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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Scott Vordies. This is news Radio eleven ten KFAV, Nebraska's news,
weather and traffic station. And as we've done for the
last couple of days, we start I start in New
York City by way of the after School Satan Club
(00:20):
at an elementary school in Marysville, Ohio. This is another
attempt by some of these people who don't so much
worship Satan as they just love angering Christians. One might
see it as a distension without a difference. When you're
(00:42):
celebrating the Dark Lord just to anger those who celebrate
the Good Lord. You can say it's for whatever reason. Oh,
we're just trying to stop you know, this joining up
of church and state. Yeah, well, every time you celebrate
the Dark Lord, got a hard hard not to conjure
(01:03):
up Satan. So the campaign director for the after School
Satan Club, which is going to begin this month, ah
during the month of Christmas at an elementary school in Marysville, Ohio,
says they're doing it because they said, I think a
lot of school districts don't realize when they opened the
(01:25):
door for one religion, they open it for all of them.
There was a program that allowed students to be excused
from school to attend classes in religious instruction. And so
they said, all right, we're bringing in Satan, and people
get all mad. There are four students from Edgewood Elementary
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School have already signed up. These would be their parents,
militant atheist types probably who are using their kids pun
to you know, thumder noose of Christianity, and of course
condre bl zebub. So people look at this and go,
(02:08):
this is terrible. I can't believe we've got an actress school,
Satan club and an elementary school in Ohio. This is
Then we look at what the adults are doing. Here
is a journalist who'd worked at the Washington Posts and
other places who linked an article about health insurance companies
(02:32):
and some of their alleged misdeeds over the years, and said,
quote and people wonder why we want these executives dead unquote,
based on the murder of the CEO of United Healthcare
in New York City earlier this week. She then had
to clarify in a post on social media quote, no,
(02:55):
that does not mean people should murder them unquote. Oh
thank you for the made.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
The comment about she wonders why, and we wonder why
people want them dead. That's a brand new comment, that's
not from an old article. No, she so she clearly
knew what she was saying.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Oh, absolutely, yeah. This is something she said yesterday in
the wake of the death of the United Healthcare CEO,
which I don't I don't remember what day that happened.
This week, Tuesday, I barely know what today is. I'll
just say earlier this week. And then she had to say, well, no,
(03:35):
that doesn't mean people should murder them. There have been
a number of people online. Here's one who is a
professor at Columbia says, we should also mourn the death
of sixty eight thousand Americans who needlessly die each year
(03:55):
so that insurance company exects like Brian Thompson and become
multi millionaires unquote. Brian Thompson is the CEO, was the
CEO of United Healthcare until he was murdered this week
in New York City. So here's this guy's director of
education for a group called the Safe Center, a victim
(04:16):
services agency that provides services for survivors of family violence,
and a professor at Columbia University. Anthony zekis Zenkis is
his name, So we should mourn the death of sixty
eight thousand Americans who needlessly die each year so that
insurance company execs like Brian Thompson can become multimillionaires. Have
(04:37):
all these people watched and only watched and their only
life experience when it comes to health insurance companies is
the movie the cartoon movie The Incredibles, And more than
one person referenced that in the Zonker's Customs Inbox yesterday.
Scott atkfab dot com the story of the Incredible Lucy.
(05:00):
I presume since it is a fantastic movie, you either
have not seen it or saw it turned it off
after eight minutes and went, eh, which is.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
It kid movie?
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Yeah? No, it's it's a kid it's a cartoon, but
it's not a kid movie.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
They started to watch it in that character that lead
character Guy is just it just freaked me out a little.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Bit, the lead character Guy and mister incredible Craig T. Nelson.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Yeah, with the skim you little legs.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
It is weird. It's it's a cartoon, it's whatever. Okay.
So the idea is is that the superheroes had to
go underground after there was in an incident and people
were like, we don't need these superheroes. Every time they
fight crime that half the city gets destroyed, and they
blame the superheroes. An incredible if you look at it
(05:50):
in the context of what happens all the time in
situations like here in Nebraska, where we have condemned the
police officers. Someone goes on some wild police chase, destroys
property or worse kills somebody, and we've blamed the police
officers for chasing the bad guys. So it starts off
here with this incredible critique of situations like that, and
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so the superheroes say, all right, I guess we're not wanted.
We go und underground. And the way that mister Incredible
the superhero is trying to help people is he's working
at an insurance company and rather as his horrible boss,
who happens to be voiced by the guy who's the
Inconceivable guy from Princess Bride, he's wanting his minions to
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only just deny insurance claims from little old ladies and
bankrupt and kill these people, and mister Incredible won't do it,
and his boss is like, it's amazing that everyone who
comes to see you here at this company suddenly has
this doctorate in loopholes on how to get around insurance policy. Yeah,
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I don't know. It's crazy, isn't it. So it's you know,
he's helping these people and then he ends up punching
out his boss. And people look at this and go, see,
these are the heroes, these are the ones, because this
is what these insurance companies, this is what they're all about.
They just want to deny claims. And I'm not going
to sit here and say that all of my experiences
(07:23):
that I've either had or heard about the insurance companies
have been great. I'll give you another one. Yesterday I
told you about how some insurance company that I still
have denied paying for a claim simply because the office
coded it a different way and I checked it out,
(07:43):
and they say, well, yeah, we'll cover the procedure gender
reassignment surgery in case you're wondering. I am almost a man,
So we'll cover the procedure, but we won't cover it
because this person put it in the computer this way.
So I go out to the office and go, you
put it in the computer another way? Oh, are you
asking us to commit insurance fraud? I'm like, it's it's
(08:06):
the same pre I mean, are there is there any
Is there any room for adults to just take a
common sense look at this and figure it out. Ultimately,
I think I did force someone to commit insurance fraud.
I don't know. I know I didn't have to pay it.
And here's another one. I'm at a Sarbon village and
I'm backing out of a parking stall. They're one of
(08:30):
those angle parking stalls on the street in the middle
of a Sarbon village. Someone decides to make an illegal
U turn as I'm backing out and they hit me
from behind. I think this is a pretty easy situation.
They need to pay for the damage to my vehicle, right,
So I go to In this case, the auto insurance
company is involved, and my auto insurance company says, absolutely,
(08:54):
you were not. We don't feel like you were wrong here.
But I tell you what's going to happen with this
other guy's insurance company and they're going to say you
backed into him, Like, yeah, I was backing out of
a stall. It was clear in my lane. This guy
made an illegal U turn. Just it wasn't at an
intersection or anything, just in the middle of the street.
(09:14):
Everyone I mean this is an illegal U turn. Yeah,
but they're still going to say you backed into them,
and so they're probably not going to pay you very much,
if at all. You'd have to take them a small
claims court. I ended up just having to eat the
cost of repairing my back bumper. You know, it's and
that's not cheap new and some of these insurance companies
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sometimes it is absolute horrible pain in the back bumper
to deal with them. But for people to go out
there and say that people are dying, and you wonder
why they want these executives dead, it's it's just not true.
(09:58):
If you go to the hospital and you were dying,
they will try to help you. There's a cost associated
with that, unfortunately. And let me try not to do
the exact same full scale rant I went into yesterday
during the show. But here's the condensed version of it.
We have too many people in this country who decide
(10:19):
they don't want to pay for their own health insurance. Instead,
they'd rather just either go wandering into the emergency room
knowing that they'll be treated and someone else is gonna
have to pay for it, or they try and get
health insurance after they got a horrible diagnosis, and they've
been told, well, you just yesterday got this diagnosis of
(10:41):
whatever the heck it was, and you can't get insurance
the next day and expect us to pay for it. Oh,
greedy and multi millionaires. Huh. And then you got the
people who actually have insurance. They've done things, you know what,
They've done everything they've been supposed to do. They're working,
they're paying for either private health insurance, so they've got
(11:05):
a group health insurance plan through a job or something
like that. They're doing everything that they think they're supposed
to do, and then they do something stupid like go
in for treatment or an emergency situation, and they end
up paying through the nose for it because they also
have to pay not just for their own procedure and
their own health insurance and all the rest of this,
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they got to pay for everyone else who either has
no insurance who goes in there for care, or they
have government insurance, and government, which should have nothing to
do with health insurance, nothing to do with health insurance,
it's government suddenly with Medicare, Medicaid and all the rest
of this stuff. They only pay twenty cents in the dollar,
and so hospitals say, look for the good of the
(11:47):
other people in this community, we're not going to take
anyone who's covered by whether it's Medicare or Medicaid or whatever.
And people say, oh, you don't want to trade these people, like, no,
we can't, we can't. We literally can't go treating all
the people. The influx in this community of people who
either have no health insurance or they have government health insurance,
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and they don't pay us enough. We have to charge
everybody else more. And the whole system is broken. And
to take a look at a guy named Brian who's
the CEO of United Healthcare and go, it's his fault
if we kill him. This ought to fix things is
a terrible, diseased thought that I think starts with after
(12:30):
school Satan programs and manifests itself in ways that we
saw in New York City this week. But then the
worst thing happened, and a health insurance company said, you
know what, we are doing things the wrong way. Let's
change a policy here in the wake of what happened,
emboldening people to murder the CEOs of health insurance companies.
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I'll tell you who decided what next. Scott, someone who
assigned a fake name based on what they're Yes, the
email address is, but I won't bust him for that,
says I would be totally down for this after school
Satan club if they played Slayer for the worship music. Uh,
that actually sounds like a great thing. That's from Fred,
(13:15):
not his real name. Sent to Scott atkfab dot com.
Jesus knows what you emailed me. He knows he used
a fake name. I'm Scott Vorhe's Jesus. Listens to this
radio show every day. In judgment, that's mostly because of
things that Lucy Chapman says and does in this program.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
I don't wow the god bust sell.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Us a feedback I got. So we talked about how
some people are posting comments about, you know, all the
people who quote needlessly die each year so that insurance
company exects like Brian Thompson can become multi millionaires. And
here's another post, people wonder why we want these executives dead.
(14:03):
We talked about this yesterday. People have made a martyr
not out of the CEO of United Healthcare, but about
this guy who murdered him. We brought up the movie
John Q, where Denzel Washington, goes into a hospital, takes
a hostage so they will treat his son. And then
(14:24):
as we're talking about how awful this is one of
the worst things possible, one of the worst possible outcomes
I think actually happened. A major insurance company decided to
change a controversial plan. I'm not saying the decision was wrong,
but to do so in the wake of, and because
(14:46):
of a murder of someone else in your industry going hey,
don't shoot us, uh will change our policies. This is
like negotiating with terrorists. Now, so who did what? Anthem,
Blue Cross, Blue Shield reverse to policy that affects those
in New York where this guy was murdered, as well
(15:08):
as Connecticut and Missouri. The plan initially said, and this
hasn't started yet, but initially it was starting this February,
the insurance company would deny claims for anesthesia surgeries that
exceeded specific time limits, part of an effort to make
healthcare more affordable by reducing over billing. The American Society
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of Anesthesiologists called this plan egregious and uninformed, calling for
the policy to be reversed immediately. How it was portrayed
in media and social media is that you would go
to the doctor having just been attacked by a land
shark and they need to amputate your leg, and they say,
(15:58):
all right, we're going to give you an anesthesia, but
if this surgery takes longer, then let's see here, eighteen
minutes or whatever, you're just gonna run out of anesthesia
and we're not gonna give you more. We'd ask you
if you wanted more, but you were actually under at
the time, so you're gonna wake up in horror and
pain with the anesthesia running out. Is we're not just
gonna give you anymore because your insurance company is not
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gonna cover it, which is a lie. The way this
is promoted is they wouldn't cover anesthesia for the full
duration of surgeries. The reality was there are some surgery
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no one was not gonna have their anesthesia covered for
the duration of their surgery. There are some surgeries where
rather than having anesthesiologists who may have just started the
job Tuesday, give you what they think is well based
on the average length of the surgery, ninety nine point
(17:01):
nine percent of the time, we're gonna give you enough
anesthesia to cover it. And then some We don't want
you to run out of anesthesia. You ever had the
anesthesia either not work or run out. Anya, I had
one of my wisdom teeth. They started pulling my wisdom
teeth and I wasn't numb yet. It was excruciating and
(17:24):
hilarious because they also had given me laughing gas. I
don't know if the entire effects of the laughing gas
have worn off. I mean, after all, this only happened
thirty years ago.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
At what point did you realize that your teeth were
not numb yet?
Speaker 1 (17:41):
When they started trying to extract the first wisdom too,
you and I screamed out in pain and then started
howling with laughter.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
But pain first, Pain first, all right, So they got it.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
And yeah, and it was hilarious and excruciating, and they're like, oh,
we don't think he's numb yet. I've been emotionally numb
ever since they hit something. So but there are some
people who they say, well, let's just go ahead and
dope this guy up, which is not the rope bringer
right now. Some anesthesiologists like, what did he say? Let's
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just go ahead and dope this guy up for like
five times the length of this surgery and we'll go
ahead and charge this insurance company for it. After all,
we want to make sure he's covered with anesthesia during
the surgery, and the insurance company is gonna pay whatever
we tell him to. No one's gonna come back and
ask us. And the insurance company tried to limit that,
(18:38):
and then how it was promoted was they want you
not to have anthesia for the full surgery, which is
absolutely garbage, absolutely garbage. But after the CEO of United
Healthcare was murdered, people are like, this insurance company doesn't
want you, and so suddenly out of the in the
(18:59):
realm of the quarter public opinion, which is often misguided, underinformed,
and having been lied to by many people, Anthem Blue
Cross Blue Shields said, there's significant widespread misinformation about an
update to our antesthesia policy. But as a result, we've
decided not to continue with the policy. It's cheaper for
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them not to get whacked in the court of public
opinion then to do what was necessary to save money
for people who have their insurance, and so they basically
ended up cow telling and negotiating with terrorists. That's what
this company did.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
I disagree you say that they were trying to see this.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
This is why Jesus sends me emails going lucy again. Huh.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Well, let me be clear that the reason the connection
between the murder of this CEO and this new policy
is nothing other than when it probably discovered by a
journalist someplace that started looking into all insurance companies to
find something to talk about. Okay, So they didn't have
(20:06):
it didn't really have any connection to this. There was
no cause and effect on this.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Yes, there was. This is people the person who I
mentioned earlier, this journalist who said, people wonder why we
want these executives dead? And I said, she linked to
a story. This was the story she linked to. I see.
Hours later they changed their policy.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
I see. But the company that implemented this policy, yes,
had done this before this week, or at least you
can't just say, oh, it's Tuesday and we'll have a
new policy out there by Wednesday.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Right.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
So this was happening.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Before, Yes, but it got renewed attention and got the
glaring spotlight of full media and social media scorn. Based
on the continued story here of the murder of the
CEO of United Healthcare, Fine Scott at kfab dot com
and the Zonker's custom was in emails like this one.
(21:04):
Joe in Columbus says, I had the anesthetic wearoff too
soon during my vasectomy. I don't know if that's a
real story or if Joe's just trying to say that
he's endowed and when you're working with this much, you
gotta go overtime on the anesthetic. So thank you, I
(21:26):
think Joe. Brian says, I woke up in the middle
of a colonoscopy and they just pushed my head down
and said, sh I wanted my money back on that one.
And that's from Brian, which may have been the same dynamic,
you know, when you're working with that much, woke up
(21:48):
in the middle of the colonoscopy and they're like, oh no,
just just just a dream. Don't worry, you're You're like
I do to my wife when she suddenly like wakes
up in a bad dream, like sh go back to sleep.
That's why they give you, said Verse said.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Yeah, so that if you do wake up, it might
be a terrible thing, but you won't remember it.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Yeah, isn't that in Verse said that palace in near Paris,
that's for SI. I thought that was as I thought
that was in Missouri. That's for sales, for sales, Okay,
thank you for following on this one. When it comes
to anesthetic, Dave says, maybe we just go back to
Captain Morgan and a bite stick. Yeah, some of us
are already planning on doing that this weekend, but surgery
(22:30):
is not involved now. And then Don says, so, what
happened to that two hours of mirth and joy that
you promised this morning? I didn't promise me, right, Gary
demanded it, and I said, I'll do my best. This
is me doing my best. Well, it's oh yeah, I
(22:56):
was going to talk about Trump's stuff here. Not not
enough to go into a full Trump date, but otherwise
I was about to just go right back into the
health insurance stuff there, based on emails of what we've
been getting here. Now. See, here's the thing. I don't know.
Why didn't Gary say when I was sitting in here
an hour ago, He's like, I think they caught this
(23:17):
guy in New York and I'm looking around, going as
that breaking news. I didn't know that. I thought Gary
said that. I think maybe he was saying he thinks
they have a pretty good read on who this person is.
But to our knowledge here, that individual is not in custody.
They haven't released an identity. They have enough that they
(23:41):
certainly have a trail on this guy. He checked into
a hostile in New York City with a fake ID,
paid in cash, dropped his mask for a moment to
as they say, flirt with a female employee at a hostel.
I don't. I mean, you have an idea in your
hand about what an employee at a hostile looks like,
(24:03):
and you're not sure you would flirt with that person.
Let me tell you this about New York City. The
hotels cost bazillion d dollars. If you want to stay
in the city, if you want to stay anywhere close
to Manhattan, it can cost a ton of money. There
are beds, though, that you can sleep in for a
very reasonable amount of money. These are the so called hostiles.
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Now you think of hostile, you're thinking of like some fleabag,
you know, joint in Romania or something where everyone's you know,
sleeping with bed bugs and backpacks and and gypsies and
so forth. Well, it's it's kind of like that, but
it's a it's a cleaner. The bed bugs are very nice,
and the hostiles are actually not terrible in New York.
(24:49):
I was this close to staying in one, just because
I didn't want to pay for a hotel. I was
just going to be sleeping for like four hours before
I got back on a plane after doing something in
New York, and I thought, I'm not going to spend
a bunch of money for a hotel. I'll just you know,
crash here on this bed in this hostel. And then
I thought, you know what, maybe it's better just to
go try and sleep at the airport. So I did that.
(25:12):
But I looked into it, and they're not bad. So
when they say New York hostel, it's not necessarily this
fleabag roach motel you might be thinking of. They do
have those in New York, and some of those even
cost a whole bunch of money. So he goes to
the hostel, fake ID, pays in cash, flirts with an
(25:34):
employee there, dropped his mask for a second because she said,
let me see your smile. I wonder if she knew,
like people who show up here and pay in cash
at this place are probably wanted for a crime. She
knew we had a security camera here. Let's get a
look at your face. I wonder, I wonder she might
be the hero here if they catch this guy. But
(25:54):
right now they haven't caught this guy.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Well, I would think, as you said, that if she
worked there, if she had spent some time there, or yeah,
that's probably exactly what she did, but she probably had
no idea was that kind of a crime.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
Yeah. Maybe I don't know. No, I mean, she hadn't
committed it yet, that he did this before.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Maybe she just does that to everybody.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Maybe, or maybe she thought he had nice eyes and
she was flirting back. I don't know. I guess that happens.
It never happened with me. Scott Boys Mornings nine to
eleven on news radio eleven ten KFAB
Scott Vordies. This is news Radio eleven ten KFAV, Nebraska's news,
weather and traffic station. And as we've done for the
last couple of days, we start I start in New
York City by way of the after School Satan Club
(00:20):
at an elementary school in Marysville, Ohio. This is another
attempt by some of these people who don't so much
worship Satan as they just love angering Christians. One might
see it as a distension without a difference. When you're
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celebrating the Dark Lord just to anger those who celebrate
the Good Lord. You can say it's for whatever reason. Oh,
we're just trying to stop you know, this joining up
of church and state. Yeah, well, every time you celebrate
the Dark Lord, got a hard hard not to conjure
(01:03):
up Satan. So the campaign director for the after School
Satan Club, which is going to begin this month, ah
during the month of Christmas at an elementary school in Marysville, Ohio,
says they're doing it because they said, I think a
lot of school districts don't realize when they opened the
(01:25):
door for one religion, they open it for all of them.
There was a program that allowed students to be excused
from school to attend classes in religious instruction. And so
they said, all right, we're bringing in Satan, and people
get all mad. There are four students from Edgewood Elementary
(01:46):
School have already signed up. These would be their parents,
militant atheist types probably who are using their kids pun
to you know, thumder noose of Christianity, and of course
condre bl zebub. So people look at this and go,
(02:08):
this is terrible. I can't believe we've got an actress school,
Satan club and an elementary school in Ohio. This is
Then we look at what the adults are doing. Here
is a journalist who'd worked at the Washington Posts and
other places who linked an article about health insurance companies
(02:32):
and some of their alleged misdeeds over the years, and said,
quote and people wonder why we want these executives dead unquote,
based on the murder of the CEO of United Healthcare
in New York City earlier this week. She then had
to clarify in a post on social media quote, no,
(02:55):
that does not mean people should murder them unquote. Oh
thank you for the made.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
The comment about she wonders why, and we wonder why
people want them dead. That's a brand new comment, that's
not from an old article. No, she so she clearly
knew what she was saying.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Oh, absolutely, yeah. This is something she said yesterday in
the wake of the death of the United Healthcare CEO,
which I don't I don't remember what day that happened.
This week, Tuesday, I barely know what today is. I'll
just say earlier this week. And then she had to say, well, no,
(03:35):
that doesn't mean people should murder them. There have been
a number of people online. Here's one who is a
professor at Columbia says, we should also mourn the death
of sixty eight thousand Americans who needlessly die each year
(03:55):
so that insurance company exects like Brian Thompson and become
multi millionaires unquote. Brian Thompson is the CEO, was the
CEO of United Healthcare until he was murdered this week
in New York City. So here's this guy's director of
education for a group called the Safe Center, a victim
(04:16):
services agency that provides services for survivors of family violence,
and a professor at Columbia University. Anthony zekis Zenkis is
his name, So we should mourn the death of sixty
eight thousand Americans who needlessly die each year so that
insurance company execs like Brian Thompson can become multimillionaires. Have
(04:37):
all these people watched and only watched and their only
life experience when it comes to health insurance companies is
the movie the cartoon movie The Incredibles, And more than
one person referenced that in the Zonker's Customs Inbox yesterday.
Scott atkfab dot com the story of the Incredible Lucy.
(05:00):
I presume since it is a fantastic movie, you either
have not seen it or saw it turned it off
after eight minutes and went, eh, which is.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
It kid movie?
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Yeah? No, it's it's a kid it's a cartoon, but
it's not a kid movie.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
They started to watch it in that character that lead
character Guy is just it just freaked me out a little.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Bit, the lead character Guy and mister incredible Craig T. Nelson.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Yeah, with the skim you little legs.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
It is weird. It's it's a cartoon, it's whatever. Okay.
So the idea is is that the superheroes had to
go underground after there was in an incident and people
were like, we don't need these superheroes. Every time they
fight crime that half the city gets destroyed, and they
blame the superheroes. An incredible if you look at it
(05:50):
in the context of what happens all the time in
situations like here in Nebraska, where we have condemned the
police officers. Someone goes on some wild police chase, destroys
property or worse kills somebody, and we've blamed the police
officers for chasing the bad guys. So it starts off
here with this incredible critique of situations like that, and
(06:13):
so the superheroes say, all right, I guess we're not wanted.
We go und underground. And the way that mister Incredible
the superhero is trying to help people is he's working
at an insurance company and rather as his horrible boss,
who happens to be voiced by the guy who's the
Inconceivable guy from Princess Bride, he's wanting his minions to
(06:40):
only just deny insurance claims from little old ladies and
bankrupt and kill these people, and mister Incredible won't do it,
and his boss is like, it's amazing that everyone who
comes to see you here at this company suddenly has
this doctorate in loopholes on how to get around insurance policy. Yeah,
(07:00):
I don't know. It's crazy, isn't it. So it's you know,
he's helping these people and then he ends up punching
out his boss. And people look at this and go, see,
these are the heroes, these are the ones, because this
is what these insurance companies, this is what they're all about.
They just want to deny claims. And I'm not going
to sit here and say that all of my experiences
(07:23):
that I've either had or heard about the insurance companies
have been great. I'll give you another one. Yesterday I
told you about how some insurance company that I still
have denied paying for a claim simply because the office
coded it a different way and I checked it out,
(07:43):
and they say, well, yeah, we'll cover the procedure gender
reassignment surgery in case you're wondering. I am almost a man,
So we'll cover the procedure, but we won't cover it
because this person put it in the computer this way.
So I go out to the office and go, you
put it in the computer another way? Oh, are you
asking us to commit insurance fraud? I'm like, it's it's
(08:06):
the same pre I mean, are there is there any
Is there any room for adults to just take a
common sense look at this and figure it out. Ultimately,
I think I did force someone to commit insurance fraud.
I don't know. I know I didn't have to pay it.
And here's another one. I'm at a Sarbon village and
I'm backing out of a parking stall. They're one of
(08:30):
those angle parking stalls on the street in the middle
of a Sarbon village. Someone decides to make an illegal
U turn as I'm backing out and they hit me
from behind. I think this is a pretty easy situation.
They need to pay for the damage to my vehicle, right,
So I go to In this case, the auto insurance
company is involved, and my auto insurance company says, absolutely,
(08:54):
you were not. We don't feel like you were wrong here.
But I tell you what's going to happen with this
other guy's insurance company and they're going to say you
backed into him, Like, yeah, I was backing out of
a stall. It was clear in my lane. This guy
made an illegal U turn. Just it wasn't at an
intersection or anything, just in the middle of the street.
(09:14):
Everyone I mean this is an illegal U turn. Yeah,
but they're still going to say you backed into them,
and so they're probably not going to pay you very much,
if at all. You'd have to take them a small
claims court. I ended up just having to eat the
cost of repairing my back bumper. You know, it's and
that's not cheap new and some of these insurance companies
(09:36):
sometimes it is absolute horrible pain in the back bumper
to deal with them. But for people to go out
there and say that people are dying, and you wonder
why they want these executives dead, it's it's just not true.
(09:58):
If you go to the hospital and you were dying,
they will try to help you. There's a cost associated
with that, unfortunately. And let me try not to do
the exact same full scale rant I went into yesterday
during the show. But here's the condensed version of it.
We have too many people in this country who decide
(10:19):
they don't want to pay for their own health insurance. Instead,
they'd rather just either go wandering into the emergency room
knowing that they'll be treated and someone else is gonna
have to pay for it, or they try and get
health insurance after they got a horrible diagnosis, and they've
been told, well, you just yesterday got this diagnosis of
(10:41):
whatever the heck it was, and you can't get insurance
the next day and expect us to pay for it. Oh,
greedy and multi millionaires. Huh. And then you got the
people who actually have insurance. They've done things, you know what,
They've done everything they've been supposed to do. They're working,
they're paying for either private health insurance, so they've got
(11:05):
a group health insurance plan through a job or something
like that. They're doing everything that they think they're supposed
to do, and then they do something stupid like go
in for treatment or an emergency situation, and they end
up paying through the nose for it because they also
have to pay not just for their own procedure and
their own health insurance and all the rest of this,
(11:26):
they got to pay for everyone else who either has
no insurance who goes in there for care, or they
have government insurance, and government, which should have nothing to
do with health insurance, nothing to do with health insurance,
it's government suddenly with Medicare, Medicaid and all the rest
of this stuff. They only pay twenty cents in the dollar,
and so hospitals say, look for the good of the
(11:47):
other people in this community, we're not going to take
anyone who's covered by whether it's Medicare or Medicaid or whatever.
And people say, oh, you don't want to trade these people, like, no,
we can't, we can't. We literally can't go treating all
the people. The influx in this community of people who
either have no health insurance or they have government health insurance,
(12:08):
and they don't pay us enough. We have to charge
everybody else more. And the whole system is broken. And
to take a look at a guy named Brian who's
the CEO of United Healthcare and go, it's his fault
if we kill him. This ought to fix things is
a terrible, diseased thought that I think starts with after
(12:30):
school Satan programs and manifests itself in ways that we
saw in New York City this week. But then the
worst thing happened, and a health insurance company said, you
know what, we are doing things the wrong way. Let's
change a policy here in the wake of what happened,
emboldening people to murder the CEOs of health insurance companies.
(12:53):
I'll tell you who decided what next. Scott, someone who
assigned a fake name based on what they're Yes, the
email address is, but I won't bust him for that,
says I would be totally down for this after school
Satan club if they played Slayer for the worship music. Uh,
that actually sounds like a great thing. That's from Fred,
(13:15):
not his real name. Sent to Scott atkfab dot com.
Jesus knows what you emailed me. He knows he used
a fake name. I'm Scott Vorhe's Jesus. Listens to this
radio show every day. In judgment, that's mostly because of
things that Lucy Chapman says and does in this program.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
I don't wow the god bust sell.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Us a feedback I got. So we talked about how
some people are posting comments about, you know, all the
people who quote needlessly die each year so that insurance
company exects like Brian Thompson can become multi millionaires. And
here's another post, people wonder why we want these executives dead.
(14:03):
We talked about this yesterday. People have made a martyr
not out of the CEO of United Healthcare, but about
this guy who murdered him. We brought up the movie
John Q, where Denzel Washington, goes into a hospital, takes
a hostage so they will treat his son. And then
(14:24):
as we're talking about how awful this is one of
the worst things possible, one of the worst possible outcomes
I think actually happened. A major insurance company decided to
change a controversial plan. I'm not saying the decision was wrong,
but to do so in the wake of, and because
(14:46):
of a murder of someone else in your industry going hey,
don't shoot us, uh will change our policies. This is
like negotiating with terrorists. Now, so who did what? Anthem,
Blue Cross, Blue Shield reverse to policy that affects those
in New York where this guy was murdered, as well
(15:08):
as Connecticut and Missouri. The plan initially said, and this
hasn't started yet, but initially it was starting this February,
the insurance company would deny claims for anesthesia surgeries that
exceeded specific time limits, part of an effort to make
healthcare more affordable by reducing over billing. The American Society
(15:33):
of Anesthesiologists called this plan egregious and uninformed, calling for
the policy to be reversed immediately. How it was portrayed
in media and social media is that you would go
to the doctor having just been attacked by a land
shark and they need to amputate your leg, and they say,
(15:58):
all right, we're going to give you an anesthesia, but
if this surgery takes longer, then let's see here, eighteen
minutes or whatever, you're just gonna run out of anesthesia
and we're not gonna give you more. We'd ask you
if you wanted more, but you were actually under at
the time, so you're gonna wake up in horror and
pain with the anesthesia running out. Is we're not just
gonna give you anymore because your insurance company is not
(16:20):
gonna cover it, which is a lie. The way this
is promoted is they wouldn't cover anesthesia for the full
duration of surgeries. The reality was there are some surgery
(16:41):
no one was not gonna have their anesthesia covered for
the duration of their surgery. There are some surgeries where
rather than having anesthesiologists who may have just started the
job Tuesday, give you what they think is well based
on the average length of the surgery, ninety nine point
(17:01):
nine percent of the time, we're gonna give you enough
anesthesia to cover it. And then some We don't want
you to run out of anesthesia. You ever had the
anesthesia either not work or run out. Anya, I had
one of my wisdom teeth. They started pulling my wisdom
teeth and I wasn't numb yet. It was excruciating and
(17:24):
hilarious because they also had given me laughing gas. I
don't know if the entire effects of the laughing gas
have worn off. I mean, after all, this only happened
thirty years ago.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
At what point did you realize that your teeth were
not numb yet?
Speaker 1 (17:41):
When they started trying to extract the first wisdom too,
you and I screamed out in pain and then started
howling with laughter.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
But pain first, Pain first, all right, So they got it.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
And yeah, and it was hilarious and excruciating, and they're like, oh,
we don't think he's numb yet. I've been emotionally numb
ever since they hit something. So but there are some
people who they say, well, let's just go ahead and
dope this guy up, which is not the rope bringer
right now. Some anesthesiologists like, what did he say? Let's
(18:15):
just go ahead and dope this guy up for like
five times the length of this surgery and we'll go
ahead and charge this insurance company for it. After all,
we want to make sure he's covered with anesthesia during
the surgery, and the insurance company is gonna pay whatever
we tell him to. No one's gonna come back and
ask us. And the insurance company tried to limit that,
(18:38):
and then how it was promoted was they want you
not to have anthesia for the full surgery, which is
absolutely garbage, absolutely garbage. But after the CEO of United
Healthcare was murdered, people are like, this insurance company doesn't
want you, and so suddenly out of the in the
(18:59):
realm of the quarter public opinion, which is often misguided, underinformed,
and having been lied to by many people, Anthem Blue
Cross Blue Shields said, there's significant widespread misinformation about an
update to our antesthesia policy. But as a result, we've
decided not to continue with the policy. It's cheaper for
(19:20):
them not to get whacked in the court of public
opinion then to do what was necessary to save money
for people who have their insurance, and so they basically
ended up cow telling and negotiating with terrorists. That's what
this company did.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
I disagree you say that they were trying to see this.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
This is why Jesus sends me emails going lucy again. Huh.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Well, let me be clear that the reason the connection
between the murder of this CEO and this new policy
is nothing other than when it probably discovered by a
journalist someplace that started looking into all insurance companies to
find something to talk about. Okay, So they didn't have
(20:06):
it didn't really have any connection to this. There was
no cause and effect on this.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Yes, there was. This is people the person who I
mentioned earlier, this journalist who said, people wonder why we
want these executives dead? And I said, she linked to
a story. This was the story she linked to. I see.
Hours later they changed their policy.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
I see. But the company that implemented this policy, yes,
had done this before this week, or at least you
can't just say, oh, it's Tuesday and we'll have a
new policy out there by Wednesday.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Right.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
So this was happening.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Before, Yes, but it got renewed attention and got the
glaring spotlight of full media and social media scorn. Based
on the continued story here of the murder of the
CEO of United Healthcare, Fine Scott at kfab dot com
and the Zonker's custom was in emails like this one.
(21:04):
Joe in Columbus says, I had the anesthetic wearoff too
soon during my vasectomy. I don't know if that's a
real story or if Joe's just trying to say that
he's endowed and when you're working with this much, you
gotta go overtime on the anesthetic. So thank you, I
(21:26):
think Joe. Brian says, I woke up in the middle
of a colonoscopy and they just pushed my head down
and said, sh I wanted my money back on that one.
And that's from Brian, which may have been the same dynamic,
you know, when you're working with that much, woke up
(21:48):
in the middle of the colonoscopy and they're like, oh no,
just just just a dream. Don't worry, you're You're like
I do to my wife when she suddenly like wakes
up in a bad dream, like sh go back to sleep.
That's why they give you, said Verse said.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Yeah, so that if you do wake up, it might
be a terrible thing, but you won't remember it.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Yeah, isn't that in Verse said that palace in near Paris,
that's for SI. I thought that was as I thought
that was in Missouri. That's for sales, for sales, Okay,
thank you for following on this one. When it comes
to anesthetic, Dave says, maybe we just go back to
Captain Morgan and a bite stick. Yeah, some of us
are already planning on doing that this weekend, but surgery
(22:30):
is not involved now. And then Don says, so, what
happened to that two hours of mirth and joy that
you promised this morning? I didn't promise me, right, Gary
demanded it, and I said, I'll do my best. This
is me doing my best. Well, it's oh yeah, I
(22:56):
was going to talk about Trump's stuff here. Not not
enough to go into a full Trump date, but otherwise
I was about to just go right back into the
health insurance stuff there, based on emails of what we've
been getting here. Now. See, here's the thing. I don't know.
Why didn't Gary say when I was sitting in here
an hour ago, He's like, I think they caught this
(23:17):
guy in New York and I'm looking around, going as
that breaking news. I didn't know that. I thought Gary
said that. I think maybe he was saying he thinks
they have a pretty good read on who this person is.
But to our knowledge here, that individual is not in custody.
They haven't released an identity. They have enough that they
(23:41):
certainly have a trail on this guy. He checked into
a hostile in New York City with a fake ID,
paid in cash, dropped his mask for a moment to
as they say, flirt with a female employee at a hostel.
I don't. I mean, you have an idea in your
hand about what an employee at a hostile looks like,
(24:03):
and you're not sure you would flirt with that person.
Let me tell you this about New York City. The
hotels cost bazillion d dollars. If you want to stay
in the city, if you want to stay anywhere close
to Manhattan, it can cost a ton of money. There
are beds, though, that you can sleep in for a
very reasonable amount of money. These are the so called hostiles.
(24:27):
Now you think of hostile, you're thinking of like some fleabag,
you know, joint in Romania or something where everyone's you know,
sleeping with bed bugs and backpacks and and gypsies and
so forth. Well, it's it's kind of like that, but
it's a it's a cleaner. The bed bugs are very nice,
and the hostiles are actually not terrible in New York.
(24:49):
I was this close to staying in one, just because
I didn't want to pay for a hotel. I was
just going to be sleeping for like four hours before
I got back on a plane after doing something in
New York, and I thought, I'm not going to spend
a bunch of money for a hotel. I'll just you know,
crash here on this bed in this hostel. And then
I thought, you know what, maybe it's better just to
go try and sleep at the airport. So I did that.
(25:12):
But I looked into it, and they're not bad. So
when they say New York hostel, it's not necessarily this
fleabag roach motel you might be thinking of. They do
have those in New York, and some of those even
cost a whole bunch of money. So he goes to
the hostel, fake ID, pays in cash, flirts with an
(25:34):
employee there, dropped his mask for a second because she said,
let me see your smile. I wonder if she knew,
like people who show up here and pay in cash
at this place are probably wanted for a crime. She
knew we had a security camera here. Let's get a
look at your face. I wonder, I wonder she might
be the hero here if they catch this guy. But
(25:54):
right now they haven't caught this guy.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Well, I would think, as you said, that if she
worked there, if she had spent some time there, or yeah,
that's probably exactly what she did, but she probably had
no idea was that kind of a crime.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
Yeah. Maybe I don't know. No, I mean, she hadn't
committed it yet, that he did this before.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Maybe she just does that to everybody.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Maybe, or maybe she thought he had nice eyes and
she was flirting back. I don't know. I guess that happens.
It never happened with me. Scott Boys Mornings nine to
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