Will the Bill Kill NE's Hospitals? / Diddy Verdict

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Scott vorgiez. Only thirty six percent of Democrats say that
they're extremely or very proud to be an American. Where
is it that you want to live? What is it
that you want to see happen here that you don't
see happening here? Why do you look at everything from

(00:23):
the temperature, Oh, it's climate change. We've got kids, based
on what we're hearing from today's youth, who get depressed
and anxious because it's hot outside during the summer. It's uncontrollable,
man made climate change. And we've got to do something
about it. What I don't know, it's something they say.

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We've got people who are lying to you saying that
based on what the United States Senate did yesterday, we're
going to see hospitals closing across Nebraska. It's just I mean,
whether it's law enforcement, the military, the those evil Israelis
who are just creating a genocide in the Middle East,

(01:06):
everything that's happening right now, you've got people right now
responding to it saying this is just a terrible time
to be alive. It makes me very sad, but I
can't do anything about trying to prop up people who've
just decided they've made a conscious choice to be depressed.

(01:31):
I'm not talking about depression. I'm talking about a conscious
choice to be sad, depressed, overwhelmed, anxious, angry, frustrated about
everything that's going on. Because Donald Trump is the president
of the United States, because Donald Trump is even allowed
to exist, let alone be president of the United States,

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some people have just made a decision that this is
how they want to be. And I don't blame them.
In some instances, you look at the news, you look
at some of these people, and I see this story here,
it's in the Omaha World Herald today that says more
than one hundred thousand Nebraskans. And now we start using

(02:19):
language like could lose health coverage. Well, some of these
hospitals and medical facilities might close. Yes, it is possible
that every single hospital in Nebraska could close. I don't
know what's going to happen tomorrow. I don't think that
any of that's happening based on this bill. They're talking about,

(02:40):
the big beautiful bill which got kicked back to the
House yesterday based on the Senate vote. So now they're
going to start screwing around with it for the next
couple of days. They still think the President's going to
sign this thing, and tax cuts will be extended to
Americans as of Friday when the President signs it. But
we're looking here at the accusations about Medicaid cuts. We

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covered a little bit of this in yesterday's program, but
they're looking and the specific example cited here in the
story from the Omaha World Herald is the Webster County
hospital that they say will likely close based on the
Medicaid cuts. Webster County Hospital is in the thriving community

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of Red Cloud. If you don't know where Red Cloud is,
that is south central Nebraska, not far from the Kansas border.
And this nurse who works at the facility says, well,
we're already working in the red and so this hospital
might close down. And then if the hospital in Red

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Cloud closes down, then well, people are going to have
to seek care elsewhere. They might have to drive forty
miles north to Hastings. So if you call nine to
one one with a heart attack, it's gonna be maybe
forty forty five minutes until you get to the nearest hospital.
Let's see, forty miles north. I guess the presumption is

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you have a heart attack and you're gonna drive the
speed limit. I can make that drive in twenty eight minutes.
Let's go. If you're having a heart attack, let's go.
But there are other options available to you in that area.
Within an hour of red Cloud. If we're just looking

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at hospitals within an hour of Red Cloud, there are
thirteen hospitals. This one might close. In a community where
the population I mentioned a moment ago is thriving, it
isn't like a lot of rural Nebraska communities. It is
anything but thriving. There are a number of reasons why
that is. But in a number of Nebraska's rural communities

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they don't have hospitals at all. So you could look
at many different towns across Nebraska and say, well, if
you have a heart attack in this community, it could
be half an hour that you're gonna have to go
before you're able to get to a hospital. Yes, and
if that's important to you, then don't live in that community.

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Or here's a better idea. You look at the accusations
here that due to the Medicaid cuts from those evil
Republicans and that more evil Donald Trump, due to these
Medicaid cuts, we're going to have hospitals closed. The presumption
is that people who are currently on Medicaid will not

(05:38):
be on Medicaid. And now, rather than getting a very
small reimbursement from the federal government, these people will now
be without healthcare coverage. They're all going to have heart attacks,
probably every couple of days, and they'll all be crowding
into the hospitals, going my heart, my ventricles, you know,

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and we're gonna have to do some care for them.
And now, rather than getting a small reimbursement from the
federal government, we'll be getting no reimbursement from the federal government.
How are we supposed to operate when all the people
living here in the community are currently on Medicaid, and
now that the federal government has told people, if you're
an illegal immigrant, you're no longer getting medicaid. If you're

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of working age and you can work but don't work,
you're no longer getting medicaid. Are there really three thousand
people in Red Cloud, Nebraska who are sitting there, either
illegal immigrants or working ability not working. We're not talking
about those who've got who are elderly, who are disabled,

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who've got small kids, We're not talking about those people.
We're talking about people who are in the country illegally
and people who are eligible to work but choose not to,
who will be told you've got to work, You've got
to be able to provide for yourself. Are there that
many people in and around Red Cloud, Nebraska, as the

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example given in this Omaha World Herald story, that are
all going to be having heart attacks every single day,
crowding into the hospital and we're like, well, we don't
have any place to put these people. Is this the
biggest reason why this hospital might close, why rural Nebraska
hospitals are in trouble? Or is it because we have
d incentivized nurses to work in their local hospitals during COVID.

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That's not something to just gloss over, but I'm going
to gloss over it. During COVID, we told medical professionals,
unless you get this shot. That some medical professionals thought,
I don't know if that's the best decision for me.
I don't know if I would want that for any
patient of mine, let alone myself. And they're like, well,
you either get the shot or you get fired. And

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they all got fired. So many of them got fired.
We lost so many staff members because they didn't see
it as a good idea to get an experimental shot.
You can argue the merits of the shot one way
or the other all you want. The reality is a
lot of medical professionals didn't get it and they got fired.

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The ones who were working were so overstaffed that people
came in and said, I know that you're absolutely overwhelmed
with responsibility here. How would you like to go from
hospital to hospital across the country where in need is
greatest and make three times more money than you're making
right now? And they're like, can we do that really?

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And they said absolutely, And so we now have this
traveling nurse group that goes all over the country making
a lot more money, meaning when, for example, Webster County
Hospital in Red Cloud, Nebraska, needs staff, rather than paying
the people who had been working there their regular salary,
now we're bringing people in from across the country or

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across the street who used to work there for this
much money, now we're paying them three and four times
more to work there. Because that's what happened during COVID,
and that's what the marketplace has now decided we need
to do for medical staffing, and so things got so
much more expensive that they couldn't afford all the people
in there. And they say, well, we're at ninety three

(09:18):
percent capacity because we shut down several areas of the
hospital because we didn't have the staff to be able
to take care of people. These are the reasons why
rural hospitals are in trouble. One of the big reasons
why rural and all hospitals are in trouble is because
of we have more people on Medicaid. The Medicaid reimbursement

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from the federal government is much less than one hundred
percent of what you pay or your health insurance pays
when you go to the hospital because you have a
heart attack, or a piano falls in your head, or
you're attacked by a shark in Grand Island, or whatever
might happen. When you go to the hospital, your medical
bills are paid by your health and shre ssurance at

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a rate of one hundred plus percent because they got
to pay for you and everyone else's either doesn't have
health insurance or has Medicaid with a very very low
federal reimbursement rate. When we kick people off of Medicaid
who shouldn't be on it. There's more money from Medicaid,
the reimbursement rate to these hospitals like Webster County Hospital
in Red Cloud, Nebraska, might be a whole lot more

(10:23):
than it is now. This could be a tremendous thing
for this community. Well what about all the people who
are in the community illegally who aren't going to have
Medicaid anymore. Well, sorry to suit, but it's me talking
through gritted teeth. Sorry to say it, but maybe they
shouldn't be in that community, or better yet, maybe we

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find a way for those who are in the country
illegally but aren't otherwise criminals, who are working members of
the community to be able to pay some fines, some
documentation is provided. I don't know, there's got to be
a better way forward than just self deport or get
rounded up by Tom Holman and sent to El Salvador.

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But since we're not doing any of that, we continue
to have this problem where people are in the country
illegally and they're just crowding into medical facilities with no
health insurance or low reimbursement rate Medicaid that's been extended
to them, when that shouldn't be happening because that's taxpayer
money and crowd these hospitals and make life miserable for

(11:32):
the health community for them because they're all in the
emergency room with hangnails and no health insurance. This is
no way to run a country. President Trump has been
trying to do something about it. Republicans in this bill
are trying to do something about it. And we've got
advocates saying, well, we're gonna have to close all the hospitals. No,

(11:56):
you are not either ignorant or lying. And I'm sorry
to say I believe these people are lying. I don't
know why. I don't know why other than they're subject
to the same problems that so many other people are
in this country. To go back to my first point
in this segment that says there's a very small percentage,

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especially of those who are not in the Republican Party,
who are proud to be Americans. As a very is
a small and embarrassingly small percentage of Americans who like
being an American. And so much of the reason is
they just hate Trump. They hate Trump, so they hate
the country. They hate Trump, so they lie about what

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might happen with the medical facilities in the state of Nebraska.
Based on what's going on in this bill. The acquittal
on the most serious charges, but guilty charges on a
couple of other things related to engaging in prostitution and
so forth. Sean Puff, Daddy p Diddy d D Combs

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found guilty in a couple of charges. We'll get the
latest done what all that means from Fox News at
ten o'clock KFAB News Update and then at ten oh
five your next chance to win one thousand dollars. I
will have the keyword for you right here. I'm Scott
vor He's there's Lucy Chapman Scott atkfab dot com and

(13:22):
the zonker's custom would inbox Randy emails and the subject
line is Comb's clown Sean Combs. Randy says, I'm one
of those people who've never heard of this miscreant. After
some general media explosion, I had to do some research.
This clown is a talentless pultroon, pultroon whose contribution to

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society is equally worthless. Why is he a thing? Oh yes,
the wonderful sewer known as social media and the Internet,
and this human waste is revere so spirals down Western society.
Reminds me of those talentless excuses for entertainment at every
Super Bowl. I don't know why you'd say that about

(14:11):
the Kansas City Chiefs. I think maybe he's talking about
the halftime show. But Randy, thank you for that assessment.
I you're certainly inclined to feel that way, and I
don't necessarily blame you. I would say that Puff Daddy's
been around for a long time, well before social media

(14:36):
became a thing, kind of at the dawn of the Internet.
I've never been a big fan of any of his music,
But I just I don't understand why this trial. Is
it my imagination or has the trial been going on
for like a month and a half. It's been going
on forever, and you just I had the idea that

(15:00):
the longer it goes on, the less that it would
be likely. I think that he ever would be found
guilty of any major crimes, not to say that transportation
to engage in prostitution is a lesser crime. I don't
think my family or my work would be too impressed
if I were found guilty of that, and that's why

(15:21):
I work so hard to cover my tracks. But you know,
he's he didn't kill anybody there's no racketeering guilty charge here.
So what we had here was a guy who had
a pretty interesting lifestyle, and that was basically his defense.
The defense attorneys, they're like, all right, so Sean Combs

(15:42):
would throw these parties and he'd pay all these people
to engage in various acts of orgy and debaucherie right
there as he would be this Caligula type figure in
the middle of it. What's your defense to this? And like,
that's his lifestyle? No one. I mean, people do say
that about me, but usually it's Scott. It's it's only

(16:07):
nine thirty. Why are you going to bed? Well, that's
his lifestyle, but it's Scott. It's Saturday night. Don't you
want to go out and tune it up for a
night out. No, my client is not interested in that.
You're gonna need to contact him well before nine thirty
to see if he wants to go out and do something. Yeah,

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but all of his old friends are here. It's gonna
be a good time. That's great. My client would have
preferred it have been at about seven or seven thirty
and not nine thirty. He's already had his pajamas on
at home for an hour and he's not going to
be taking them off and going out at this point.
Why is that? Well, that's his lifestyle. So I get

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the defense charge about Sean Ditty's lifestyle. It turns out
his lifestyle was a little different than mine, a little different,
but that was the defense anyway. As this trial went
on for weeks and weeks, not to mention the months
or years of lead up to it, I couldn't help
but think, this is a courtroom. It's not a Hollywood courtroom.

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It's not a make believe courtroom. It's not a courtroom
setting in a rap video. It's a real courtroom with
real attorneys and a real jury and a real judge,
and a real space that could have been used for
someone else to have their case heard for whatever it
was that they felt had happened to them, or you know,

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someone had stolen from them, or someone had withheld payment
for something to make any number of things. Someone could
have been hurt in Manhattan and they were waiting for
a courtroom to come free so they could have their
case heard. And probably every single day it was someone like, Hey,

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are we going to be able to go to trial?
We're gonna be able to get to the courtroom this week.
Now it turns out the jurors want to look at
more of these sex videos that apparently are in abundance
during the Puff Diddy trial, How did the jury being
sequestered in a room watching smut for hours and hours

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on end, not in and of itself, turn into a
scene that Puff Daddy would have been like, Yeah, now
That's what I'm talking about? Or am I not supposed
to have these thoughts out loud Scott Voy's mornings nine
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