The Ben Shapiro Show - September 23, 2026


The MAHA Wins RFK Is Touting

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00:00:00.000 Well, folks, the Maha movement in the United States has become increasingly popular.
00:00:04.000 The most popular member of the administration is HHS Secretary RFK Jr.
00:00:08.000 He is explaining why the United States is actually becoming less obese, which is a really good thing.
00:00:13.000 Meanwhile, in Canada, they're just killing all the old people, apparently.
00:00:15.000 This segment is sponsored by Balance of Nature.
00:00:17.000 Now, there's not much that is more Maha than taking care of your body and knowing the foods that are best for you.
00:00:22.000 Canada has a solution, however, and that is to euthanize the old people against their will.
00:00:26.000 The UK Daily Mail is now reporting that two days before her Christian grandmother's assisted dying procedure in Ontario, Canada, Brigitte Krennendonk sat her down to make sure she knew exactly what was going to happen.
00:00:36.000 Quote, I used very frank terms.
00:00:38.000 I said, Do you know you're going to die on Friday?
00:00:40.000 The 83 year old was in visible disbelief and began crying for 45 minutes.
00:00:43.000 I've made a mistake, Brigitte Stegman, known affectionately to her family as Gigi or Oma, wailed.
00:00:48.000 Yet 48 hours after she wept uncontrollably at the notion of MAID, which is what they call assisted suicide up in Canada, Stegman is said to have died with her hands clasped in prayer, covered in her own blood, due to a botched first attempt at connecting the IV.
00:01:02.000 Krennendonk is currently in the process of desperately appealing to the chief coroner's office in Ontario.
00:01:06.000 As well as the patient's ombudsman and Belleville police, in a bid to ascertain what happened the morning of July 10th at the Pearl Care Home in Knifton was legal.
00:01:14.000 So prior to Stegman's death that summer, Cranand Zonk had been her caregiver for 12 years and her medical power of attorney for the past six.
00:01:20.000 A year and a half before her death, the family made the decision to house Stegman in the Pearl as her physical and cognitive health began to deteriorate.
00:01:26.000 In February, she was diagnosed with stage four stomach cancer, but doctors weren't certain about whether the diagnosis meant she had six months to live or maybe up to two years.
00:01:34.000 During the cognitive assessment, which she sat in on, Cranand Zonk claims the questions were curiously designed.
00:01:39.000 In that the doctor couldn't immediately verify the answers.
00:01:43.000 So, again, the questions should have been things like who's the prime minister or what was today's date.
00:01:48.000 But instead, she was asked personal questions like how many siblings she had.
00:01:51.000 So, there was no way for the doctors to know the answer to that.
00:01:55.000 So, Stegman got the answers wrong.
00:01:56.000 She said she had no siblings despite having 13.
00:01:59.000 The doctors asked how many were alive and Segman answered, saying none.
00:02:02.000 Two are still alive.
00:02:05.000 According to government guidelines, a patient must be of sound mind and have a grievous and irremediable medical condition to be eligible for assisted suicide in Canada.
00:02:12.000 So, pretty insane stuff.
00:02:14.000 And again, this unfortunately is not rare in Canada at all.
00:02:19.000 Here's a Canadian American woman named Kristen Logan who received an assisted suicide pamphlet from the Canadian government after she was diagnosed with cancer.
00:02:27.000 Here she was with Laura Ingram.
00:02:29.000 So you started getting literature about that because your prognosis was supposedly so grim.
00:02:37.000 I hadn't even seen an oncologist yet before I got that pamphlet.
00:02:41.000 To be honest, it took nine months to even get to a place where I was diagnosed.
00:02:46.000 And then I was told in the emergency room, hey, it looks like you have metastatic cancer.
00:02:50.000 At that point, it was stage 4a.
00:02:52.000 And as I'm waiting for even the first call from the oncology team, I get this pamphlet in the mail basically telling me that I can go and kill myself.
00:03:02.000 And yeah, that was very disturbing.
00:03:06.000 At that point, you realize what a dystopian situation it is.
00:03:10.000 Again, that is all very good news.
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00:03:53.000 And again, in other health news, innovation in the United States continues to move forward.
00:03:58.000 All of the rips on the American healthcare system leave aside the fact that pretty much all medical innovation happens in the United States.
00:04:03.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, an outside advisory committee to the FDA will review Grail's multi cancer early detection test.
00:04:10.000 Grail's Galeri test leads a fast developing field of liquid biopsies that screen asymptomatic patients for signals of cancer in the blood.
00:04:16.000 The goal is to diagnose cancers earlier when they're easier to treat and the odds of survival are higher.
00:04:22.000 So it looks as though Galeri is working.
00:04:26.000 A randomized control trial conducted with UK's National Health Service tracked about 142,000 asymptomatic patients.
00:04:31.000 Age 50 to 77, half received the Galeri test every year.
00:04:35.000 Galeri caught four times as many cancers in total than the UK's four recommended screenings for colon, breast, lung, and cervical cancer, which is fantastic.
00:04:43.000 That is awesome.
00:04:44.000 And again, this is what happens when you have ready pools of capital to invest in medical RD.
00:04:50.000 That is why private markets continue to matter.
00:04:53.000 Democrats, of course, if they had the chance, would essentially ban all private capital from the medical industry, which is not going to work.
00:04:59.000 Here is Elizabeth Warren.
00:05:01.000 It is amazing to watch as somebody who you know is smarter than this give herself a frontal lobotomy politically.
00:05:06.000 Over the years, I've watched Elizabeth Warren do this for a decade.
00:05:09.000 And here's Elizabeth Warren saying that she's going to ban quote unquote private equity from owning your doctor.
00:05:14.000 Who do you think funds things?
00:05:16.000 Who do you think funds things?
00:05:17.000 Funding is useful because funding allows for the actual development of products, goods, and services.
00:05:23.000 I just introduced a bill that would ban private equity from owning your doctor.
00:05:28.000 It's called the Stop Corporate Takeovers of Physicians Act because doctors should be able to do what's best for their patients, not What's best for some wealthy investor?
00:05:39.000 It's about time we get corporate greed out of healthcare.
00:05:43.000 Let's do this one.
00:05:45.000 Oh my gosh.
00:05:46.000 Again, the idea that corporate greed is what's driving up prices, as opposed to all of the administrative burden, all the legal liability.
00:05:54.000 Totally ridiculous.
00:05:55.000 Totally.
00:05:56.000 Even here's the thing physicians are skipping health insurance now because of the high prices.
00:05:59.000 I mean, that is just a reality.
00:06:03.000 Well, meanwhile, JD Vance has been pushing forward.
00:06:08.000 An attempt to crack down on Obamacare fraud.
00:06:10.000 Here he was yesterday announcing this.
00:06:12.000 We are stopping Obamacare enrollment for about 750,000 people.
00:06:17.000 750,000 people who we believe are fraudulently enrolled in the program.
00:06:23.000 That's number one.
00:06:24.000 The second thing that we're going to do is we're going to do some additional verification.
00:06:27.000 We expect that most of these people are fraudulently enrolled, but we're going to do some additional verification on about 419,000 people.
00:06:35.000 We're going to make sure that they're, first of all, legal residents of the United States of America.
00:06:39.000 And second of all, we're going to make sure that they actually meet the income threshold requirements in order to receive these Obamacare benefits.
00:06:46.000 To put into context the amount of money that we're stopping from going to fraudsters today, $2.2 billion.
00:06:52.000 The average American child receives about $4,000 in health care benefits every single year.
00:06:58.000 That means that we are saving 550,000 American children's worth of health care that was going to fraudsters and now will go to the essential services for which it was meant to go.
00:07:10.000 Okay, again, this is good stuff, cracking down on fraud.
00:07:13.000 Again, what he's cracking down on are illegal immigrants who are getting Obamacare, as well as people who are above income thresholds who are getting Obamacare.
00:07:20.000 If you're in favor of even government subsidized health care at this point, you should be in favor of cracking down on waste and fraud and abuse and all the rest.
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