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Kurtz vs. TV Doctors, Siding with China on Speech? Pelosi’s Bizarre Lie

April 27, 2020 by GregC

Listen to “Kurtz vs. TV Doctors, Siding with China on Speech? Pelosi’s Bizarre Lie” on Spreaker.

Join Jim and Greg as they examine media critic Howard Kurtz’s call for TV hosts to rely on infectious disease experts to assess the coronavirus instead of more familiar faces. They also hammer “The Atlantic” and two law professors for concluding that China’s crackdown on internet speech is a better way to go than America’s default towards free speech. And they unload on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for lying about opposing Trump’s China travel ban and for suggesting Trump was wrong even to allow American citizens and green card holders to return from China.

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Filed Under: congress, Constitution, Foreign Policy, Health Care, Journalism, News & Politics Tagged With: Atlantic, China, coronavirus, doctors, internet, Kurtz, National Review, Pelosi, speech, Three Martini Lunch, travel

Why Health Care Is Broken and How to Fix It

October 21, 2019 by GregC

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Politicians keep fighting over how to help Americans pay for their health care. But why is health care so expensive in the first place?

In his new book, “The Price We Pay,” Johns Hopkins University surgeon and Prof. Marty Makary details the epidemic of overtreating and overcharging patients.

In this podcast, Makary tells Greg Corombos why doctors often order treatment when none is actually needed. He also burrows down into why patients are stuck with astronomical medical bills without ever knowing the costs before treatment.

Makary explains why ideas like pointing patients towards healthier lifestyles, showing doctors how often they order treatment compared to their peers, and price transparency are among the keys to bringing competition and results back to the health care sector.

Listen to the full podcast here.

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Filed Under: Podcasts Tagged With: billing, doctors, health, hospital, Makary, medicine, news

Obama’s Cuba Impact: Repression of People & Enriching Castros

January 16, 2017 by GregC

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President Obama’s thawing of relations with Cuba has already drawn plenty of criticism, but a prominent Castro critic says Obama’s actions in his final week will only serve to increase repression in Cuba while enriching the coffers of the Castro regime.

On Friday, the Obama administration announced it would no longer accept Cubans into the country if they arrive in the U.S. without a visa.  For years, the American policy had been to accept refugees who reached our shores but turn back those encountered off the Florida coast.

For critics of Obama’s earlier overtures, this latest move is another major slap in the face.

“It is very significant.  It is another cave-in by Obama to Castro,” said Humberto Fontova, a prominent author and journalist who fled Cuba as a boy while his father was imprisoned.

However, he says it’s not the so-called “wet foot, dry foot” policy shift that enrages him the most.

“Folks, this is a smokescreen.  This is cover.  This is camouflage for the real issue here,” said Fontova.  “What Obama did along with this is he abrogated the doctor asylum program.  Read the fine print, folks.”

At issue is the Cuban policy of “Doctor Diplomacy,” which Fontova describes as Cuba sending doctors to many friendly or third-world nations in exchange for large sums of money pumped into the Cuban treasury.  He says the doctors get less than 10 percent of the money and their families are “held hostage” while they’re abroad.

In 2006, President George W. Bush instituted the aforementioned asylum program, allowing those Cuban doctors to defect to the U.S. by strolling into any one of our embassies around the world.

“That was costing the Castro regime dearly because what the host country would have paid for these quack doctors was being lost.  It’s estimated this was bringing in about eight billion to the Castro regime,” said Fontova.

He says that money will flow more freely again now that Obama has reversed the Bush policy.

Fontova also points out that Obama is not clamping down on all Cuban entering the U.S.  Those with visas are welcome, and he says how those visas are distributed is a scandal in itself.

“Here’s the kicker.  The issuance of those visas is outsourced by Obama to the Castro regime.  The U.S. embassy in Havana leaves it up to Castro to decide who is going to get these visas,” said Fontova.

He says the visa recipients are chosen specifically to fleece the American welfare system for the benefit of Cuba, a strategy that Obama helped make easier by easing the U.S. remittance policy toward Cuba early in his administration.

“They sprint off the plane, run straight to the welfare offices, apply for the U.S. welfare benefits, which can total $1,200 a month, and almost immediately start wiring that money back to Cuba,” said Fontova.

“It’s estimated that last year four billion dollars flowed from the U.S. to Cuba, thanks to Obama opening that lifeline and thanks to those so-called refugees that the Castro regime chooses,” said Fontova.

In his farewell address, President Obama took credit for opening “a new chapter with the Cuban people.”  Fontova says that new chapter means even more suffering for the Cuban people.

“The real horror of this is that repression in Cuba is at a 20-year high.  The last two years, in other words coinciding exactly with Obama’s opening, have coincided with a wave of terror against Cuban dissidents,” said Fontova, who says the Cuban government feels emboldened to persecute dissenters since it know there will be no negative reactions from the U.S.

And thanks to Obama refusing to accept refugees who make it to U.S. shores, those dissidents have no way of escape.

“The Cubans who Castro didn’t want to come to the U.S., genuine refugees, folks who jump on two pieces of styrofoam tied together.  Those people will be prevented from coming, but the Cubans who Castro wants to come over here because they’re a cash cow for him will continue coming,” said Fontova.

He says the Cuban dissidents point the finger of blame at Obama.

“Do you know that Cuban dissidents have been protesting in Cuba wearing Obama masks?  They’re saying it’s his fault.  Naturally, that hasn’t been reported in the mainstream media, but it is all Obama’s fault, Cuban dissidents keep telling us,” said Fontova.

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