Raiding Medicare to Fund Obamacare, Election Integrity, and Monkeypox Fear

On Tuesday, August 2, 2022, Kim Monson brought together policy expert Phil Kerpen, Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters, and Roots Medical representative Matt Dark to examine how government overreach threatens healthcare, elections, and individual liberty.

Election Integrity and the Recount Battle

Start listening at 15:25 – Hour 1

Tina Peters details her fight for a hand recount of the Colorado primary election after raising nearly $250,000 to cover Secretary of State demands. Peters reveals that the recount costs mysteriously increased after she met the initial funding requirement, and that Dominion employees were being paid $250 per hour with candidate funds. She cites security expert J. Alex Halderman’s findings of exploitable vulnerabilities in voting machines and warns that ballot images may have been altered.

Peters points to the deletion of 29,000 election access and log files, calling the Secretary of State’s actions criminal. She urges Coloradans to demand transparency and support the recount effort, emphasizing that free, fair, and honest elections form the bedrock of the American idea.

“She deleted 29,000 election records, access and log files that are required to be kept by law that shows who enters the system, what changes they make, all of these, all the DNA, the fingerprints that prove how you get to the end results of the election.”

Tina Peters, Mesa County Clerk

The Inflation Reduction Act’s Medicare Raid

Start listening at 34:15 – Hour 1

Phil Kerpen, president of American Commitment, exposes how the misnamed Inflation Reduction Act uses Medicare as a piggy bank for Obamacare subsidies and green energy spending. Kerpen explains that while Democrats claim to negotiate drug prices, the bill actually authorizes the HHS Secretary to set prices, extracting nearly $270 billion from Medicare prescription drug spending.

Kerpen warns the bill will result in fewer breakthrough drugs for conditions like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, as price controls always cause shortages. He notes manufacturers may refuse to sell important new drugs through Medicare, forcing seniors to pay out of pocket. The bill also doubles IRS staffing with 87,000 new agents and imposes new taxes on manufacturers.

“The other $270 billion just gets raided, siphoned out, removed from Medicare and spent on other things, bailing out the insurance companies, giving away the green energy and so forth.”

Phil Kerpen, President of American Commitment

Monkeypox and the Erosion of Public Trust

Start listening at 70:39 – Hour 2

Matt Dark from Roots Medical argues the government squandered public trust during COVID and cannot expect citizens to comply with new emergency declarations for monkeypox. Dark notes that New York City’s vaccine eligibility criteria specifically targets the LGBTQ community, suggesting the outbreak has limited relevance for the general population.

Dark connects monkeypox response to the broader pattern of using health emergencies to justify lockdowns, mandatory masking, and mail-in voting expansions before November elections. He emphasizes that informed citizens must push back against one-size-fits-all government health mandates that have already cost lives and ruined livelihoods.

“The government blew, absolutely blew their opportunity to earn the trust of the public. Say, this is the way to go. This is the treatment for you. This is going to save your life. They blew that because they killed a ton of people. They ruined a ton of lives.”

Matt Dark, Roots Medical