December 10, 2025 • 11 mins
Sen. Scott touts his "More Affordable Care Act" and talks about his resolution to condemn socialism, which was blocked by Senate Democrats.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, good morning, and thanks for having us with
you through the holiday season. Brian enjoying some extended time off,
well deserved, well, much needed to and he'll be back
with us just after Christmas. In the meantime, I do
have his stories. And right now, Senator Rick Scott is
going to be talking to us his more Affordable Care
Act being introduced in the US House as the chairman
(00:21):
of the Senate Special Committee on Aging. Scott's plan, we'll
give American families the flexibility to choose coverage that fits
their individual needs by increasing transparency in the system. And
you know, we have the Senator on the show prior
to Thanksgiving to talk about this subject. He's back with
us this morning. Thanks for joining joining us.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Senator.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
It looks like yours and President Trump's proposal is moving forward,
at least in action in the in the US capital.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Yep. And the well, first off, as the President said,
which he's right, we stop giving the money to insurance
companies and actually give it to individuals. Think about this
for a second. We care about you know, we care
about people and make sure they have food. Right, we
give them food stamps. We don't give them to the
grocery store and say, why don't you show up and
give these Give the people that need some help the
(01:10):
food they need. No, we give to the individual. I
want people to get health care. We don't need government,
We don't need insurance companies that tell us how to
do it. We give if we want to help somebody,
which we should, because I grew up in a family
that couldn't afford health care. I watched my mom struggle
with the health care for a little brother that had
had a disease. She finally got found a charity hospital
(01:33):
four hours away. We've got to get people health care.
Give them the money, let them buy what they want,
let them negotiate prices. Let them if they say money
over a twenty year period of time, then they can
take that money out do something like that. Don't get
to keep throwing this money at the insurance companies. This
is Obamacare is a complete failure. Obama said, Oh, you
(01:55):
get to keep your doctorate. Lie, you get to keep
your plan. Lie, you're gonna say, twenty five hundred was
a family unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Lie.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
The prices of skyrocket, So let's fix it. That's what
I have a plan to do. The Republican Study Committee,
led by August Sluger in the House is supporting this,
and so I think we have a shotty getting done.
President Trump agrees with me. Give them money to the
individual that needs help.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Yeah, that's exactly what the President is saying. He's saying
that he will support or approve. The only healthcare that
he would support or approve is sending the money directly
back to the people. Nothing going to what he calls
the big fat rich insurance companies who made trillions ripped
off America. Long enough, the people will be allowed to
negotiate by their own much better insurance. Power to the people.
(02:43):
And Brian, I have to give credit to Brian for
doing the stats. He pulled these numbers up. In twenty
twenty five, the average employer is paying just under seventy
eight hundred dollars towards an employee's health insurance plan, just
over twenty thousand for the family plan the average. And
he says, imagine if rather than that seventy eight hundred
to twenty thousand being paid directly to insurance companies that
(03:06):
were to flow right to your health savings account. That's
kind of how this works, right. It's kind of like
an hsay, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
It's your money. I mean, think about it. It's your money. Right.
When you work for a company and they pay you
your health insurance, that means they're going to pay you
less in salary. Right, So it's your money. Let you
figure out how to spend the money, and you'll figure
out how to do it better than somebody else's mind.
Like every family's a little bit different, Like you know,
(03:34):
everybody you know be black. Like in healthcare, Oh, people
can't make good decisions. My mom had an eleventh grade education.
In my adopted dad is sixth grade. They were smart.
It's hiding a lot of school people are smart. Let
them make their own decisions. They'll figure this out.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
And we should point out that you know this, this
is the topic that we're talking about as Democrats and
Republicans are talking about the ACA subsidies, and I'm hearing
that there are Republicans that actually want those Obamacare subsidies
to continue. Why why would that be because we we
we're hearing all this talk about it. It's just they're
(04:09):
not a good thing.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
They think about this for a second. So, so Obamacare's
that was set up one hundred percent by Democrats. So
what happened is when Biden took over, he's all, oh gosh,
she's pright. The temiums for in church are going up.
Let's mask this. So they did it through these They said, oh,
we have a COVID problem. We're going to give you
extra money because of COVID. Well, COVID's over. It was
(04:31):
all to mask. But here's what they're saying. Here's what
they want to do. They want to they want somebody
making twenty bucks an hour, right, butts in their button
making twenty bucks an hour, right, taken overtime if they
can get it to make ends to meet. They want
to take some of that person's tax dollars and give
it to somebody. Make it a quarter of a million dollars,
maybe worth a million, has a million dollars in the bank.
(04:52):
They want to subsidize their health care, so so they
masked the costs so they're you know, they're big rich
friends can feel good. That's and then there's unbelievable. There's
four to six million people that are signed up and
the insurance companies are get the money. Didn't even know
they have insurance.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
And we should point out that we should point out Senator,
and we have Senator Rick Scott speaking with us on
his More Affordable Care Act. And this is an idea
that you know initially comes from from President Trump. I
don't know if you're probably putting your own kind of
twists and turns on it, I would assume, but uh,
you know, this is something that folks would get their
(05:34):
their money rather than having it go directly the insurance companies.
And I know Brian asked you this last month when
we had you on, but I just want to kind
of reiterate, to have you reiterated here. Let's say you
didn't want to buy insurance with it, but you instead
wanted to pay for your own health care. So you know,
you go without aside from catastrophic coverage. But you you know,
(05:54):
you you have a cold, you could take it and
use it to go to the doctor or whatnot.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Absolutely, and by the way you'll shop, you'll shop. If
I need an MRI, well can I get one at
a different place with us expensively. You know, we shop
for food, we shopped for housing, we shop for cars,
we shop for everything. But they don't think we're smart
enough to shop for health care. I mean, this is
(06:20):
the craziest thing in the world. Right, if we want
people to get health care, and by the way, if
you want to go buy a catastrophic plant and then
you take your time to figure out how to live healthier, right,
you know, you know, find the best price for a
drug you need that and save yourself money and you
(06:41):
get to put money in your bank eventually. What's the
harm in that, Well, maybe insurance companies won't make as
much money. That's not our problems. What we should be
focused on how do we get people health care? Not
help your insurance that makes them that they get to
set all the rules how you get healthcare?
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Now, I know you have Congressman Fluger introducing this in
the House. Any any word on what kind of support
this this is garnering? Are you hearing from other folks
on a lot of people?
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Yeah, that's a big It's the biggest group in the house.
So so i'm I'm I'm very optimistic this this is
the only thing that works. Everybody says, well, we gotta
get we got to focus on affordability. This does it.
Masking the cost and having the government pay for something
doesn't make it more affordable. It makes it different who's
(07:37):
paying for it? And by the way, you paid for
it through taxes. You paid through it through inflation. We
but we're running two trillion dollar a year deficits. Balance
the budget. I balanced a budget when I was governor.
I balanced it every year. I worked into a bitch
of big budget deficit. Sport had not been balancing in
(07:59):
his budget for forty years. I balanced a bunch. You
guess what, yah, I did it. I said, we're not
going to spend more than we take in. What do
you do at your house? Why can't your government do it?
Because oh they want to. Let's give some money here,
Like right now, I'm fighting. I'm fighting all these earmarks. Okay,
how about three million dollars we're going to give this
appropriation is built three million dollar gift for the Fifth
(08:21):
Avenue Committee, an organization is for Chuck Schumer, and I
thought we won the election, by the way, an organization
known for blocking development projects and driving out costs and
pushing for socialized housing in New York. How about a
seven one thousand dollars another Democrat wish list, taxpayer money
for a physician group known for trying to ban gas stoves.
(08:41):
I thought we won the election. So I'm fighting. I'm
fighting to try to get better healthcare, fighting to try
to stop this unbelievable, wasteful spending.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
You mentioned socialism. I just want to cover another topic.
Yesterday you on the Senate floor called for the unanimous
passage of a resolution condemning socialism. Of course, I'm doing
the math here. January first, I think it's twenty two
days away from now. That is when New York is
getting ready to swear in the Democrat self about democratic
(09:15):
socialist zorn mumdani as mayor so talk about your resolution.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Well, it's real simple. We said we believe in capitalism,
we're anti socialism. Right, it's real simple. The Democrats blocked it.
How could you block a resolution that opposes socialism? Fee
what socialism always ends up with death? To keep the
power of this socialist in power, they have to start
(09:46):
killing people because they get fed up. What's going on
in Cuba, or what's going on in Venezuela. Now they're
putting people in prison and torturing them, what's going on
in Russia, I mean all these places. If you go
against these socialist dictators and China, if you go against them,
they eventually kill you. I got a seventy seven year
(10:08):
old friend in prison in China right now. Why because
he was against you know, the Chinese government. So we,
like in the United States, we don't want to stand
up for capitalism and fight socialism. Democrats blocked it on
the center floor. I mean, this is the most this
most fascinating thing to me that the Democrats are now socialists, you.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Know, Senator. One thing that we all hear so often
from folks, the anti capitalists and folks that are for socialism. Hey,
let's try it out. Kind of kind of mentality when
when you talk like this, they will tell you, well,
it's never been done the right way. We know how
to do it the right way. What's your answer to that.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
You've heard that, Well, it's never worked. Named the right
way is Cuba's the right way, with Stalin's the right
way with Miles, the right way is the Maduro is
the right way. I mean, name one that's work. It
does not work. It's never worked. The only way they can,
the only way it can keep in power is by
killing the people that oppose it. It always ends up
(11:10):
in depth and it's not a little bit. It's not
a few number of people that they kill. It's millions
of people. That's how that's the only way they got
to control the media. They got to control with the
information you have. They got to control what you say,
what you think, and eventually, if you're still not convinced,
they'll kill you.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
I'm back to your More Affordable Care Act. Where would
somebody go to find out more about this?
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Go to go to aging dot Cendate dot gov and
you can get it right there. It's the agent conveying
the Senate. Or you can, you know, go to Rick
Scott dot dot gov. You can get give it a place.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
All right, Senator Rick Scott, thank you for joining us.
Appreciate it.
All right, good morning, and thanks for having us with
you through the holiday season. Brian enjoying some extended time off,
well deserved, well, much needed to and he'll be back
with us just after Christmas. In the meantime, I do
have his stories. And right now, Senator Rick Scott is
going to be talking to us his more Affordable Care
Act being introduced in the US House as the chairman
(00:21):
of the Senate Special Committee on Aging. Scott's plan, we'll
give American families the flexibility to choose coverage that fits
their individual needs by increasing transparency in the system. And
you know, we have the Senator on the show prior
to Thanksgiving to talk about this subject. He's back with
us this morning. Thanks for joining joining us.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Senator.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
It looks like yours and President Trump's proposal is moving forward,
at least in action in the in the US capital.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Yep. And the well, first off, as the President said,
which he's right, we stop giving the money to insurance
companies and actually give it to individuals. Think about this
for a second. We care about you know, we care
about people and make sure they have food. Right, we
give them food stamps. We don't give them to the
grocery store and say, why don't you show up and
give these Give the people that need some help the
(01:10):
food they need. No, we give to the individual. I
want people to get health care. We don't need government,
We don't need insurance companies that tell us how to
do it. We give if we want to help somebody,
which we should, because I grew up in a family
that couldn't afford health care. I watched my mom struggle
with the health care for a little brother that had
had a disease. She finally got found a charity hospital
(01:33):
four hours away. We've got to get people health care.
Give them the money, let them buy what they want,
let them negotiate prices. Let them if they say money
over a twenty year period of time, then they can
take that money out do something like that. Don't get
to keep throwing this money at the insurance companies. This
is Obamacare is a complete failure. Obama said, Oh, you
(01:55):
get to keep your doctorate. Lie, you get to keep
your plan. Lie, you're gonna say, twenty five hundred was
a family unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Lie.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
The prices of skyrocket, So let's fix it. That's what
I have a plan to do. The Republican Study Committee,
led by August Sluger in the House is supporting this,
and so I think we have a shotty getting done.
President Trump agrees with me. Give them money to the
individual that needs help.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Yeah, that's exactly what the President is saying. He's saying
that he will support or approve. The only healthcare that
he would support or approve is sending the money directly
back to the people. Nothing going to what he calls
the big fat rich insurance companies who made trillions ripped
off America. Long enough, the people will be allowed to
negotiate by their own much better insurance. Power to the people.
(02:43):
And Brian, I have to give credit to Brian for
doing the stats. He pulled these numbers up. In twenty
twenty five, the average employer is paying just under seventy
eight hundred dollars towards an employee's health insurance plan, just
over twenty thousand for the family plan the average. And
he says, imagine if rather than that seventy eight hundred
to twenty thousand being paid directly to insurance companies that
(03:06):
were to flow right to your health savings account. That's
kind of how this works, right. It's kind of like
an hsay, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
It's your money. I mean, think about it. It's your money. Right.
When you work for a company and they pay you
your health insurance, that means they're going to pay you
less in salary. Right, So it's your money. Let you
figure out how to spend the money, and you'll figure
out how to do it better than somebody else's mind.
Like every family's a little bit different, Like you know,
(03:34):
everybody you know be black. Like in healthcare, Oh, people
can't make good decisions. My mom had an eleventh grade education.
In my adopted dad is sixth grade. They were smart.
It's hiding a lot of school people are smart. Let
them make their own decisions. They'll figure this out.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
And we should point out that you know this, this
is the topic that we're talking about as Democrats and
Republicans are talking about the ACA subsidies, and I'm hearing
that there are Republicans that actually want those Obamacare subsidies
to continue. Why why would that be because we we
we're hearing all this talk about it. It's just they're
(04:09):
not a good thing.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
They think about this for a second. So, so Obamacare's
that was set up one hundred percent by Democrats. So
what happened is when Biden took over, he's all, oh gosh,
she's pright. The temiums for in church are going up.
Let's mask this. So they did it through these They said, oh,
we have a COVID problem. We're going to give you
extra money because of COVID. Well, COVID's over. It was
(04:31):
all to mask. But here's what they're saying. Here's what
they want to do. They want to they want somebody
making twenty bucks an hour, right, butts in their button
making twenty bucks an hour, right, taken overtime if they
can get it to make ends to meet. They want
to take some of that person's tax dollars and give
it to somebody. Make it a quarter of a million dollars,
maybe worth a million, has a million dollars in the bank.
(04:52):
They want to subsidize their health care, so so they
masked the costs so they're you know, they're big rich
friends can feel good. That's and then there's unbelievable. There's
four to six million people that are signed up and
the insurance companies are get the money. Didn't even know
they have insurance.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
And we should point out that we should point out Senator,
and we have Senator Rick Scott speaking with us on
his More Affordable Care Act. And this is an idea
that you know initially comes from from President Trump. I
don't know if you're probably putting your own kind of
twists and turns on it, I would assume, but uh,
you know, this is something that folks would get their
(05:34):
their money rather than having it go directly the insurance companies.
And I know Brian asked you this last month when
we had you on, but I just want to kind
of reiterate, to have you reiterated here. Let's say you
didn't want to buy insurance with it, but you instead
wanted to pay for your own health care. So you know,
you go without aside from catastrophic coverage. But you you know,
(05:54):
you you have a cold, you could take it and
use it to go to the doctor or whatnot.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Absolutely, and by the way you'll shop, you'll shop. If
I need an MRI, well can I get one at
a different place with us expensively. You know, we shop
for food, we shopped for housing, we shop for cars,
we shop for everything. But they don't think we're smart
enough to shop for health care. I mean, this is
(06:20):
the craziest thing in the world. Right, if we want
people to get health care, and by the way, if
you want to go buy a catastrophic plant and then
you take your time to figure out how to live healthier, right,
you know, you know, find the best price for a
drug you need that and save yourself money and you
(06:41):
get to put money in your bank eventually. What's the
harm in that, Well, maybe insurance companies won't make as
much money. That's not our problems. What we should be
focused on how do we get people health care? Not
help your insurance that makes them that they get to
set all the rules how you get healthcare?
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Now, I know you have Congressman Fluger introducing this in
the House. Any any word on what kind of support
this this is garnering? Are you hearing from other folks
on a lot of people?
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Yeah, that's a big It's the biggest group in the house.
So so i'm I'm I'm very optimistic this this is
the only thing that works. Everybody says, well, we gotta
get we got to focus on affordability. This does it.
Masking the cost and having the government pay for something
doesn't make it more affordable. It makes it different who's
(07:37):
paying for it? And by the way, you paid for
it through taxes. You paid through it through inflation. We
but we're running two trillion dollar a year deficits. Balance
the budget. I balanced a budget when I was governor.
I balanced it every year. I worked into a bitch
of big budget deficit. Sport had not been balancing in
(07:59):
his budget for forty years. I balanced a bunch. You
guess what, yah, I did it. I said, we're not
going to spend more than we take in. What do
you do at your house? Why can't your government do it?
Because oh they want to. Let's give some money here,
Like right now, I'm fighting. I'm fighting all these earmarks. Okay,
how about three million dollars we're going to give this
appropriation is built three million dollar gift for the Fifth
(08:21):
Avenue Committee, an organization is for Chuck Schumer, and I
thought we won the election, by the way, an organization
known for blocking development projects and driving out costs and
pushing for socialized housing in New York. How about a
seven one thousand dollars another Democrat wish list, taxpayer money
for a physician group known for trying to ban gas stoves.
(08:41):
I thought we won the election. So I'm fighting. I'm
fighting to try to get better healthcare, fighting to try
to stop this unbelievable, wasteful spending.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
You mentioned socialism. I just want to cover another topic.
Yesterday you on the Senate floor called for the unanimous
passage of a resolution condemning socialism. Of course, I'm doing
the math here. January first, I think it's twenty two
days away from now. That is when New York is
getting ready to swear in the Democrat self about democratic
(09:15):
socialist zorn mumdani as mayor so talk about your resolution.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Well, it's real simple. We said we believe in capitalism,
we're anti socialism. Right, it's real simple. The Democrats blocked it.
How could you block a resolution that opposes socialism? Fee
what socialism always ends up with death? To keep the
power of this socialist in power, they have to start
(09:46):
killing people because they get fed up. What's going on
in Cuba, or what's going on in Venezuela. Now they're
putting people in prison and torturing them, what's going on
in Russia, I mean all these places. If you go
against these socialist dictators and China, if you go against them,
they eventually kill you. I got a seventy seven year
(10:08):
old friend in prison in China right now. Why because
he was against you know, the Chinese government. So we,
like in the United States, we don't want to stand
up for capitalism and fight socialism. Democrats blocked it on
the center floor. I mean, this is the most this
most fascinating thing to me that the Democrats are now socialists, you.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Know, Senator. One thing that we all hear so often
from folks, the anti capitalists and folks that are for socialism. Hey,
let's try it out. Kind of kind of mentality when
when you talk like this, they will tell you, well,
it's never been done the right way. We know how
to do it the right way. What's your answer to that.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
You've heard that, Well, it's never worked. Named the right
way is Cuba's the right way, with Stalin's the right
way with Miles, the right way is the Maduro is
the right way. I mean, name one that's work. It
does not work. It's never worked. The only way they can,
the only way it can keep in power is by
killing the people that oppose it. It always ends up
(11:10):
in depth and it's not a little bit. It's not
a few number of people that they kill. It's millions
of people. That's how that's the only way they got
to control the media. They got to control with the
information you have. They got to control what you say,
what you think, and eventually, if you're still not convinced,
they'll kill you.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
I'm back to your More Affordable Care Act. Where would
somebody go to find out more about this?
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Go to go to aging dot Cendate dot gov and
you can get it right there. It's the agent conveying
the Senate. Or you can, you know, go to Rick
Scott dot dot gov. You can get give it a place.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
All right, Senator Rick Scott, thank you for joining us.
Appreciate it.
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