The health-care narrative conservatives need to win elections Ep. 202

Conservative Review with Daniel Horowitz

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🗓️ 14 March 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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We are joined today by Rep. Jim Butler (@repjimbutler), R-Ohio, a one-man think tank on health care, to discuss the compelling narrative conservatives should be pushing on health care. Why health care? Republicans are about to get crushed in the midterm elections, and health care is the top issue. Yet Republicans let the Left get away with murder – quite literally sometimes – on the health care issue by ignoring how they empowered and monopolized a cartel. Jim explains a number of ways government programs and interventions in health care have not only driven up costs but have destroyed private practice and degraded the quality and delivery of health care itself. He explains how Medicaid and the cartel monopoly helped fuel the addiction crisis with opioids. He also explains how open-border fanatics in Ohio are refusing to increase penalties for the worst type of heroin dealers, most often criminal aliens. Listen to this episode and then ask yourself how Republicans would perform in November if this was their top message. Show links Why bailing out the insurance cartel is the worst thing we can do The chart of Maryland “opioid” deaths that is worth 1,000 words Copyright CRTV. All rights reserved. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Conservative Conscience.
0:04.0	In Washington, politicians are full of half-trudes and hot air.
0:08.0	The Conservative Conscience is here to help you cut through the rhetoric and noise and explore the politically right way to think about the issues.
0:14.0	You'll dive into one of the most insightful conservative minds in America.
0:18.0	Conservative Reviews Senior Editor, Daniel Horowitz.
0:21.0	Using pure common sense and ignoring the groupthink,
0:24.0	Daniel breaks down the major issues in Washington.
0:27.0	You are now entering the Conservative Conscience.
0:31.0	And welcome back to the Conservative Conscience here on Westwood One's podcast network at CRTV.
0:38.0	It is Wednesday already, March 14th.
0:42.0	And gosh, it feels like this week is already a 20-day-old.
0:46.0	Last night, we had the big Pennsylvania 18 elections where Republicans managed to lose a seat that Trump carried by 20 points.
0:56.0	And it was so Republican that the Democrats failed to even feel they candidate.
1:00.0	Last cycle.
1:02.0	Now, Republicans are spinning this as a loss because of a lackluster candidate.
1:07.0	The problem is the Republican Party is one big lackluster candidate.
1:11.0	It's an endemic of all of their candidates pretty much.
1:15.0	They have no narrative.
1:17.0	They have no counter-narrative.
1:19.0	You know, the left is pushing their march for lies today on gun control.
1:23.0	And Republicans could speak about all of the issues we talk about here at the Conservative Conscience on public safety, on sanctuary cities, and the drug crisis that's being fueled by it.
1:34.0	The gang crisis, MS-13, and you know, Trump touches on it here and there.
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