S19 E24 - Agent Orange Update, 9 Distinct Benefits of Zinc & Ending Short-Term Healthcare in 2024-Multi-Topic

Today in our August Multi-Topic update, we discuss the supplement ZINC and what are the 9 Distinctive Health Benefits of taking it, we update Vets on Agent Orange from the VA Agent Orange Newsletter and new health issues developing. Plus, the new law "No Smoking in New Zealand", Anywhere! I will also reveal how the administration is Ending Short-Term Health Policies in January of 2024 and the real Impact that will have and lastly, National Healthcare in the UK: How’s that going? 

It's a fascinating, multi-topic, cornucopia of health-related information from Cary Hall, America's Healthcare Advocate. 

Ep 1924 

U-Tapao Royal Thai Navy Airfield

Phù Cát Air Base Vietnam

Nakhon Phanom 

https://www.publichealth.va.gov/exposures/agentorange/index.asp

monoclonal gammapathy (MGUS)

Agent Orange

https://www.neurologic.life/

Neuro 20 Suit

Wavi brain Scan

Episode Transcript:

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Announcer

And now America's Healthcare Advocate, Cary Hall.

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Cary Hall

Hello, America. Welcome to America's Healthcare Advocate show. I'm your host, Cary Hall, in studio with me today is my producer, Dave Thiessen, who's handling all the camera work, and Shaun Floyd, the man behind the microphones over here. He's sure that we get our broadcast and podcast all in line. We are, by the way, on multiple podcast platforms now: Pocket Casts, Speaker, Spotify, Google, RSS Feed, TuneIn, Apple, SoundCloud, Stitcher, Overcast, Pandora, Amazon Music. That's just a few and on YouTube. And you know what? An awful lot of you are listening. I'll tell you how many people are listening. We actually had a group listen in Turkey to a show we did on the neuro to muscle stimulation suit.

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Cary Hall

So we're very happy that folks in Turkey are listening to our podcast and hopefully other folks around the world. So once again, welcome to America's Healthcare Advocate. As I said, I'm your host, Cary Hall. Today is one of our open topic shows we don't get to do these very often, but when we do them, we usually get a lot of feedback on them.

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Cary Hall

So here's what we're going to talk about today. We're going to talk about zinc. There are nine distinct benefits from zinc. I had no idea. I mean, I know, you know, you take zinc when you have a cold or whatever, but we're going to talk about the nine benefits of zinc. We're going to talk about Agent Orange. I'm in the Agent Orange program at the VA.

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Cary Hall

You know, it's not just Vietnam veterans that have issues with Agent Orange. I'm going to explain that today to you, especially if that's your father, your husband, whatever the case may be. Also, we're going to have some fun with the new no smoking law in New Zealand. That's right. You heard it. No smoking in New Zealand. And we're going to talk about the elimination of short-term policies, the impact that's going to have when the Biden administration ends short-term policies in January 2024.

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Cary Hall

And they're going to talk about how well things are running in the United Kingdom with their national health care service or maybe not running so well. So stay tuned. We've got a lot to talk about. All right. So our first topic today is the topic of zinc. And what this is interesting, You know, I thought I always I had a pretty good idea what I thought zinc did.

00;02;04;25 - 00;02;25;23

Cary Hall

Well, I didn't have half the information in terms of what zinc really does do for you. So this is interesting. Many people complain about the inability to focus emotional instability, poor stress response and other common complaints include weak immunity system, hair loss and acne. Well, believe it or not, zinc actually addresses a lot of these issues. So here are some of the things it does.

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Cary Hall

Zinc regulates gene expression. Human genes can't be changed, but their expression can be regulated. And it's this regulation of the gene expression that determines how healthy we are. Zinc literally involved in this critical process. So zinc actually helps that process. Next one, zinc affects more than 300 enzymes. So zinc affects more than 300 enzymes, four by influencing metabolic nerve systems, digestion, immunity and many other important psychological and physiological elements regulate, zinc, regulate and in endurance and immune function.

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Cary Hall

Now, look, I think everybody knows this, okay? You know, if you if you want to not get colds and flu in the winter and all the rest of it. Zinc, you know, I take this stuff every day and it does make a difference. There's no question about it. Maintain skin and hair. If you've got acne, if you've got hair loss, zinc can make a difference there.

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Cary Hall

So it can it can actually help you if you're dealing with those issues, which I think a lot of people didn't know. It certainly was surprising to me. And then let's talk about how zinc affects the body growth, development and reproduction and sexual function, whether you're young and you want to grow to be tall, strong or and strong, or you're middle aged elderly and you want to maintain that youthful vitality.

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Cary Hall

Zinc is indispensable. Zinc is abundant in the pituitary gland, which promotes the secretion of growth hormone. So, you know, you've got a young guy who's going to play football like my grandson, or you've got kids. They should be taking zinc because it affects their growth and some people have an issues with that. So that's another place. And also if you're middle aged or if you're a seasoned citizen like me, you really should be taking it because it does make a difference, Right?

00;04;09;28 - 00;04;34;26

Cary Hall

Improves, taste and smell. This is one that I thought was fascinating. I had no idea when zinc is efficient is when zinc is deficient. Senses of taste and smell won't work properly. Therefore, people with zinc deficiency often eat things that have a strong case because they've got a deficiency in zinc. Okay. So if you've been if you've had COVID, you're like a long haul carrier of COVID.

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Cary Hall

You've had issues that are going on. Your body is uses up a lot of zinc which which likely will result in abnormal degradation of the smell and taste. Now, you hear this from a lot of people who've had COVID. My smell is not right. I still don't taste things, right. Zinc Amazing, isn't it? Zinc can make such a difference, but it does make a difference.

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Cary Hall

Zinc acts as an anti-inflammatory and an and on antioxidants. So here's another one that's interesting. Zinc takes part in the fight against cytokine and free radical storms that cause severe symptoms of COVID 19. It is an essential nutrient in the prevention and treatment of the virus. Also, chronic inflammation and oxidative stress both induce aging and chronic diseases in the body.

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Cary Hall

So basically what they're telling you is if you're aging, you really should be taking zinc because it makes a big difference. Okay, here's the next one. This is number eight. Regulatory nervous system. See, these are things I never thought of with zinc, right? I mean, I you know, I know you can get it and I can when you have a cold.

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Cary Hall

But all of this stuff surprised me. All right. So zinc and the nervous system. Zinc is involved in the synthesis of the neurotransmitters in the brain, the conduction of nerve signals and the function of regulation of neurotransmitter receptors is those neurotransmitters directly affect the regulation and emotions and ability to withstand stress, memory, attention, learning, ability, motivation and test execution.

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Cary Hall

How about the ones that they just talked about with stress and memory? Okay, those are really important. So think about those things. All right? This is part of what zinc does. Number nine, Zinc promotes growth in maturity and brain cells. When zinc is in deficient brain cell, brain cells decrease, and that's never a good thing, obviously. So here are some of the things, some of the foods that have a lot of zinc.

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Cary Hall

So if you like oysters and you like lobster and crab, you're going to get a lot of zinc. Great excuse to go buy that lobster. Any lobster. Okay. Meat, beef, pork, lamb, chicken, turkey, all have a lot of zinc, cod, sardines and salmon. A lot of zinc. Okay. Beans, black beans, soybeans, mung beans. I don't even know what a mung bean is.

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Cary Hall

You might know what a mung bean is. I don't know what a mung bean is. Okay, Pumpkin seeds, flax seeds, cashews and almonds, if you like. Almonds. All right. Dairy products, milk, yogurt, cheese and eggs, whole grains, oats, black rice. I didn't know there was such a thing. Black rice, quinoa and vegetables in vegetables. It's mushrooms, green beans, asparagus, leafy vegetables and cabbage and beans.

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Cary Hall

Wow. So there you have it, folks. All the information you ever wanted to know, or maybe all the information you didn't want to know about what zinc can do for you and how how it can help you in your daily life. Whether you're young or whether you're old, a zinc can make a big difference. So I thought that would be interesting.

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Cary Hall

By the way that comes to me out of the Epoch Times. E-p-o-c-h, it's a weekly newspaper you might find interesting to look at here. Just a little recap of some of these things on zinc slows body growth and develops. It helps with slow body growth and development, decreased sexual function, infertility, hair loss, acne and skin problems, poor wound healing, chronic diarrhea, mood swings, poor resistance to stress, poor concentration, other psycho behavioral problems.

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Cary Hall

If I thought that was all kind of interesting. All right. When we come back to break, we're going to move on to our next time. We're going to talk about Agent Orange. I mentioned I'm in that program with the folks at the VA. Here's what I didn't know until I got to. I get this newsletter every quarter. It's called the Agent Orange Newsletter.

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Cary Hall

What a happy newsletter to get right. So I get this every quarter and it tells me all of the new and wonderful diseases and opportunities I have because of my exposure to Agent Orange when I was a patrol dog handler in Vietnam. What I didn't know is that if you served in Guam, if you served in a whole other there are a number of other areas in the South Pacific, etc., and and Indochina where you were exposed to this stuff.

00;08;46;26 - 00;09;01;03

Cary Hall

And I had no idea. So I'm going to talk about that. I'm going to talk about what you need to do if you're if you're not in that program and why you should be in that program. And when I tell you what some of these diseases are and how they affect you, you'll probably get an idea this is something you want to do.

00;09;01;03 - 00;09;15;29

Cary Hall

You want to do it through the VA or reach out to somebody at the VFW and get some help. But I'm going to come back. We're going to get into that. So if that's your dad, it's that's your grandfather. If that's your grandmother, you know, or your mother who served. And under these conditions, you need to stay tuned.

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Cary Hall

Listen to this. Okay. When we come back to break, we'll take a deep dive into that topic. We got a lot more to talk about today. And we're also going to talk about how you can't smoke in the whole country of New Zealand. Stay tuned. I know it's ridiculous, but I've got to do it. Stay tuned. I'll be right back after the break.

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Cary Hall

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Cary Hall

Welcome back. You're listening to America's Healthcare Advocates broadcasting coast to coast across the USA here on the HIA Radio Network. You know, I mentioned in the opening segment that we had listeners in Turkey that actually happened. And here's what happened. They were looking at the neural tube and they went to our Web site. And and there was the show that we did with D.J. Schmidt and the folks at Neuro 20 and their when they went in to see these folks, they had our podcast up.

00;11;08;29 - 00;11;35;18

Cary Hall

So if you want to learn about any of those products, the Neuro 20, the Wavi Brain Scan, the website for that is neurologic dot life, neurological dot life that that, you know, Wavi Brain Scan is used for concussion, it's used for, you know, dementia, Alzheimer's to talk about, you know, where you're at if you're screening for that ADHD, PTSD, there are all kinds of different uses for that.

00;11;35;25 - 00;12;02;07

Cary Hall

The “Neuro 20 Muscle Stimulation Suit” is remarkable. Again, the website www.neurologic.life if you want to just call Steve Sanborn and chat with him about any of this. 833 804 8334. All right. Now we're going to go on to our next topic. This is one that I'm sure you're going to love to hear about. I actually get a newsletter, just a picture of it's on the screen now called the Agent Orange Newsletter.

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Cary Hall

I know. I know. This comes from the VA, is for veterans that are in the agent Orange program. So as I mentioned before, I was a patrol dog handler in Vietnam, 1969, 1970, and they did follow the ETD all around the bases that we were on that we patrolled with Agent Orange. Also, what I didn't know is we have some new agents that are now part of this program.

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Cary Hall

We have Agent Blue, which I thought was kind of interesting. This is an art arsenic based chemical used to destroy rice, obviously, in Vietnam. They were destroying rice because they were denying it to the NVA and the Vietcong. So that was years. So if you had exposure to that, you had exposure to arsenic, about 4 million gallons of that were used during the Vietnam War.

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Cary Hall

We have Agent Green, Pink, Purple, Blue and White. Agent Orange. Agent Orange, too. I didn't know we had an Agent Orange two and Agent Orange three that were sprayed throughout South Vietnam. So why am I doing this? Well, in a few minutes, I'm going to talk about some of the illnesses and the things that are results of this stuff.

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Cary Hall

We used to tease about this. You know, when I was there, we called it better living through chemistry. Of course, we had no idea what that better living through chemistry actually meant. It meant that we were tromping through this stuff every day. You know, I talked to a friend of mine here a couple of months ago and said, We're both in this program.

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Cary Hall

And I said, George, do you remember this? He said, Yeah. He said, I remember it very well. He said, We go out at night and you could smell the stuff that they had been sprayed during the day or sprayed right before we went out at night on patrol. So it was a very real thing. There are some debilitating diseases, side effects and all the rest of it with this.

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Cary Hall

Here's why I'm doing this. If you've got a dad who you know, I don't want to go to the VA, I don't want anything to do with these people, etc., etc., or grandfather, or maybe it's your mother who served or whatever the case may be. You really do need to reach out to VA and get them enrolled in this program because it can make a big difference if they have illness.

00;14;05;25 - 00;14;59;11

Cary Hall

If something happens, they qualify for disability money that's going to come in for this and the care that the VA offers because they understand this program. You know, I've talked to private physician about Agent Orange. Some of them know about it. Probably about 80% have no idea what you're talking about. Okay. One of the things that happened out of this particular newsletter that I got, which kind of alarmed me, was that I was subject to monoclonal gammapathy. Okay. Which is “MGUS” is what it's called. And so I went and got tested for this because, you know, when I looked it up and saw what it is, it's a very debilitating disease. And here it is. This is a brand, a brand new feature in this particular newsletter that I got today. So that's another reason why I'm doing this.

00;14;59;24 - 00;15;20;08

Cary Hall

The reason you need to get in this program and start getting this newsletter is it's this is your dad or your mom or your grandfather. Maybe it's your uncle whatever, or your brother, whatever the case may be. You didn't tell them about this. They need to go to the VA and get this information and you here's the website www dot public health dot va dot gov.

00;15;20;18 - 00;16;00;17

Cary Hall

Okay and then it goes on with a bunch of back slices exposure's agent Orange benefits index a.s.a.p. Just go to the VA website. Okay www dot publichealth dot va dot gov, information is up there. Go down to the veterans Administration, get enrolled in the program so that if something happens you've got medical coverage through the VA and you're able to you're able to access these benefits because if you get some of these diseases which I'm to go through in a minute, you're definitely going to want to have the benefits to go along with it, the monetary benefits as well as the as the benefits for, you know, for treatment.

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Cary Hall

So here here's some things I did not know. Okay. I mentioned this early on. Agent Orange was used in Guam. It was used in American Samoa. It was used in Laos. That doesn't surprise me because we did a lot of operations in Laos. It was used in Thailand, which is another little thing I didn't know. So, you know, if you were at U-Tapao or Phù Cát or any of those bases in like Nakhon Phanom in Thailand, you were exposed to Agent Orange.

00;16;27;21 - 00;16;48;29

Cary Hall

If you were in Guam, you were exposed to Agent Orange. I have no idea why the military was using Agent Orange in Guam. We weren't fighting anybody in Guam other than the lizards. I think so. I don't know what the reason for it would be. American Samoa Again, I have no idea. Laos, obviously, because we had operations going on in Laos all the time and that had something to do with that.

00;16;48;29 - 00;17;21;10

Cary Hall

So again, the website, if you want to learn more about this, is public health va gov. Here are some of the diseases and issues you need to be aware of. Okay. AL Amyloidisis disease. Chronic B-cell Leukemia. Okay. Cloracne. I have no idea what that is. Diabetes Mellitus Type 2. If you're type two, diabetic hypertension, Hodgkin's disease, non lymphoma, Hodgkin’s disease, Ischemic Heart Disease, Monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance.

00;17;21;10 - 00;17;50;08

Cary Hall

That's the MGUS, the one that I got tested for. I do not have multiple myeloma, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, Parkinson's disease. It's just keep on coming. Peripheral neuropathy and early onset of neuropathy. So, you know, if, if, if you know this is your dad again or your grandfather or your uncle, whatever the case may be, and they're complaining about neuropathy in their legs or they're having issues with neuropathy, this is one of the things that Agent Orange causes.

00;17;50;08 - 00;18;16;01

Cary Hall

This Parkinson's thing is another big thing. Prostate cancer. Yeah, you better get those prostate exams. You better have that PSA checked because you're exposed to prostate cancer. If you were involved with Agent Orange, and believe me, I get that prostate checkup religiously every year because this is one of the things that definitely concerns me, respiratory cancers. So that would be lung cancer, those kinds of things.

00;18;16;01 - 00;18;45;29

Cary Hall

Okay. Soft tissue sarcoma, bladder cancer, hypothyroidism, Parkinson's, also known as Parkinson's like conditions. This is all part of this with the fiscal year 2021 National Defense Authorization Act. The VA added those three new conditions bladder cancer, hypothyroidism and Parkinson's disease. So that's kind of an update on how all of these work. Once again, I'm doing this because if you had a loved one who served, a lot of guys just ignore this stuff.

00;18;45;29 - 00;19;03;18

Cary Hall

Don't ignore it, okay? Because it can be very serious and you're entitled to the benefits and you should get them. All right. We're going to come back after the break. We come back after a break. We're going to get on to a very heavy topic. No, I got to say this with a straight face. No smoking in New Zealand and I'm not kidding.

00;19;03;21 - 00;19;14;24

Cary Hall

There'll be no smoking in those. Stay tuned. You're listening to America's Healthcare Advocate broadcasting here on the HIA Radio Network. Coast to coast across the USA. Stay tuned. We've got more.

00;19;17;06 - 00;19;31;01

Cary Hall

Welcome back. You're listening to America's Healthcare Advocate show broadcasting here on the HIA Radio Network. My producer, Mr. Sean Floyd. I'm your host, Cary Hall, also our video producer, the man who does all the podcasts and the YouTube, Mr. Dave Thiessen.

00;19;31;01 - 00;19;48;10

Cary Hall

So we're happy to have you join us today. If you're out there on one of the podcast platforms watching us or listening to us, thank you. If you are a physician, if you're a caregiver, if you're a physical therapist, if you're a chiropractor, you want to take a look at that wavy brain scan. I really suggest you take a look at this and go up on the website.

00;19;48;11 - 00;20;07;13

Cary Hall

Neurologic dot life, and see what it can do for your practice. Think you'd be surprised how it can help your patients and also improve the bottom line significantly. So that's one of them. The other one is the Neuro 20 Suit. You might want to take a look at that as well. Once again, the website is Neurologic dot Life.

00;20;07;20 - 00;20;35;04

Cary Hall

The phone number is 833 804 8334. If you want to give Steve Sanborn a call, he'll be happy to chat with you. 833 804 8334. All right. For real? I'm not kidding. Headline in Wall Street Journal New Zealand Anti-smoking Law Sets New Frontier. Sydney Wayne Hills, an arbitration arbitrator worker in New Zealand's South Island, blames emphysema on years of smoking Before he kicked the habit.

00;20;35;06 - 00;21;05;00

Cary Hall

Still, the 64 year old is uneasy about the new law in the country called the strongest anti tobacco regulation in the world. The law, which was passed in New Zealand's parliament this week, bans the sale of cigarettes to anyone born after 2008. So if you were born after 2008, you're not going to buy cigarettes anywhere. Then the number of retail shops allowed to sell cigarettes will be cut by 90% by the year 2023.

00;21;05;01 - 00;21;35;13

Cary Hall

That's now okay, in case you're wondering. Okay, 5 million people know the island of 5 million people known for its progressive approach to social issues represents a test of how far the country will go to force people to stop smoking. I think the keyword there is force. I'm just saying. Okay. I mean, look, it's not good for anybody to smoke, but really, the fact the government is going to come in and tell you, you know what, this is going to do, it's going to cause a black market.

00;21;35;13 - 00;21;51;15

Cary Hall

It's going to be amazing. You're going to see cigarettes smuggling from Australia, from China, from all these, and they're going to be sold and they're going to be sold by people. They're going to make money the wrong way. So I'm not so sure that's a great idea. All right. This is a you know, I'm kind of going to get on a soapbox here.

00;21;51;17 - 00;22;17;13

Cary Hall

We have short term medical policies that are available often now, and they last for one year or up to three years, depending on the policy offered by the carrier. Why are those policies there? And what do they do for people? Well, if you're 65, 63 years old or 62 years old or 60 years old and your spouse is 64, 65 going on Medicare and you're the one that carries a group health insurance and now you no longer have group health insurance.

00;22;18;06 - 00;22;44;28

Cary Hall

You may find getting an ACA policy to be prohibitively expensive. You could be looking at 600 a month, 800 a month more than that, depending on your age, their age banded. So what happened was the short term policies that are offered by the carrier which have net full networks have co-pay benefits for things like doctor visits, limited prescription drugs, etc. Those fill the gap for people and they're very affordable.

00;22;45;00 - 00;23;18;19

Cary Hall

So what happened? The Biden administration, The Wall Street Journal is seeking to curtail short term private health plans, in part because it fears the plans undermine the viability of the exchanges set up under Obamacare, the Affordable Care Act. Okay. So let me just explain this to you. Okay. So what happened as the Obama administration was leaving Sylvia Mathews Burwell, who was the secretary of Health and Human Services before she left, two weeks before she left, put in place the three month rule policies dropped to three months.

00;23;18;19 - 00;23;36;27

Cary Hall

You could get it for three months. You had renew every three months. You know what a pain that is and how difficult that is for people. And yes, these policies are underwritten. So he have a heart condition or diabetes. You're not going to get them. But does that mean they should be taken away from people that don't have issues, that don't want to pay six or $800?

00;23;37;06 - 00;23;57;21

Cary Hall

Well, in the eyes of the Biden administration, the answer to that is yes, because they want to force you into the ACA policies and you're going to get to pay those high premiums. That's part of the deal. So under the proposed rule, the administration aims to limit plans to three months or four months. If consumers do not and consumers are not going to be allowed to extend them.

00;23;57;26 - 00;24;24;04

Cary Hall

This is what they're going to do. You know, there's a there's a debate in this country going on, this kind of undercurrent now. But there's been a loud debate on it for a lot of years about moving to Medicare for All, about moving to a platform of national health care. In the next segment, I'm going to talk about the National Health Care Service in the U.K. But what I want to point out here is this is what happens when the federal government gets involved in health insurance and they decide what you can and cannot have.

00;24;24;10 - 00;24;42;09

Cary Hall

And that's exactly what's going on here. Now, the line that they like to use, they being the Biden administration and the secretary of Health and Human Services, Xavier Becerra, by the way, he's the fellow to the Little Sisters of the Poor. Okay. Just so you know who this guy is. And the line they like to use is this is junk insurance.

00;24;42;17 - 00;25;02;00

Cary Hall

There's nothing junky about it. You know, when I had Benefits by Design, we had people on these policies for years before they age to Medicare. Typically, it was for people that were one spouse was born to Medicare, the other one wasn't. They couldn't keep their group health insurance to cover rates were out of this world. So they wanted to do short term and it really worked.

00;25;02;00 - 00;25;24;01

Cary Hall

Okay. The other thing that really the other group that it really works well for is young people. If you don't need maternity insurance and you don't need all these add ons that come with ACA policies and you're 21, 22, 23, 24, 25 years old, these policies are very inexpensive. There are a couple hundred dollars a month. Okay? There are different deductibles.

00;25;24;01 - 00;25;43;23

Cary Hall

You can pick: $500, $1000, $2000. Some of them go as high as $5,000. But it's your choice. Well, not now, because the government has decided that they know better than you do. So they're going to take away this option. You know, I strongly urge you to reach out to your congressman and your senator and make them aware I did this.

00;25;43;23 - 00;25;58;26

Cary Hall

I reached out to all of the congressmen for the state of Kansas, and I reached out to the two senators, the state of Kansas. And I and I made this point to them. And I got a response back. I even got a response back from the White House. It had absolutely nothing to do with short term health insurance.

00;25;59;02 - 00;26;27;29

Cary Hall

It had to do what a great job President Biden is doing on health care. We won't even go to there. Okay. But the point I'm making is this. The federal government should not be telling you what you can and can't do to provide health insurance for yourself. And I'm going to tell you something else. People, you know, this is this is in the words of Barney Frank when when ACA and Obamacare was passed, we have now opened the door to national health care and we're going to kick it in.

00;26;28;08 - 00;26;45;25

Cary Hall

And here's what you need to understand. This is another step along the way to this country having let's call it Medicare for All. And the federal government now is going to tell you where you can go to the doctor, when you can go to the doctor, what you can get treated for, what you can't get treated for if you doubt that.

00;26;46;03 - 00;27;11;11

Cary Hall

Look at the Alzheimer's drug situation where Biogen and some of the other pharmaceutical manufacturers have put out Alzheimer's drugs, which CMS, Medicare chose not to cover. And the Veterans Administration I've talked about this in other shows, what happened to the medications. They pulled them off the market because they weren't being purchased. However, while they were on the market, private health insurance plans were paying for that.

00;27;11;11 - 00;27;32;25

Cary Hall

The government decided they didn't want to pay for them. If you want those choices in the hands of the good folks at the federal government, then this is the kind of thing you should be happy about. If, on the other hand, you prefer to control your own destiny, well, you might want to give some thought to how the federal government is going to handle national health care, because here's what I have to say about that topic.

00;27;33;07 - 00;27;50;15

Cary Hall

If you really want to know in a nutshell, if we go to national health care, it will be handled with the compassion of the IRS and the efficiency of the post office. That's my opinion. I'd love to hear yours. You can go to the website America's Healthcare Advocate. Send me an email. I'd love to hear from you.

00;27;50;15 - 00;28;15;02

Cary Hall

I'd love to hear what you think about this. And by the way, if you're one of the people that has this issue, okay, you're on one of these policies. You better start talking to your local broker or agent about what you're going to do in January, because unless enough people raise hell about this with the Biden administration and make them aware that they are taking away health insurance for seniors, that's basically the people that use this are seniors and young people.

00;28;15;02 - 00;28;36;19

Cary Hall

They're the largest component of people that use these policies. They're taking the opportunity and the right for you to buy that health insurance away. It's not a good situation and people should be allowed to make their own choices. You know, as I like to say, a size 44 overcoat doesn't fit everybody. Okay. Evidently the federal government thinks it does.

00;28;36;27 - 00;29;01;13

Cary Hall

So once again, you're getting 2024 in January 2024, you will find that the short term policies are going to go away, coming up in the next segment, we're going to talk about that wonderful health care system in the UK, the National Health Care Service. We're going to talk about how their hospitals are at 98% capacity and delays in the system are actually causing somewhere around 3 to 600 deaths a day.

00;29;01;19 - 00;29;20;03

Cary Hall

Yeah, pretty interesting. This kind of falls right in line with the talking about once we go to a national health care system in this country. So stay tuned. I think you're going to find this pretty interesting. You're listening to America's Healthcare Advocate here on the HIA Radio Network, Coast to Coast across the USA. Go to our Web site if you want to learn more.

00;29;20;09 - 00;29;36;04

Cary Hall

All the shows are posted on the podcast platforms now so you can go up there and watch them, even if you're in Turkey. By the way, we want to thank those folks in Turkey for watching our podcasts and anywhere else around the world yet to be watching. Stay tuned. We'll be right back after the break. Here on America's Healthcare Advocate

00;29;36;07 - 00;29;58;28

Cary Hall

Welcome back, you're listening to America's Healthcare Advocates Show broadcasting here on the HIA Radio Network Coast to Coast across the USA. If you want to learn more about us, go to the website of America's Healthcare Advocate dot com or one of the 14 podcast platforms we are on now a whole bunch of them there. And also on YouTube. We got a lot of people tuning in this show on YouTube.

00;29;58;28 - 00;30;20;19

Cary Hall

So if you like the show, you want to tell somebody about it or maybe you hear something. You know what? If if that's your dad or your grandfather or your, you know, your grandmother or mother, whatever the case may be, and they served in Vietnam or Guam or Laos or Thailand, you might want to tell them to go up and watch that podcast about Agent Orange and all the issues surrounding Agent Orange, because it's pretty serious stuff.

00;30;20;19 - 00;30;38;01

Cary Hall

So, you know, we try to educate and inform here, and that's really what we're trying to do is educate and inform. And that was one of the topics today that I chose to go through. So veterans out there would know the exposure they have to all the diseases I listed, and there are a lot of them and they keep adding new ones.

00;30;38;01 - 00;30;58;28

Cary Hall

This, this, this new newsletter added three more. So the hits just keep on coming. All right. So, you know, we kind of segue this is interesting. We you know, I did that piece on short term health insurance and the government running health care. And then I ran across a fascinating piece, The Wall Street Journal. And this was a long article on the national health care system in the U.K..

00;30;59;01 - 00;31;22;18

Cary Hall

Well, here's the surprise. It's underwater again. Okay? They keep throwing money at it and they can't seem to fix it. So here's some interesting things. The health care system in the U.K. is facing a crisis like no other that I've ever seen in my career, said Nigel Edwards, the retiring chief executive of the Neufeld Trust, a health care think tank and former chief executive for the national health system.

00;31;22;28 - 00;31;44;08

Cary Hall

The U.K. mistake has mistaken cheapness for efficiency in its approach to health and coming in. The chickens have come home to roost. This this is his quote, not mine. What does that mean? Well, here's what happened. They closed hospitals, okay? They shrunk the number of beds. So what how do you what are the two things that control health care?

00;31;44;27 - 00;32;05;17

Cary Hall

Okay, Access is number one. Okay. So access is a huge thing, right? So if you eliminate hospitals, you shrink the number of beds, number of physicians, all the rest of it, you're controlling access, you're controlling cost. Okay? Because if people can't get health, if they can't go see a doctor, they can't get into the hospital, they're not going to get treatment.

00;32;05;17 - 00;32;32;15

Cary Hall

And, you know, who knows? Maybe they'll pass away. All right. Well, we're going to talk about that. But the point I'm making is that that's one of the big problems. Okay. So they shrunk the system in order to create efficiency. And what wound up happening was they created bigger problems. Okay. Hospitals in England were already at 98% capacity in December when the brutal flu season struck A mass of sick patients, you know, gummed up the system and had a devastating effect.

00;32;32;15 - 00;33;00;05

Cary Hall

Delays in treating people are causing premature deaths of between 305 hundred people a week, 305 hundred people a week. They can't get care. Okay. The royal College of Emergency Medicine Professional Medicine Associates in London are the ones that are saying this. So let's understand this. This is this some right wing think tank. It's your thinking. It's the Royal College of Emergency Medicine and Professional Association of London that's coming from the doctors.

00;33;00;05 - 00;33;24;17

Cary Hall

Okay. So let's go on. Okay. In late January, the UK government announced funding to provide more ambulances, call handlers and 1000 extra hospital beds to relieve the strain on the health care system. So they shrunk the system. Number of ambulances, number of people answering the phone. Okay. And the number of beds in the hospital. Again, if you control access, what do you control?

00;33;24;23 - 00;33;33;20

Cary Hall

You control cost. And that's what's going on here. You know, this system has been under water for years and they keep trying to fix it and they can't fix it. Okay.

00;33;36;00 - 00;33;59;03

Cary Hall

So it goes on to say the average time a heart attack sufferer wait for an ambulance is 30 minutes. So listen to this. No one should be waiting longer than necessary for treatment, says Will Quince, a minister of state health. Okay. Adding that the government is spending up to 17 billion over the next two years to address NHS and social care issues.

00;33;59;03 - 00;34;14;16

Cary Hall

Well, I'll make a prediction. I'll make your prediction is not going to get a lot better because governments are not efficient at doing this. Look, we don't have a perfect system in United States. I would never say that. Okay? But if you think for one minute that I would trade that for this system in the UK, you're wrong.

00;34;14;16 - 00;34;33;18

Cary Hall

I wouldn't. And all you folks out there who are clamoring for this Medicare for All, it'll be free. It's not free. They're going to fund it with $17 billion more. Where do you think that's going to come from? The government doesn't make anything. Government doesn't make widgets. It doesn't sell anything. Where does it get its money from taxing you?

00;34;33;26 - 00;34;52;22

Cary Hall

So when the UK system goes in the tank to the tune of 17 billion, they're going to come to the good folks in the UK and say, guess what, your taxes just went up because we've got to pay for the health care system and the politicians are scared to death of it. It's the third rail of politics because it's ingrained now and they're never going to be able to get rid of it.

00;34;52;26 - 00;35;11;09

Cary Hall

Here's another thing you probably find interesting, and I didn't know this. I was talking to the president of of a hospital system the other day. I had lunch with him, actually, and he told me that the second largest group of HCA hospitals, that's a private health care system here in the United States, one of the largest hospital groups in the system is in the UK.

00;35;11;28 - 00;35;32;21

Cary Hall

So here's the thing. It's interesting. You have government health insurance, which you have to pay for that comes out of your taxes you pay for. But if you have the money, okay. And I learned this, by the way, on a cruise we did a number of years ago on the Queen Victoria, Canada, on ship that was mostly all Brits and I was one of the few Americans, which was kind of interesting.

00;35;32;28 - 00;35;56;25

Cary Hall

But I remember them telling me, oh, no, we have insurance. We have private insurance. So you're paying twice, you're paying the government on the high taxes you're paying. And they went out and bought private health insurance. Why did they do that? So they had access, which is exactly what I'm talking about here. This goes on to say, in this particular case, this doesn't there's an issue here with the five year old boy who died of tonsillitis.

00;35;57;07 - 00;36;16;22

Cary Hall

The mother goes on to say, in a rich industrialized country, it shows the entire system has serious issues. Yeah, I'd say it does. So here's what happened. They took this boy to the emergency room. They had a six hour wait. The room sent him home from the hospital. A few days later, he was. He tried to get him admitted back to the hospital.

00;36;16;28 - 00;36;38;21

Cary Hall

And what happened was hospitals me couldn't get in, couldn't get in. So what wound up happening? By the time the family got Yusuf by ambulance to another hospital, he had severe pneumonia. He died days later from organ failure in cardiac arrest. She goes on to say they killed Yusuf. So, you know, I know that's graphic. Okay. But I'm but I'm trying to make a point.

00;36;38;28 - 00;36;58;10

Cary Hall

This is what happens when you have a government run health care system. These are the kind of things that happen because nobody really gives a damn. If you've talked to anybody that's practice medicine over there or physicians from here, they have gone over there to work. They will tell you that, okay, you know, it's a government run system and it doesn't.

00;36;58;19 - 00;37;30;12

Cary Hall

Well, then the NHS is Europe's Europe's biggest employer with around 12 million staffers and has a budget of 108, 188.6 billion funded through taxes. Okay, it now has 2.9 doctors per 1000 people compared with with the European average of 3.7. So in other words, they're seeing a lot more here in the United States. We we see an average physician does have 500 to 1000 patients.

00;37;30;12 - 00;37;51;01

Cary Hall

That's their load there. It's 2 to 3000. No wonder you can't get care. Okay, These guys are maxed out. Here's the other problem. Okay, then. Now they're having a bigger problem because what's happening is they can't get enough physicians to practice because people don't want to practice and they're walking away. They don't want to be caught up in the system because they don't like the way that it works.

00;37;51;01 - 00;38;05;07

Cary Hall

So, you know, once again, I say if you're one of those folks that wants national health care, be careful what you wish for. You just might get it. Thank you for listening to America's Healthcare Advocate broadcasting here on the radio network. Hope you have a great day. Goodbye, America.