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November 12, 2025 15 mins
Obamacare is in jeopardy at the moment due to the government shutdown and a potential vote. Does the Trump administration have a plan to put more money in Americans' pockets by redoing the healthcare system?

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is seven to ten or boy, the Mark Simoon
Show starts now.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
Well, oh, yesterday, well it was no I mean a
couple of time going to act actual snowflakes him and
I was freezing a little warmer today. It'll get back
into the fifties this weekend. That's good news. We got
a lot to get to. We'll get to Chuck Schumer
the end of his career. We'll get to Mamdani the
beginning of this Meyrill nightmare of his. We'll get to

(00:29):
another new Democrat candidate that's absolutely frightening. We'll get to
We'll get to everybody loves Raymond. They got big news there.
We'll get to the next media attacks that are coming,
the media doing it. Used to be report the news.
Now it's spend all day trying to get Trump on something.
We'll tell you what's what's coming next. The shutdown. The

(00:53):
vote will take place in the House later today that
will end the shutdown. They'll vote to end it. I
know there some people talking about posing some Democrats say
they will not go along with it. They'll end up
they'll end up ending it today. The vote will be
successful and the shutdown will end tonight probably six seven
o'clock somewhere around there, and then air traffic control will

(01:17):
start to get better. The air traffic controllers have to
come back. It's a slow process. It won't be probably
till Monday that gets back to normal. They'll start coming
back slowly over the weekend. Here's the Transportation Secretary Duffy.

Speaker 3 (01:30):
We had four staffing triggers today.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
On Saturday, there were eighty one.

Speaker 4 (01:35):
I think Sunday was fifty three.

Speaker 2 (01:38):
So real issues. I don't know what he's talking about.
They love to use that jargon staffing triggers, AH, staffing
trigger who knows what the hell that is.

Speaker 3 (01:48):
But air traffic controllers are seeing and end to the
shutdown and feel more hopeful, and they're coming in to
their facilities.

Speaker 4 (01:56):
So we're grateful to them for all that they're doing.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
Yeah, some some when they weren't getting paid, you know,
they get paid for forty days, and some wouldn't work
without getting paid. They just called in sick. But some
even without getting paid, felt the duty to come in
and they did. And President Trump said he will try
to get each one that came in and worked during
the shutdown, get them a ten thousand dollars bonus, so
that'll be a good news. Once the shutdowns over, everybody

(02:20):
gets paid. Everybody gets their back pay, so nobody loses
a penny on this. And then the big issue then
after the shutdown, the Democrats got nothing out of it,
but nobody ever does no party, Republicans or Democrats. Fourteen
shutdowns never done any good for one side or another.
The shutdown caucus is oh for fourteen. It never accomplishes anything.

(02:43):
You could argue that one thing Democrats got out of
it is though, and they'll tell you this, well, the
one thing they got out of it. And now we've
brought the focus back the healthcare Obamacare, the Affordable Care Act,
fixing it. We brought the focus back on that. That'll
be in the spotlight. That's what one. But at some

(03:03):
point people just start to realize, wait a minute, there's
something this Obamacare was obviously a failure. First of all,
they called it the Affordable Care Act. If it's so affordable,
why would you need a subsidy. It's supposed to be
affordable by definition. But the other thing is people are
starting to realize, wait a minute, the fact that we're
talking about it, the fact that it's a major issue

(03:24):
means it's not working. If it was working great, you
wouldn't be hearing about it. It wouldn't be an issue.
The fact that it's an issue, the fact that you
had to shut down a government over it, means it's
a disaster. It's not working at all. It's a big problem.
President Trump keeps talking about, you know, redoing it. Come
up with something else. You know, people say, well, where's

(03:45):
the plan, what's the plan? He doesn't have one yet.

Speaker 3 (03:47):
But.

Speaker 2 (03:49):
You know, and he's not a healthcare expert, but he
certainly got a lot great a lot of people there
that are and they could come up with something much better. Remember,
President Trump's the only president ever in history who took
office having already run healthcare plans. You know, he's a
guy that had ten thousand employees and lots of companies
and lots and lots and lots and lots of people

(04:11):
to get healthcare for so over forty years he's been
buying and getting healthcare plans. And when you do that
for a major company with thousands of employees, you've got
to meet with these healthcare planned companies and go over them.
So he's got some exit's minor compared to a government
healthcare plan. But he's got more experience at this than
any other president ever has. Here he is on the.

Speaker 5 (04:33):
Premiums have gone up like rocket ships, and I'm not
just talking about recent I want instead of going to
the insurance companies, I want the money to go into
an account for people with the people buy their own
health insurance. It's so good, the insurance will be better,
it'll cost less. Everybody's going to be happy. They're going
to feel like entrepreneurs are actually able to go out
and negotiate their own health insurance.

Speaker 2 (04:54):
Yeah, okay, I mean that sounds good on paper, it
doesn't actually always work in reality now. But the thing is,
if let's say it's costing you one hundred thousand per
person to give them the healthcare, it might be cheaper
just to here's thirty thousand go out and buy regular healthcare.
So he's got something there. He hasn't got it figured out,
but he's got something there. Here's the real problem with Obamacare.
The idea was you'd make everybody go on it, and

(05:17):
then all the people under forty never need anything. They
don't have any big medical expenses, so they're just pumping
money in and that's paying for the older people who
need the services. But courts looked at that and it
looked like the courts were going to rule against that,
saying you just can't mandate it. You can't force people

(05:37):
onto healthcare. But so before the courts even got to that,
and it was the twenty seventeen legislation, they removed the mandate.
They just knew it wouldn't hold up, so that there
was no more mandate. And if younger people don't have
to get the healthcare, they don't because they don't get sick.
So without all the young people paying in, it was
just old people taking money out. So the Obamacare system

(06:00):
collapsed under the weight doctor Oz, I mean, he's one
of the guys that knows a little about this kind
of stuff, will help try to fix it. Here's doctor Alost.

Speaker 3 (06:08):
I'm going to share with you numbers that will blow
your mind. And these are the actual numbers from CMS.
We believe four point four million people are not appropriately
enrolled in Obamacare, which means they're phantoms. They don't know
they have the insurance, they don't want the insurance, they
didn't need the insurance. They're already enrolled in some other policies,
so we as taxpayers are paying for four point four

(06:29):
million people to have full benefits for no good reason.

Speaker 2 (06:32):
That's the other problem. If the government runs the healthcare.
Government has tended to be sloppy, stupid, and you know,
the private sector, it's their money, so they police themselves
a lot better.

Speaker 3 (06:41):
It's over eleven million people who have Obamacare never use
their policies. They don't buy medications with it, they don't
see doctors and use it, which means they often don't
know they have it. And yet we're still stuck with
the bill. The President doesn't want that anymore. He wants
to waste fraud in the views taken out of the system.
He wants to take care of the people getting the
ACA Obama Cares insurance, and we want to bring privatelycarried

(07:04):
people into the system as well. And that's what he's
talking about. Let Americans use their money wisely.

Speaker 2 (07:09):
That's a good argument. You know, government overpays like ten
thousand percent for things, you know, a simple thing like
pav in the highway. If the private sector does it
pave a a mile of highway forty thousand dollars, when
the government does it a million, a mile. I mean,
he's just overpay for everything, so it's a good argument. Now,
Hakim Jeffreys, that's silly. The House leader of the Democrats,

(07:35):
such a dumb guy, but he was asked about what
doctor Oz said.

Speaker 1 (07:39):
Here, Nobody who's serious in this country takes doctor Oz seriously,
no one, And I mean it's shocking that the guy
even was confirmed. I'm not going to respond to any
comments from Randalls like doctor Oz, who is woefully unqualified
to be in whatever position he holds any administration.

Speaker 2 (08:01):
He's a joke. That's pretty funny, actually, I think. I
just think of doctor Oz, one of the greatest heart
surgeons in America, an incredible medical career at all the
top hospitals. You couldn't have a bigger career as a
doctor or in the medical world. Hakim Jeffries IQ of
ninety ninety five maybe never did a thing in his life,

(08:25):
doesn't know anything, has no skills, so he had to
go in a government. Think thinks Oz as a joke.
Hakim Jeffries. Oz has literally, well almost literally double the
IQ of Hakim Jeffries.

Speaker 3 (08:37):
You know he didn't understand the message.

Speaker 2 (08:39):
Well his eyes responding to Hakim Jeffries.

Speaker 3 (08:41):
You know, he didn't understand the message. That's an important one,
so he tried to attack the messenger with an ad
hominem approach. But you know, that's not how you deal
with the challenges that twenty four million people are facing
now because the Democratic Party has not been able to
really put forward a program that could work. Just throwing
more money at it is not a strategy that's attacked
that has already created immense amounts of fraud in the system.

Speaker 2 (09:03):
Yeah, very good point. Now I say nothing came of
the shutdown, Well, some good came out of it. We're
probably going to get rid of Chuck Schumer. His term
is till he doesn't run for reelection till twenty twenty eight,
so he actually serves till January of twenty twenty nine.
That's three more years of this guy. But the good
news is Democrats can't take three more years of this guy.

(09:25):
They want to remove him as House leader, a Senate leader.
They want to remove him as the Senate leader, which
will be a huge humiliation for him. President Trump, I
just went too far.

Speaker 5 (09:34):
He thought he could break the Republicans, and the Republicans
broke him. We have good policy. They have bad policy,
and there's something I don't know if it's Trump derangement
or they just crazed. They're like crazed lunatics. But you know,
we have just great policy.

Speaker 2 (09:49):
Yeah, now Schumer's finished. They all hate him. The high
falutin Morning Joe, Rachel Maddow type shows, the John Stewart,
they're going after him like crazy. But even the dumb Show,
even the low IQ shows, and sometimes they're a better
barometer because if the low IQ shows have figured it out,
that means everybody has like listen to the view when
they talk about Chuck Schumer.

Speaker 4 (10:09):
So the bottom line is the Democrats went into this
after a blue wave out of the American people saying
we do want the opposition, the working people want the
Democratic Party to fight for them, and now they just
cave and surrendered. I think Chuck Schumer his days are
over and he cannot put that and he cannot keep
Hawcketts together. If he cannot keep hisquokets together, he needs

(10:32):
to go.

Speaker 2 (10:33):
He needs to be Yeah, the audience applotting wildly to
get rid of Chuck Schumer. Hey, there's a lot of
media attacks coming against Donald Trump. You're gonna be hearing
about these for the next day or two. First is
Jeffrey Epstein. You're gonna keep hearing about secret emails, undiscovered
email he knew emails have emerged. Epstein says, Trump knew

(10:54):
all about everything, about the women, about all of it. Well,
none of this is true. It turns out they're talking
about there their emails where he's writing. Michael wolf the sleezy,
dirty tabloid writer, the sleezy, dirty gossip writer, contact at
Epstein at some point and Epstein's writing back and forth.
Now everybody knows about Michael Wolfe, I mean people that

(11:15):
deal with him. Guy will say anything about Trump. You
if you don't believe me, just go check his Instagram.
Every day he makes an Instagram video where he's sitting
in a different part of his house or he's in
his backyard looks like the Hamptons and he's just sitting
there bad mouthing Trump the worst attacks in the world.
None of them are true. Go back and watch the
old ones. You'll see nothing he said ever came true.

(11:36):
And he's written two books about Trump, and he gets
himself on every Sunday show. It just makes up crap
about Trump and a lot of times people a lot
of people that are media savvy. When you get one
of those guys, one of those reporters, writers calms that
will print anything and they don't really verify it. They'll

(11:57):
print anything you tell them. You know, you can tell
him anything, so you just make up crap and tell him.
You know, if you're talking to some very very top
journalist the world, you gotta be careful. You know, if
you tell him something that's not true, he's gonna check
it and then he's not gonna trust you anymore. But
when you're talking to him Michael, well, if you can
tell him anything and he'll he'll run with it. So
that's Epstein talking to Wolf. And it's just it's it's

(12:20):
just nonsense. It's this is back in twenty nineteen, so
it's years ago. It was two thousand and sixteen or
twenty eleven or something. It's way way way back. It's
it's a long time ago. And he says Trump Trump
knew about all the girls. Well, he probably did, because
I remember way back when, twenty years ago. More than that,

(12:41):
Trump warning me and other people to stay the hell
away from Epstein. In fact, I mean I knew Epstein
not well. But I one reason is Trump and two
other people who you wouldn't know, always warned me stay
away from this guy. Hey, don't go near this guy.
And then the other thing is there about mar A
law Go. You know, Trump banned Epstein from mar A

(13:04):
Lago when Epstein first got to Palm Beach as a
very wealthy guy. When you're a wealthy hotshot and new
to Palm Beach, first thing you do is you joined
mar A Lago and he was spending a lot of
time there, but he was hitting on a young girl
that worked in the locker room. Turned out it was
the daughter of a member. Trump went crazy, banned him,
threw him out of the club, never spoke to him again.
So you're going to see one of these emails. Epstein

(13:28):
tells Michael Wolfe. I was never a member of mar
A Lago. I was never a member. As if Trump
were lying now, it could be was never a member
because back in those days, if you were a friend
of Trump's you didn't have to be a member. You
could go anyway. It wasn't that formal. Whenever you wanted
to go, you just called Trump's office and they would
put your name on at the gate to come in
anytime you want. You you'd call Rona or before that,

(13:51):
you'd call Norma and you could go to mar Alagoa.
A lot of his friends just went there, some of
them famously not paying for anything, charging everything to Trump.
But you do that back then, So don't trust any
of these emails. Now. The other thing that's going to
come out, you know, Letitia James is in big trouble
mortgage fraud. They came up with all this stuff. She

(14:11):
lied and lied to the bank, lied to you know,
mortgage fraud. She claimed it would be a primary residence
when it couldn't be set it on several documents. This
is all fraud and it also is going to lead
to indictments for a tax evasion all that kind of stuff.
So they're going to start to go after this that
somehow whoever got these documents and dug up this fraud,

(14:32):
got them illegally, that it was illegal for them to
even see these documents or get them. So they're going
to try all that. You're going to see that coming
the next few days. They're also going to be going
after cash Patel for they're gonna claim he leaks stuff
or he revealed stuff too early. They're also going to
go after his use of private jets. You know, look
at this he went it's got a girlfriend in the

(14:55):
Puerto Rico or someplace. He went down there twice to
see her and took private jets both times. Well, a
lot of private jet use. But you're gonna the truth
is as FBI director, he's not allowed to fly commercial.
That's the that's the rule, that's the law. He's got
to fly on a private jet at all times. So
now President might still be unhappy that he's using private

(15:19):
jets a little too much, but so expect these attacks
to come. We'll get to Mom Donnie coming up. He's
done a couple of interesting interviews yesterday. What he's going
to be up to. Democrats have somebody even worse than
Mom Donnie. They're about to unleash on us. We'll get
to that coming up, and a whole lot more. Hey,
and if you use open table, we're going to warn
you about a few things coming up, and we'll take

(15:41):
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