When you become friendly with Dr. Raz, you get to call him Mehmet.

So with that said, good morning, Mehmet. How are you, my friend? Good morning. Thanks, I love the song. Love the intro. And Mario, as a friend, so I admire very much the value of that music. Wow, you actually know the singer from Thompson Twins. So you really do know your stuff, Dr. Ross. That's pretty good.

Let me ask you one thing that's out of Lepield. And if you don't know the answer, that's fine. What the hell is going on with Legionnaires disease here in New York? You know anything about that? Or why so many people are coming down with it? We've got four people dead already from that. I have not been tracking it. I know that Secretary Kennedy is all over it.

It came up in a brief conversation yesterday with the acting head of the CDC, Jay Badasharia. So I know they're aggressively managing it. You know, the lesionnaires is linked to air conditioning and where water is being stored in large buildings. So so once the bacteria starts to grow it can be a problem but it's not the first time it's happened and it won't

be the last we just have to aggressively treat it you know it's funny you mentioned uh you with bobby

talking about this meeting yesterday and for folks that aren't paying a lot of attention, you know, they, they do,

they watch low-box news, they listen to me every day. They think that all you guys do is talk

about vaccines or, you know, but when you think about it, or eating or diets, look what you guys

are involved with this Legionaire's outbreak here, you're involved with fraud. So that department

that Bobby Kennedy runs,

and now you become such an integral part of that department's success, you guys have a lot on your

plate, a lot. Well, it's a two trillion dollar plus agency. It's the largest federal agency,

and people don't appreciate that because, you know, we spent a lot of money other things, too, but it's twice the size of the Defense Department. So the Secretary is in

charge of, you know, tons of programs that manage the health of this country, including the

FDA, the NIH, which has all the research, the CDC, which helps with infections like

Legionnaires and the parasite that was causing food poisoning

and lettuce. I mean, these are all different parts of it. My area happens to be the insurance of America

for our public services, so Medicare and Medicaid and the Obamacare exchanges. So we cover

almost 170 million Americans. And that's why just my little part of it

is almost $2 trillion by itself, because the money has to go through us in order to get out

to the people, pay the hospitals, the clinics, and medications, all the different factors to get

involved. And that's why it ends up becoming political quite a bit, because people, you know, like to get upset about health care costs for good reason because they're upset when they go to a pharmacy and they can't afford their medications. That's a good example where the president said, enough, no boss. You know, we don't want one third of people walking out of pharmacies empty handed when a doctor prescribes the med and they can't afford to buy it. That's not good health care.

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