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October 6, 2025 8 mins

Tune in here to this Monday's edition of the Brett Winterble Show! 

Brett kicks off the program by talking about misinformation surrounding government spending on undocumented immigrants and the broader implications of federal health care mandates. He highlights what he sees as a growing "states’ rights insurrection" led by Illinois officials, sharply criticizing Governor J.B. Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson.

Brett argues that despite claims from Democratic leaders, undocumented immigrants are indirectly receiving taxpayer-funded benefits through emergency medical care, citing the EMTALA law. He supports his point with audio clips from media figures and politicians, contrasting their statements with his own interpretation of the facts. Brett emphasizes that the financial burden of uncompensated care falls on American taxpayers, not hospitals or physicians, and frames this as a deliberate failure of Democratic policy

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Speaker 1 (00:16):
News Talk eleven, ten ninety nine to three WBT first
program of the week. Actually technically not really true. We
did have our october Fest Day yesterday and it was
really awesome. I had a great time with Nick Craig
and me Brett witter Bull. It's good to be with
you here on a Monday, and there's a lot of
stuff that we're going to talk about. We're going to
actually disabuse people of crazy thoughts that they've got because

(00:43):
the reality is what the reality is. Over the course
of the next couple of hours, we are certainly going
to dive into a number of different topics, mostly important
because we're seeing a states rights insurrection coming from of
all places, Illinois, Illinois. Are you kidding me? Yeah, There's

(01:08):
Brandon Johnson, the most incompetent human being maybe to walk
the earth at this stage of the game. And Pritzker,
who could never ever, ever pass up a seventh a
seventh portion of whatever it is he's eating. But you
look at these people. This is unbelievable. And I love

(01:29):
to do these kinds of shows. These are the best
kinds of shows that we can do because I can
teach you, guys, or remind you guys about what's going
on here. Okay, so let's start with something very basic,
very basic. Illegals are getting money. Illegals are getting money

(01:52):
from the Democratic Party, and I can prove it to
you in three sound clips. I can do it for
you in three sound clips. Because the big lies on
the program over the weekend was, oh, there are no
there's no funds going to the illegals. There's nobody, there's

(02:12):
none of that going on. Well, let's let's start right
out of the gate with the content. Okay, let's go
to Kate Beckelder O'Dell. She happens to be a person
very smart Wall Street Journal, and she understands cut number
one exactly the fraud that is in place that Chuck

(02:32):
Schumer wants to have in place permanently and forever Cut one.

Speaker 2 (02:37):
Please, premiums are going out either way. The question is
what the exposure is. I mean, we need to stop
and appreciate what an indictment this is of the Affordable
Care Act that now we have to shovel you know,
half a trillion dollars into it or people will not
buy the product or won't think it's worth its value.
I mean, Alicia also raised the point of fraud, which
is a really really salient one when we're talking about people,

(03:00):
there's the coverage. Basically, what the Biden administration did was
make it so many people paid nothing for these plans
and they were auto re enrolled every year, didn't have
to go back and sign up. And what that means
is some people don't know they're enrolled. Forty percent of
people in these types of plans had no claims in
twenty twenty four. I mean, this is this should be

(03:21):
a bipartisan outrage to fix, but it's not because Democrats
have you know, made it all turn it into a
panic about healthcare.

Speaker 1 (03:28):
But so the fact of the matter is Joe Biden
fraudulently put money into these these programs that they were
not entitled to. Illegals are taking the advantage, and I
will I'll get you the details on that. Don't worry
about that. We're starting to build a little bit. Mark Kelly,
the most incompetent human being in all of the Democratic Senate,

(03:49):
Mark Kelly, he just says, we got it, We just
got it, We just got It's terrible. It's the worst
thing ever. Cut number two.

Speaker 3 (03:56):
Please, they always go to undocumented people illegal immigrants. They're
gonna blame illegal immigrants for everything. If you are undocumented
in our country, you cannot get healthcare from the Affordable
Care Act exchange. You are not eligible for Medicare, you
are not eligible for Medicaid for undocumented people. So they're

(04:18):
just making that up. They just like to blame brown
people for people. Yeah, that's pretty that's pretty much it.

Speaker 1 (04:24):
Yeah, there you go, brown people. It is brown people.
We're just gonna, we're gonna, we're gonna just blame brown people,
brown people. Okay, Mark Kelly. Mark Kelly is a silly,
silly man. He is the silly goose because he understands
exactly what's going on with this. There is fraud. There's
absolutely fraud here. The fraud has been mandated by the

(04:48):
federal government in case you didn't know this. So I'm
gonna I'm gonna teach mister Kelly. Not Gene Kelly. I
love Gene Kelly, but this silly guy, the silly goose,
I'm going to teach them something here. It's impossible to
provide an exact total for how much money has been
spent under the Emergency Medical Treatment Active Labor Act called MTALA.

(05:13):
M TALA since it's enactment in nineteen eighty six, as
there is no specific federal budget or dedicated funding mechanism
for it. Instead of it being a spending bill, m
TALA is an unfunded mandate that requires hospitals and emergency

(05:36):
departments to provide medical screening and stabilizing care regardless of
a patient's ability to pay. That is where all the
illegals are going. They're going to the emergency room. They
don't go to the they don't go to any other
place but the emergency room because they know they're going
to be able to get what they need. The cost

(05:57):
of m TALA is the result of uncompensated care absorbed
by hospitals and physicians. So if it's unabsorbed hospital and physicians,
who's paying for it? Not the illegals, Not the demented
lunatics who are laying on the sidewalk because they got

(06:20):
a bad batch of some kind of drug. No, no, no, no, no,
those people don't ever pay. You know who pays? You pay?
You pay? You think the doctors pay out of their pocket.
I think the hospitals pay out of their pocket. No.
The whole reason why you have this problem that's the
debate issue is that the Democratic Party apparently doesn't understand
what MTALA is. A major source of uncompensated care. M

(06:44):
TALA is a significant driver of uncompensated hospital care, with
emergency departments providing more of this care in the uninsured
areas than any other anything else. Now, how much do
they spend? Well, this is money that Chuck Schumer says
doesn't exist, but it does. One two thousand three estimate

(07:08):
by the American Medical Association for the Health Policy Research
put the direct cost to physicians from m TALA mandated
uncompensated care four point two billion dollars annually annually, and
this goes all the way back to nineteen eighty six.
So you want to take four point two billion dollars

(07:29):
for forty years, and you want to take a look
at what that looks like. That looks pretty bad. This
is why Chuck Schumer gets all all randy when people
are telling him, no, no, no, we are actually spending
a ton of money on people who are not supposed
to be in the United States of America. A twenty
twenty two article cited data that American hospitals absorbed seven

(07:52):
hundred and two billion dollars in uncompensated money between twenty
twenty twenty two. That's almost a trillion dollars. Chuck Schumer
is a liar. Chuck, You're a liar. Hakeem Jeffries, You're
less than a liar. You're not really lying. You're just
sad because of the hats and all the things that

(08:13):
are going on. But seven hundred and two billion dollars,
who pays for that? You pay for that because illegals
are coming into the country and tap in our systems
and nobody gets to get out of that conundrum. This
is the problem. This is why you can never believe democrats, period,
full stop. Yep I said it.
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