The MeidasTouch Podcast - Trump TRIES TO DISTRACT as his GOONS act IN SILENCE

Episode Date: December 7, 2024

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump causing smokescreens while enabling portions of Project 2025 to take away your healthcare access. SimpliSafe: Protect your home with 50% off a new SimpliSafe system, plus a free indoor security camera, when you sign up for Fast Protect Monitoring. Just visit https://SIMPLISAFE.COM/MEIDAS Visit https://meidastouch.com for more! Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af MissTrial: https://meidasnews.com/tag/miss-trial The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast The Influence Continuum: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/mea-culpa-with-michael-cohen The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show Burn the Boats: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/burn-the-boats Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 Political Beatdown: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/political-beatdown On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Coalition of the Sane: https://meidasnews.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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procedure takes. In a very strongly worded letter from the American Society of Anesthesiologists, they call this out, that this is just the latest in a long line of appalling behavior by commercial health insurers looking to drive their profits up at the expense of patients and physicians providing essential care. It is a cynical money grab by Anthem and frankly other health care providers. And as I take a look at the money being made by Anthem, its parent company is now called Elevance Health that used to be Anthem. Strong fourth quarter revenue.

Elevents reported strong fourth quarter 2023 profits, $856 million in strong fourth quarter revenue of $2.6 billion in revenue. You take a look even at 2022. Anthem doubled its profits to $1.1 billion then, and it continues to grow. Anthem's CEO, the CEO of Elevance Health, earned nearly $21.9 million in total compensation, which comes out to about, I don't know, $60,000, $70,000 a day or such. You have also an executive chairman making $16.4 million a year, a chief administrative officer making about $4.2 million a year, an executive VP level positions making $4.5 million a year. And as you look at the revenue being made by all these large

healthcare companies, $200 billion, $133 billion, $, 200 billion, 133 billion, 126 billion. They're talking about huge amounts of money. And meanwhile, they now feel emboldened because of the Project 2025 section on taking away the Affordable Care Act and with Biden no longer going to be in office. Because let's remember what Biden would do all the time. Almost every day, Biden would post about health care, right?

I mean, not a day went by that he really didn't. He would say, this is from, I'll pick any day, July 30th, 2024. On the anniversary of Medicare and Medicaid, more Americans have health insurance than under any president in history. It matters. Despite Republican attempts in Congress to put these programs on the chopping block, Kamala and I will always fight to protect and strengthen them. Here he is September 9th, 2024. Mental health care is health care and today's new rules ensure mental health care will be covered at the same level as other health care, improving access

for 175 million Americans with private health insurance. And there's a lot more he talks about. Today, my administration took major steps to expand contraception coverage. And by the way, as Armand Domoluski explains, this was back from January in 2024. Nobody talks about this, but the boosted Obamacare subsidies in the 2021 America Rescue Plan signed by President Joe Biden pushed health care uninsurance rates to their lowest levels in U.S. history to 8.6%. And the point, folks, is that this isn't just some accident. This is actual policy in action. So you can have President Biden saying things like this. I'll never forget at 14 years old, my mother telling me that my dad's company was no longer going to pay his health insurance.

The Affordable Care Act is for families that know that feeling, the fear and uncertainty. I'll always fight like hell to protect it. That was Biden's priorities, right? That probably matters more to you than this. Donald Trump posting yesterday a photo, an AI photo of him and Elvis. That's what Donald Trump's out, clownish behavior. Donald Trump posting photos of him in Switzerland and saying, oh, Canada, to mock Canada, that he wants the United States, what, to go to war or to annex Canada?

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surgical procedures. In an unprecedented mood, Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield plans representing Connecticut, New York, and Missouri have unilaterally declared it will no longer pay for anesthesia care if the surgery or procedure goes beyond an arbitrary time limit, regardless of how long the surgical procedure takes. The American Society of Anesthesiologists calls onized care to every patient, carefully assessing the patient's health prior to the surgery, looking at existing diseases and medical conditions to determine the resources and medical expertise needed, attending to the patient during the entire procedure, resolving unexpected complications that may arise and or extend the duration of the surgery, and working to ensure that the patient is comfortable during recovery. Payments for anesthesia services is based on several factors, including the exact

amount of time for anesthesiologists to deliver care preoperatively during the operation and when transitioning the patient to recovery unit afterwards. With this new policy, Anthem will arbitrarily predetermine the time allowed for anesthesia care during a surgery or procedure. If an anesthesiologist submits a bill where the actual time of care is longer than Anthem's time limit, Anthem will deny payment for the anesthesiologist's care. With this new policy, Anthem will not pay anesthesiologists for delivering safe and effective anesthesia care to patients who may need looking to drive their profits up at the expense of patients and physicians providing essential care. So who does Donald Trump appoint to oversee? We know HHS is RFK Jr.

By the way, I did a whole report on this, but go and look at what RFK Jr. did to Samoa. Look at the 2019 Samoa measles outbreak and how the neighboring islands didn't have measles outbreak, but where they used RFK to tell them not to take vaccines in Samoa, they had a massive measles outbreak there, which disproportionately affects children. That's the legacy of RFK in Samoa. they had a massive measles outbreak there, which disproportionately affects children. That's the legacy of RFK in Samoa. And of course, we know all of his conspiracies about vaccines. We'll hear about those during his confirmation hearing. But it has real world impact where he screwed Samoa.

Now, who did Donald Trump appoint to lead Medicare and Medicaid services? A TV doctor, Dr. Oz. Now, let me show you what Dr. Oz has had to say. Now, Dr. Oz, let me show you this clip right here. Dr. Oz said, rather than comprehensive health care, what Dr. Oz says, we need people to go to festival-like health screenings because they don't have the right to health. What is he saying here? Play this clip. Now, when you go home today, what should you do? I think you ought to think about 15-minute

physicals. Your local hospitals will fund these. They're incredibly inexpensive to run. You can screen thousands of people for almost nothing. And you allow a conversation to take place in more of a festival-like setting. It's not scary. And I mentioned earlier that almost everybody who comes to our 50-minute physicals has a job, but a lot don't have insurance. Give them a way of crawling back out of the abyss of darkness, of fear, over not having the health they need. And give them an opportunity because they don't have the right to health, but they have the right to access a chance to get that health. Or this one right here, you have Dr. Oz promoting implanting microchips into people. I mean, this was from his show back in the day. We were talking about what Elon Musk wants to put microchips into people's heads. You know, it's so fascinating to me that MAGAs were, how dare you make me wear a mask?

How dare you? Microchips? Well, implant a micro, let the government implant microchips. Seriously? Here's Dr. Oz saying it. Just show the first 15 seconds or so. Play the clip. The latest breakthroughs.

Turns out one of the biggest discoveries is actually this tiny see how small that is this little chip may be the next big thing and it sounds like it's right from a sci-fi movie but people all over the world are implanting these into their wrists and look folks as i said i am focusing our coverage here on the Midas Touch Network on areas that I think matter most to your life. And I want you to provide this information just to others. Let's educate people. I'm not showing Mar-a-Lago video. I'm showing you things that I think matter and will impact your day-to-day life. So let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million subscribers. And I hope you appreciate the way we're handling this coverage now on these types of issues. Let

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