Saturday Morning Open Phones HR2 8-16-25

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning six TED WTV Zachary Schwartz, Phil it dead
for boots once again, and uh, this show is about
you and what you want to talk about. And I'll
throw in some things on my mind during the course
of the show, like always number to call in six
food four eight two one nine eight eight six it's
six foot four eight two one WTV ED.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
We got people on hold it.

Speaker 1 (00:22):
I will get to you momentarily, but I want to
address something that I kind of.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
Just found out.

Speaker 1 (00:29):
About over the weekends but bothering me, thousands of kids
in Dayton, Cincinnati, and Cleveland this year will have no
school bus to get to and from school, but private
kids will. Private school kids will with our tax money,
they have no problems with bussing. So the obvious question
is why do we have private school kids getting to

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ride the bus at taxpayer's expense, but the kids who
go to public schools are not guaranteed bussing.

Speaker 3 (00:58):
Well, my kid goes to private at school and used
to rely on a bus to get there and it
never showed up for him either, So.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
That makes you feel any better.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
That's fantastic, but never should no. But the board of
the Point Ohio Law states that public school districts like
Dayton's are responsible for transporting students who attend private and
charter schools. And I know there's some differences there and whatnot,
but the overview is if they fail to do so,

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they will get fined millions of dollars.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
Maybe not in Eli's case, but.

Speaker 1 (01:34):
You know what helps or what happens when public school
kids aren't guaranteed to ride to it from school, Well,
no one gets fined. There's a shortage of drivers of
buses around Ohio, which means that our public school students
are taking a back seat to sub private school students.
That if your kid goes to private school, that's great.

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If they want to ride the bus, that's great. If
Ohio Io law states that public school systems at school
districts have to give private kids a ride to and
from school, I think they should do that to public students. Also,
in eleventh grader from Dayton has to take an uber
to and from school. They interviewed him on the local

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Dayton news. That's like thirty dollars a day. He's like
in eleventh grade. That's a thousand dollars, thousands of dollars
a year in Cincinnati and other districts, and Dayton, they've
been trying to get free bus passes for kids to
ride public transport to school, which in and of itself
is ridiculous. And at Dayton there was a teenager. Excuse me,

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at Cincinnati, there was a teenager who was riding a
public bus to school and he got into a scuffle
and got shot and killed. Ohio lawmakers have now made
it illegal for school districts in Cleveland, Cincinnati, and Dayton
to buy bus vouchers for kids and give them to
the kids to get to school. First of all, no

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child should be riding public transportation to and from school.

Speaker 2 (03:06):
None.

Speaker 1 (03:07):
Every single kid who is at a public school should
have access to a bus to get to and from school.

Speaker 2 (03:14):
There's no reason not to. It doesn't make any sense.

Speaker 1 (03:18):
Secondly, it doesn't matter who's in charge right now, it's
the Republicans. But this is ridiculous to put our kids
in this type of a situation. As I speak, there
is a billion dollars in funds in the form of
vouchers for families who want to send their kids to
private school. Again, private school's great, and I don't mind
spending tax money to have kids ride a public bus

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to it from school. But we should absolutely take care
of the public kids. Also, Ohio lawmakers use some of
that money to pay it for enough bus drivers and
pay for enough buses so the public school kids can
get at least a ride to it from school safely.
I know this is all political, but you, you know,

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some of you should be ashamed of yourselves, every one
of you who's not trying to alleviate this situation. You're
you're grossly neglecting your duty to serve the people of Ohio.

Speaker 2 (04:14):
We hired you to do a job.

Speaker 1 (04:18):
Not cater to families who send their kids only to
private school.

Speaker 2 (04:22):
This isn't a difficult.

Speaker 3 (04:24):
Probably, I agree with everything you're saying. I know you
didn't ask for my opinion.

Speaker 2 (04:27):
No, no, no, you're fine, go ahead. I agree with.

Speaker 3 (04:28):
Everything you're saying, and I think public school should be
the first priority for the buses.

Speaker 2 (04:34):
We can do both, so I'm not bagging on private.

Speaker 3 (04:36):
We can, but I think public school again, as someone
whose kid goes to private and who has to get
her butt out of bed every day to drive his
little cookie butt to school. Yeah, yeah, it is a
choice to send a private school. So you may take
on some extra burd in doing that, which I do so.

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I do think public schools should be the first priority.
I would love to be able to get everybody school, though,
but I don't think that the private school kids have
a better bus situation. Like everybody always thinks we're prioritizing
the private school kids. They have the same problem. They're
not taking them to school either. Sure, I promise you, no, no, no,

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I'm living this for years.

Speaker 2 (05:21):
It's been a problem for years. I'm glad you brought
that up.

Speaker 3 (05:24):
I guess I think the problem is there's obviously an
issue with enough bus drivers. Yeah, that's what we have
to solve. So let's solve it already, because it's been
a good five years or so that this has been
a huge issue every school year. So we got to
whether we got to pay people more, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (05:41):
Yeah, we gotta figure out.

Speaker 3 (05:43):
I don't want to pit private school against public school
because I really don't think the private school kids are
getting any better or using up the resources. I don't
think that's the problem. They want us to fight amongst
each other instead of looking at the source of the problem,
which is we got to fix the bussing issue. It's
a problem there.

Speaker 1 (06:02):
Right and again, I'm not trying to it sounds like it.
I'm not trying to pit private school versus public school.
I think we could do both.

Speaker 2 (06:10):
It shouldn't be this big of a problem.

Speaker 1 (06:12):
Uh, just fix the bus situation. This is it a
third world country where children should be afraid for their
life if they have to write public transport to and
from school. They shouldn't be writing public transport to and
from school. It's it's embarrassing. And the people who are
in charge, the lawmakers in Ohio, they should be embarrassed

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about it. I don't hear anyone talking about the situation
and the Ohio legislator legislator legislature ship here, however you
say that word, just do something about it. You're all
guilty until this, it proves you're guilty of not caring,
you're guilty of pandering, and you're guilty of putting our
children in the harm's way. Until you could just incentivize

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enough bus drivers and get enough buses to take our
kids to and from school safely. Anything else is just
ridiculous and it shouldn't happen.

Speaker 3 (07:09):
Pay me, I'll drive your kids to school.

Speaker 2 (07:11):
How much do you want to get paid a lot?

Speaker 1 (07:15):
Okay, all right, well we'll negotiate your salary during the
break on sixth WTV six TED, WTV ED Zachary Schwartz
number to call it six food four eight two one
nine eight eight six six foot four eight two one
WTV N And we're going to go to the person
who's been on the line the longest, Angela.

Speaker 2 (07:37):
Good morning. How are you, ma'am?

Speaker 4 (07:39):
Oh? Good morning.

Speaker 5 (07:40):
Zach.

Speaker 6 (07:41):
By the way, I love it when you host, you
do such a great job.

Speaker 2 (07:44):
Well, I appreciate that.

Speaker 6 (07:47):
First time calling them a little nervous, but I did
want to piggyback off of previous caller about the cost
of gas and uh, Trump not doing a whole.

Speaker 5 (07:57):
Lot about that.

Speaker 6 (07:59):
Basically, the cost of gas is going to be, you know,
influenced by the global events that's going on. And if
people remember back to April twenty twenty, when gas prices
were well under two dollars a gallon, when the oil
that was in the barrel was worth less than the
barrel itself. That was due to reduced demand and also

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there was a supply glut from Saudi Arabia and Russia overproducing.

Speaker 5 (08:29):
If he would do.

Speaker 6 (08:30):
If you do a quick search, you can find all
kinds of articles about how Trump was over there trying
to get Russia and Saudi Arabia to cut their production
so that the price would go back up. And that's
just to say that he is on the side of
people who you know, of the investors, he's not really
on the side of consumers who you know, we have

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to pay, you know, whatever it is for our gas
and everything. If you want energy independence and if you
want energy dominance, you're just not going to have that
without nationalization and subsidizing our consumption domestically. And I just
don't see how that's going to happen any other way,
because otherwise it's it's going to be, you know, making

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sure that the investors get their money, right.

Speaker 1 (09:17):
Yeah, it's it's it's it's not an easy Again, I
think a lot of people and I'm not trying to
be rude here, but there's a lot of people who
think that whoever's president can just go and lower gas prices.

Speaker 2 (09:31):
Boom, that's it. And that's not how it works.

Speaker 1 (09:34):
It's a get a globally traded commodity, and it's it's
not easy to predict it it's not easy to to
know exactly what the price of gas is going to be.
It's going to fluctuate in it, you know, as far
as the way things are now, it's just going to
keep continuing to go up and down.

Speaker 6 (09:51):
So absolutely, if the president could control the gas prices,
every president would have low gas prices. It's like a
very easy way where you know, they could get a
win on that and get elected. So that's we don't
control all that until we control our production and our consumption, right.

Speaker 2 (10:09):
And we'll see however that works. However that works out,
If that.

Speaker 6 (10:12):
Ever, probably not going to happen.

Speaker 1 (10:13):
But no, no, no, but I appreciate it. I appreciate it.
Have a great morning, and thanks for calling in you
thank you.

Speaker 2 (10:20):
Thanks. Let's go to mark line three. How are you today?

Speaker 4 (10:25):
Fine? Am I on?

Speaker 2 (10:26):
Yes, you are on?

Speaker 4 (10:28):
Okay, Zachary, I have two poems. Today's poem from the
past is dedicated to everyone who, like me, is happily
average in looks. It's called It's fifty five seconds long,
and it's called credit for an assist. Okay, thank god
for average looking folks. It's not a common thought. They

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make the pretty prettier, they make the hoktis hot. What
makes the beautiful stand out? You should not be astounded.
It's all the average looking folks by whom they are surrounded.
If everyone looks fabulous, good looks would lose their worth.

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Miss World would mean much less if held by every
girl on earth. So the next time someone says you're hot,
that you're beyond compare, please don't forget the folks like
me who helped to get you there.

Speaker 1 (11:34):
The end nicely played, Mark. Let's hear the second one.

Speaker 4 (11:39):
All right? Today's new poem is dedicated to everyone who
has ever parented a teenager.

Speaker 1 (11:45):
Gonna sit here, Well, I'm getting there, so maybe I
should prepare myself for this one.

Speaker 2 (11:50):
Mine's about to turn into.

Speaker 4 (11:51):
One, gotcha. The poem is one minute and thirty five
seconds long, and it's called Why does a fifteen year
old need a boyfriend? Anyway? She's innocent, a white carnation
budding soon to bloom. She brings delight to all the
boys when she walks in the room. My wife's a tranquil,

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trusting mom, but I'm a stricter dad. Our daughter is
in the crosshairs of an over eager lad. I can't
forget that fateful night, a school night. It was late.
He walked her to our door. It was the end
of their first date. He played his hand quite deftly.

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Now he's cashing in his chips. He leaned into her
lilting curves and kissed her on the lips. Oh, innocence,
you are so weak. I see the life she faces,
assorted streak of men who seek to dash around her bases.

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The truth is gruff. I've had enough. I grimace at
this knowledge. Why can't she wait to do this stuff
until she goes to college. If I were king of
the forest, with full and sweeping power, she'd move in
with Rapunzel. In that impregnable power. I'd govern with an

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iron glove, protective to the core. I'm just afraid that
puppy love might lead to something more the end.

Speaker 1 (13:30):
Michael or Mark, Michael, I'm sorry, Mark. As always, I
appreciate it. Every time I set down at a chair
to do the show, I always kind of wait for
your poems because I know I'm going to enjoy them
so well.

Speaker 4 (13:42):
Thank you very much.

Speaker 2 (13:42):
You have a great day, you too.

Speaker 1 (13:44):
Thank you all right, Michael Wine, Jan how are you today.

Speaker 5 (13:50):
Hey, Zach, good morning, Good to hear you on the
radio again. Hey, I just wanted to say to everyone
out there that if you don't care about politics, politics
will care about you. You know, that's the problem. You
mentioned something very interesting about the school bus disparity. Public
versus private. Private schools have school buses. Public schools are

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having problems getting children to school with school buses. But
you know what, that's a minor problem. Here's the real story.
That's the story behind that story. We send four billion
dollars of our tax money every year we give it away,
and the country that we give it away to they

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use it to provide free college education and they give
free healthcare to their citizens. And that country is Israel.
So if you wonder about, you know, disparity with our
tax dollars, let's start with the big fish first. You know,

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the public school system that each CA county is a
little fish. Those are amibas compared to the four billion
dollar tax bill we give to Israel. They're a big fish.
We need to fry the big fish first. We need
to put them in the skillet, warm it up, and
fry it.

Speaker 1 (15:17):
Okay, I hear what you're saying. Do you think and
this is the honest question, are you completely for no
more aide Israel at all?

Speaker 5 (15:29):
We need to take care of our own people first.
Israel has demonstrated itself to be murderous. They are killing
and genociding an entire culture of people that was on
that land far before they were in nineteen forty eight. Okay,

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the facts are out. The Israeli people are even divided.
Fifty percent of the Israeli population are against Benjamin nets
and Yahoo. They even accuse him of being a warmonger,
a genocide perpetrator.

Speaker 1 (16:07):
Well, I will agree with what the at least of
the of the very basic thing there. There are some
people who look at the Palestindian and Israeli conflict as
a war of a religious thing in their minds of
American people.

Speaker 2 (16:23):
But the American people.

Speaker 1 (16:25):
There's a lot of American people who think, you know,
they read the Bible and it says the Jews are
God's people, So that makes a lie. I know, I'm
with you, hang on, hang on. There's some people who
think that, so then they think they can't criticize Israel
in any way, shape or form. I will agree with
you all this, but Netanya, who is not a good person, Netanyah,

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who has consistently lied about the Iranian WMD situation and
then building nukes. I've heard him say Iran's two weeks
away from making nuclear weapon in nineteen ninety five.

Speaker 2 (17:02):
So I'm with you at least on that they've been.

Speaker 5 (17:05):
They've been threatening about Iran before ninety five. This is
their tactic. You know, people need to study the Masad.
The Massad is the secret intelligence agency of Israel. It's
like America's CIA. The Masad they have a motto, a

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motto that they go by, and their motto is we
shall wage war by deception. That's the motto of the
Israeli Massad. Okay, just consider that. And here's the other
thing you asked about, should we nationalize oil? Well, the

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corporations are are nothing but greedy monsters. They have grown
to these these massive, behemous conglomerations of power, financial power.

Speaker 2 (18:01):
Mikey got that.

Speaker 5 (18:03):
Well, you talked away a lot of my time, So
I'm sorry, but you really need to be more cognizant
of Yeah, sure, and.

Speaker 1 (18:11):
I can cut you off there also, so sixthed wtvs
zachs time.

Speaker 3 (18:15):
That's the host is uh, this is our radio station.
And you know, we love to hear your voices, but
ultimately the host is in charge of the show and
time is not guaranteed for.

Speaker 1 (18:27):
Callers unless it's Michael six ten WTV six ted WTV,
Good morning. I'm Zachary Schwartz filling in for Boots once again.
The show again is about you and what you want
to talk about, and the number to call in is
always six foot four eight two one nine eight eight
six six one four eight two one WTV. In Now,

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I'm going to talk about something that it might make
some people upset, it might make them mad or whatever,
and I get it. And one of the most important
things we have in this country is debate and talking
about certain things that you may have a different opinion
on and hearing somebody who may have it a different

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opinion than you do.

Speaker 2 (19:14):
I have a question or two.

Speaker 1 (19:16):
Would you be willing to give your money to a
company they hold it, and then later on down the
line when you might need that money, they don't give
it to you and you die.

Speaker 2 (19:28):
Is that a good thing or a bad thing?

Speaker 3 (19:31):
Sign me up? Right?

Speaker 1 (19:32):
Should we let sixty eight thousand people die every year
because they can't afford to give money to that company?
To buy a product that they need.

Speaker 2 (19:43):
What about having it?

Speaker 3 (19:44):
Sounded like a different question.

Speaker 1 (19:45):
It's it'll all come together, Okay, oh sorry? What about
having to pay for a product you need? But unless
you're a millionaire you can't, so in order to ascertain
said product, you have to go somewhere to get it,
and when you leave you you are in debt for years.

Speaker 2 (20:01):
You could lose your house, your car, your.

Speaker 1 (20:03):
Family if you don't pay for the product you need,
not want, but something that you need. Should that product
be cheaper? Should it be free? Should it be free
to those who can't afford to pay for it? Is
a better question. Should something that affects all of us
be regulated by government? Should something that we all need

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just be a free market issue? Should it be a
mix of both? If regulated by the government, I say
we need more people to become informed voters, to vote
for the right people, to put the right people in
the right positions to do the things the right way,
and if not, hold those people accountable who we voted for.
Which is the key to fixing everything in the government

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in the first place. That much or sorry, that being said,
how much do our elected officials? Elected officials feel about
people dying every year that's preventable.

Speaker 2 (21:00):
Can you guess what I'm talking about?

Speaker 3 (21:02):
Are we talking about healthcare?

Speaker 2 (21:03):
We're talking about healthcare. Yeah, yes, uh.

Speaker 1 (21:06):
And again, I know I'm going to make some people upset.
They could get mad. I get it, But I'm going
to point out some issues.

Speaker 2 (21:12):
And it's important.

Speaker 1 (21:14):
How many people look at healthcare as a human right
or do you look at it like it's just something
that like, yeah, people need it, but let the free
market handle it, which the latter ensures that. However, many
people die each year from lack of health care in America.
It would be doubly worse for people who are poor,

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especially if we left it up to the free market,
especially the poor. The poor would just be at a
worse spot than they are now. When it comes to
health care, the issue, more than anything, is the issue
of the people who need help and can't afford it. Yes,
people can go to the emergency room and get care.
That's for emergencies. The emergency room is supposed to be
for emergencies only, But it turns out that there are

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wait times that you have at the er. The anger
that you feel when you're setting there in the waiting
room in pain or something that's severely wrong and you're
not being seen by a doctor. That's because of our
health care system, because some people can't afford out of
pocket to see family doctor or even go to urgent care,
so they end up going.

Speaker 2 (22:15):
To the er.

Speaker 1 (22:16):
When you go to the er, the doctor has to
see you, because our health care industry is mostly for profit.
And when you can't afford healthcare, or you have a
job and you get your health insurance through your work
and it's really crappy and you still can't afford to
see a doctor, guess what. Those people are going to
go to the er for a lot of things that

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could be easily taken care of by a family doctor
or like urgent care, because they can't afford anything else
up front, and then they leave with a bill for
thousands of dollars. And if you're poor and can't afford
to see the doctor up front, you wind up in
massive debt depending on your situation, which is ludicrous and

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it shouldn't happen in quote un the greatest country in
the world.

Speaker 2 (23:03):
I have more to talk about this.

Speaker 1 (23:06):
Before or after we come back for break, but we
got Pat on the line.

Speaker 2 (23:10):
Pat, how are you today?

Speaker 7 (23:12):
Yes, I'd just like to come in a minute on healthcare.

Speaker 4 (23:15):
Sure, go ahead, for one thing.

Speaker 7 (23:18):
What you think the person needs may in fact be
something that is bad for them. I am poor, I have.

Speaker 4 (23:26):
Always been poor.

Speaker 7 (23:28):
I learned years ago to say no to what the
doctor said. I actually had a doctor scream at me,
you'll be dead in six weeks because I refused what
they considered care for me, and I chose to do
my own thing on my own.

Speaker 5 (23:47):
I pay for it.

Speaker 7 (23:49):
I don't ask anyone else to take care of me.
I have outlived all of my family who did what
the doctor said. So when you say people need something,
you're making a choice for them. You may not know
what is best. The doctors usually do not know what

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is best, and the people should be responsible for their
own health care and choose their own choices.

Speaker 1 (24:18):
Well, people should absolutely choose to listen to a doctor
or not. I'm not about to sit here and say doctor,
most doctors don't know what they're talking about. You might
have a specific situation, you know, I'm not aware of it.
I'm more along talking about things that if you you know,
have a sideus infection, you should be able to go

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to see your doctor or go to urgent care, not
take up space in the er when it needn't be
that way.

Speaker 7 (24:45):
Those are things well they should They shouldn't have doctors
being paid for by the government or any form of
government health care. They shouldn't be worried about the poor people.
I'm telling you we do better on our own doing
what we think is best. Well I don't.

Speaker 1 (25:08):
You might and that's and that's great for you, But
there are people who absolutely need help, who have physical problems,
who have mental problems, who have a trauma that they
have to deal with, and they need help from from doctors.

Speaker 7 (25:22):
I'm telling you, I watched my entire family get standard
medical care to take care of their heart attacks. I
watched all of them die. I chose to do something else.
I went with alternative care, and I pay for it myself.
I earn my own money. I have outlived all of them.

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And I'm telling you, when you say you think a
person needs something, well, everyone needs to make their own
choices and be responsible for themselves. Just because just because
Johnny thinks he needs a bypass doesn't mean bypass is
the only option. It's just that that's what the doctor

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is selling.

Speaker 1 (26:05):
Well, okay, Well, those are two different, separate issues. I
understand what you're saying. It sounds like maybe you've had
some issues with doctors in the past. And I'm not
trying to say that you're right or wrong, but you know,
some people do need medical procedures, you know, in order.

Speaker 7 (26:20):
To say well, well no, no, well, no one needs
what somebody else is paying for. If you want it,
you figure out how to pay for it and get
it yourself.

Speaker 2 (26:34):
Okay, Well some people can't do that.

Speaker 7 (26:37):
Well, I'm telling you that's why people are making the
wrong choices, because they're hoping someone else will pay the bill.

Speaker 1 (26:45):
Okay, all right, Well, Pat, I appreciate it, but I
disagree with you as strongly as somebody could your Your
situation is not everybody else's situation. And we'll be back
here at six head WTV and open Funds. Sixth head WTV.
Zachary Schwartz fill it in for Boots. The number to
call ed six foot four eight two one nine eight
eight six six foot four eight two one WTV ED.

(27:08):
We were talking about healthcare and some of the issues
at problems that I see with the current system that
we have. We got some callers online. I will get
to you momentarily, But I was making the point that
I think it's a problem that there are some people
who can't afford out of pocket cost because healthcare is
so expensive, so they go to the er to see

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a doctor for something that could easily be taken care
of by a family doctor or something like urgent care.
And I also want to make the point that we
should not have people dying because lack of insurance. We
should not have people getting ready for a life saving
procedure and then it's denied because an insurance company wants
to save a little bit more money, so the hospital

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can't do anything. And at that point, the person goes
home or stays in the hospital till they die. This
happens over and over in this in this country. Who
knows how many people need a cold oscopy or any
other simple procedure because their family doctor mentioned it to
them because of their age or whatnot, and because their
insurance doesn't cover the cost and they don't have five

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to ten grand to pay for it, they go, okay,
I feel fine, I don't have any symptoms. I'm okay,
I'll do it later, and then eight months later they're
dead from cola rectal cancer. This is unquantifiable, but it
happens a lot, and it doesn't need to If we're
the greatest country in the world, we could figure out
something better than what we have right now. Jesse online too,

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how are you today?

Speaker 8 (28:39):
I'm doing great, Thanks, and you're doing an awesome job
hosting open sounds. I want to tell you a couple
things about healthcare. I used to work for a very
smart doctor and she said, you know, healthcare comes in
three ways. You get state of the art, readily available,
and affordable. But you can only get two out of

(28:59):
those three. So you're right, and so that's why you
know we have here in the United States. We have
state of the art and it's readily available, but no,
it's not affordable. Uh. My solution to that is they
need to allow us to buy our healthcare policies like
they do our car insurance. They need to open this

(29:21):
up across state lines and let us pick. Let us
pick a policy that matches what you need. If you're
a seventy year old woman, you don't need to worry
about having a baby and all these other things that
a younger one does. That would eliminate a huge problem.
We're paying we are bound by our employer's choice and

(29:43):
the cross of those policies also uh And that would
I think make it affordable because people will be able
to pick a policy that suits them for what they
can afford, and the ones that can't afford, we as
a country are rich enough that we can afford they
would fall under basically a medicaid type thing, and we

(30:04):
can afford the twelve million people that absolutely cannot afford
health care, and I think that would take care of
our health care problem. I also want to just add
on here that I grew up in Canada and the
majority of my family still lives there, and I want
to tell you how health care is done there that
you're talking about.

Speaker 5 (30:25):
People die because.

Speaker 8 (30:25):
They can't get health care. That is happening in Canada.
My father, eighty eight years old, had a massive heart attack.

Speaker 4 (30:33):
But.

Speaker 8 (30:35):
They decided that instead of seeing what kind of treatment
was available, they said, there's really nothing we can do.
My friend up there, her dad right now is experiencing
some issues and it's all about his age. He's over
eighty years old. And not to mention, you have to

(30:55):
wait for regular routine care all the time. You know,
people can't get treated in a timely way. My girlfriend's
daughter just got pregnant. She has to try to find
a family doctor. Nobody can find doctors up there.

Speaker 5 (31:10):
You know.

Speaker 8 (31:11):
It's a nightmare. So anyhow, that's my solution. Zacht open
it up. Let us pick the policy we want the
people that can't afford it, Let the government pick up
the tab.

Speaker 5 (31:19):
We can do that.

Speaker 2 (31:20):
I got jet. You're saying a lot of things I
agree with. I'm just interesting.

Speaker 1 (31:23):
I'm curious what part of Canada abouts is where your
family is from, because I used to live in Canada.

Speaker 8 (31:29):
Myself, so Montreal, Quebec.

Speaker 1 (31:32):
Okay, Montreal Quebec interesting. I don't know much about it there.
I know Ottawa has problems. I know some of these
are provincial, but I know wait times are bad up there.
I lived in Newfoundland where they had a real shortage
of of nurses and some real problems there. So I'm
not advocating for a Canadian universal health care thing here

(31:53):
in the United States.

Speaker 2 (31:55):
But it doesn't work, is what I'm.

Speaker 4 (31:57):
It doesn't work.

Speaker 8 (31:58):
I'm a witness to it, and I live it every
day through my family members that live up there. It
socialized medicine does not work. That the tax system is
out of control because they can't afford to pay for
the people, and they consequently they triage who's going to
get the care.

Speaker 4 (32:16):
It's worse, it's worse.

Speaker 8 (32:18):
So yeah, anyhow, great jobs.

Speaker 7 (32:21):
Have a good day. Talk to you so you too.

Speaker 1 (32:24):
I appreciate it. You have a great day, all right, Yeah,
thanks Jessie. She said some things that I absolutely agree with. Again,
I lived in Canada. A lot of the problems with
the Canadian healthcare system is are things like wait times.
They do do triage things because everybody's covered up there,
but a lot of the problems are very provincial. I

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don't know the problems in Quebec compared to Ottawa or
compared to Vancouver. They're they're they're all different. And uh there.
It's an interesting concept or steed thing that she said
that socialized medicine.

Speaker 2 (33:02):
Doesn't work in all of Europe.

Speaker 1 (33:03):
How we're the only industrialized nation that pretty much doesn't
have it. I'm not saying it's good or bad. And
I had a whole other note and ran about universal
health care. But you know, we have a few minutes
left and I do want to touch on something or
somebody speaking of healthcare, and I've been meaning to talk
about this for a while. It's just something that's just
bothering me. Is when you see somebody at a position

(33:26):
of power that shouldn't be there, and speed we were
talking about healthcare, So I'm going to talk a little
bit about RFK jor and how he shouldn't be in
the position that he is since we again talked about healthcare.
He's the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services.

(33:47):
The only reason he is there is because of his
family name. And I understand being loyal to the people
who helped you become elected president. That's what Donald Trump
did and that's why OURFK Junior is where he is. Well,
let me just say a few things about RFK Junior
before this show ends, and I want people to understand
who this guy is. He in the news wants to

(34:12):
cancel mRNA vaccine funding to the tune of five hundred
million dollars. There's no need to cancel it. I'm not
even talking about the COVID vaccine. I'm talking about more
research into mRNA, research that could take us anywhere. Who
knows what a medical breakthrough we can achieve with research
like that, and open the door to tons of things,
but it's being canceled by RFK Junior because he just

(34:35):
decided that he didn't like it because you know, I
don't know, he just didn't like it, which is ludicrous.
These are some of the issues that we have with
the healthcare systems, putting people in the position of power
that need to be in power. And again he only
got there because of his family's name. He isn't a doctor.
He has in a medical expert expert excuse me. He

(35:00):
most likely believes in the miosa theory about germs, which
means he doesn't believe in germs theory, the basic dealing
and the theory with germs and how they're transmitted, etc.
He admits to eating roadkill. He said that people that
take psychiatric meds for ADHD, depression, anxiety, and OCD or addicts.

(35:20):
He said that Jews and Chinese people couldn't get COVID,
which was really brilliant. He said the measles vaccine harms children.
He was a heroin addict. He admitted he quit his
last job because he had a brain worm, and he
also wants to get rid of psychiatric meds and replace
it with meditation. Which you want to talk about a
mental health crisis, It would be exponentially worse.

Speaker 2 (35:45):
If this guy gets his way.

Speaker 1 (35:47):
He was a chair of a nonprofit organization and he
convinced certain Samoan government officials after a visit to ease
off vaccines, and eighty three kids died because of that.
The random measles outbreaks going on in this country and
the risk of death is small with measles, but it's
there and it'll happen more and more if they listen
to RFK Junior. He isn't smart, he isn't articulate, He

(36:11):
can't debate anybody to save his life, and he is
in charge of healthcare in the United States. If you
don't want to vaccinate your kids, you're wrong, But that's
on you. That's your choice. But we shouldn't have RFK
Junior making.

Speaker 2 (36:24):
The decision for you. Thank you for listening.

Speaker 1 (36:28):
This is Zachary Schwartz on six to WTVN on open phones.