AOC’s Catastrophic Collapse + Rep. Andy Barr
Ruthless Podcast
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🗓️ 17 February 2026
⏱️ 85 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | AOC is an interesting task case. |
| 0:03.2 | The Munich Security Conference was basically her coming out party on the world stage, |
| 0:08.0 | and boy, was it humiliating. |
| 0:09.5 | Look at this. |
| 0:10.5 | Would and should the U.S. actually commit U.S. troops to defend Taiwan? |
| 0:16.0 | You know, I think that this is such a, you know, I think that she has literally no idea what she's talking about. |
| 0:28.1 | We want to make sure that we are moving in all of our economic research and our global positions to avoid any such confrontation. |
| 0:37.8 | AOC has developed like a new strategy, and that is instead of answering the tough question, |
| 0:42.7 | you say, well, we're actually, we're never going to have to have that happen because we're going |
| 0:48.3 | to do things with the research and things to avoid that. |
| 0:52.1 | And it just becomes a disaster. |
| 0:57.2 | Let's talk about the cost of health insurance in America. United Health Group reported a profit of 12.1 billion in 2025, |
| 1:03.8 | while Americans from C to Shining C paid higher premiums were denied coverage or delayed treatments. |
| 1:10.6 | It's not fair. That's why Congress recently |
| 1:14.7 | held hearings with the CEOs, the big health insurance companies, at which Ways and Means |
| 1:20.2 | Chairman Jason Smith noted, the largest health companies are not just insurers. They're also |
| 1:26.7 | medical providers and pharmacies. They're also PBMs. |
| 1:31.1 | They are increasingly controlling every aspect of our health care system. President Trump recently |
| 1:38.9 | announced he would be calling a meeting of the health insurance CEOs to address higher health |
| 1:44.0 | insurance prices. |
| 1:45.8 | It's precisely the kind of action Americans need. To quote Congressman Smucker from Pennsylvania, |
| 1:51.5 | for health insurance companies, the margins are protected, but for patients, their experience is |
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