Under the new health care bill, rape could be a pre-existing condition. The left immediately conjures up images of people injured in the most horrifying possible way, rape, and then suggested that the bill would suddenly leave rape victims adrift. These are all real headlines from mainstream media outlets like New York Magazine, Huffington Post, and the Independent from the UK, and CNN. In Trump s America, rape is a preexisting condition? Ben Shapiro breaks it all down and explains why the leftist response to the new healthcare bill is just plain stupid. He also talks about why the Republicans screw up every single major piece of legislation they apparently bring to the fore, and why the only thing they can do is screw it up even worse than they do now. Ben Shapiro is the host of the conservative radio show "The Ben Shapiro Show" and is a regular contributor on Fox News Radio's "The HOSTAGE" where he hosts a weekly political discussion show with conservative host John Avlon. He's also a frequent contributor on conservative radio talk shows on conservative talk shows such as SiriusXM and conservative radio station The Briar Hill Radio. He can be found on social media as and on the right and the left as . Subscribe to Ben Shapiro's newest podcast, wherever you get your news and opinions. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts! Subscribe on iTunes Learn more about your ad choices. Use the promo code Ben Shapiro to receive $200 in gift cards with a minimum purchase of $100.00 plus free shipping when you shop at Target, Best Fiends, Caffinate, or use coupon code Ben to get 10% off your first purchase, and get 20% off the first month of your first year of the course, and up to $50 off the second year free shipping offer, and a FREE shipping offer when you become a member of the Ben Shapiro VIP membership when you buy $200 or more! Learn more at Ben Shapiro s Secretly Conservative? Get all the latest news and access all the best deal on Ben Shapiro: Ben Shapiro on The Ben Shapiro Podcasts ! Links mentioned in this episode: Click here All the latest in the latest episode of the show? Subscribe here! Subscribe and subscribe to my newsletter! Get exclusive bonus episodes coming soon! Leave a review on Anchor.ee/Ben Shapiro s New York Times bestselling book, click here to get a discount code
00:00:00.000In Trump's America, rape is a pre-existing condition.
00:00:03.000Under the new health care bill, rape could be a pre-existing condition.
00:00:06.000Trump's health care bill allows rape to be a pre-existing condition.
00:00:09.000Rape and domestic violence could be pre-existing conditions.
00:00:12.000These are all real headlines from mainstream media outlets.
00:00:15.000New York Magazine, Huffington Post, The Independent from the UK, and CNN.
00:00:19.000Under the American Health Care Act, states have the ability to opt out of federal regulations requiring insurance companies to cover pre-existing conditions.
00:00:26.000Naturally, the left immediately conjured up images of people injured in the most horrifying possible way, rape, and then suggested that the bill would suddenly leave rape victims adrift.
00:00:53.000According to the leftist media, if you suffer an injury in a terrible situation, the situation itself is now a pre-existing condition.
00:00:59.000In other words, these headlines could just have easily read, quote, in Trump's America, car crashes are a pre-existing condition.
00:01:05.000Or, under the new healthcare bill, soccer accidents could be a pre-existing condition.
00:01:09.000The bill itself says that pre-existing conditions are pre-existing conditions.
00:01:13.000Nowhere does it give a list of pre-existing conditions, including rape or sexual assault, because these are activities leading to injury, not actual injuries.
00:01:20.000The leftist case here is, as usual, idiotic.
00:01:22.000Events are not pre-existing conditions.
00:01:25.000Injuries that occur as a result of events, if they occur before you attempt to buy insurance, are definitionally pre-existing conditions.
00:01:32.000Duh, but the debate has now been so skewed that we think the government can magically have health insurance cover rape, which doesn't even make sense.
00:01:39.000If no injury occurred requiring medical attention due to a rape, what would the insurance company do to cover it?
00:01:46.000Yet the people who believe the government can protect you from all ills and apparently send insurance adjusters into the streets Charles Bronson style to mete out justice and prevent rape are out in force today.
00:01:56.000Under new Religious Liberty Act, hospitals can deny rape victims emergency contraception.
00:02:00.000Under AHCA, rape will be a pre-existing condition.
00:02:03.000Katie Hneda, Clara Jeffrey, new version of AHCA wants to punish both special ed victims and rape victims.
00:02:11.000Here's a list of all members of Congress who voted yes to AHCA.
00:02:14.000These people believe rape is a pre-existing condition.
00:02:17.000This argument is the equivalent of saying that Obamacare sought to hurt rape victims by throwing people off their individual insurance plans.
00:02:23.000Obamacare may well have thrown people off their individual insurance plans, but it wasn't because they were rape victims.
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00:04:43.000She ditched her association with the National Front going into the election cycle.
00:04:46.000A lot of people, including President Trump, were excited about the possibility of Marine Le Pen because she's very harsh with regard to the borders.
00:04:53.000Instead, she gets absolutely walloped.
00:05:20.000So there is this weird idea that nationalism all over the world was on the rise, that nationalism all over the planet was on the rise, and that you were going to see nation after nation following the Brexit model, following the Trump model, and they were going to elect nationalist leaders.
00:05:35.000Now, normally, that only happens in opposition.
00:05:39.000The reason you get nationalist movements is in opposition to other nationalist movements.
00:05:43.000So, for example, in Europe, you see the rise of a lot of nationalist leaders during the 1930s because there are lots of nationalist leaders arising.
00:05:49.000So, what that means is that if you have a German nationalist leader coming to the fore, then it's a good shot that you might get a British nationalist leader coming to the fore in reaction to the German nationalist leader.
00:05:58.000Nationalism tends to breed nationalism in other countries just as internationalism tends to breed internationalism in other countries.
00:06:05.000But the French election was not going to be a reaction to Trump in the sense that they are going to now effectuate some sort of national stand against Trump.
00:06:14.000In fact, if there was any Trump effect to this election at all, which I really doubt if there was any, it was a nationalist reaction against Trump by electing someone that Trump didn't like.
00:06:22.000So, here's the problem with reading too much into this election cycle.
00:06:26.000It is not a rejection of nationalism wholesale.
00:06:28.000It's a rejection of Marine Le Pen, and it is a rejection of the old order.
00:06:31.000Remember, Macron was not running associated with any party, and Marine Le Pen was running with the National Front.
00:06:37.000The two historic parties that have won in France are the Socialist Party, the sort of Francois Mitterrand party, and then the Conservative Party in France.
00:06:47.000Which was never all that conservative.
00:06:48.000Francois Fillon was the candidate there.
00:06:52.000Both he and the socialist guy ended up being ousted in the first round.
00:06:56.000So you had two newcomers running against each other.
00:06:58.000And that, I think, is the common thread that holds together Britain and holds together America and holds together France in sort of the electoral trends.
00:07:07.000I don't think that there is a coherent program from any of these countries.
00:07:10.000I don't think there's a coherent right-wing movement that is now on the rise anywhere.
00:07:14.000I think what you're getting instead is just a reaction to, we hated what came before, give us something new.
00:07:19.000Whether it's David Cameron and get rid of that guy and put in Theresa May or whether it is Barack Obama and we hate Hillary Clinton so get rid of her and put in Donald Trump who's completely new or whether it is we're sick of Francois Fillon and we don't want Marine Le Pen because she's a little too scary so put in Macron
00:07:47.000She has this long-standing history with the National Front, which scares people, rightly so, because the National Front is historically an anti-Semitic party.
00:07:55.000She's moved away from that because she wanted to win an election, but historically they were an anti-Semitic party.
00:08:00.000Her father was a deep-rooted anti-Semite that she had to condemn, and so I think that
00:08:05.000There is the possibility, every possibility, that if there were a conservative candidate in France who came along and were not Marine Le Pen and said, we need to do something about all the immigrants who are swamping us, particularly from Islamic countries, I think that that person might have a better shot.
00:08:17.000Marine Le Pen was just too off-putting.
00:08:21.000It sort of suggests what might happen in the United States.
00:08:23.000If there are any sort of ramifications for the U.S., it would sort of suggest in the United States that if there were somebody on the left
00:08:30.000Who are willing to make a nationalist argument and not be an old fuddy-duddy like Hillary Clinton that no one likes, that they might have a shot of knocking off Trump.
00:08:38.000Because Trump is sort of a Marine Le Pen in the sense that there are a lot of people who dislike him.
00:08:43.000If there were somebody from the left who were not so scary but were a fresh face,
00:08:47.000I don't think it's a massive win for the left.
00:08:50.000I don't think it's a massive loss for the right.
00:08:51.000I think that Marine Le Pen's a scary character for a lot of people, and she was not the best candidate for the right, but the right is on the move.
00:09:07.000Just because new stuff is on the move, and they haven't seen anything even remotely right-wing in France.
00:09:12.000I mean, the fact is that her domestic policy is big government socialism, anti-trade socialism, so the idea that it was sort of right versus left in France is not really true.
00:09:19.000It was nationalist left versus internationalist left, but nationalist internationalist left, if that makes any sense.
00:09:25.000A sort of nationalist France that says, we are our common character is to be internationalist.
00:09:30.000Okay, so that's one thing that's in the news.
00:09:32.000The other thing that's in the news this morning, it's sort of the new breaking news,
00:09:50.000She's now testifying before Congress, and there is a suggestion that... So Donald Trump goes on Twitter this morning, and President Trump tweets out that somebody needs to ask her under oath why there was all this information leaking to the press after she talked to the White House Counsel, spelled C-O-U-N-C-I-L.
00:10:10.000He meant C-O-U-N-S-E-L, like the White House Counsel, but President Trump is not big with the spelling.
00:10:15.000In any case, she's testifying on the Hill, and the left is using this as an opportunity to say Sally Yates was really ousted because she knew too much about Mike Flynn and she had to be silenced.
00:10:25.000And so now they're very excited that she's on the Hill, and here's Trump responding, trying to go after Sally Yates.
00:10:30.000Meanwhile, the Obama administration officials are leaking, old Obama administration officials are leaking to the press that Obama had warned President Trump about hiring Mike Flynn.
00:10:38.000Now remember, Sally Yates, according to the left, was fired because she knew too much about Mike Flynn.
00:10:43.000That's what was going on here, was Mike Flynn was in heavy with the Russians, and Sally Yates knew it, and then Trump fired her in order to cover that up for some odd reason.
00:10:52.000Which wouldn't make a lot of sense, because then she could just probably go speak about it under oath, which is what she's going to do today.
00:10:58.000There's a story out today that I just wanted to debunk because I think it's silly that President Obama warned Trump about putting Flynn in his cabinet.
00:11:06.000Okay, so did everybody who's a conservative.
00:11:08.000A lot of people were very skeptical of Mike Flynn.
00:11:11.000They didn't think that he was qualified for this.
00:11:13.000The suggestion seems to be that Obama warned Trump that
00:11:17.000Flynn was enthralled of the Russians and Trump ignored that.
00:11:19.000There's been no evidence of that whatsoever, that Obama was warning about that.
00:11:23.000And if Obama knew about that, then why did he retain his security clearance?
00:11:26.000He still had full security clearance in 2016 from the Department of Defense, did Mike Flynn, even after Obama fired him in 2012 or 2014.
00:12:51.000The other argument that's been made, the left are trotting out some of the worst arguments ever on this bill, which is amazing because there are really good arguments against this bill from the left.
00:13:00.000So, for example, they should be saying it makes care, it makes the acquisition of health insurance, it could make the acquisition of health insurance more expensive for elderly people.
00:13:10.000The AHCA Trumpcare makes it more expensive for older people.
00:13:15.000It also creates a coverage gap for poor people, because one of the things that it does is, in restructuring Medicaid, it basically says that it's going to lower the subsidies for Medicaid on the state level, and then it's going to give grants.
00:13:28.000It's going to give you basically a tax credit for buying health insurance.
00:13:31.000But those tax credits are not enough for poor people and old sick people, so it creates a coverage gap for those people, driving them to rely on Medicaid, which the federal government is not spending as much as it used to spend on.
00:13:41.000So that would be their best argument, is that a bunch of people are going to fall through the cracks in this program.
00:13:45.000Because again, here is the bottom line with regard to health insurance, and this is why it's so stupid to discuss health insurance as the be-all end-all.
00:13:52.000The bottom line is, unless you are going to mandate that pre-existing conditions are covered, and then issue a mandate that everyone has to buy, as what Switzerland does, unless you're going to do this,
00:14:07.000Once you say pre-existing conditions have to be covered, prices are going to rise.
00:14:11.000The only way to cover that rise is either with a massive subsidy and or nationalization of the program, which if you create massive subsidies, by the way, the prices just continue to go up, so it doesn't really help anything, you have to keep subsidizing the program, or you nationalize the program altogether like Britain, or you do what Switzerland does, and you force people to pay 8% of their income
00:14:31.000By the way, that was sort of what Romneycare was, and that's what Obama's attempt at Obamacare was, although it was actually softer than that.
00:14:38.000Republicans have actually, in some ways, done the worst of both worlds in this bill.
00:14:42.000They've maintained pre-existing conditions, and then they've also removed the mandate.
00:14:46.000So that means that you're actually exacerbating the death spiral.
00:14:48.000You don't have enough young, healthy people paying into the insurance programs to keep these pre-existing conditions programs alive.
00:14:56.000The way the Republicans solve this is they say, okay, states can opt out if they want.
00:14:59.000But the states aren't going to opt out because not a lot of governors are going to have the political courage to opt out of the system and then be told by their rivals in the next election that they're the ones who opted out of pre-existing conditions.
00:15:08.000In any case, those aren't the arguments the left are making.
00:15:10.000Those would actually be pretty good arguments.
00:15:12.000The arguments they're making are, of course, the stupidest arguments you can make.
00:15:15.000So Andrea Mitchell on NBC News, she says that the big problem here is that there are too many white men making health care decisions.
00:15:21.000The celebration of this on Thursday, they were all, mostly all, men and white men at that.
00:16:04.000This is a really bad argument that they're making.
00:16:07.000They're making a lot of bad arguments lately, and this is one of them.
00:16:10.000And then they're making the argument that millions of people are going to die because of health care, that millions of people are just going to fall apart and be killed because of health care.
00:16:16.000Again, there's not a lot of evidence to suggest that a lot of people might fall onto Medicaid, and the states will have to pick up the slack, but again, that's wildly exaggerated.
00:16:24.000Now, I want to break here, and I want to talk more about what the Republicans have been doing, because I think that that actually is stupid.
00:16:32.000That while everybody was celebrating on Friday and Thursday, I don't think that this is something Republicans should necessarily be celebrating over.
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