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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I've been talking about what a problem Medicaid is, medical is,
I've been talking about what a problem it is in
the San Joaquin Valley. I've been talking about what a
problem it is that we have a lack of prenatal
care options in the San Joaquin Valley. And it's this
basic dynamic that there are too many medical women and
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there aren't enough doctors who want to take medical women
for OBGYN care. And I think it feeds into abortion.
I think it. I think especially when you've got a
lower income person, they're pregnant, they want to go somewhere
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for prenatal care, and the first appointment they can get
is like three months out or something because that's the
only place that'll take medical and they're booked solid for months,
or they can go in to Planned Parenthood the next
week and get an abortion. That's the dynamic we see
throughout California where the State of California has streamlined, subsidized,
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furnished the abortion process, but not prenatal care, not nearly
in the same way.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
And it sort of shows the false.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
You know, pat yourself on the back thing by Gavin Newsom,
who you know he runs for office on the grounds
that he's gonna start Calcare or whatever. He was gonna
call it universal single payer California healthcare. And he was
talking it up in twenty eighteen when he was running
for governor. So all these liberal politicians, they always run
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on a campaign of saying they're gonna get universal single
payer healthcare, and then they never do it. They always
kick the can down the road. It's never the right time. Well,
I'm not gonna be like that. Blah blah blah blah blah.
And then he proceeded to do the precise thing that
he criticized. He got into office, the insurance companies got
to him clearly, and or he saw the political reality
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that having to increase taxes to the extent that you
need to create a single payer healthcare system like this
was going to be unsustainable.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
And what did he do? So what did he do? Well?
Speaker 1 (02:14):
He did the half bleeped route, the half butt route
where he expands medical eligibility. He expands, expands, expands medical eligibility,
finally expanding it to illegal aliens.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
He then had to kind of roll that back when
that got way too expensive. But this is the basic thing.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Here's all these people who are medical eligible adding on
all these eligible categories of people for medical, but our
tax revenue has an increase to meet it. So as
a result, more people are having their healthcare covered by
a smaller group, a smaller pool of money, and as
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a result, the reimbursements that medical can give to a
doctor for providing a service is less and less and less.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
So I mean, the basic way that this.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Economy works, that this little circle of life in medicine
works is you have a payer, a patient, and a provider.
The patient goes in to the provider the doctor or
the nurse practitioner or whoever they receive a service from
the provider. The provider sends the bill to the payer,
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The payer pays the provider, and the payer gets its
money either through premiums that they impose on the patient
or in the case of medical through taxes taxes on
everyone California and also federal income taxes that help pay
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for Medicaid. So this is the circle of life within medicine. Well,
the problem is with medical the number of medical patients
has gotten bigger and bigger, and the amount of money
to fund medical reimbursements going to providers has gotten smaller
and smaller, so medical can only reimburse a doctor so
much for a service. And this is why Medicaid at
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the federal level medical and the statewide level is in
such a crisis right now. We're spending over a trillion
dollars on Medicaid now federally, and it's less sustainable than ever.
We cannot cover all the people that are covered by
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it unless we give doctors in certain cases unsustainably low
rates of reimbursement, where doctors feel like they cannot keep
their business open and keep taking Medicaid patients. California has
to create new like subsidy programs in order for anyone
to make any dang money caring for medical patients. This
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is why, for example, I've been kind of defensive towards
Valley Children's Hospital, and there have been some criticisms of
Todd Centrapack, the CEO of Valley Children's, that his compensation
is too much and then charges out Valley Children's engaged
in medical fraud.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
No, it's not.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
It doesn't even make sense the idea that oh, Valley
Children's received you know, ten million, well, I don't know
what the number is. Let's say ten million dollars Valley
Children's Hospital received ten million dollars in medical reimbursements. Are
they misusing that funding to give their CEO a big,
fat cat salary. If you get ten million dollars from
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medical from your health care practice, that doesn't represent a windfall,
that doesn't represent a prop fit. You get medical reimbursement,
it's reimbursing you for a service you provided to patients,
and in all likelihood, because it's medical, it's not actually
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covering all your cost or maybe it's barely covering your costs.
You're not making money handover fist caring for medical patients.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
You just aren't. Now.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
It varies from one field of medicine to another, one
service to another, but for the most part, if you're
caring for a medical patient, you're not making money. That's
the problem. That's why medical is in a bad state.
Doctors feel like they can't make money taking care of
their patients. And in no field has this been worse
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than in the field of obgyn care. And it's leading
to doctors not wanting to take medical patients for their deliveries.
Here's the story in the Fresno b about it. In Madeira,
there is no maternity ward. Madera Community Hospital reopened, but
with no maternity ward. There's no maternity ward in Madera County.
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Why because obgyns lose tons of money taking care of
medical patients. Here's the story from the Fresno Bee Home.
Births rise in Madera as services disappear, increasing risks for
moms and babies. Madera County resident Glory Warner was born
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at home in the nineteen nineties. Now she's nearing her
due date and wants to do the same with her baby.
Warner says that she romanticized the idea of a home
birth from stories or family members shared. She has a
midwife and Doulah's ready for the call, but in present
day Madera, it's not so simple. In the case of
an emergency where Warner has to be transferred to a hospital,
she could be left with nothing but hope and too
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long of a drive to the nearest hospital maternity ward.
In the case of childbirth, many midi Eyra County residents
must make the nearly thirty minute drive from Madera to
a Fresno hospital to receive proper reproductive care. From the
time the Madera Community Hospital reopened in twenty twenty three
to early twenty twenty five, there were forty five live
berths in the county. Forty two of those are home births.
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Twenty twenty two, data from the California Healthcare Foundation found
that in California, forty six thousand women aged eighteen to
forty four lived in counties without hospitals containing birth centers
or obstetric care. Lacey Lisbon, a licensed midwife midwife with
Fresno Birth Midwifery that serves expecting mothers throughout the region,
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said multiple counties in the Central Valley lack available maternity care.
I feel like the Central Valley in general is a
birth desert, she says. To receive treatment by a midwife,
Lisbon says it typically costs around five thousand bucks, but
with the Madera County poverty rate at twenty six percent,
this can be a problem, and she says insurance doesn't
want to cover their services. So the president b then
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goes on to say this ridiculously.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
The increased risk for mothers and unborn children is particularly
acute in Madera County with no maternity ward or Planned
parenthood office nearby. I'm sorry, do are people under the
impression that planned parenthood delivers babies or provides prenatal care.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
They don't.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
The lack of certain no, we're talking about a lack
of delivery services. Planned parenthood doesn't do that. What the
heck are they talk are we talking about here? Oh,
the lack of planned parenthood anyway? That just revs my
engine at how stupid. This is the idea that planned
parenthood can just get lumped in with women's healthcare as
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if it's the same kind of thing, and that you know, oh,
moms don't have anywhere to give birth and they don't
have services like plant parent. It doesn't help you deliver
a baby. It does the opposite of that. Planned parent
is good at preventing you from reproducing. It doesn't really
actually offer quote, reproductive healthcare. It offers unreproductive interventions. I'm
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not gonna call it health care. Healthcare means you're fixing
something wrong with the body or helping keep the body
in a state of functioning. Abortion and contraception are different.
They are interventions to prevent the natural functions of a body.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Anyway, But this is the problem we're seeing all up
and down the state.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Where it's this massive problem with medical where it just
isn't financially sustainable, and of course they have to get
a dig in against Trump here. After reopening its doors
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in January twenty twenty three, the Madera Community Hospital is
still without a maternity ward and as a result of
funding cuts from the Big Beautiful Bill, the only Marmanti
planned Parenthood in Madera closed in oh the one Big
Beautiful Bill closing the Planned Parenthood clinic. The Madera County
Department of Health also does not provide labor care.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
A representative they are told to.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Be well Planned Parenthood doesn't provide didn't provide prenatal care
Planned Parenthood. This is so maddening the way that some
liberal writer clearly for the president, well maybe this is
a Sacramento b writer is lumping in planned Parenthood and
the lack of Planned Parenthood with a lack of prenatal
care services. When Planned parentid doesn't do prenatal care, you
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can't go to Planned Parenthood as your regular obgyn. They're
not a replacement for that. They're not there. They don't
deliver babies. That's not what they do. It's not like
they have a couple of obgyns and their call group
helps cover, you know, helps deliver babies over at a
local hospital, like no Planned PARENTO doesn't do that. That's
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why the whole thing is so silly. It's so silly
to lump it in with, oh, with women's reproductive care.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
They don't do any reproduction. They prevent reproduction.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
By giving out contraception and birth control and abortions to
prevent you from reproducing.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
But they're not reproductive health.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Meanwhile, liberals in the state government are ready to just
blast pro life clinics who offer abortion pill reversal because
is it actually reversing an abortion. It's not actually reversing
an abortion, it's it's restoring the hormones that are used
to that. They've had this massive lawsuit going on in
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California against a couple of pro life entities that offer
abortion pill reversal on the grounds that it's false advertising.
Like it's a false advertising claim. Meanwhile, here's a Planned
Parenthood calling itself a reproductive health clinic. They don't help
you reproduce anyway. Rant and rant all day, all right,
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But in short, this is a problem I've been banging
the druma about in the San Joaquin Valley for years
that medical is in this sort of crisis point, and
I don't know what the solution is necessarily, and this
is kind of the frustrating thing for me. I don't
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know that I've got a magic wand I can wave
and figure out how do we deliver healthcare to twenty
six percent of Madera County who lives under the federal
poverty line. How do you do it? Well, we have
the medical program, which is just borrowing money at the
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federal level. It's just borrowing money. We're paying for it
with borrowed money, and with a California taxpayer base that
is already massively overdrawn. I mean, in fairness to Gavin Newsom,
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I guess my thought is, well, how do you help
fix medical?
Speaker 2 (14:32):
How do you fix medical?
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Do you increase taxes on wealthy people to pay for
better medical reimbursements to doctors? I mean, that's not gonna go. Well,
we're already hemorrhaging. We're already in California crazy reliant on
a very small taxpayer base who are propping up this
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whole system, who they're propping up the whole budget in California,
and we're we're looking at these structural deficits. So if
you increase taxes in California, you may not actually increase revenue,
because you may convince the few crazy rich people left
who are shouldering this humongous percentage of our tax burden,
of our revenue that goes into the state. You might
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just convince them all to leave. The Mamdania effect where
all these ultra rich people in New York are already
starting to buy homes in Connecticut to move out of
the city. So I don't know exactly what the answer is.
I mean, obviously, single payer healthcare is a solution. It's
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a solution that brings with it a bunch of new problems,
but it at least has some kind of logical coherence.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
I wonder if I guess I marvel at the inefficiencies
in the American healthcare system and its insurance based model,
at the inefficiencies of how much is charged and what
is paid, and the cut that these insurance companies get,
where we have this sort of middleman entity who needs
to get its cut that sort of surrounds the whole thing.
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But at the same time, if it was just everyone
pays their own premium and everyone gets their own health care,
then the poor are out of health insurance.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
So what do you do?
Speaker 1 (16:38):
I guess I'm not honestly sure what the right answer is.
I know though, that the current model is cooked. I
know that the current model does not work, and the
people who seem to be suffering from this are women,
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which leads me to the idea that our liberals actually
the heroes of women's healthcare. We will return with that
after the break. This is the John Girardi Show. There
is no maternity ward in Madera, which has led to
a spike in home births within Madera County as women
in Madera have a very difficult choice.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
In front of them.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
What do we do when we have a baby? Do
we have to set up something where we have to
drive thirty minutes south to Fresno or drive thirty minutes
north from Merced?
Speaker 2 (17:31):
How do we do this?
Speaker 1 (17:32):
And the whole thing centers around the unsustainability of medical
where medical and the federal our state's version of the
federal Medicaid program just isn't sustainable. It's not sustainable for
doctors to keep caring for medical patients because they lose money.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
And it leads me to this thought.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Media there you will sometimes find a news story talking
about problems with the delivery of prenatal care of obgyn
services in California. Because it's a bad We are in
a bad state of affairs as well as a bad
I guess state state.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Where we have too many medical women.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
We don't have enough money in the pot for medical
to pay doctors well for caring for medical women, and
so you have fewer and fewer doctors willing to take
medical patients for their obgyn care. Thus, a bunch of
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women go without prenatal care. Either the first appointment they
can get with an obgyn is three or four months out,
or they are smoothly transitioned into having an abortion. Where oh,
just next week, come on in, do tell the medicine visit,
get the prescribe your bodortion pill, boop poop poop, abort
your baby. We've made that super streamlined and super easy.
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There's no copay or deductible for abortion in California. It's
richly subsidized by the state. On top of the normal
medical reimbursement. Planned parenthood is quite financially incentivized to provide
the abortion pill, Thank you very much. Gavin Newsom just
gave a cool nine figures over to Planned Parenthood to
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help them ride out the one big beautiful bill funding cuts.
And you'll occasionally see these news stories about California where
something bad is happening with the provision of prenatal care. Oh,
there are too many sea sections being done at this
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hospital in a minority eight neighborhood somewhere in Los Angeles. Well,
it's a surprising thing to see that in California rates
of potentially unnecessary sea sections are so high. Tiven that
it's a state that's a real champion of reproductive rights.
It's not a champion of reproductive rights. It's a champion
of one kind of right, the right to abort your baby,
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which last I checked, is not reproductive.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
It's kind of the opposite.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
In fact, California is not a champion of reproductive rights.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
If reproductive rights.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Means anything, if we're using something other than total Orwellian
double speak, false speak, whatever language, reproductive rights would have
to include your rights to have a baby, which California
is bad at providing. We much more lavishly furnish your
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ability to abort your baby than to have your baby
if you are a poor woman. If anything, it seems
like we've structured the whole system to help convince poor
women to abort their children rather than have their children.
I mean, if you were a Margaret Sangering kind of
gal and didn't want all the poors and all the
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minorities to keep having their babies, you would set up
a system precisely like California's.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
I mean that flat out.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
You're a lower income woman without much support because of
the breakdown of the American family. Maybe you've got a
boyfriend who's barely committed.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Whatever.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
You don't have a lot of money. Housing costs are
too high, you're spending too much of what you owe
what you make on rent, you don't have enough space
for another baby.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Whatever.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
You wait three or four months for one of the
few medical accepting OBGYN providers who are slammed with patients
to take you for your first appointment, or you go
get an abortion next week at no cost to yourself,
no copay, no deductible, no nothing.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Quick take a pill, take another pill. You're done.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
After the very painful and agonizing process of going through
a pill abortion, and maybe some deep emotional scarring that
might take place as well.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Oh but you're done.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
But of course when the abortion pill is pitched to you,
they're not going to mention those things.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
See this.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
This is Don Paul the second refer to things kind
of like this as structures of sin. We have set
up the whole economy of medical healthcare provision of lower
income healthcare provision in California is all structured in the
area of OBGYN care for women to have abortions rather
than babies. We are not a great place for quote,
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reproductive rights.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
We just aren't. We are a great place for one kind.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Of quote right as it relates to quote reproduction, which
is the opposite of reproduction, aborting your child. We are
great for that, but stop calling California a haven of
reproductive rights of women's rights. When we return how the
Washington Post, What the Washington Post thinks makes for a
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place to be a good place to live. That's next
on the John Jruardy Show. The Washington Post had this
whole story about what is the best place in America
to raise a family? What's the best place in America
to raise kids? Where they proceeded to And I guess
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Washington Post does this often. It's an annual thing where
they look at the country and they try to say, Okay, well,
this place is a good place for business, this place
is a good place for kids.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Blah blah blah. Piece at town hall dot com sort
of describing it. So. It was an opinion piece written
by u Juu.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
Last Sunday, and it seeks to identify where she believes
are the best places to raise a family in the
United States.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
However, one of the metrics they.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Used had to do with social views of the place
where you're raising your kids. The article rights We scored
each county based on how well it performed across four metrics.
A better public school district than a lower crime rate
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moved up a county score, while limited personal liberty, personal liberty,
fewer state mandated parental leave days, or higher costs of
raising children lowered the rate.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Hmm.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Okay, well a lot of those things make sense. Better schools,
better place to live, better place to raise a family. Okay, fine,
lower crime rate, better place to raise a family. Great
sounds good. More or fewer state mandated parental leave days. Okay,
more parental leave. Maybe we think that that's better for
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you know, we think that's better for families raising kids.
That's more attractive if the state is requiring more parental leave.
Can leave aside the economic arguments about that. Okay, sure,
it's an understandable argument. That's fine. Higher costs of raising children.
If you have more costs to raise your children, it's
a worse place to raise children.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Got it?
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Okay, sure, more expensive housing is the more expensive. Food
is more expensive, gasoline is the harder it is to raise.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
A kid in a given state. Totally got it.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
But what was this personal liberty thing she mentioned? Personal
liberty here relates to abortion access. How accessible is abortion
and that factors into whether a place is a good
place to raise a family.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
They highlighted that in order to start a.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Family, the parents must quote feel safe to conceive, and
that factor is dependent on quote the varying levels of
abortion access across states. Well, it's one or the other.
Do you feel safe to conceived or do you want
to have an abortion? They're kind of opposite decisions. The
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article continues, saying that quote research shows that in states
where abortions are banned, mothers are more likely to die
from unwanted pregnancy, and infant mortality increased due to birth defects.
This is total bogus science, completely bogus social studies that
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she's engaged in.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
It tracks with poverty.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
It doesn't have anything to do with how wonderful your
abortion regime is or it isn't. There's plenty of statistics
about women who've had multiple abortions dying more likely around childbirth.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
This, this is complete nonsense.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Anything about infant, about maternal mortality or early you know, Perry,
you know what is it, perry, natal infant mortality whatever.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
All of it has to do with poverty.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
And if anything, it seems like abortion has a correlate, correlative,
you know, relationship here it it's not even and so
they're metric this social mestric like sixty.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
It's hugely overweighed.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
The importance of abortion in the question of how you
where you want to go to raise a family. This
and it all has to center around there's this sort
of moralizing story that pro abortion people tell to themselves
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about the pregnancy that has some sort of disastrous medical
outcome where you have to have an abortion, And then
we insist on engaging in ambiguous language about what is
an abortion that a red state with a pro life
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law on the books would prohibit as in intentionally killing
a living human bait baby versus miscarriage care which no
pro life state prohibits, or certain kinds of like premature
delivery when the mom's life is threatened, which is also
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not prohibited by any state law. There's this sort of
story that pro abortion people tell themselves that it's dangerous
to conceive a child in a state that limits abortion
rights because those kinds of you know, at risk situations
might happen.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
And it's nonsense. It's nonsense these states. It's nonsense. That's
furthered by a COG. By the way, this is.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
Part of the reason why I think the American College
of Obstetricians and Gynecologists is evil. Look, if you're a COG,
I can understand maybe taking one position or another on abortion.
I might not agree with it, but I can understand
you taking one position or another. What I can't forgive
from ACOCK is how they haven't engaged in any attempt
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to clarify that they have deliberately and intentionally tried to
muddy and insert ambiguity in what is abortion and what
is acceptable health care for red states that have abortion limitations.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
They want ambiguity.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
They want it to be a muddled mess where providers
don't know exactly what they're supposed to do in the
vanishingly rare cases, in the very rare cases where you're
in this sort of situation, they don't want providers to
know what to do so that someone will die, so
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that pro lifers can be blamed for making such evil laws.
I genuinely think that is the posture that a COUG
has taken, that they are okay with patients dying if
it means that they can call pro lifers bad. And
I do not take this position lightly. I'm not in
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the position of, like you know, characterizing whole organizations as
being okay with death on the basis of nothing.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
This is based on reading a COG literature, looking at
a COG literature.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Looking at the ways that they have reacted to certain
kinds of bad outcomes that have happened. In Georgia, where
you know, someone took the abortion pill didn't go in
until too late for some reason that probably had more
to do with medical malpractice than with Georgia's anti abortion law.
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This person didn't receive care in a timely fashion, and
the person died, which the left just wants to gloss
over the fact that, hey, the abortion pill is pretty unsafe.
But there's this concerted effort on the part of pro
abortion folks to have ambiguity and confusion surrounding pro life
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laws so that they result in bad outcomes, so that
they can roll them back. That I, honest to God
think that's what ACOG wants. If ACOG were behaving responsibly,
they would do an all fifty states comprehensive list clarifying
this is what you can do pursuing to this law,
this is what you can't do pursuing to this law,
where you've had Republican attorneys general having to write to
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hospitals to tell them you can do this and you
can't do this to clarify it for them, because I
genuinely think the left does not want clarity here. They
want people to die. And especially given that you know, again,
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every state that has pro life laws that limit abortion
allows doctors to intervene in cases where a woman's life
is at risk. Every single state allows that. But this
is the framing that the left has for But you know,
let's get back to this Washington Post story where they
give this enormous.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
Excessive weight to.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
Is this place a good place to live based on
how much abortion access it has, which is again, it's
this weird thing that I keep talking about with regards
to oh people who call California a reproductive rights haven.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
It's not a reproductive rights haven.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
And it's like it turns into this genuine I hate
it when baby boomers cit or Well because that's like
the only book they ever read.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
They read it in high school and that's it.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
But it is this kind of Orwellian thing where we
refer to abortion as a reproductive right when it's precisely
not reproductive. It's the opposite of reproductive. We use the
phrase reproductive rights to refer to what abortion and contraception specifically,
two things that don't involve reproducing, involves stopping reproducing are
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artificially cutting it off mid stream. In the case of abortion,
actually you have reproduced, We're just gonna kill the fruit
of your reproduction.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
These aren't reproductive. This isn't reproductive health care.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
And this same bizarre, twisted thinking is exposed in this
Washington Post story about the best place is to raise
a family in America. Well, if you're gonna the best
place to raise a family in America is the place
where you can kill your family as soon as they're conceived.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
Like that's genuinely how they think about it.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
And abortion access is like this huge category that it's like,
this huge percentage of how they weigh things.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
Is based on abortion, which is like, no, that.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
Doesn't have that much of an impact on where's the
best place in America to raise a family? So again
Washington Post had a couple of different factors, affordability, quality
of education, neighborhood safety.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
And personal liberties.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
Abortion accounted for sixty percent of the personal liberties thing.
The other thirty percent was LGBT policies, which, again not
to crudely point out the biology here, but if we're
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talking about LGBT stuff that we're not reproducing, family formation
is not happening to the same extent unless you're talking
about I guess, gay adoption.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
But this is the other thing where.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
It's so insulting, where they talk about, okay, are metrics
of where's the best place in America to raise a family?
Abortion access enormously outweighs a state's family leave support, how
much family leave is permitted, parntal leave, maternity leave, atternity
leave is permitted when you have a new child.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
Abortion is huge.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
It's like six times a bigger factor than family leave.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
These people are twisted. It's absolutely nuts.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
All right, when we return, a little pre Thanksgiving rant
from yours truly about turkey. That's next on the John
Girardi Show. All right, that was a heavy show, so
let's do something a little lighter as we out. I
want to talk about turkey, Turkey of Thanksgiving. Turkey at
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Thanksgiving is just difficult to do. It's difficult to do well.
I have had it done well and it's great, but
I think unless you've got someone who's a really good cook,
who knows what they're doing, it's very hard to pull off.
And I think you just need to do it in
an unorthodox fashion, like cook the different parts separately. I
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don't think there's any shame in that. In fact, I
think it's a good idea because the breast, you need
to cook that to a different temperature. If you overcook
the breast, it's dry and it doesn't taste very good,
whereas you have more leeway with the thighs and legs,
like it's different cuts of meat. And if you do
it just the normal way or the big old bird
just standing there like that's easier to do with a
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chicken because it's just smaller, and you know it doesn't
quite matter as much. But there's so much meat on
a turkey that if you just do it normal, standing
up with it's not gonna work. Either spash cock it,
separate the parts, or do something. Gotta think about this
for your Thanksgiving. John Groarty giving you a Thanksgiving planning
tips that'll do it. Geen Gerardi Show, See you next
time on Power Talk
I've been talking about what a problem Medicaid is, medical is,
I've been talking about what a problem it is in
the San Joaquin Valley. I've been talking about what a
problem it is that we have a lack of prenatal
care options in the San Joaquin Valley. And it's this
basic dynamic that there are too many medical women and
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there aren't enough doctors who want to take medical women
for OBGYN care. And I think it feeds into abortion.
I think it. I think especially when you've got a
lower income person, they're pregnant, they want to go somewhere
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for prenatal care, and the first appointment they can get
is like three months out or something because that's the
only place that'll take medical and they're booked solid for months,
or they can go in to Planned Parenthood the next
week and get an abortion. That's the dynamic we see
throughout California where the State of California has streamlined, subsidized,
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furnished the abortion process, but not prenatal care, not nearly
in the same way.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
And it sort of shows the false.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
You know, pat yourself on the back thing by Gavin Newsom,
who you know he runs for office on the grounds
that he's gonna start Calcare or whatever. He was gonna
call it universal single payer California healthcare. And he was
talking it up in twenty eighteen when he was running
for governor. So all these liberal politicians, they always run
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on a campaign of saying they're gonna get universal single
payer healthcare, and then they never do it. They always
kick the can down the road. It's never the right time. Well,
I'm not gonna be like that. Blah blah blah blah blah.
And then he proceeded to do the precise thing that
he criticized. He got into office, the insurance companies got
to him clearly, and or he saw the political reality
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that having to increase taxes to the extent that you
need to create a single payer healthcare system like this
was going to be unsustainable.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
And what did he do? So what did he do? Well?
Speaker 1 (02:14):
He did the half bleeped route, the half butt route
where he expands medical eligibility. He expands, expands, expands medical eligibility,
finally expanding it to illegal aliens.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
He then had to kind of roll that back when
that got way too expensive. But this is the basic thing.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Here's all these people who are medical eligible adding on
all these eligible categories of people for medical, but our
tax revenue has an increase to meet it. So as
a result, more people are having their healthcare covered by
a smaller group, a smaller pool of money, and as
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a result, the reimbursements that medical can give to a
doctor for providing a service is less and less and less.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
So I mean, the basic way that this.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Economy works, that this little circle of life in medicine
works is you have a payer, a patient, and a provider.
The patient goes in to the provider the doctor or
the nurse practitioner or whoever they receive a service from
the provider. The provider sends the bill to the payer,
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The payer pays the provider, and the payer gets its
money either through premiums that they impose on the patient
or in the case of medical through taxes taxes on
everyone California and also federal income taxes that help pay
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for Medicaid. So this is the circle of life within medicine. Well,
the problem is with medical the number of medical patients
has gotten bigger and bigger, and the amount of money
to fund medical reimbursements going to providers has gotten smaller
and smaller, so medical can only reimburse a doctor so
much for a service. And this is why Medicaid at
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the federal level medical and the statewide level is in
such a crisis right now. We're spending over a trillion
dollars on Medicaid now federally, and it's less sustainable than ever.
We cannot cover all the people that are covered by
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it unless we give doctors in certain cases unsustainably low
rates of reimbursement, where doctors feel like they cannot keep
their business open and keep taking Medicaid patients. California has
to create new like subsidy programs in order for anyone
to make any dang money caring for medical patients. This
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is why, for example, I've been kind of defensive towards
Valley Children's Hospital, and there have been some criticisms of
Todd Centrapack, the CEO of Valley Children's, that his compensation
is too much and then charges out Valley Children's engaged
in medical fraud.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
No, it's not.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
It doesn't even make sense the idea that oh, Valley
Children's received you know, ten million, well, I don't know
what the number is. Let's say ten million dollars Valley
Children's Hospital received ten million dollars in medical reimbursements. Are
they misusing that funding to give their CEO a big,
fat cat salary. If you get ten million dollars from
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medical from your health care practice, that doesn't represent a windfall,
that doesn't represent a prop fit. You get medical reimbursement,
it's reimbursing you for a service you provided to patients,
and in all likelihood, because it's medical, it's not actually
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covering all your cost or maybe it's barely covering your costs.
You're not making money handover fist caring for medical patients.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
You just aren't. Now.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
It varies from one field of medicine to another, one
service to another, but for the most part, if you're
caring for a medical patient, you're not making money. That's
the problem. That's why medical is in a bad state.
Doctors feel like they can't make money taking care of
their patients. And in no field has this been worse
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than in the field of obgyn care. And it's leading
to doctors not wanting to take medical patients for their deliveries.
Here's the story in the Fresno b about it. In Madeira,
there is no maternity ward. Madera Community Hospital reopened, but
with no maternity ward. There's no maternity ward in Madera County.
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Why because obgyns lose tons of money taking care of
medical patients. Here's the story from the Fresno Bee Home.
Births rise in Madera as services disappear, increasing risks for
moms and babies. Madera County resident Glory Warner was born
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at home in the nineteen nineties. Now she's nearing her
due date and wants to do the same with her baby.
Warner says that she romanticized the idea of a home
birth from stories or family members shared. She has a
midwife and Doulah's ready for the call, but in present
day Madera, it's not so simple. In the case of
an emergency where Warner has to be transferred to a hospital,
she could be left with nothing but hope and too
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long of a drive to the nearest hospital maternity ward.
In the case of childbirth, many midi Eyra County residents
must make the nearly thirty minute drive from Madera to
a Fresno hospital to receive proper reproductive care. From the
time the Madera Community Hospital reopened in twenty twenty three
to early twenty twenty five, there were forty five live
berths in the county. Forty two of those are home births.
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Twenty twenty two, data from the California Healthcare Foundation found
that in California, forty six thousand women aged eighteen to
forty four lived in counties without hospitals containing birth centers
or obstetric care. Lacey Lisbon, a licensed midwife midwife with
Fresno Birth Midwifery that serves expecting mothers throughout the region,
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said multiple counties in the Central Valley lack available maternity care.
I feel like the Central Valley in general is a
birth desert, she says. To receive treatment by a midwife,
Lisbon says it typically costs around five thousand bucks, but
with the Madera County poverty rate at twenty six percent,
this can be a problem, and she says insurance doesn't
want to cover their services. So the president b then
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goes on to say this ridiculously.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
The increased risk for mothers and unborn children is particularly
acute in Madera County with no maternity ward or Planned
parenthood office nearby. I'm sorry, do are people under the
impression that planned parenthood delivers babies or provides prenatal care.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
They don't.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
The lack of certain no, we're talking about a lack
of delivery services. Planned parenthood doesn't do that. What the
heck are they talk are we talking about here? Oh,
the lack of planned parenthood anyway? That just revs my
engine at how stupid. This is the idea that planned
parenthood can just get lumped in with women's healthcare as
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if it's the same kind of thing, and that you know, oh,
moms don't have anywhere to give birth and they don't
have services like plant parent. It doesn't help you deliver
a baby. It does the opposite of that. Planned parent
is good at preventing you from reproducing. It doesn't really
actually offer quote, reproductive healthcare. It offers unreproductive interventions. I'm
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not gonna call it health care. Healthcare means you're fixing
something wrong with the body or helping keep the body
in a state of functioning. Abortion and contraception are different.
They are interventions to prevent the natural functions of a body.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Anyway, But this is the problem we're seeing all up
and down the state.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Where it's this massive problem with medical where it just
isn't financially sustainable, and of course they have to get
a dig in against Trump here. After reopening its doors
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in January twenty twenty three, the Madera Community Hospital is
still without a maternity ward and as a result of
funding cuts from the Big Beautiful Bill, the only Marmanti
planned Parenthood in Madera closed in oh the one Big
Beautiful Bill closing the Planned Parenthood clinic. The Madera County
Department of Health also does not provide labor care.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
A representative they are told to.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Be well Planned Parenthood doesn't provide didn't provide prenatal care
Planned Parenthood. This is so maddening the way that some
liberal writer clearly for the president, well maybe this is
a Sacramento b writer is lumping in planned Parenthood and
the lack of Planned Parenthood with a lack of prenatal
care services. When Planned parentid doesn't do prenatal care, you
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can't go to Planned Parenthood as your regular obgyn. They're
not a replacement for that. They're not there. They don't
deliver babies. That's not what they do. It's not like
they have a couple of obgyns and their call group
helps cover, you know, helps deliver babies over at a
local hospital, like no Planned PARENTO doesn't do that. That's
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why the whole thing is so silly. It's so silly
to lump it in with, oh, with women's reproductive care.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
They don't do any reproduction. They prevent reproduction.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
By giving out contraception and birth control and abortions to
prevent you from reproducing.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
But they're not reproductive health.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Meanwhile, liberals in the state government are ready to just
blast pro life clinics who offer abortion pill reversal because
is it actually reversing an abortion. It's not actually reversing
an abortion, it's it's restoring the hormones that are used
to that. They've had this massive lawsuit going on in
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California against a couple of pro life entities that offer
abortion pill reversal on the grounds that it's false advertising.
Like it's a false advertising claim. Meanwhile, here's a Planned
Parenthood calling itself a reproductive health clinic. They don't help
you reproduce anyway. Rant and rant all day, all right,
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But in short, this is a problem I've been banging
the druma about in the San Joaquin Valley for years
that medical is in this sort of crisis point, and
I don't know what the solution is necessarily, and this
is kind of the frustrating thing for me. I don't
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know that I've got a magic wand I can wave
and figure out how do we deliver healthcare to twenty
six percent of Madera County who lives under the federal
poverty line. How do you do it? Well, we have
the medical program, which is just borrowing money at the
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federal level. It's just borrowing money. We're paying for it
with borrowed money, and with a California taxpayer base that
is already massively overdrawn. I mean, in fairness to Gavin Newsom,
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I guess my thought is, well, how do you help
fix medical?
Speaker 2 (14:32):
How do you fix medical?
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Do you increase taxes on wealthy people to pay for
better medical reimbursements to doctors? I mean, that's not gonna go. Well,
we're already hemorrhaging. We're already in California crazy reliant on
a very small taxpayer base who are propping up this
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whole system, who they're propping up the whole budget in California,
and we're we're looking at these structural deficits. So if
you increase taxes in California, you may not actually increase revenue,
because you may convince the few crazy rich people left
who are shouldering this humongous percentage of our tax burden,
of our revenue that goes into the state. You might
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just convince them all to leave. The Mamdania effect where
all these ultra rich people in New York are already
starting to buy homes in Connecticut to move out of
the city. So I don't know exactly what the answer is.
I mean, obviously, single payer healthcare is a solution. It's
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a solution that brings with it a bunch of new problems,
but it at least has some kind of logical coherence.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
I wonder if I guess I marvel at the inefficiencies
in the American healthcare system and its insurance based model,
at the inefficiencies of how much is charged and what
is paid, and the cut that these insurance companies get,
where we have this sort of middleman entity who needs
to get its cut that sort of surrounds the whole thing.
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But at the same time, if it was just everyone
pays their own premium and everyone gets their own health care,
then the poor are out of health insurance.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
So what do you do?
Speaker 1 (16:38):
I guess I'm not honestly sure what the right answer is.
I know though, that the current model is cooked. I
know that the current model does not work, and the
people who seem to be suffering from this are women,
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which leads me to the idea that our liberals actually
the heroes of women's healthcare. We will return with that
after the break. This is the John Girardi Show. There
is no maternity ward in Madera, which has led to
a spike in home births within Madera County as women
in Madera have a very difficult choice.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
In front of them.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
What do we do when we have a baby? Do
we have to set up something where we have to
drive thirty minutes south to Fresno or drive thirty minutes
north from Merced?
Speaker 2 (17:31):
How do we do this?
Speaker 1 (17:32):
And the whole thing centers around the unsustainability of medical
where medical and the federal our state's version of the
federal Medicaid program just isn't sustainable. It's not sustainable for
doctors to keep caring for medical patients because they lose money.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
And it leads me to this thought.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Media there you will sometimes find a news story talking
about problems with the delivery of prenatal care of obgyn
services in California. Because it's a bad We are in
a bad state of affairs as well as a bad
I guess state state.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Where we have too many medical women.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
We don't have enough money in the pot for medical
to pay doctors well for caring for medical women, and
so you have fewer and fewer doctors willing to take
medical patients for their obgyn care. Thus, a bunch of
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women go without prenatal care. Either the first appointment they
can get with an obgyn is three or four months out,
or they are smoothly transitioned into having an abortion. Where oh,
just next week, come on in, do tell the medicine visit,
get the prescribe your bodortion pill, boop poop poop, abort
your baby. We've made that super streamlined and super easy.
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There's no copay or deductible for abortion in California. It's
richly subsidized by the state. On top of the normal
medical reimbursement. Planned parenthood is quite financially incentivized to provide
the abortion pill, Thank you very much. Gavin Newsom just
gave a cool nine figures over to Planned Parenthood to
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help them ride out the one big beautiful bill funding cuts.
And you'll occasionally see these news stories about California where
something bad is happening with the provision of prenatal care. Oh,
there are too many sea sections being done at this
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hospital in a minority eight neighborhood somewhere in Los Angeles. Well,
it's a surprising thing to see that in California rates
of potentially unnecessary sea sections are so high. Tiven that
it's a state that's a real champion of reproductive rights.
It's not a champion of reproductive rights. It's a champion
of one kind of right, the right to abort your baby,
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which last I checked, is not reproductive.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
It's kind of the opposite.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
In fact, California is not a champion of reproductive rights.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
If reproductive rights.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Means anything, if we're using something other than total Orwellian
double speak, false speak, whatever language, reproductive rights would have
to include your rights to have a baby, which California
is bad at providing. We much more lavishly furnish your
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ability to abort your baby than to have your baby
if you are a poor woman. If anything, it seems
like we've structured the whole system to help convince poor
women to abort their children rather than have their children.
I mean, if you were a Margaret Sangering kind of
gal and didn't want all the poors and all the
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minorities to keep having their babies, you would set up
a system precisely like California's.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
I mean that flat out.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
You're a lower income woman without much support because of
the breakdown of the American family. Maybe you've got a
boyfriend who's barely committed.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Whatever.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
You don't have a lot of money. Housing costs are
too high, you're spending too much of what you owe
what you make on rent, you don't have enough space
for another baby.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Whatever.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
You wait three or four months for one of the
few medical accepting OBGYN providers who are slammed with patients
to take you for your first appointment, or you go
get an abortion next week at no cost to yourself,
no copay, no deductible, no nothing.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Quick take a pill, take another pill. You're done.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
After the very painful and agonizing process of going through
a pill abortion, and maybe some deep emotional scarring that
might take place as well.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Oh but you're done.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
But of course when the abortion pill is pitched to you,
they're not going to mention those things.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
See this.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
This is Don Paul the second refer to things kind
of like this as structures of sin. We have set
up the whole economy of medical healthcare provision of lower
income healthcare provision in California is all structured in the
area of OBGYN care for women to have abortions rather
than babies. We are not a great place for quote,
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reproductive rights.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
We just aren't. We are a great place for one kind.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Of quote right as it relates to quote reproduction, which
is the opposite of reproduction, aborting your child. We are
great for that, but stop calling California a haven of
reproductive rights of women's rights. When we return how the
Washington Post, What the Washington Post thinks makes for a
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place to be a good place to live. That's next
on the John Jruardy Show. The Washington Post had this
whole story about what is the best place in America
to raise a family? What's the best place in America
to raise kids? Where they proceeded to And I guess
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Washington Post does this often. It's an annual thing where
they look at the country and they try to say, Okay, well,
this place is a good place for business, this place
is a good place for kids.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Blah blah blah. Piece at town hall dot com sort
of describing it. So. It was an opinion piece written
by u Juu.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
Last Sunday, and it seeks to identify where she believes
are the best places to raise a family in the
United States.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
However, one of the metrics they.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Used had to do with social views of the place
where you're raising your kids. The article rights We scored
each county based on how well it performed across four metrics.
A better public school district than a lower crime rate
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moved up a county score, while limited personal liberty, personal liberty,
fewer state mandated parental leave days, or higher costs of
raising children lowered the rate.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Hmm.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Okay, well a lot of those things make sense. Better schools,
better place to live, better place to raise a family. Okay, fine,
lower crime rate, better place to raise a family. Great
sounds good. More or fewer state mandated parental leave days. Okay,
more parental leave. Maybe we think that that's better for
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you know, we think that's better for families raising kids.
That's more attractive if the state is requiring more parental leave.
Can leave aside the economic arguments about that. Okay, sure,
it's an understandable argument. That's fine. Higher costs of raising children.
If you have more costs to raise your children, it's
a worse place to raise children.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Got it?
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Okay, sure, more expensive housing is the more expensive. Food
is more expensive, gasoline is the harder it is to raise.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
A kid in a given state. Totally got it.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
But what was this personal liberty thing she mentioned? Personal
liberty here relates to abortion access. How accessible is abortion
and that factors into whether a place is a good
place to raise a family.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
They highlighted that in order to start a.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Family, the parents must quote feel safe to conceive, and
that factor is dependent on quote the varying levels of
abortion access across states. Well, it's one or the other.
Do you feel safe to conceived or do you want
to have an abortion? They're kind of opposite decisions. The
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article continues, saying that quote research shows that in states
where abortions are banned, mothers are more likely to die
from unwanted pregnancy, and infant mortality increased due to birth defects.
This is total bogus science, completely bogus social studies that
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she's engaged in.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
It tracks with poverty.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
It doesn't have anything to do with how wonderful your
abortion regime is or it isn't. There's plenty of statistics
about women who've had multiple abortions dying more likely around childbirth.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
This, this is complete nonsense.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Anything about infant, about maternal mortality or early you know, Perry,
you know what is it, perry, natal infant mortality whatever.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
All of it has to do with poverty.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
And if anything, it seems like abortion has a correlate, correlative,
you know, relationship here it it's not even and so
they're metric this social mestric like sixty.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
It's hugely overweighed.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
The importance of abortion in the question of how you
where you want to go to raise a family. This
and it all has to center around there's this sort
of moralizing story that pro abortion people tell to themselves
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about the pregnancy that has some sort of disastrous medical
outcome where you have to have an abortion, And then
we insist on engaging in ambiguous language about what is
an abortion that a red state with a pro life
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law on the books would prohibit as in intentionally killing
a living human bait baby versus miscarriage care which no
pro life state prohibits, or certain kinds of like premature
delivery when the mom's life is threatened, which is also
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not prohibited by any state law. There's this sort of
story that pro abortion people tell themselves that it's dangerous
to conceive a child in a state that limits abortion
rights because those kinds of you know, at risk situations
might happen.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
And it's nonsense. It's nonsense these states. It's nonsense. That's
furthered by a COG. By the way, this is.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
Part of the reason why I think the American College
of Obstetricians and Gynecologists is evil. Look, if you're a COG,
I can understand maybe taking one position or another on abortion.
I might not agree with it, but I can understand
you taking one position or another. What I can't forgive
from ACOCK is how they haven't engaged in any attempt
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to clarify that they have deliberately and intentionally tried to
muddy and insert ambiguity in what is abortion and what
is acceptable health care for red states that have abortion limitations.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
They want ambiguity.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
They want it to be a muddled mess where providers
don't know exactly what they're supposed to do in the
vanishingly rare cases, in the very rare cases where you're
in this sort of situation, they don't want providers to
know what to do so that someone will die, so
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that pro lifers can be blamed for making such evil laws.
I genuinely think that is the posture that a COUG
has taken, that they are okay with patients dying if
it means that they can call pro lifers bad. And
I do not take this position lightly. I'm not in
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the position of, like you know, characterizing whole organizations as
being okay with death on the basis of nothing.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
This is based on reading a COG literature, looking at
a COG literature.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Looking at the ways that they have reacted to certain
kinds of bad outcomes that have happened. In Georgia, where
you know, someone took the abortion pill didn't go in
until too late for some reason that probably had more
to do with medical malpractice than with Georgia's anti abortion law.
(31:44):
This person didn't receive care in a timely fashion, and
the person died, which the left just wants to gloss
over the fact that, hey, the abortion pill is pretty unsafe.
But there's this concerted effort on the part of pro
abortion folks to have ambiguity and confusion surrounding pro life
(32:05):
laws so that they result in bad outcomes, so that
they can roll them back. That I, honest to God
think that's what ACOG wants. If ACOG were behaving responsibly,
they would do an all fifty states comprehensive list clarifying
this is what you can do pursuing to this law,
this is what you can't do pursuing to this law,
where you've had Republican attorneys general having to write to
(32:27):
hospitals to tell them you can do this and you
can't do this to clarify it for them, because I
genuinely think the left does not want clarity here. They
want people to die. And especially given that you know, again,
(32:49):
every state that has pro life laws that limit abortion
allows doctors to intervene in cases where a woman's life
is at risk. Every single state allows that. But this
is the framing that the left has for But you know,
let's get back to this Washington Post story where they
give this enormous.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
Excessive weight to.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
Is this place a good place to live based on
how much abortion access it has, which is again, it's
this weird thing that I keep talking about with regards
to oh people who call California a reproductive rights haven.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
It's not a reproductive rights haven.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
And it's like it turns into this genuine I hate
it when baby boomers cit or Well because that's like
the only book they ever read.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
They read it in high school and that's it.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
But it is this kind of Orwellian thing where we
refer to abortion as a reproductive right when it's precisely
not reproductive. It's the opposite of reproductive. We use the
phrase reproductive rights to refer to what abortion and contraception specifically,
two things that don't involve reproducing, involves stopping reproducing are
(34:19):
artificially cutting it off mid stream. In the case of abortion,
actually you have reproduced, We're just gonna kill the fruit
of your reproduction.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
These aren't reproductive. This isn't reproductive health care.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
And this same bizarre, twisted thinking is exposed in this
Washington Post story about the best place is to raise
a family in America. Well, if you're gonna the best
place to raise a family in America is the place
where you can kill your family as soon as they're conceived.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
Like that's genuinely how they think about it.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
And abortion access is like this huge category that it's like,
this huge percentage of how they weigh things.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
Is based on abortion, which is like, no, that.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
Doesn't have that much of an impact on where's the
best place in America to raise a family? So again
Washington Post had a couple of different factors, affordability, quality
of education, neighborhood safety.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
And personal liberties.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
Abortion accounted for sixty percent of the personal liberties thing.
The other thirty percent was LGBT policies, which, again not
to crudely point out the biology here, but if we're
(35:53):
talking about LGBT stuff that we're not reproducing, family formation
is not happening to the same extent unless you're talking
about I guess, gay adoption.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
But this is the other thing where.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
It's so insulting, where they talk about, okay, are metrics
of where's the best place in America to raise a family?
Abortion access enormously outweighs a state's family leave support, how
much family leave is permitted, parntal leave, maternity leave, atternity
leave is permitted when you have a new child.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
Abortion is huge.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
It's like six times a bigger factor than family leave.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
These people are twisted. It's absolutely nuts.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
All right, when we return, a little pre Thanksgiving rant
from yours truly about turkey. That's next on the John
Girardi Show. All right, that was a heavy show, so
let's do something a little lighter as we out. I
want to talk about turkey, Turkey of Thanksgiving. Turkey at
(37:06):
Thanksgiving is just difficult to do. It's difficult to do well.
I have had it done well and it's great, but
I think unless you've got someone who's a really good cook,
who knows what they're doing, it's very hard to pull off.
And I think you just need to do it in
an unorthodox fashion, like cook the different parts separately. I
(37:33):
don't think there's any shame in that. In fact, I
think it's a good idea because the breast, you need
to cook that to a different temperature. If you overcook
the breast, it's dry and it doesn't taste very good,
whereas you have more leeway with the thighs and legs,
like it's different cuts of meat. And if you do
it just the normal way or the big old bird
just standing there like that's easier to do with a
(37:56):
chicken because it's just smaller, and you know it doesn't
quite matter as much. But there's so much meat on
a turkey that if you just do it normal, standing
up with it's not gonna work. Either spash cock it,
separate the parts, or do something. Gotta think about this
for your Thanksgiving. John Groarty giving you a Thanksgiving planning
tips that'll do it. Geen Gerardi Show, See you next
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