9-6-25 The Weekend Hour 2: Why Is Healthcare So Broken? The Stats.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The night.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
Michael Brown joins me here the former FEMA director talk
show host Michael Brown.

Speaker 3 (00:04):
Brownie, No, Brownie, You're doing a heck of a job
the weekend with Michael Brown broadcasting Life from Denver, Colorado.

Speaker 4 (00:11):
It's the Weaking with Michael Brown. Glad to have you
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at Michael Brown USA. I just, I just I want

(00:34):
to I'm going to invert what I plan to do
this hour because I want to establish the baseline for
you first, and then I want you to go and
then we're going to go back to the Senate Finance hearing,
because then with you understanding like where we are and
the system that we're living in, I think then when

(00:57):
you hear some of the sound bites from the hearing,
you'll realize that several things. I think, when you'll realize
what idiots these politicians are I mean, I'm sorry. There
are very few politicians that I have much respect for.
There's something about once they move inside Interstate four ninety five,
the belt Way, their brains go to mush. And I

(01:20):
think it's because they're too busy just stuffing money in
their pockets. God, I sound like a liberal, don't I. Oh,
it scares me to death sometimes, and I just don't.
I just don't think they're very smart people. I really don't.
And they become so engulfed by the partisanship. Now, as

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for those of you listen to me for almost twenty
years on radio, you know that I pretty much hate
bipartisanship because by partisanship really means that all we're doing
is capitulating to the left. I refuse to do that.
But they become so consumed with their partisanship because they
see the system failing, and their livelihood and their power

(02:07):
depends on continuing to support this system that is failing.
Every single one of us, whether it's whether it's the planet,
or it's the healthcare system, or it's for that matter,
it's the very foundational principles of this country are just
being emasculated by these dufices. So let's think about where

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the country is, and let me walk through Alex Berenson,
whom I think is I don't. And again, it's interesting
that I'm using Alex Berenson because as a former reporter
for the New York Times, you might kind of guess

(02:51):
what his political leanings are, except he's one of the
few people, having left The New York Times that reports
I believe pretty objectively. He's gone through and written an
article about why Congress, the media, and health bureaucrats are

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so desperate to see Bobby Kennedy Junior fail. And in
that story he provides a lot of details that I
think will give you the perspective and the right data
by which to judge whether this hearing was really about
trying to fix our healthcare system or is it really

(03:33):
just about destroying Donald Trump and in the process destroying
Bobby Kennedy Junior. Because he's now become persona non Groana
within the Democrat Party because he went to work for
all people, he went to work for Donald Trump. Now
I think they would have hated him if he'd gone
to work for George W. Bush or Ronald Reagan or

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George H. W. Bush or Trump. One point oh, they
would still been pissed off ad him, but because he
went to work for Trump. Two point oh, it's as
much about him in their minds, not in I don't
think Bobby Kennedy's mind, but in my mind, in their minds, oh,

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he has turned his back on the Democrats. Well, maybe
the Democrats have lost their way. Barnson writes this, the
American health care system is a disaster and it's getting worse.
The truth, he says, is inarguable. With four percent of

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the world's people, this country spends almost as much on
medicine as every other country in the world combined. Yet
our life expectancy trails other wealthy countries, and that gap
is growing. In other words, we're spending as much as
every other country in the world on healthcare, we only

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have four percent of the population, and our life expectancy
is getting worse. Hmmm, Kimmedy Christmas. Does it take a
rocket science? Does it take a doctor, whether it's an
MD or a PhD, to figure out that something's left
up here, something's not working. No, I don't think so.
I think even you can figure that out. I figured

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it out, so if I can figure it out surely
you can figure it out. He points out that the
opoioid disaster is no exception. Pharmacy, he writes, Pharmaceutical and
medical device companies, hospitals, and yes, even many doctors all
have hidden financial incentives that too often guide the care
that American patients receive. Regulators have little power to stop them.

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Patients rarely know they exist at all. Meanwhile, the insurance
companies executives pay themselves eight figure salaries to keep the
bucket brigade moving along. American health care has been in
a crisis for a long time, generations, not decades. And
then he quotes a book that admittedly I've not read yet,
but I'm going to. It was published in nineteen eighty four.

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It won the Pooliter Prize. The book The Social Transformation
of American Medicine, The Rise of a Sovereign Profession and
the Making of a Vast Industry, written by Paul Starr,
And he points out, but the book is great in
explaining how you have all these competing interests. You got

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the doctors, you have the hospitals, you have the insurance companies,
and they've created a systematic healthcare blockade that prevents reform.
And I think, you know, if that's the premise of
the book, based on what I know from having represented
doctors in their practices back when I was practicing law,

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that that's probably an absolute correct premise. Do you know
that last year the federal government spent two trillion dollars
just on Medicare and Medicaid alone, two trillion dollars. Now
that's not counting the tax subsidy that businesses get, just

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like iHeart that I work for for employer paid health insurance,
even though I no longer get my iHeart employer paid
health insurance because they kicked me off the minute I
turned sixty two and become eligible for Medicare. So I'm
one of those that they spend two trillion dollars on.

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That two plus trillion dollars is more than any other
country spends on its entire healthcare system. And remember that
two trillion dollars is solely for Medicare and Medicaid. Do
you want to know why this country's bankrupt? Right there?
And I'm not advocating to get rid of it, but

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you're gonna have to fix it, which means you may
have to grandfather people that are currently on it and
in reform it so that it changes, and in fact
that you may want to get rid of the tax
subsidized employer paid health insurance system. Oh, that's pretty radical,
and that probably scares you. Hell's bells. All that scares
me because it's all unknown.

Speaker 2 (08:33):
What is known.

Speaker 4 (08:34):
The current system is not working. You've got to start
with the premise that the current system is not working.
And Bobby Kennedy one guy. Now, of course he's putting
a team together, but one guy is trying to reverse
that trend. What's the trend that's next? It the weekend

(08:55):
with Michael Brown. Tax line three three one zero three.
Keyword Michael, Michael, follow me on X. What's wrong with you?
Go do it right now at Michael Brown, USA, be
right back.

Speaker 1 (09:10):
Ya.

Speaker 4 (09:10):
So begin with Michael Brown. We're talking about healthcare because
of the Senate Finance Committee hearing on Thursday with Bobby
Kennedy Jr. As the star and only witness, and the
absolute lack of any substantive conversation about how to fix healthcare. Now,

(09:31):
Kennedy tried constantly to insert and overcome all of the
screaming and the hist histrionics of all of the yahoos,
sitting up there on the panel screaming at him because
vaccine this or vaccine that, whatever it was, it was
total insanity, and nobody ever stopped, and she said, wait

(09:55):
a minute, what's going on here. Baron reports that a
back of the envelope calculation suggests that we overspend by
roughly two to two and a half trillion dollars annually
on healthcare, which equates to about six to eight thousand

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dollars for every single American that's Medicare, Medicaid, employer, subsidized
health insurance, private insurance, people not on insurance. Whatever it
might be that we're overspending. If you understand anything about medicine,
go talk to you. If your GP or your family

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doctor will tell you the truth about it, Ask them
about the overhead, Ask them about what they have to do,
all the hoops they have to jump through. Ask them
about their back office operation. Ask about the people they
hire that does that do nothing to deliver health care
to you. I'm not talking about a nurse or a
physics and assistance I'm talking about all the people in

(11:02):
the back office that are doing nothing but dealing with paperwork,
getting pre approvals, dealing with rejections, not getting paid, having
to go back and reestablish, Oh I didn't code this right.
I got to make sure I code it right the
first time, because that's going to delay payment to the
doctor that you know, all of that is doing nothing

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to help with your healthcare access. Payments to hospitals, which
are generally local monopolies or oligopolies hundreds of billions of more.
And if you think insurance companies executives are overpaid, you
got to look at the Form nine to nineties. Go
find a nonprofit hospital, a hospital that claims they're a nonprofit,

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and then go on to the internal Internal Revenue website
or other websites will provide it and down their Form
nine to nine and look at the pay of the
people who run nonprofits. That pay is so high because
they're running defensive care that's driven by lawsuits, which also

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then adds tens or hundreds of billions. Now doctor commits malpractice,
they should be held accountable for it.

Speaker 2 (12:24):
Hmm.

Speaker 4 (12:25):
Why do we believe that doctors who commit malpractice ought
to be held liable for their mistakes, but pharmaceutical companies
get exempt from all liability for anything that goes wrong
with their so called Sarskov two vaccine. Why should the
COVID vaccine have some exemption that says you can't hold

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the pharmaceutical company liable for any adverse reaction or adverse effects.
But yet we'll hold the doctor's liable. Oh I slipped
with a scalpel. Oh but you took a medicine that
harmed you, Yet there's no recourse for you. The buck

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passing just doesn't stop. The insane cost of healthcare is
probably the number one reason that most middle class Americans
feel squeezed in ways that Europeans don't, even though our
per capita income in this country is significantly higher than
that in Europe. Healthcare everywhere you turn, it's healthcare. The

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medical public health industrial complex, which as Baronson points out,
includes most of the media too, is terrified of Bobby
Kennedy and of what he represents. The mere fact that
he was given the job is proof that big changes
changes it will cost money or on the horizon, and

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so the best way for this medical industry complex to
dodge those changes is to demonize him, And so they
do demonize him. Reporters won't give ground even to Kennedy's
most reasonable viewpoints. Such as his dislike of amphetamines for
kids with ADHD typically known as just a nine year

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old kid. They've been around a normal nine year old kid.
They're all hyperactive, they're all crazy. Vaccines have become the
center of the fight. Why because vaccines do play an
outsize symbolic role in public health care. Vaccines are a

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treatment that people get when they're healthy and at a
time when the doctor patient relationship is probably the most equal.
That is, people can decide whether to take them, rather
than feeling pressure to accept the recommendation of a doctor
because their ill need immediate care. You take it before
you get ill. And they're mostly given to children, and

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parents are naturally protective of their children, and so they
follow what the recommendations are, and so vaccines become a
good preventive form of health care. But they also function
as bearing some points out as a proxy for the

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overall trust that people have in medicine. Now vaccine opponents.
Opponents on the other hand, go complete it all derails
the other direction, and they think that vaccines are responsible
for all manner of evils. Increase in autism, for example,
various vaccines for diseases such as measles and mumps have

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been studied for generations and they provide near near lifetime
protection at a very low risk. Most kids who get
measles are not going to die from the measles, but
if we can protect them from measles, we might as
well protect them from the measles. The problem is that
the vaccine fanatics will not compromise, as they have proven
with their unwillingness to admit the failure of the mRNA

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COVID shots, which we know didn't offer anything. It didn't
prevent transmission. The push for hepatitis Bee shots, as I
mentioned earlier, for newborns, is myopic. The Free Press wrote this,
people who are intravenous drug users or who have many

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sexual partners have a higher chance of contracting hepatitis Bee,
which they can then pass on to their babies. And
it's too route to ask people if they shoot heroin
or sell their bodies for sex after they give them birth.
So to avoid things just getting awkward, everyone has to
be treated as if they shoot heroin and sell their
bodies for sex. So help be vax that baby. Now,

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it's insane, utterly insane, But you can't have that rational conversation,
because that makes you an anti vaxer. How does it
make me an anti vaxer? If at my ripoa age,
I were to have a child, I would not want
that child, at you know, the first few weeks of
its life to have a hepatized bee shot, because well,

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my wife can't have children now, but if she could,
she's not out selling your body for sex, and she's
not an ivy drug abuser. So why would I give
a hepatized b vaccine to that child? Why not wait
till his body is matured a little bit before you
do it? Oh, then you must be an anti vaxer. No,
stop that insanity. We're spending too much money, we're dying

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too soon. We're an unhealthy nation. So what do they
talk about? That's next.

Speaker 2 (18:08):
Tonight. Michael Brown joins me here, the former FEMA director
of talk show host Michael Brown.

Speaker 3 (18:12):
Brownie, No, Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job
the Weekend with Michael Brown.

Speaker 4 (18:18):
Hey, welcome back to the Weekending with Michael Brown. Glad
to have you with me. I appreciate you, appreciate you
tuning in. Be sure and follow me on ex formly
Twitter at Michael Brown Usa. We're talking about the Senate hearings,
and how here we are one of the unhealthiest nations
in the entire country, spending literally trillions of dollars on

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healthcare and really not getting much in return for that.
A few footnotes to Barnson's article that I reviewed in
the last Secon. In twenty twenty one, this country spent
four trillion dollars. The rest of the world spend about

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five point eight trillion dollars. That's according to the World
Economic Forum, So thank you for what it's worth. This
year we will surpass five trillion dollars. And yet here
we are with one of the healthiest populations in the
entire country. Obesity, diabetes, early onset dementia, Alzheimer's, any number

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of things, just just unhealthy, fat kids, you know, kids
that are over diagnosed, way too much prescription meds given
to kids that are just trying to be kids. And
I haven't ventured off over into the whole gender dysphoria
issue and the amount of money that we spend in

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all types of verticals. Now the military shut it down,
but prisons again, taxpayers subsidizing transgender under surgeries. Why are
we doing this all of those are costs that you
and I end up bearing. The cost of education in

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this country has become second. The cost of housing is third,
although housing cuts both ways since people who own homes
benefit from these supply restrictions that are going on and
the rising prices right now. So we just economically the
system is just completely screwed up. Yet when it came

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to the hearing, and remember this is the Senate Finance Committee,
and you have a disruptor who's there to testify about
what he wants to do to try to turn things around,
and in so doing, the Democrats decide, well, the best
thing we can do is just to come out and

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attack him. Listen to just a couple of minutes of
his opening.

Speaker 2 (20:59):
Statement this time.

Speaker 5 (21:00):
Thank you Jerman Crapo, and thank you Ranking Member Wide,
and the invitation will be here before the committee today.
Before I summarize, well we've accomplished this here at HHDS,
I want to express my deepest condolence to the family
of Thecalb County Police officer David Rose, who gave his
life to something gunfire attack on the CDC on August age.

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Officer Rose was a veteran. He was a husband and
the father of two children. Officers Rose's widow, whom I visited,
is expecting their third child. I'd like Officer Rose's family
to know that he remains in our prayers and that
he will continue to be in our thoughts.

Speaker 2 (21:46):
Let me start with a big picture.

Speaker 5 (21:47):
Under President Trump's leadership, we at HHS are enacting, at
once in a generation shift from a sick care system
to a true healthcare system that tackles the root causes
of chronic disease. Chronic diseases reached crisis proportions in our country,
and finally we have an administration that is taking action.

(22:08):
The MAHA Report assessment, which the White House released in May,
was the first government analysis of the key drivers of
childhood chronic disease, ultra processed foods, chemical exposures, physical inactivity,
and over medicalization. This month, we will follow with the
MAHA Reports Strategy, the Trump administration solution for addressing each cause.

(22:34):
At HHS, we haven't just been writing reports. We've been
the busiest, most proactive administration in HHS history. In just
half a year, We've taken on food dies, aby formula contamination,
the grass blophole of fluoride in our drinking water, gas

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station heroine, electronic cigarettes, drug tzes, prior authors, information blocking.

Speaker 4 (23:04):
And there you go. He's two minutes into his opening
statement and the crazies come out, because.

Speaker 2 (23:12):
You had to have the crazies in a function.

Speaker 5 (23:14):
Research child mutilation and reducing animal testing. We are addressing
cell phone use in schools, excessive screen time for youth,
the lack of nutrition education in our medical schools, sickle
cell aneme appetitis see the East Palestine chemical spill, and

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many many others.

Speaker 2 (23:37):
At FDA, we are.

Speaker 5 (23:38):
Now on track to approve more drugs this year than
at any time any history. I'm also proud to say
that AHH has under President Trump, is doing more with less.
We have taken measures to fight waste, fraud, and abuse.
Just by eliminating duplicative enrollments and cmas, we are saving

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tax fourteen billion dollars a year.

Speaker 2 (24:03):
Meanwhile, we are.

Speaker 5 (24:03):
Expanding access for people who need it. We are ending
races diversity, equity and inclusion practices and instead focusing on
aiding low income and vulnerable families regardless of their race, which.

Speaker 2 (24:19):
Was the original ten intent of Title ten.

Speaker 5 (24:23):
We're also pouring a billion dollars into head start and
the administration for Children and families. Compassion need not be
the casualty of efficiency. I'd like to highlight some issues
that have not gotten media attention. First, we are doing
our part to fill the President's commitment to stop human trafficking,

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especially of children. We inherited a terrible humanitarian crisis from
the previous administration with its open border policies, which allowed
the appalling loss of four hundred and seventy six thousand
unaccompanied children.

Speaker 2 (25:00):
We have implemented policies.

Speaker 4 (25:01):
Four hundred and seventy six thousand unaccompanied children brought into
this country, no DNA testing, just handed over to sponsors,
no knowledge or understanding of whether there are any familial
ties with those sponsors. Some of those children have been raped,
they've been found murdered, they've been found sexually abused. Four

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hundred and seventy seven half a million children brought into
this country, and we have no idea where they are,
We have no idea who took them, why they took them,
and now we're beginning to learn why they took them.
So he is laid out in his opening statement all
of these things that he wants to fix, and points

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out the problems that we have, and as he says,
this is not just about producing reports but about taking action.
So they produced the MAHA to Make America Healthy Again
report about how sick we are, and then sometime in
the next month or two they're coming out with report
about the steps that they're going to take so that

(26:08):
they can start addressing those health issues. Very methodical, very strategic,
and precisely what you would expect a disruptor to do.
You hire a new CEO, come in, let me understand
the lay of the land, What are the problems, and
now let's spend some time. What are some practical, real

(26:29):
life solutions that will resolve those problems. You would do
it in the private sector, you should do it in
the public sector. That's what these senators are there to understand.
That's what these senators are holding a hearing for to
understand precisely what it is that you're doing at HHS,

(26:53):
such as.

Speaker 6 (26:54):
What safeguards are in place to ensure decisions are based
solely on science and non politics, and how are you
going to make sure doctors and parents can count on
CDC guidance.

Speaker 2 (27:05):
I mean, what point is out right now?

Speaker 5 (27:09):
There's only ten percent of children are complying with the
CDC's recommendation on COVID boosters. Only fifteen percent of healthcare workers.
So Americans have lost faith in CDC and we need
to restore that faith. And we're going to do that
by telling the truths and not through propagand, but by
making them understand that everything that we say it's true.

Speaker 2 (27:32):
That we're going to tell them what we.

Speaker 5 (27:33):
Know, We're going to tell them what we don't know,
and we're going to tell them what we're researching and
how we're doing it.

Speaker 4 (27:40):
And we're going to be transparent. It's the only what
more could you ask for? Just be transparent? Uh, tell
us about drug approvals, tell us about their efficacy, tell
us about whether or not they're they're worthwhile, tell us,
re reinstall, reassert our confidence. It's in the scientific method,

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Hell's bills. If they could just do that, most of
the other problems would resolve themselves. Do you think that's
what they care about? Do you think that's what they
were talking about. If you do, then maybe you didn't
hear the entirety of the hearings.

Speaker 1 (28:24):
No, you're saying that there are problems with what was interpreted.
You could say yes, do you succeed observe the.

Speaker 2 (28:29):
Press deserves Nobel Prize.

Speaker 5 (28:31):
But m r NA says that we're working on the
ones that we canceled with.

Speaker 2 (28:37):
Her for upper respipore infections alone.

Speaker 1 (28:40):
You are you canceled five hundred million dollars of research
because the M and R, the mr NA technology is
about continuing the research to be ready for the next
flu influenza, the next pandemic, and you have to do that.

Speaker 2 (28:58):
I'm happy to do. We have a discussion with you're
so wrong.

Speaker 1 (29:03):
Your interrupted me and sir, you're a charlatan. That's what
you are. You're the ones who conflate chronic disease with
the need for vaccines. The history on vaccines is very clear.
This is the twentieth century. That's how many people had
vaccines and had illnesses. This is the twenty first century.
This is the decrease ninety nine percent down to one

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hundred percent. This is what was delivered with vaccines. And
you don't want to support that. You don't want to
support that evidence. So, yes, the governors of the West, Washington, Oregon,
and California will take up the efficacy of science. Yes,
the University of Washington will deliver the science that America
will depend on because you don't want to depend on it.

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And his own Surgeon General of the Trump administration said
over two million lives were saved because the mRNA technology,
and you you don't want to continue that. You don't
want to continue that technology. So what country is going
to now take up that technology lead? What country is
going to do that leaving us more vulnerable to some

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other country keeping the advantage on having the best technology.
So I'm telling you I represent a state that's about technology.

Speaker 2 (30:20):
I have two other quick questions.

Speaker 4 (30:24):
She's wrong. The RNA proved to be absolutely ineffective for
a virus, for an upper respiratory virus, so it needs
to be studied further. That's not saying that you can't
adapt it. You can't change it, you can't modify it.

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But no, just because you say no, we're not going
to we're not going to do it for upper respiratory
viruses until we have more evidence, that's denying the scientific method.
I'll be right back. Welcome back the weekend with Michael Brown.
Glad to have you with me. I appreciate you tuning in.

(31:07):
So what do you make of this kerfuffle? That occurred
on Thursday. Any time that you want to make change
inside the Beltway, you're pushing the noodle up the hill
because the system does not want to change. The system
is comprised primarily of Congress Article one of the Constitution.

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While they are equal branches of government, Congress still remains
probably the strongest in terms of the power of the purse.
They pass the laws that turn over to advocate their
own authority to write rules and regulations to the bureaucrats
to write the rules and regulations. They do all of

(31:52):
the spending, and so they have the ability to open
a path for change, but they refuse to do so. Now,
I'm a firm believer that if any company, any individual
wants to contribute a bazillion dollars to someone's campaign, they

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should be able to do that. If I want to
write a check to Elizabeth Warren for ten million dollars,
I should do that, be able to do that, as
long as it's disclosed, immediately disclosed that Michael Brown gave
Elizabeth Warren ten million dollars. In fact, considering my background,

(32:35):
if I gave Elizabeth Warren ten million dollars, that might
cost her her senate seat because everybody would go, oh
my god, Michael Brown supports her, I'm voting against her. Likewise,
if Pfizer or some other pharmaceutical company wants to give
Elizabeth Warren ten million dollars, then I think it should
be publicly disclosed immediately. Now there are ways where they

(32:57):
do that, but it's not immediate. It takes time for
those campaign contributions to become public. And if we had
a media, if the cabal was absolutely you know, actually
out there reporting as opposed to covering for them, if Pfiser,
and I'm just picking on Pfiser because they, you know,
they advertise everywhere. If Pfiser gave ten million dollars, or

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Moderna or Jay and Jay, any of the big three
that made the stars KOV two JAB gave ten million
dollars to a United States senator, and that was immediately
reported and reporters actually asked questions, why so much money?
And you know, because at some point it becomes so

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much money that you have to question, what are you
doing here? Even if it's like with Michael Bennett, the
senior senator from Colorado, even if it's a million dollars.
I think it was like seven when I last checked
on OpenSecrets dot org. I think it was close to
eight hundred thousand dollars and Elizabeth Warren was a little

(34:02):
over eight hundred thousand dollars. But in the grand scheme
of things, that's just one pharmaceutical company, and there's a
whole list of them when you go on to open secrets.
So what are the pharmaceutical companies getting getting in exchange
for that, Well, they got the evisceration of Bobby Kennedy
Junior at the hearing. We can't have conversations. I want

(34:29):
a US senator. I don't think I have Michael Bennett
in my folder this morning. But if I had Michael Bennett,
because he was the one that he was one who
was just, I mean literally screaming at Bobby Kennedy Junior.
And I found myself screaming at the television shut up

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and sit down. Why don't you ask a question? Why
don't you ask a legitimate question and give him an
opportunity to respond. But of course they don't want the response,
and they use as their excuse, well I don't have
a time. I've only got three minutes to ask questions. Well,
you have three minutes or five minutes. I don't care
pick your poison. You have five minutes to ask questions,

(35:12):
so you make sure that you only have two questions,
both of which are at least two minutes or two
and a half minutes, which gives the witness, Bobby Kennedy Junior,
about thirty seconds to answer. Then you can cut him
off and go on to the next question. It's all
for show, all for show, which gets back to my
story about how these hearings work. They're not going to

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change anything. I truly believe they won't change anything. They
hate Bobby Kennedy, some Republicans hating too. They hate Donald Trump.
Trump is a disruptor. He's trying to change things, as
is Kennedy. And meanwhile, you and I are just fighting

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with insurance companies. We're arguing with our doctors, trying to
get our doctor to do something. The doctors probably want
to do it because they're controlled by some you know,
corporation that's now bought out their practice, so they're practicing,
you know, check mark medicine, and we just continue to
get sicker and sicker and sicker. I think that this

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is one of the existential crisis the country faces I
would we face a lot of the existential crisis, but
I would put it all under the number the I
would put it all into the umbrella that it's protecting
our rights. It's our fiscal policies, it's our healthcare policies,
it's our climate policies. All of these things are designed

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to do. What keep control of the population, keep control
of what you and I think and how we act.
Not acceptable, absolutely unacceptable. Hang tight, I'll be right back