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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, you got a lot of work to do this year,
and I know we can help out. My listening on
it can certainly help out by working with AFP provides
all the guidance you need to get involved in politics.
Welcome back, Donovan. It's a new year, and a happy
new year to you, sir Brian.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
It's going to be a big year, and I'm so
excited to be back at it.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Well, let's yeah, I am too, and I know we're
gonna be talking about the twenty twenty six election a
lot this year. Of course, we've got opportunities here. I
just a little concerned about the typical norm, which is
the party in power loses seats in the House and
in the Senate. And I'm not sure if that's going
to happen this year, but what we do have that
to face. But I'm a little concerned about this because
one of the topics on the list you wanted to
talk about was not returning COVID Era subsidies. Of course,
(00:42):
I just had a conversation by Cincinnati's budget with the
former Vice mayor of the City of Cincinnati. One of
the problems we're having in the city is because the
COVID money dried up and they don't have it to
hang their hat on anymore, so they got a big
hole in their budget. We weren't supposed to be relying
on that beyond the outbreak of COVID. It's long since gone,
and they're still talking talking about subsidies.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Well yeah, and these in particular are these Obamacare subsidies,
right that were enacted that funnel three hundred billion dollars
not to patients, not to actually bring on the premiums,
but to the health insurance companies who are lobbying like
hell as you can imagine, Brian, to keep this in place.
And for some baffling reason, right, Democrats are continuing their
(01:25):
fifteen year march towards saying, if you just give us
a little more time, Obamacare will work. It's not working, Brian,
and we need to keep Republicans from signing onto this
thing and trying to help make it happen, because it's
it's broken, and it's making our healthcare premiums cost so
much more. Look fraud, wasted abuse too, Brian. I'm a
(01:45):
bit fired up about this one because it hit us
instantly at the beginning of the new year. But you know, fraud,
waste and abuse is one of the things they say, Well, hey,
what if we root some of that out and we
really make sure the money goes to the patients This time,
I point to usaid, there's not enough fraud, waste and
abuse protection you could have put into place on that
corrupt slush fund to make it work for whatever intended purposes.
(02:06):
It has the same things here with these COVID subsidies.
There's not a fraud waste of abuse protections you could
put in place. I just don't trust the federal government
to be able to do it right, to make sure
that that money actually goes for its intended purposes. It's
just bad.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Well, I mean, we've been struggling with this whole concept
of funneling money to non governmental organizations and then not
doing any follow up work to see if what they
promised to do is actually been done. That's one element.
But when you talk about USA, it's not just the fraud,
waste and abuse at the end, but it's also the
motivation to give anyone the money in the first place. No,
I don't want to fund shrimp on treadmill research in China.
(02:41):
I mean, what the hell who chose that and who
decided that was a worthy thing to spend taxpayer dollars on.
But it's just a long or one of a long
long list of stupid programs we're paying for, and whether
or not they bore any fruit seems immaterial. The idea
that it even started in the first place is backcrap insane.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Well, yeah, thing with these Biden era COVID subsidies that
Greg Landsman, Congressman Greg Landsman is very likely going to
vote on extending for three more years tomorrow. We don't
need this money going to the insurance companies that annually
jack up premium prices and do nothing, nothing, Brian, to
actually bring down the cost of healthcare. They're incentivized with
this program to enroll people who don't even need health insurance. Right,
(03:23):
we need to just end those programs and focus on
policies that are going to empower patients, for programs like
HSA's that are going to bring price transparency. There's a
lot that can be done, and it doesn't involve just
shoveling billions upon billions of taxpayer dollars over to the
insurance companies continue a failed Obamacare Biden COVID era program.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Well, honestly, all those subsidies do is mask the failure
of Obamacare. The premium dollars cover the money that goes
out the door to cover claims. That's an obvious thing.
It's the way the private insurance market because they so
many people who are sick, and on Obamacare, the expended
goes through the roof. But if you give someone a subsidy,
(04:03):
it masks the actual cost of that by hiding the
increase in premium that would necessarily follow a massive influx
of claims on the program. I mean, it's just the
whole thing was designed to fail from.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
The get go. Well, you know, and that's funny you
say that, because that is that we were saying that
fifteen years ago, right when Obamacare is going in it
is too break. It is to go to house of
cards because you know this, right, Progressives Democrats, the ends
justify the means for them in this case, right, and
so making people pay more in premiums, hurting families with
(04:36):
rising costs to in that march towards a single payer
healthcare system is what they're in the pursuit of here.
And if we extend the subsidies, we're just further fueling
that dysfunction and broken policy making that's going to lead
us to that eventual conclusion. We don't have to go there, though, Brian.
We can turn the page, rechart the course, and actually
(04:56):
enact policies that we know as conservatives are going to
unleash abundance in the healthcare space, again most importantly by
bringing down costs and empowering patients.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Yeah, well, reducing the regulatory burden on the healthcare industry
generally speaking, Michael, A long way to reduce overall costs
of healthcare generally. But who am I to say on that?
Moving over to candidates, we had talked about some of
the statewide candidates that AFP was supporting going into the
November election. How about Zach Haynes.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Yeah, really excited to break the news on this one
here this morning with you. We're going to have a
larger announcement probably next week with a few more races
around the state. But I feel like I come on
your show, Brian, and I tell your listeners about all
these other races we're working on in Toledo and Cleveland
and Columbus, and we've got a real winner here in
southwest OHIOA Zach Haynes. We're excited to endorse him. He's
(05:44):
running for State Senate in the seventh Senate district that's
going to be per State Senator Steve Wilson's being term limited.
Out covers upper north East Hamilton County and all of
Warren County. I don't know if you've had an opportunity
to talk with Zach before, but when he came to
our office, sat down talk with him about some of
(06:04):
the things we need to do to move Ohio in
a big, bull transformational way. I was blown away with
his passion, energy, and I think he's going to be
a real fighter should the voters decide to send him,
to send him to Columbus later this year.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Well, I know Joe Strecker, Executive Executiveroducer will work hard
to get Zach on the program to talk about that,
and I appreciate your endorsement of him and pivoting over.
One more thing to talk about. V v Ramaswami, of course,
currently running unopposed. He's already received the statewide Republican endorsement.
I think that's a lock for v VAK. He has
selected a running mate. What do you know about Rob McCauley.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
So actually, personally, I've known Rob McCauley since he was
a state representative in northwest Ohio and my wife and
I lived up there.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Uh uh.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Rob is a phenomenal conservative. He is somebody who, through
the years that I've known him, being a legislator in
both the House and the Senate and most recently the
Senate president, fight to lower taxes. In fact, his chamber
was the chamber that moved that introduced an amendment to
the state budget that made ohioi flat tax state. That
was the Senate Chamber led by him currently, that got
(07:07):
that into the budget and made it happen. Lowering taxes,
cutting red tape, curbing spending, empowering families with school choice.
Rob McCauley is the true conservative. I mean, he's the
real deal. If you get a meet him, you get
to talk to him, you'll realize that very quickly. And
there were a lot of good folks floated to be
of a Vakes running mate, but I think Rob McCauley
(07:29):
is top tier and is going to be the kind
of guy right if the VEK is that visionary who's
going to chart a bold course for the state. Rob
the kind of guy who understands what it's going to
take to work with the legislature to get that agenda
passed and through, which isn't always a guaranteed thing, even
in a super majority Republican state like Ohio. So I'm
really excited about Rob, not just as a friend of mine,
(07:52):
but as somebody who I've seen legislate, I've seen in
Satin interested party meetings in Columbus with legislators and lobbyists.
He's a real deal and Vivek's lucky to have them.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
As I pointed out when we started talking again, Donovan,
Americans for Prosperities provides an opportunity for the listeners to
really get engaged and get involved. Call to action, Donovan,
where do we need to go to keep up with
things if we want to help out.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Buckeye blueprint dot com. We're going to have a lot
of updates at Buckeye blueprint dot Com over the next
few weeks as we get things fired up for this year.
It's a big year and we're going to need as
many people as we can to lockshields with us and
help make this happen.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Be part of the solution. Buckeye blueprint dot Com work
with AFP Donovan O'Neil. I enjoy our discussions. I'll look
forward to next week with another one. Keep up the
great working again to you and everyone at AFP. A
very happy new.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Year you as well. Brian, Take care.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Seventh thirty nine Here fifty five care see detalk station
coming up next de belzoh go my county Veteran Services.
Gonna talk about
Well, you got a lot of work to do this year,
and I know we can help out. My listening on
it can certainly help out by working with AFP provides
all the guidance you need to get involved in politics.
Welcome back, Donovan. It's a new year, and a happy
new year to you, sir Brian.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
It's going to be a big year, and I'm so
excited to be back at it.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Well, let's yeah, I am too, and I know we're
gonna be talking about the twenty twenty six election a
lot this year. Of course, we've got opportunities here. I
just a little concerned about the typical norm, which is
the party in power loses seats in the House and
in the Senate. And I'm not sure if that's going
to happen this year, but what we do have that
to face. But I'm a little concerned about this because
one of the topics on the list you wanted to
talk about was not returning COVID Era subsidies. Of course,
(00:42):
I just had a conversation by Cincinnati's budget with the
former Vice mayor of the City of Cincinnati. One of
the problems we're having in the city is because the
COVID money dried up and they don't have it to
hang their hat on anymore, so they got a big
hole in their budget. We weren't supposed to be relying
on that beyond the outbreak of COVID. It's long since gone,
and they're still talking talking about subsidies.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Well yeah, and these in particular are these Obamacare subsidies,
right that were enacted that funnel three hundred billion dollars
not to patients, not to actually bring on the premiums,
but to the health insurance companies who are lobbying like
hell as you can imagine, Brian, to keep this in place.
And for some baffling reason, right, Democrats are continuing their
(01:25):
fifteen year march towards saying, if you just give us
a little more time, Obamacare will work. It's not working, Brian,
and we need to keep Republicans from signing onto this
thing and trying to help make it happen, because it's
it's broken, and it's making our healthcare premiums cost so
much more. Look fraud, wasted abuse too, Brian. I'm a
(01:45):
bit fired up about this one because it hit us
instantly at the beginning of the new year. But you know, fraud,
waste and abuse is one of the things they say, Well, hey,
what if we root some of that out and we
really make sure the money goes to the patients This time,
I point to usaid, there's not enough fraud, waste and
abuse protection you could have put into place on that
corrupt slush fund to make it work for whatever intended purposes.
(02:06):
It has the same things here with these COVID subsidies.
There's not a fraud waste of abuse protections you could
put in place. I just don't trust the federal government
to be able to do it right, to make sure
that that money actually goes for its intended purposes. It's
just bad.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Well, I mean, we've been struggling with this whole concept
of funneling money to non governmental organizations and then not
doing any follow up work to see if what they
promised to do is actually been done. That's one element.
But when you talk about USA, it's not just the fraud,
waste and abuse at the end, but it's also the
motivation to give anyone the money in the first place. No,
I don't want to fund shrimp on treadmill research in China.
(02:41):
I mean, what the hell who chose that and who
decided that was a worthy thing to spend taxpayer dollars on.
But it's just a long or one of a long
long list of stupid programs we're paying for, and whether
or not they bore any fruit seems immaterial. The idea
that it even started in the first place is backcrap insane.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Well, yeah, thing with these Biden era COVID subsidies that
Greg Landsman, Congressman Greg Landsman is very likely going to
vote on extending for three more years tomorrow. We don't
need this money going to the insurance companies that annually
jack up premium prices and do nothing, nothing, Brian, to
actually bring down the cost of healthcare. They're incentivized with
this program to enroll people who don't even need health insurance. Right,
(03:23):
we need to just end those programs and focus on
policies that are going to empower patients, for programs like
HSA's that are going to bring price transparency. There's a
lot that can be done, and it doesn't involve just
shoveling billions upon billions of taxpayer dollars over to the
insurance companies continue a failed Obamacare Biden COVID era program.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Well, honestly, all those subsidies do is mask the failure
of Obamacare. The premium dollars cover the money that goes
out the door to cover claims. That's an obvious thing.
It's the way the private insurance market because they so
many people who are sick, and on Obamacare, the expended
goes through the roof. But if you give someone a subsidy,
(04:03):
it masks the actual cost of that by hiding the
increase in premium that would necessarily follow a massive influx
of claims on the program. I mean, it's just the
whole thing was designed to fail from.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
The get go. Well, you know, and that's funny you
say that, because that is that we were saying that
fifteen years ago, right when Obamacare is going in it
is too break. It is to go to house of
cards because you know this, right, Progressives Democrats, the ends
justify the means for them in this case, right, and
so making people pay more in premiums, hurting families with
(04:36):
rising costs to in that march towards a single payer
healthcare system is what they're in the pursuit of here.
And if we extend the subsidies, we're just further fueling
that dysfunction and broken policy making that's going to lead
us to that eventual conclusion. We don't have to go there, though, Brian.
We can turn the page, rechart the course, and actually
(04:56):
enact policies that we know as conservatives are going to
unleash abundance in the healthcare space, again most importantly by
bringing down costs and empowering patients.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Yeah, well, reducing the regulatory burden on the healthcare industry
generally speaking, Michael, A long way to reduce overall costs
of healthcare generally. But who am I to say on that?
Moving over to candidates, we had talked about some of
the statewide candidates that AFP was supporting going into the
November election. How about Zach Haynes.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Yeah, really excited to break the news on this one
here this morning with you. We're going to have a
larger announcement probably next week with a few more races
around the state. But I feel like I come on
your show, Brian, and I tell your listeners about all
these other races we're working on in Toledo and Cleveland
and Columbus, and we've got a real winner here in
southwest OHIOA Zach Haynes. We're excited to endorse him. He's
(05:44):
running for State Senate in the seventh Senate district that's
going to be per State Senator Steve Wilson's being term limited.
Out covers upper north East Hamilton County and all of
Warren County. I don't know if you've had an opportunity
to talk with Zach before, but when he came to
our office, sat down talk with him about some of
(06:04):
the things we need to do to move Ohio in
a big, bull transformational way. I was blown away with
his passion, energy, and I think he's going to be
a real fighter should the voters decide to send him,
to send him to Columbus later this year.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Well, I know Joe Strecker, Executive Executiveroducer will work hard
to get Zach on the program to talk about that,
and I appreciate your endorsement of him and pivoting over.
One more thing to talk about. V v Ramaswami, of course,
currently running unopposed. He's already received the statewide Republican endorsement.
I think that's a lock for v VAK. He has
selected a running mate. What do you know about Rob McCauley.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
So actually, personally, I've known Rob McCauley since he was
a state representative in northwest Ohio and my wife and
I lived up there.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Uh uh.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Rob is a phenomenal conservative. He is somebody who, through
the years that I've known him, being a legislator in
both the House and the Senate and most recently the
Senate president, fight to lower taxes. In fact, his chamber
was the chamber that moved that introduced an amendment to
the state budget that made ohioi flat tax state. That
was the Senate Chamber led by him currently, that got
(07:07):
that into the budget and made it happen. Lowering taxes,
cutting red tape, curbing spending, empowering families with school choice.
Rob McCauley is the true conservative. I mean, he's the
real deal. If you get a meet him, you get
to talk to him, you'll realize that very quickly. And
there were a lot of good folks floated to be
of a Vakes running mate, but I think Rob McCauley
(07:29):
is top tier and is going to be the kind
of guy right if the VEK is that visionary who's
going to chart a bold course for the state. Rob
the kind of guy who understands what it's going to
take to work with the legislature to get that agenda
passed and through, which isn't always a guaranteed thing, even
in a super majority Republican state like Ohio. So I'm
really excited about Rob, not just as a friend of mine,
(07:52):
but as somebody who I've seen legislate, I've seen in
Satin interested party meetings in Columbus with legislators and lobbyists.
He's a real deal and Vivek's lucky to have them.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
As I pointed out when we started talking again, Donovan,
Americans for Prosperities provides an opportunity for the listeners to
really get engaged and get involved. Call to action, Donovan,
where do we need to go to keep up with
things if we want to help out.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Buckeye blueprint dot com. We're going to have a lot
of updates at Buckeye blueprint dot Com over the next
few weeks as we get things fired up for this year.
It's a big year and we're going to need as
many people as we can to lockshields with us and
help make this happen.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Be part of the solution. Buckeye blueprint dot Com work
with AFP Donovan O'Neil. I enjoy our discussions. I'll look
forward to next week with another one. Keep up the
great working again to you and everyone at AFP. A
very happy new.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Year you as well. Brian, Take care.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Seventh thirty nine Here fifty five care see detalk station
coming up next de belzoh go my county Veteran Services.
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