Ben Shapiro explains the ten ways you can actively reject your white privilege, including: 1. Take up minimal space during anti-racism dialogues and protests. 2. Stop contributing to gentrification and calling it urban development. 3. Never invite people of color to the table for the sake of claiming diversity. 4. Stop using non-white friends as your urban dictionary. 5. Refrain from using your non-whites as your Urban Dictionary. 6. Call your friends, family, and co-workers out on racism even if a person of color isn t in the room. 7. Stop lifting up non-confrontational people of Color as examples of what people of colour should be. 8. Stop talking about Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. 9. Understand that all anti-racist work doesn t look the same and advocate accordingly. 10. Recognize that all discussions about race aren t for you, and be okay with it. You see, if you're called racist, or if we're discussing racism, you should shut up. That's not racism. It's your privilege to speak, so we have to reject that privilege no matter what. You're not racist, you're just white, right? Ben Shapiro is a writer, comedian, podcaster, and podcaster. His work can be found at Podulters.org. His music is available on SoundCloud at Soundcloud at . and he's on YouTube at and . His music video is is also available on at , and on , . He's also on Soundtracks at ! also on . You can also be found on Insta if you search for him on Soundcloud or , or , he's s in , the Podcasts podcast ? Music: "The Good, the Bad, the Good, The Bad, The Ugly, The Evil, The Good, and the Ugly " and , "The Bad, & ( ) and "The Great, the Great, The Beautiful, the Beautiful, The Right, The Great, and The Good Good, and The Great Good, And The Beautiful - The Good Bad, and so much more! He also Thank you for listening to The Ben Shapiro Podcast! -
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00:03:16.000You know, every time you think that you've actually parodied the left sufficiently, they parody themselves and it all goes out the window.
00:03:23.000I want to talk a lot about Trumpcare today because the new Congressional Budget Office report is out and it basically sucks.
00:03:29.000There's a bunch in it that is not true or there's a bunch in it that is based on faulty premises.
00:03:34.000And the entire left is going totally insane over it.
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00:03:41.000You have some people like Paul Ryan who are touting the CBO report because he hit his head on something hard when he was a child.
00:03:46.000And you have some people in the Trump administration saying the CBO report doesn't mean anything even though they used to cite the CBO report about Obama.
00:03:52.000We'll get to all of that in just a second.
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00:06:07.000And you wouldn't expect it to be a good report because the bill is actually really not a good bill.
00:06:11.000As I've stated before, there are a bunch of problems with the bill, so it's not a shock that the CBO didn't like the bill.
00:06:17.000But let's go through some of the things that are in the bill.
00:06:19.000So, Robert Krajcik over at Daily Wire has a pretty good breakdown on what's in this thing.
00:06:24.000The stuff that Republicans like is that the deficit is supposed to go down.
00:06:27.000So right now that's important because there are certain bills in place that say that if the CBO estimates that costs will go up, then it's very hard to pass a bill.
00:06:36.000If the CBO says the costs will go down, then it's easier to pass a bill.
00:06:40.000One of the reasons this is stupid is because the CBO is wrong about
00:06:45.000The CBO report on Obamacare is just incorrect.
00:06:48.000When they estimate that a lot of coverage is going to happen through Medicaid, they're assuming a bunch of states are going to expand their Medicaid in accordance with Obamacare.
00:07:01.000So the CBO reports are very, very flawed, but the CBO here estimates the budget deficit will be $559 billion in fiscal year 2017, but they say that the American Healthcare Act, this is Trumpcare, would reduce federal deficits $337 billion over nine years.
00:07:16.000The real number is like over a trillion dollars over the next nine years, but then we give a bunch of tax cuts.
00:07:22.000They say that this takes away from the government, so it actually is only going to reduce the deficit by about 400 billion, 337 billion.
00:07:28.000Now, there's a problem with this too, which is that it's assuming that everything is going to stay the same.
00:07:32.000The level of subsidy is going to stay the same.
00:07:34.000Congress is not going to come along and try and fill in coverage gaps by providing bigger subsidies or bigger tax credits.
00:07:40.000So I don't actually believe that the deficit is going to really drop under this bill because there has never yet been a government subsidized program where the deficit decreases.
00:07:53.000That the number of uninsured is going to rise.
00:07:56.000So by 2018 they say 14 million more people would be uninsured than under current law according to the CBO's estimate and they say that most of this 14 million person increase would be people who are currently purchasing health insurance because they are forced to do so by the government and then they would just stop doing it because they don't want to pay the penalty.
00:08:12.000So the left is jumping on this to suggest that people are being thrown off their health insurance.
00:08:16.000No, most people just don't want to buy the stupid stuff because it's too expensive and it's crap.
00:08:20.000And once they're not forced to buy it, they will stop buying it.
00:08:23.000And we'll talk about this in a little while because the left keeps saying now that this means people are going to die.
00:08:28.000People are going to die because of Trumpcare.
00:08:32.000They say that by 2026, 52 million people would be uninsured, according to their estimate, and they estimate that there would only be 28 million people if the status quo of the Obamacare administration was maintained.
00:08:44.000There is a problem with this, however.
00:08:46.000Okay, so I will explain this problem with this chart.
00:08:52.000This is what the CBO estimated would be the enrollment in Obamacare over time.
00:08:58.000And so what you can see here, if you're watching, is you can see several different lines.
00:09:03.000You can see that there's the CBO's estimate as of 2010, the CBO's estimate as of 2012, the CBO's estimate as of 2014, and then you have here the CBO's estimate of 2016, and finally you have the actual.
00:10:05.000Do you see the giant disparity between the green line and the blue and black line up top?
00:10:10.000That's how badly the CBO got this wrong on Obamacare, and now they're saying that there's going to be this great discrepancy between Trumpcare and Obamacare.
00:10:18.000One of the ways that you drive up the gap between what they estimate Trumpcare will be and what Obamacare will be is by following the red line.
00:10:25.000But look, the red line still isn't the green line.
00:10:27.000See, there's this giant gap, 7-8 million people.
00:10:30.000Between what is more likely to happen with the Obamacare exchanges and what the CBO estimates.
00:10:36.000So what the CBO is doing is they're using that red line and then they're contrasting it with what Trumpcare would do, when really they should be using the green line and contrasting it with what Trumpcare would do.
00:10:47.000The CBO also says that health insurance companies are not going to survive.
00:10:51.000So despite all of the talk from Trump and team about how this is going to free up the market, it doesn't actually free up the market.
00:10:56.000They say that the market for non-group coverage insurance purchased individually would be unstable if the people who wanted to buy coverage at any offered price would have average health care expenditures so high that offering the insurance would be unprofitable.
00:11:07.000In other words, without a mandate, and this was the reason there was an Obamacare mandate, without a mandate you don't have healthy people buying in because healthy people don't buy health insurance.
00:11:37.000After 2020, because a bunch of people will basically be covered by Medicaid expansion up to 2020, and also because they think that competition at that point will kick in, and finally you'll see the premiums decrease.
00:11:48.000The problem is 2020 is four years off from now, three years off from now, and there's no guarantee that that happens.
00:11:55.000And then finally, the CBO says, by the way, we don't know what we're talking about.
00:11:59.000It says, the ways in which federal agencies, states, insurers, employers, individuals, doctors, hospitals, and other affected parties would respond to the changes made by the legislation are all difficult to predict.
00:12:08.000So the estimates in the report are uncertain.
00:12:16.000The CBO, as we show in this chart, the CBO really is not correct here and they don't know always what they are talking about.
00:12:23.000It is perfectly fair to question the CBO's forecast based on their history of bad forecasts.
00:12:28.000That's not stopping Democrats from going out there and pointing out that a bunch of people are quote-unquote going to lose their health insurance.
00:12:34.000Now, I want to start with this premise for one second and pause.
00:12:37.000When they say that people are going to lose their health insurance, people are going to die because they lose their health insurance.
00:12:42.000If your only metric of healthcare success is how many people are covered by any health insurance program, whether it's Sucks, whether it's Medicaid, then what that means is that in the end, the only way you're actually going to get to the number you want is through nationalized healthcare.
00:12:55.000If your only measure of success is how many people are quote-unquote covered, and it doesn't matter what the type of coverage is, and it doesn't matter what the quality of coverage is, it doesn't matter whether you can actually get a doctor through the coverage, if that's all that matters to you, then nationalized healthcare is the only solution.
00:13:08.000Because nationalized healthcare means that everyone's covered.
00:13:11.000Sure, the healthcare coverage is crappy.
00:13:13.000Sure, you can't actually benefit from the healthcare coverage, but everybody is covered.
00:13:17.000And you see the left jumping into this.
00:13:18.000They say that Obamacare is better than Trumpcare because Obamacare, quote-unquote, covers more people.
00:13:24.000But there's no evidence that that coverage is actually making healthcare outcomes better, and there's a reason for that.
00:13:29.000First of all, when you don't have health insurance in America, it's not like you die on the street.
00:13:34.000Virtually everybody who has a health care problem in the United States walks into an emergency room.
00:13:38.000That's what illegal immigrants do in the state of California, overburdening the system.
00:13:42.000So the idea that the alternatives are you either have some sort of government-provided health insurance or you die in the waiting room, it's just not true.
00:13:50.000Beyond that, the vast majority of doctors actually don't accept Medicaid because Medicaid doesn't reimburse at proper rates.
00:13:56.000There are studies that actually examine whether Medicaid increases life expectancy and what they find is basically no.
00:14:02.000So there's something called the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment that actually looked at this in Oregon.
00:14:06.000And it found that it did not decrease ER visits.
00:14:08.000So one of the purposes of having Medicaid is the idea, okay, you're covered now, so you don't have to show up in the ER.
00:14:12.000It actually doubled the number of ER visits, because people thought that Medicaid just meant they were supposed to use the ER more, apparently.
00:14:18.000And when Medicaid users received more diagnostic care, which is true, it also had no statistically significant effect on several measures of physical health, including blood pressure, cholesterol, or cardiovascular risk.
00:14:29.000So the idea that being on Medicaid is a lifesaver, and if you're not on Medicaid, you die, it's just not true.
00:14:46.000The best statistical estimate for the number of lives saved each year by the Affordable Care Act, Obamacare, is zero.
00:14:52.000Certainly there are individuals who have benefited from various of its provisions, but attempts to claim broader effects on public health and thousands of lives saved rely upon extrapolation from past studies that focus on the value of private health insurance.
00:15:03.000But the ACA has expanded coverage through Medicaid, not private health insurance,
00:15:07.000In fact, public health trends since the implementation of Obamacare have worsened because people have lost their private health insurance, they've been forced onto Medicaid, with 80,000 more deaths in 2015 than had mortality continued declining during the 2014-2015 rate achieved during 2000-2013.
00:16:37.000That's a four-week emergency food supply that makes sure that you and your entire family are covered for a significant period of time following a disaster in case emergency services can't get to you, in case you can't have access to the grocery store, in case the grocery stores have not been supplied properly.
00:17:02.000Okay, so, when you hear Democrats claiming that everybody is going to die because of Trumpcare, just recognize that that's a wild exaggeration, and it's not actually true.
00:17:11.000And also, the reason that they are saying this is because they are conflating health insurance with healthcare.
00:17:17.000And by doing so, they're basically pushing for nationalized healthcare.
00:17:20.000Because if you say that the only way that America has a good healthcare system is if quote-unquote every single person is covered, you're going to end up in a position where you have to cover everybody through the government.
00:17:31.000The truth is what you actually want is better health care outcomes on average through choice.
00:17:35.000And there are a lot of ways to do that that don't involve the government.
00:17:38.000One of the reasons that the United States still has high life expectancy is because we develop new products and services.
00:17:44.000One of the reasons we do is because we have a private market.
00:17:46.000Understand that what socialism and what redistributionism do is they destroy innovation.
00:17:50.000They destroy the capacity of insurance companies to compete with one another for your services, and they destroy the capacity for pharmaceutical companies to do research and development, for hospitals to do research and development, for new drugs to be used, for new surgeons to discover new surgeries.
00:18:04.000What socialism does is it freezes things in place and passes it around.
00:18:08.000And what capitalism does is it doesn't freeze things in place and pass it around, so there's more inequality under capitalism than socialism.
00:18:14.000But it allows innovation, it allows prices to drop, and that allows more people to have access.
00:18:20.000Now, the problem is that the Trump administration has a real divide.
00:18:25.000There's a real divide when it comes to how they understand what Trumpcare ought to be.
00:18:29.000And you can see that in how they are dealing with the CBO report, which is really quite fascinating.
00:18:33.000So, Donald Trump is basically on the verge of suggesting that we ought to just let Trumpcare go and let Obamacare implode, which, as I said yesterday, is not a solution because entitlement programs don't implode, they just get bigger.
00:18:45.000Here is Donald Trump talking about Obamacare.
00:19:47.000When he was here, people— There's actual truth to what Trump is saying here.
00:19:49.000The press is propping up Obamacare, talking about how wonderful it's going to be.
00:19:53.000But the idea that Obamacare is going to implode—yes, the prices are going to skyrocket at a certain point here, because people are dropping off the rolls, because people are—they'd rather pay the fines than pay for these high premiums.
00:20:03.000They're dropping onto Medicaid, and so they're not really paying into the system.
00:20:06.000All of that's true, but that doesn't mean Obamacare is going to implode.
00:20:09.000It just means that the media is going to say more people are covered because they're dropping from private insurance on to Medicaid.
00:20:14.000But I think the important gap that you're seeing here is in between Trump and the so-called conservatives, you know, like Paul Ryan, who really is not super conservative when it comes to this particular bill.
00:20:25.000The gap that you are seeing is that Donald Trump is using the left's metric for what is a successful health insurance and health care program.
00:20:34.000And we'll talk more about that, but you have to go over to dailywire.com for that.
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