Obamacare Subsidies on Life Support & Transforming the Kennedy Center w Rick Grenell

The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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🗓️ 27 December 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

1. Affordable Care Act (ACA) Subsidies and Alleged Fraud

Democrats intentionally designed ACA subsidies to expire, framing it as a political strategy to secure votes during elections.
The ACA was never truly affordable and alleges systemic fraud, waste, and abuse within the program, including:
- Insurance companies benefiting from guaranteed government payments.
- Fraudulent enrollments and improper subsidies (citing a Washington Post report and GAO findings).
The financial burden of extending enhanced subsidies, estimating costs up to $350 billion through 2035, and criticizes subsidies reaching households earning $160,000 annually.
the expiration of subsidies could lead to premium hikes (up to 114%) and increased uninsured rates, framing this as a political weapon for Democrats.
The ACA was a step toward socialized medicine and accuses Democrats of collusion with healthcare donors.

2. Renaming and Revitalization of the Kennedy Center

The second part is an interview with Rick Grenell about the transformation of the Kennedy Center under Donald Trump’s involvement.
Key points include:
- Severe deferred maintenance before Trump’s intervention (leaking roofs, broken elevators, collapsing infrastructure).
- Trump allegedly secured $250 million for renovations and initiated fundraising for programming.
- The center was renamed the Trump Kennedy Center, sparking controversy and accusations of partisanship.
- Discussion of programming strategy: moving away from “woke” or niche content toward mainstream, “common sense” performances to attract corporate sponsors and donors.
- Criticism of Democrats for boycotting the center despite advocating for arts funding.

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.3	Guaranteed Human.
0:05.1	The Senate is staring down.
0:08.6	Healthcare in a major battle with Obamacare subsidies set to expire on purpose.
0:15.7	Why are they set to expire?
0:17.9	Because Democrats designed it that way.
0:23.1	Now, you may ask yourself a question.
0:30.4	Why would they design a program to expire on purpose? It's pretty simple. Democrats were playing politics. They wanted this to be a political issue that if you don't vote for them, the Democratic Party, that then you can't
0:40.9	afford your Obamacare, also known as the Affordable Care Act, which is anything but affordable.
0:49.3	They created a crisis out of thin air, a crisis so that then when the midterms came around, they could
0:56.2	say, you better stick with us, because otherwise you will lose the health care that we told you
1:02.4	we were going to give you forever. It was a designed crisis. That's how evil the Democratic Party
1:08.4	was with health care, and specifically with the subsidies around Obamacare.
1:13.7	They also knew that Obamacare, the quote Affordable Care Act, was never going to be affordable.
1:19.3	They knew from the very beginning.
1:21.1	But what's happened since then is even worse.
1:24.5	Democrats had figured out that their best donors could be the health care industry, insurance
1:29.8	companies, hospitals, those that get paid with these guaranteed subsidies of Obamacare.
1:36.4	And they would fill their campaign coffers with cash.
1:40.2	Why?
1:41.2	Because the Democratic Party was filling their bank accounts with guaranteed government payments
1:47.3	at levels that even the insurance companies could have never imagined.
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