Obamacare Equals Expensive NO CARE, Why Democrats Hate Fetterman & Antifa at TPUSA Week In Review

The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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🗓️ 15 November 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Healthcare Policy & Obamacare
- the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), caused premiums to skyrocket instead of reducing costs.
- Discussion of President Trump’s stance on healthcare reform, emphasizing Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) as a solution to empower individuals rather than insurance companies.
- Includes a tweet from Trump advocating for HSAs and opposing corporate welfare for health insurers.
- Stock performance data of major health insurance companies since Obamacare passed, highlighting massive profit increases.
Government Shutdown & Political Divide
- Commentary on the recent government shutdown, blaming Democrats for prolonging it.
- Portrays Democrats as controlled by “Marxists” and “radicals,” contrasting Republican values of individual freedom and choice.
- Mentions internal Democratic Party conflicts and leadership struggles.
Legislation Preview
- Introduction of the “Deporting Fraudsters Act of 2025”, aimed at making welfare fraud a deportable offense for illegal immigrants.
- Provides statistics on SNAP and public benefits abuse by non-citizens, estimating billions in costs over a decade.
Profile on Senator John Fetterman
- Highlights Fetterman’s dissent from mainstream Democratic positions, especially his strong pro-Israel stance.
- Discusses his recovery from a stroke and the backlash he faces from within his party.
- Suggests growing incompatibility between being pro-Israel and being a Democrat.
Campus Violence & Radical Groups
- Reports on violent protests at a Turning Point USA event at UC Berkeley, allegedly funded by far-left organizations.
- Mentions Antifa involvement and chants celebrating the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
- References DOJ investigation into funding sources behind these protests and university administrators’ alleged complicity.

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.6	Guaranteed Human.
0:05.2	Welcome, it is Verdict with Ted Cruz weekend review.
0:08.6	Ben Ferguson with you, and here are some of the big stories that you may have missed
0:11.4	that we talked about this week.
0:13.0	First up, Democrats, they're pretty upset over the government shutdown, but what they're
0:18.6	really upset about is your subsidies.
0:21.5	Billions and billions of dollars in payouts going to insurance companies that are getting rich.
0:27.9	Obamacare is broken, known as the Affordable Care Act.
0:31.9	It's anything but, and we'll explain it to you.
0:34.6	Also, why are Democrats so angry with John Federman for just doing the right
0:40.1	thing and saying it's time to open the government? We'll explain that as well. And finally,
0:45.9	more violence as Antifa attacks at a turning point USA gathering. It's the weekend review,
0:53.3	and it starts right now. And the president,
0:56.4	he was in a good mood, but he was expressing his views emphatically as he always does.
1:02.9	Yeah. By the way, for people that have ever done a phone call, like if you've never gotten to
1:06.0	do this, he does not ever hold back when you're talking about the phone. Not a single phone call.
1:11.3	You've had a lot more than I have.
1:13.3	But when I've had phone calls with him, whether it was in 16 to 20 or now forward,
1:18.6	like he does not hold back at all when you're on the cell phone on speaker phone as well.
1:23.8	He does not.
1:24.7	So one of the things we asked of him Friday night, we said, listen, in this battle with the Democrats over Obamacare, ObamaCare, Obamacare's failing. It's a bad program. And if you go back, go back to 2013, when I did a filibuster against Obamacare. I said at the time, if you remember, Barack Obama promised the American people, Obama care would cut the average family's premiums by 2,500 a year.
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