws and regulations. So today we’re going to cover a number of these things in this aspect of healthcare traps, but one such area we’re going to begin with is the important area of prescription drugs and prescription drug prices. For instance, consider the high profile administrative promises, promises made by this current administration, I’m saying, executive actions which have occurred centering on most favored nation pricing, that’s one aspect that’s been talked about. The launch of digital cash portals, for example, like what has been established as trumprx.gov, that site, which theoretically is aimed at cutting brand name drug expenses. And while these federal initiatives and voluntary manufacturing agreements target relief for specific high cost drugs, indices indicate that there perhaps only temporary dips in certain prescription categories and The Ground for Everyday Patients actually tells a different story and I want to go there because between stubborn corporate price hikes, high deductibles, pharmacy benefit management hurdles, the actual out-of-pocket cost burdens remain quite heavy.

And furthermore, this matter of import tariffs as a geopolitical hammer to force pricing concessions kind of comes into this as well and has a tendency in some cases to offset any gains that have been made. But my title for today’s program and to phrase our conversation is this, Healthcare Traps, Medicare Dangers, Drug Bans and Cash Solutions, and we’ll talk about all of those. Twila, welcome back to the program. Great to have you back as always.

Twila Brase:

Always good. Thank you,

Sam Rohrer:

Sam. Twila, as we consider this matter prescriptions drug, let’s get right into that in the matter of both acquiring them and the cost and so forth, and then any involvement it may have in this Medicare open window. But let’s go here first. What has been the practical effect on drug prices, which everybody listening has heard due to the Trump administration’s claims of drastically reduced prices and agreements as well. We’ve heard all of that and any connection to tariffs if you have any information on that. And then secondly, would you specifically explain the impact of the recent federal rule that appears to cut off any lower priced overseas drugs that may have had an agreement?

Twila Brase:

Sure. So let’s just go with your first question that has to do with the prices. So I think there are several things to know of. Most favored nation status is what this is really typically called plus Trump RX. So most favored nation status, Trump has signed agreements with 26 pharmaceutical manufacturers, which covers, and this is according to the White House, 89% of the branded drug market. And so these companies have voluntarily decided to give certain reductions, but those reductions differ by the drugs. Again, they’re all voluntary price reductions, another administration that could go all out the door. He says he’s trying to codify it into law, but I don’t know that that’s going to happen. Some of the drug prices have come down not because of most favored nation status, but because there’s been more competition like in some of the obesity drugs. And then there’s Trump RX, which he started, which just has a Trump moniker, but it’s actually a government information sharing website.

So whatever medication that you want, you can go onto TrumpRx and look for the prices that are listed there to see which is the cheapest, which is the most available to you of the ones that are listed there. So it really does depend on what drugs that you need, whether they’re covered by those companies voluntarily, whether they’re on Trump RX or whether competition is impacting them.

Sam Rohrer:

Okay. What about this federal rule about cutting off lower priced overseas drugs? What’s that all about?

Twila Brase:

October 22nd, which is basically a week from today, there’s going to be much more checking of medications coming across the border. There’s going to be a new process and drugs will not get across the border unless the FDA inspector determines that the medication treats a serious illness with no good treatment in the US and that the package includes a doctor’s note. And so there’s two million people that are getting drugs across the border because it’s so much cheaper to get them there because they have special deals with the drug manufacturers because if they didn’t have special deals, or I should say if the drug manufacturers didn’t have special deals with them, those companies would not buy a lot of those medications. I’ll never forget a Canadian guy who runs timely medical alternatives in Canada talking about there were only eight drugs available for, I can’t remember what condition it was, but that’s all there was because that’s all Canada decided that you could have and if there was something better, well, it just wasn’t available, right?

And so now we have to just think what happened during COVID with ivermectin when lots of people were going buying from Mexico and India and Thailand to get their ivermectin and what would happen there. Under this rule, basically drugs coming from Canada, India, the UK, Australia and Turkey in particular are likely not to arrive. And the interesting thing about this is that for 25 years, there’s been a customs exception that has allowed low value mail to come into the country without a formal customs process, but that customs process is going to begin in a week.

Sam Rohrer:

Well, from what you’re describing, it doesn’t sound to me like this is lower cost drugs for people who need it most. You may comment as we get into it, but it sure sounds to me, Twila, like it is favored for somebody else, but not the patient. Ladies and gentlemen, stay with us. We’ll be back, Twila Brase and I, as we continue our discussion today, healthcare traps, Medicare dangers, drug bans and cash solutions. Well, if you’re just joining us, welcome aboard. This is our second segment. We did the introduction. My guest today is Twila Brase with me routinely and most of the time once a month where we do a monthly health freedom update. So if you’re just tuning in, that is our broad theme today in our specific area that we’re touching on these things. I’m calling this today healthcare traps, of which there are many, but I mean healthcare traps, Medicare dangers, we’re going to talk about that next, drug bans, we just touched on some of that, and cash solutions.

And we’re going to end up talking about some new proposals regarding healthcare policies as well in the last segment. Now in our opening segment, we examined the realities of prescription drug pricing and we talked about a number of those things. We’re now going to turn here to this area of Medicare, what’s called Medicare open enrollment. So if you are a 65 or above person listening or getting close to that, you need to listen and be aware because this affects all of us. And if you’re listening and you have parents who are in this category, it may help you to advise them on what to do because there are many traps. For seniors, the annual open enrollment window, that’s what this is called, is routinely flooded, this time period is flooded with aggressive marketing and you get stuff from all kinds of people promising, well for instance, low upfront premiums, extra perks and easy coverage through Medicare Advantage plans that are heavily pushed.

Yet behind the glossy advertisements often lies a very restrictive managed care reality, which we’ve talked about in this program before, which actually features narrow provider networks, meaning you don’t have as much choice as you think, aggressive pre-authorization hurdles, which can become disaster and coverage limitations that can actually restrict care when people need it most. In essence, less health freedom. Furthermore, navigating the complex rules, and they are complex, surrounding Medigap supplemental coverage leaves many policy holders locked into systems where they actually lose true freedom of choice. And on previous programs, Twila and I have shared a great deal of information about problems with Medicare generally and how, for example, the major push for people to enroll in Medicare Advantage we’ve talked about would be much more accurately presented if it were called Medicare disadvantaged and to be avoided. So the relevance of the current open enrollment window that’s happening right now and the heavy marketing kind of lends itself to why we should talk about this.

So Twila, we’re right in the middle of this Medicare open enrollment window, it’s called. Seniors are being bombarded, as I said, with aggressive advertising and pushing people for Medicare Advantage. But here’s my question. From your perspective at Citizens Council for Health Freedom, what are the primary, you may not be able to name them all, but what are the primary hidden traps such as network restrictions and pre-authorization denials, that kind of thing that for seniors frequently tend to overlook when they move away from original Medicare? So some of this you’ll have said before, but kind of say it again because we’re right in that window.

Twila Brase:

Yeah. So original Medicare is what I consider the freedom version of Medicare. It’s still a government program. You’re still trapped in it, but if there are two, one of them is freedom and one of them is rationing and capture. So original Medicare has freedom and Medicare Advantage does not, but the things that you don’t see, because what you see originally when you get there, I don’t even want to use the word originally, but what you see, what they offer you with Medicare Advantage is all of these benefits and then oftentimes zero payment. So you don’t have any kind of premium with it. So you don’t have to pay anything other than your part B, and so it just feels like it’s free. And then you get free benefits over the counter, free vision check. There’s just free gym membership or reduced. So it just feels free, right?

But then as soon as you get sick or injured, suddenly you find all the traps and you find all the locked doors and you find all the additional money that you have to pull out of your bank account that you didn’t realize you would have to do. And so some of these are, yes, network restrictions. For example, most Medicare Advantage don’t ever let you get access to the Cancer Centers of America, for example. Prior authorization, drug formularies that limit the kind of drugs that you can have, step therapy where they force you through three or four different regimens before they actually let your doctor give you what would actually work. Limited sessions, like you get only five physical therapy sessions, the rest you have to pay for. Whereas in original Medicare, you might get 20 because that’s what the doctor ordered. Limited days in rehab.

And if you have original Medicare and a Medigap policy, that Medigap policy will pay for 365 days of rehab, but a lot of people are stuck paying for their own days in rehab because they have Medicare Advantage. More and more hospitals are dropping Medicare Advantage and doctors are getting out of Medicare Advantage contracts. And so you’re going to end up with a lot of higher costs if you get sick. And so going into Medicare Advantage is like playing Russian roulette. You don’t know if you’re going to get sick, you don’t know if you’re going to stay healthy. It’s more expensive to go into Medicare Advantage. I mean, sorry. It’s more expensive at the get-go to go into original Medicare because you’re paying for the Medigap policy. But in the long run, it could be far more expensive to be in Medicare Advantage and much more restrictive.

Sam Rohrer:

Okay. And I think you really explained that quite simply. So I’m going to go on to the next question. And you just mentioned there, the Medigap trap. I want you to explain that because some people may not know what that is. And then how does state and federal regulations restrict, for instance, a senior’s ability to switch or to secure supplemental coverage without facing penalties or perhaps losing their preferred doctors because that is a big one.

Twila Brase:

So it’s very interesting. So we put out the Medicare how-to guide in October 2024 and we make little updates along the way. One of the updates I would make now is that there’s getting to be less and less of a Medigap trap. So Medigap has always said that… I should say what Medigap is. So you’ve got original Medicare, it covers a certain amount of things, but there’s still copays, deductibles, co-insurance, and same with Medicare Part B. But Medigap will cover all of the costs that Medicare A and Medicare B do not cover. It’s actually a private insurance plan that gets tacked onto your government coverage. And the government allows a certain number of Medigap plans to exist to be in this arrangement. And so it will pay all the costs. So a lot of people who are in a Part G or in a G plan, a Medigap G plan, they don’t even see a bill because everything gets paid for.

So they never even see a bill. So that’s Medigap. And so for a long time, whatever you chose in your very first six months after you enrolled in Medicare Part B, like you turned 65, you enrolled you at six months. If you were in original Medicare to pick a Medigap plan without medical underwriting, so they won’t look at your history, they won’t talk to your doctor, they won’t ask you questions, they’ll just enroll you. But after that, it’s medical underwriting and then you might not be able to get in. And when you’re in Medicare Advantage and you decide it really is not an advantage, it’s a disadvantage and so you’re going to go into original Medicare. If you are sick or significantly injured, the Medigap policies that would cover all those costs, deductible, copay, co-insurance might say, “No, I’m sorry. We will not accept you.

You’re too sick, you’re too costly, you’re too this, whatever.” But now the states are starting to give you the freedom to go into these Medigap policies, which might make those Medigap policies more expensive because it might mean that people who have these preexisting conditions can now come in and the people who didn’t and are in there in a regular kind of policy might find themselves priced out of Medigap. That could eventually happen because that has happened to some of the plans. But anyway, I looked and there are 15 states that allow you to just switch into Medigap without medical underwriting between 30 and 60 days of your birthday. Six states that allow it all year long and two other states that have certain stipulations. One of them is only for Medicare Part D. So the states are deciding to loosen it up for their people, but what it’s probably going to do is increase the cost of Medigap, hopefully not to the point that people will be priced out of it because then they would have no coverage whatsoever for when Medicare A and B do not pay.

But I think this is possibly a way to try to get you into Medicare Advantage, which covers you 365 days a year, but might just say no to everything that you need.

Sam Rohrer:

See, this is like a Ponzi scheme here. And so the Medigap plans you’re talking about, are they government plans or are they private policies that are filling into this spot?

Twila Brase:

They’re private policies, but the government approves which ones get to be in. And the insurers that offer these like Cigna and Blue Cross Blue Shield, United, AARP, which does it through United Health Group, I think, they can pull them. They can decide, “Well, we’re not going to offer that one anymore.” And then you have a right to change to any Medigap policy if you have one of those. It’s guaranteed issue, so you can go to any Medigap policy after that.

Sam Rohrer:

All right. Well, ladies and gentlemen, I know that with a lot of information right there, I will say that a lot of this you can find further detail and go back and revisit this program again when it’s complete, but then go to Twila’s site at cchfreedom.org and you can find good information. When we come back, we’re going to talk about kind of the sub theme is bypassing the monopoly, this big monopoly we’re seeing and the advantages of cash pay care, which we talked about before, but it’ll be new today. Well, as we continue our monthly health freedom update, and this is our focus, always do it with Twila Brase. She’s the president and the co-founder of Citizens Council for Health Freedom. We’re going to turn our attention now from, I’ll say some of the bureaucratic traps such as Medicare and managed care and some of what we just talked about and look a little bit more now towards, I’m going to say, increasingly effective solutions and alternatives and far too long, patients, all of us, I mean, we’re all patients from one time to another.

We’ve been conditioned to believe that healthcare just simply cannot exist without some third party insurance type middleman or some corporate pharmacy benefit manager to determine what can be done or cannot done. And they all put themselves in there as the solution to the heavy bureaucratic and government oversight. The reality is they’re all part of the same system. But true health freedom, I’m going to say, begins when we step outside of this concept of managed care, which is a monopoly, and return to closer to home, transparent patient-doctor relationships. And we’ve spent a lot of time on previous programs talking about this and the challenges to that. Now, as Twyla recently noted in her daily commentary highlighting new direct to care options, and you’ll hear it in one of the breaks here on the program, we carry it every day, putting financial power directly back into the hands of patients is the key to bypassing administrative, bureaucratic, governmentally imposed roadblocks.

And one of those that she’s noted is a platform called General Medicine. I’m going to be asking her about that, that’s emerging as a nationwide health store more or less where customers can actually browse pricing and services. So here are a question. So how can everyday citizens actually bypass the corporate and government health complex entirely and what practical free market steps such as what you can find on Twila’s website at cchfreedom.org and they call it Cash Pay Resources Guide, you’ll find it there. And the 3C approach of cash, catastrophic coverage and charity. Again, if you’ve listened before, we have talked about a number of these, but it needs to be talked about again at this point. Twila, Citizens Council for Health Freedom, the organization that you co-founded and you lead just released a new two-page cash pay resources guide. And that name I believe is on your website, but it highlights real world examples, like for instance, an uninsured patient, and you did I think one of these on your minute program where an uninsured patient who watched a hospital slash their quoted surgical quote of $40,000 all the way down to $3,600 when the patient talked to the hospital and said, “Well, what about if I pay you cash?” And I found that remarkable.

I need to know more about this. So why is embracing a cash pay and direct payment model, I’m going to say, so essential for restoring transparent pricing and why does it work and how can you have a $40,000 estimate go all the way down to 3,600?

Twila Brase:

Well, let’s just talk about that story so we don’t miss it, right? So $40,000 is what this man in Georgia was quoted by a Georgia hospital for his prostate surgery. He’s uninsured. So he went shopping online. He found the Surgery Center of Oklahoma. He talked to the surgery center and they said, “Well, your all in price will be $3,600.” So he called up the hospital in Georgia and said, “I’m going to go get my surgery in Oklahoma.” And a day or two later, the Georgia hospital called him back and said, “We will match the $3,600 all in price.” So what you’ve got going on here is competition, transparency of prices, and a shopper, right? Wasn’t an emergency. Most healthcare is not an emergency. You can go shopping for it. I mean, that’s what catastrophic coverage is for is the emergencies and only the emergencies, the real costly things that affect your pocketbook significantly.

So anyway, this is the market-based way to reduce prices to the correct level. So the Surgery Center of Oklahoma at $3,600 is not losing money. They’re not losing money. They’re not giving charity. This is actually the cost of doing business. And one of the reasons their cost of doing business is $3,600 is because they do an all cash business. So they take credit cards, they take cashier checks, they even take gold, but they do not take insurance and they do not take government and they do not have electronic health records, which is an unfunded mandate by the government. So for all of this reason, they can offer a cash based price. And this is what would happen with cash as people went hunting and hospitals who are being bypassed, like Georgia, eventually they’ll say things like, “Well, we don’t want your electronic health record, Congress.

It’s making us uncompetitive. It’s making our doctors, they can’t even bring in as many patients as they could if they didn’t have to do that electronic health record.” And just so you know, one study by a clinic found that their doctors and their other clinicians were spending 11 minutes with patients and 37 minutes with the chart. And so there’s a lot of patients that could be seen probably for 20 minutes and still bring more money in if it wasn’t for that unfunded, very expensive electronic health record system that the government system installed in the clinic and the hospital. So this is the market at work, but what we have today is extortionary pricing and you can see it when you have this kind of example to understand that a lot of people wouldn’t even need charity if the price went from $40,000 to 3,600. They could finance it easily.

Sam Rohrer:

Well, I mean, really, I mean, I know our listeners are saying, “Wait a minute, I didn’t hear that right. $40,000 quoted by the hospital and then they actually said,” Well, no, we’ll take $3,600 in cash. “Okay, you said that cash based operations can offer lower prices, I’m assuming, like the facility in Oklahoma, because they are not entering into, for instance, all of the AI records and all the other things and are taking only cash payment. But here’s my question, that hospital that quoted the $40,000 would not be in that category. They would be doing all of those things, which is maybe in part why their cost was $40,000. So how could a hospital like that who is doing all of those things actually accept $3,600? Explain that a little bit because I’m sure our listeners are wondering, wait a minute, something’s not right here.

Twila Brase:

So first of all, this story was told on LinkedIn by the owner, the co-owner of the Surgery Center of Oklahoma, whom I happen to know, and I texted him and said, verify for me that this is what happened. So I know it’s what happened. And the hospital has the ability… The hospital might be thinking that, well, if we give this guy this surgery for $3,600 and we have priced it at $40,000, now we’re going to take the difference and we’re going to claim it as a loss and we’re going to ask the federal government to give us a disproportionate share payment that will cover that loss. But you don’t know about that, right? So this is what hospitals are allowed to do is go to the government and say, we’ve got bad debt, we’ve got charity care, we’ve got this, that, and the other thing, pay us.

So that Georgia hospital may have decided that they’re going to go after the money and use this ridiculous price of $40,000 trying to get it from federal taxpayers.

Sam Rohrer:

I think that’s a great explanation and almost to me it’s the same kind of thing of why we have thousand dollar hammers that we’ve all heard about examples with defense purchases and that kind of thing. All right, let’s move on to that. You have another, in the cash options, there’s a platform after called General Medicine. Explain that a little bit and then just again, emphasize your 3C solution.

Twila Brase:

Sure. General medicine is kind of interesting. It just got a boatload of cash in its, whatever that is. They try to get money in. Anyway, I just forgot the term. Anyway, so you can go online to generalmedicine.co, and it’s just almost like shopping on Amazon. And so you can see all of these items with listed prices, and then some of them give you access to a practitioner. Some of them are more or less automated, and some of them are actually go and visit a doctor, which is rarer in the case, but this is all cash based. I don’t think there’s insurance. If there is insurance, it might be for the in-person visits, but really it’s mostly the idea is that you have cash, you’re looking for a good price, here’s an option for you. So yeah, they got a boatload of investor funding, that’s what I was looking for, investor funding just probably a week or two ago.

So everybody’s looking for a way to bring down the cost of healthcare and to do something about it because the pain is obvious. People are suffering and these are ways to get into the cash market, but ultimately we need a catastrophic health insurance policy, catastrophic indemnity coverage for medical care. That’s what we used to have. Also on this cash-based resource, I think we may have a story there about the guy, his name is Dutch Rojas. He was on Twitter talking about, he’s the owner of Stanos Surgery. He was talking about having catastrophic coverage. Back in 2007, his catastrophic coverage was a $10,000 deductible for $3.8 million of coverage at $149 a month. I extrapolated that out to now, and I think we figured out it was about $241 that it would cost today for catastrophic coverage if we could get it back. It’s one of our bills for Congress, make health insurance real again to get rid of the prohibition that Obama and company put into law that says none of us can

Sam Rohrer:

Have catastrophic. Okay, Twila, I’m going to ask you to give it again at the end of the program. Ladies and gentlemen, stay with us. We’re going to complete the program next segment and talk a little bit about some policy proposals coming out of Washington. All right, as we move into our final segment, again, just an encouragement to all of you listening, because I think this information today, I would dare say you’re not going to hear it like this any other place, and certainly without the commitment to truth that is shared by both myself and Twila Brace, who is my guest today, on these important issues, and because they touch everyone approaching 65 or later, particularly in the Medicare area, all of you listening probably have moms and dads if you’re younger than that, and they often need assistance and help, and so you may say, “Well, this doesn’t affect me.” No, but knowing this may help you help others.

I just want to put it in that perspective. Listening to the program again and obtaining it off of either the Stand in the Gap app or the website, standinthegapradio.com, you can get it along with the transcript, and then makes it really available to take and read over that. Then you can obviously visit Twila’s website at cchfreedom.org for further information on this particular theme. Now that being said, let’s move into our final subject here because there has surfaced within, I’m going to say the congressional legislative arena that gives insight into the broader political landscape and the ongoing legislative battles that shape the future of American healthcare. Understand, everything that we now are talking about, from Medicare to the disadvantages of Medicare disadvantage, to all of these things, to third party insurance companies, pre-approvals, pre-authorizations, every one of those things are not a part of health freedom.

All of those are the result of government interventions and bureaucracy, and it’s important to understand, but because healthcare is so important to all people and because it now consumes such a very large percentage of taxpayer dollars, even in the federal budget to fund, why is it because, well, frankly, Republicans, Democrats, and libertarian type politicians always promise more and more and/or different things and it surfaces almost always like clockwork before elections, because the promises are almost always grandiose. That’s what I have found to be true. In reality, healthcare promises never go to less government, more free enterprise. It goes to only variations for government involvement. The Republicans attack the Democrats and say, “We don’t like their approach. Democrats, the Publicans.” At the same time, everything just keeps moving along. The fight is rather than whether or not there should be government involved, it is, well, which party can provide the most saleable benefits, marketing approaches where it appears that they’re getting better coverage for less cost.

But into that steps things like we’ve talked about before, AI in the doctor’s office, and you’ve got to do it or else, and putting one middle man in to take out another one, but in the end, it moves us closer and closer to the rationing of care. Now, recently, House Democrats published an expansive 84-page policy blueprint outlining their healthcare agenda, but understand that in the context of what I just said. Twila, you’ve talked about it, and I want you to explain it briefly here. What are the core dangers hidden inside this proposal, and how does that proposal, the one we’re talking about, 84-page blueprint here, actually impact true health freedom? Here’s the question, does it lead to more true choice or the normal rationing and bureaucratic delays, but just positions that are a little different?

Twila Brase:

Well, this 84-page document, I’ve not read all of the words of it, but I will tell you that they had a healthcare working group. They went around and talked with 145 stakeholder groups around the country. My guess is they probably got them from the Democratic community, but I’m not exactly sure. Anyway, they categorize their feedback from these discussions into eight categories. You can see just by looking at the eight categories, because this 84-page document is filled with bills, bill numbers, bill names, bill text, bill summaries. There’s a lot of that in there, but these eight categories I think say a lot. The first category is reversing Trump’s destruction of the American healthcare system, and the second one is building towards universal coverage by strengthening traditional Medicare. You see there, they don’t want Medicare Advantage either. They want traditional Medicare. Democrats have long wanted the health plans out of the healthcare business, and they make it very clear here in the second point.

Then the third one is making healthcare affordable by taking a monopolies. Again, they want to take on the pharmaceutical companies, they want to take on the health plans, they probably want to take on the huge corporate healthcare systems. They want to expand access to affordable preventive care to reduce costs, but I’m here to tell you, there are studies that say preventive care does not decrease costs, it actually increase costs because coverage is supposed to be for catastrophic and insurable conditions that would destroy your financial integrity. It’s not supposed to be for preventive care. When the prices come down and coverage doesn’t cover it, much like LASIK surgery, everything comes down to the pocketbook level and you can actually pay for it yourself if you want it. Why should that all be in a policy and all of us have to pay for it? The fifth one is strengthening women’s maternal and reproductive health, so I’m pretty sure that abortion is sitting in there.

The sixth one is investing in the healthcare workforce and care workers. Indeed, there are fewer doctors and there’s really a preponderance of nurse practitioners and physician assistants. I say that they’re moving from a medical model to a nursing model plus an AI model on top of it to tell everybody what the diagnosis and treatment is, who is not a physician, and they can just hand it out.

Then the seventh one is reclaiming maha and protecting American families. They want to reclaim making America healthy again, and they say they want to protect American families, and then they’re going to increase access to affordable innovations and breakthroughs. This is all about research and AI. I presume AI is in there. You can see what their plan is, and they’re going to speak to lots of people because everybody is troubled with the costs and everybody is troubled with the fact that they only get a few minutes with the doctor if they get a doctor. Lots of people are troubled by the fact that they can’t get a doctor. They can only get an NP, nurse practitioner or a PA physician assistant. There’s a lot of things in here. They don’t like the drug prices. Nobody else does either, so they’re trying to talk about this being something that everybody likes, but the fact of the matter is it’s all putting government in charge, which always means less access and higher prices, longer waits.

Like in Canada, where you heard that Health Freedom Minute there, where they’re waiting six hours per week for an orthopedist to do surgery. Six hours, so it’s probably only four surgeries and orthopedists here often do somewhere between seven and 10 surgeries a day. So that’s why the long waits.

Sam Rohrer:

All right, ladies and gentlemen, we’re out of time, but just remember this. The Democrats basically are going for the position of government owned and run true socialism when it comes to medicine and the services of government. The others that are part of the Uniparty and too many Republicans, I’m going to submit, favor, not socialism, but fascism where government favors their friends on the corporate side. The end result is the same effectively. You’ve got to, as a patient, become informed yourself and that’s where this whole cash option comes into it. We don’t have time to go further, but we’ll stop there. Twyla Brace, thanks for being with me today. Her website again, ladies and gentlemen, cchfreedom.org. Thanks for being with us today, Lord willing. I’ll join you tomorrow here and we’re going to talk about finances with David McAlvany.