Trumpcare is a disaster, but there's some good stuff happening in the White House, too, including Steve Bannon and Reince Priebus. Ben Shapiro explains why, and why you should be worried about what s happening in Washington, and what it means for the future of America's healthcare system. He also explains why Trumpcare represents a retreat from conservative principles, and how that's a bad thing, because it won't make Republicans more popular, but it does show how cowardice and lack of principle result in a horrible policy. Ben Shapiro is a writer and host of The Ben Shapiro Show on Fox News Radio and The Weekly Standard, and is a frequent contributor to the New York Times, CNN, and the Wall Street Journal. He's also a regular contributor to The Daily Wire and the Weekly Standard and has been featured on CNN, NPR, CBS, and other media outlets. His new book, is out now, and it's available for pre-order on Amazon Prime, wherever you get your Kindle, iBook, Paperback, or hardcover edition of Hardcover, $99.99. If you don't already have a Kindle, you can get a copy of the book for free, starting next week. It's also available on Audible, Podchaser, wherever books are sold, and you get a $5 postage-free trial, starting at $19.99, plus shipping starts at $99 a pop.99 a month, plus a limited edition print edition of the Kindle edition begins shipping from Amazon Prime and Vimeo starts shipping from $49.99 starting July 1st, starting Sept. . Subscribe to the Kindle, amazon Prime and Audible starting July 19th, and Kindle Freebie, starting July 25th, free on July 27th, 2019, shipping only $99, and shipping worldwide, shipping free on Prime Day, shipping Freebie $49, will be shipping free to you get 7GB, a maximum of 4GB, and 7GB for 7GBRRP, free for Prime memberships, and 5GB for 4 months, and 4GB for 5GBPC Pro, and 3RRP Pro? and 7RRPRP Pro, best Fiends, RRP Prostitute Prostitution Provenza Pro, Prostitium Prostitutes, and MySpace Prostitor Prostor Prostoris Prostori Prostior Prostorius Prosthetics Prostelli Prostee Prosteur Prostorie, and so on?
00:00:00.000Over the next few days, President Trump is slated to usher a bevy of Republicans into the White House to whine and dine them over Trumpcare, the replacement plan for Obamacare that looks much more like Obamacare lite than like an actual liberty-based reform destined to free Americans from regulatory burden and allow them freedom of choice in a competition-based marketplace.
00:00:16.000Undoubtedly, some Republicans, those most in danger of a primary challenge and most fearful of Trumpian vengeance, will cave, but the whole scenario reveals a few basic truths.
00:00:25.000First, President Trump is not ideologically driven.
00:00:28.000Anyone who thinks Trump is ideologically driven rather than driven by desire for popularity and power should be disappointed by this Trumpcare rollout.
00:00:34.000Trump doesn't know what the details are.
00:00:39.000Boil down the healthcare choice here to two binary options.
00:00:42.000Option one, ram through this deeply flawed bill that minimizes political harm to him by trimming around the edges of Obamacare while fibbing to the base that has been repealed and replaced.
00:00:50.000Option two, push the bill as hard as possible, watch it fail, then blame Republicans for presenting him with a flawed plan he pushed like a good soldier, and blame Democrats for blocking much-needed reforms.
00:01:00.000Second, nobody knows anything about basic communications.
00:01:03.000Trumpcare was rolled out amidst questions about secrecy, just like Obamacare.
00:01:09.000And when conservatives objected to its provisions, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan and Team Trump answered, but it's just part one of a three-part plan.
00:01:17.000Shouldn't you have led with that, you idiots?
00:01:19.000If you're going to throw out an unpopular, largely unworkable bill that adds to the debt while continuing to undermine free markets, shouldn't you tell us what the non-crap in the crap sandwich is gonna be?
00:02:52.000Republicans lost the healthcare argument because they aren't willing to fight.
00:02:55.000Republicans essentially acknowledge, by embracing main aspects of Obamacare, the leftist argument that the government ought to be involved in ensuring that everyone obtains health insurance or healthcare.
00:03:04.000That's crap, as I've explained before.
00:03:06.000A market-based system that recognizes free choice and individual responsibility for health decisions, and that incentivizes lower costs and higher supply through preservation of a demand structure, will not only work better, it will represent a commitment to liberty spelled out in the Constitution.
00:03:19.000But it's always easier to declare something a right than to be provided by government than to declare a right to be free from government.
00:03:25.000As always, Republicans have seeded this critical battlefield.
00:03:28.000Trumpcare looks bad for conservatives.
00:03:29.000It isn't a major improvement from Obamacare.
00:03:31.000It represents retreat from central conservative principles.
00:03:34.000It won't make Republicans more popular.
00:03:36.000But it does show how cowardice and lack of principle result in horrible policy.
00:03:54.000There's some good stuff that's happening in the Trump administration, and then there's this healthcare rollout, which is a bit of a disaster, and there's the Women's March, the day without a woman, which, shockingly, was not a day without women.
00:04:06.000They were wearing red, and lefty women were being bothersome, but we'll get to all of that in just a second.
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00:05:46.000So, if you're going to hold what they call a general strike, if you're going to hold a general strike, and a general strike just means everybody doesn't go to work, if you're going to hold a general strike, the purpose of the general strike, presumably, is to show how horrible things would be if these women didn't show up to work.
00:06:00.000Did anyone have a real rough time yesterday when women didn't show up to work?
00:06:03.000It wasn't even a huge percentage of women.
00:06:04.000When a certain number of women didn't show up to work because they're lefty idiots, did the world stop turning?
00:06:13.000And so that sort of undermines the idea of the general strike in the first place.
00:06:17.000Also, if they are marching against the wage gap, it seems to me one way that you could help close the wage gap is by, hmm, working.
00:06:25.000If you take the day off, and you don't get paid, and then you blame men, well, that's not part of the so-called wage gap, that's you taking the day off.
00:06:33.000Plus, you have to acknowledge that there is a little bit of income bias here.
00:06:36.000The only people who are going to take the day off are, number one, people who can afford to take the day off, and number two, people who aren't working.
00:06:41.000Everybody who actually has to be at work was at work.
00:06:43.000So a lot of the people who showed up were members of the American Federation of Teachers, which is a major public sector union, or the National Education Association, another major public union.
00:06:53.000And it's easy for them to do that because they're basically striking against the government.
00:06:57.000Other things that were idiotic about this.
00:06:59.000The ancillary causes in this date without a woman.
00:07:04.000She is the radical Muslim spokesperson for the Women's March.
00:07:07.000She was arrested at the Women's March for no apparent reason.
00:07:10.000But one of the event organizers was also a lady named Razmia Youssef Odeh, who is a Palestinian terrorist convicted of killing two Israeli men in a terrorist attack.
00:07:28.000So they were very focused on the key issues that matter.
00:07:31.000My favorite story that came out of the day without a woman was according to the Washington Post, some feminists spent the day refusing to smile.
00:08:09.000Also, if you want to win friends and influence people, don't call smiling emotional labor.
00:08:14.000Like, was anyone forcing you to smile?
00:08:16.000Was anyone putting a gun to your head?
00:08:17.000Like, I understand that in our society, in a civilization, we try to be generally pleasant to one another, and I think that's a good thing.
00:08:23.000I think that it's good that we are pleasant to one another, as a general rule.
00:08:26.000It doesn't seem to me to be emotional labor, that people expect you to be pleasant to one another, otherwise everybody, then every, then, do you really want the world to work like the TSA at LAX?
00:08:34.000Is that really what you want the world to look like?
00:08:56.000Women in science, technology, engineering, and then all these women wearing red.
00:09:01.000You know, talking on CNN, so you've got a bunch of people wearing red, and then you have people on Fox News wearing red, and it's just, like, a huge number of people wearing red.
00:09:39.000That's why you're on TV in part, okay?
00:09:42.000Women actually have a relatively large advantage when it comes to getting bookings on TV because people like to look at women in ways they don't like to look at men.
00:10:27.000I remember thinking to myself, if the practical reality of pregnancy is another mouth to feed in your home, and America is a country where most people are living paycheck to paycheck, how does 12 weeks unpaid leave economically work?
00:10:42.000The truth is, for too many people, it doesn't.
00:10:45.000One in four American women go back to work two weeks after giving birth because they can't afford to take off any more time than that.
00:10:52.000Okay, Anne Hathaway, I have an idea for you.
00:11:00.000How much paid leave could you provide to a poor working mother if you just sold that very, very expensive blazer and then used it for the paid maternity leave?
00:11:17.000My wife took maternity leave with both our kids.
00:11:20.000Not paid maternity leave, just maternity leave.
00:11:22.000And we covered it, because that's what we do.
00:11:24.000We decided that was a decision we wanted to make as a family.
00:11:26.000I don't understand why it's incumbent on my wife now to work longer hours and see her kids less, so that other people can have paid maternity leave.
00:11:33.000Also, worth noting, most companies now grant paid maternity leave.
00:11:36.000Most companies do make sure that there is a paid maternity leave or a paid parental leave if a major corporation.
00:11:41.000Most are offering this because they understand it's a competitive way of grabbing up labor, of grabbing up solid labor.
00:11:47.000But I love these uber wealthy celebrities who sit there and act like there's nothing that can be done for these poor women who can't take maternity leave.
00:11:54.000Anne Hathaway gets paid millions of dollars to act in movies, okay?
00:11:58.000She's perfectly capable of helping out these people, but instead it's got to be the government forcing it, or the government taxing people in order to do it, and then she takes all her money, I'm sure, and stashes it in an overseas bank account so that it doesn't actually have to be taxed in the United States, just like all these people in Hollywood do.
00:12:47.000I feel this warning has to be issued because we now live in a world where people make movies about how this little girl has superpowers and could punch the bull into the next county.
00:12:53.000In reality, that bull would trample the little girl and it would be very sad and terrible.
00:12:56.000So please, parents, don't let your little girl stand in front of bulls.
00:14:43.000Okay, so, just putting that... Okay, so, before we get to the actual breakdown in healthcare, because that I think is just an important topic.
00:14:50.000Again, this just demonstrates the left doesn't know what the hell they're doing.
00:14:52.000They're terrible at everything, and they demonstrate it each and every day.
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00:16:25.000So, you may have noticed from the top of the show that I am very, very critical of the new Obamacare replacement.
00:16:31.000And the reason that I am critical of the Obamacare replacement is because it absolutely sucks.
00:16:34.000Okay, there are a bunch of problems with the Obamacare replacement.
00:16:37.000The biggest problem with the Obamacare replacement that is being proposed, the sort of Trumpcare or Ryancare, Friends of Trump call it Ryancare, Friends of Ryan call it Trumpcare.
00:16:45.000I'm gonna call it Trumpcare because the president gets credit for the health plan he's proposing.
00:16:48.000Okay, we didn't call it Pelosicare, it was called Obamacare, so it seems fair to me that we're gonna call it Trumpcare now, especially since Trump keeps saying how wonderful it is.
00:16:55.000Trump just tweeted out minutes ago, quote, despite what you hear in the press, healthcare is coming along great.
00:17:22.000The minute you start intervening in the free market, the minute you poke your thumb in in order to quote-unquote fix the free market, you start a chain effect.
00:17:29.000You start a domino reaction by which you have to get more and more and more involved in the market.
00:17:34.000So, this all starts from the premise that insurance companies are evil because insurance companies will not cover pre-existing conditions.
00:17:42.000Or they will charge you more if you have a pre-existing condition.
00:17:45.000This makes sense, as I have explained one bajillion times on this program, because, again, if you have an insurance company, you don't insure things that have already happened.
00:17:53.000That's not an insurance company anymore, now that's just a pyramid scheme.
00:17:57.000If I burn down my house and then apply for fire insurance, no one will grant me fire insurance because the house has already been burned down.
00:18:03.000They're not going to say, hey, sounds great, pay us $100 a month and we will pay you $100,000 for the house you just burned down.
00:18:09.000They won't do that because that's stupid.
00:18:37.000And anything that refuses to acknowledge this problem ends up completely skewing and destroying the insurance market.
00:18:42.000That's exactly what has happened here.
00:18:43.000You end up regulating the living crap out of the insurance companies, then you have to subsidize it because the cost is higher, and then those subsidies don't work because people don't take the subsidies.
00:18:51.000Instead, what they do is they sit around waiting for the pre-existing conditions to materialize, and then they jump into the insurance market, skewing the cost still further, creating what you call the death spiral in the insurance market.
00:19:02.000Again, all of that starts from one simple premise.
00:19:07.000They're terrible, terrible, terrible because they won't cover pre-existing conditions.
00:19:10.000So, Republicans, because they are stupid, instead of recognizing that the government really does not have a place in the health insurance market.
00:19:17.000The government should not be part of the health insurance market.
00:19:20.000If the government is going to be involved anywhere, the government should be involved only to the extent that it is necessary to prevent communicable disease, for example, if there's an epidemic, because that has externalities.
00:19:29.000But if you are just somebody who is too stupid to get health insurance your entire life, and now you have heart disease, and now you want the government to take care of you, no.
00:19:38.000Because the fact is that in a free competitive market, health insurance would have been available since you were young, and you could afford it if you had a steady job.
00:19:57.000Poverty is also a leading indicator that you're not making particularly financially sound decisions.
00:20:02.000And so anything that is geared toward forcing poor people to make financially sound decisions is not going to work very well because poor people who are permanently poor, I'm not talking about
00:20:28.000Once you do that, you end up destroying the health market.
00:20:30.000If you're going to talk about government being involved, however, there are certain places for government to be involved in minimizing government involvement so that we can get toward a better system.
00:20:38.000There will have to be a transition here.
00:20:39.000Now, if Paul Ryan and Donald Trump had come forward and said, this is a transitional part of the plan so we can move toward a totally free market, that would be one thing.
00:21:19.000They're taking away the mandate, but they're now mandating, they have a different mandate, the mandate is that insurance companies have to charge you a 30% surcharge, a 30% fine, for those whose insurance has lapsed.
00:21:31.000It also creates individual health care subsidies.
00:21:33.000So if you're high-risk, you have pre-existing conditions, well, we give you money to buy health insurance, which of course drives up the price of health insurance because you have additional demand.
00:21:42.000It also subsidizes Medicaid for a greater period of time until 2020.
00:21:46.000It subsidizes Medicaid, allows states to expand their roles.
00:21:49.000Which is not good, because if you think, if you think that a future Congress is going to allow cuts to Medicaid, you're out of your mind.
00:21:55.000There's never been an entitlement program that has had significant cuts from Congress without significant bravery.
00:22:00.000And finally, it subsidizes high-risk pools on the state level.
00:22:03.000They say, okay, if we give $100 billion to states over the next 10 years, then it'll help them cover all of these costs, and they can figure out how to use that money.
00:22:11.000Again, if you think that that's going to disappear, you are totally wrong, because again, anybody who vows to spend more money on this sort of stuff is going to win elections.
00:22:18.000Which would require political bravery.
00:22:20.000Now, this would be a good time, this would be a good time for Donald Trump to use that political bravery.