May 14, 2019
Craig is on the Jim Polito Show this Tuesday morning. Today the talked about the cost of healthcare, Google's new feature, and about Facebook being protected by the government.
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Below is a rush transcript of this segment, it might contain errors.
Airing date: 05/14/2019
The Real Statistics About Healthcare - Facebook Using Guns To Stop Competitors - New Google Feature
Craig Peterson 0:00
Oh boy, hey, Craig Peterson here. I don't know, would you call this
a full pile? I'm not sure. You know, you have some people out
there like Ann Coulter. Have you seen her book Shut Up And Sing
where she's all upset about Hollywood, because these people that
really don't know anything about a topic, go and shoot their mouths
off, right? And, and they're just actors or singers. So just, you
know, do your singing and get lost, right, you don't really know
what you're talking about in the political realm. So I don't know
that this morning. I was on with Jim Polito and he had been talking
this morning about healthcare and what Bernie Sanders has been
saying as well as other candidates running for the Democrat party
nomination. And I just I could not bite my tongue. So you're gonna
have to let me know what you think. Was this a shut up and sing
moment? Obviously, I know what I'm talking about here and as you
listen to the interview, you'll realize it as well. But it is so
upsetting to me. So anyways, we talked about that. He got me going
with Facebook again this morning. And you know the protections that
Facebook has that most people don't realize you know that Facebook
has, they're keeping competitors out of the market at a point of a
gun quite literally. And a little bit about Google and a new
feature they're coming out with that everybody should turn on and
and once it's on I'll let you know about that. So anyhow, here we
go with Mr. Polito. Make sure you send me let me know really I'm
serious here. Let me know what you think was this at total full
powers, is this something I should do? I know most of the people
listening are tend to be libertarian, like I am. Some are
conservative. There's some that are you know, confiscal
conservative, and some are of you know, socially, not so
conservative. And I get it this but this I think affects, I know,
affects every last one of us. Let me know what you think
me@CraigPeterson.com. So here we go with Mr. Polito.
Jim Polito 2:12
Here he is. Uniquely qualified to explain everything you need to
know in the simplest of terms, our good friend and Tech Talk guru.
Former Canadian, Craig Peterson. Good morning, sir. How are
you?
Craig 2:28
Good morning, man. You're talking about healthcare. They're like
three topics this morning I got to talk to Jim about. But this is
one that is going to kill people. People will die.
Jim 2:40
Yeah, I mean, tell us about Canada. How lovely it is.
Craig 2:44
Oh, I do not have you you know, as you know, and many listeners
might not but I was born and raised in the Great White North. And
being from Canada. I have most of my family's still up there
brothers, sisters, parents, uncles, everybody, aunts and people
somehow point to Canada as being some sort of a great place and,
and Bernie talking about how expensive it is here and we're going
to cut costs and and your great explanation of hey, it's already
heavily subsidized by those of us that do carry insurance. So I
thought I'd just point out a couple of things Jim.
Craig 3:27
If you look up right now and I sent you a couple articles. I texted
them to you, hopefully you got them.
Jim 3:33
No, we got them.
Craig 3:36
I sent them to the right number, not some, oh okay. Bottom line
here, per capita healthcare spending in the US. Okay. So per person
here in the US annually it's a little north of $10,000. Now, look
at some of these European countries like the Netherlands, Austria,
Austria, Belgium. It's half the spending it is here in the US. Now,
what do you think it would be like in Canada, right. It's Bernie's
talking about all these efficiencies you're going to get when you
get the government involved when you don't have the insurance
companies. When you don't have the competition. It's going to get
cheaper. Well, in Canada as an example here, this is from the
Fraser Institute out in BC. They are a nonpartisan independent
Canadian public policy Think Tank. And what they've come up with
here the average spent on a healthcare per person in Canada is
almost 50% higher than the US right now.
Jim 4:44
I am, I am sorry, but that is that is impossible. That is
impossible. That is fake news. You are making up those numbers. Mr.
Peterson, I am sorry, but I have to hold you accountable.
Craig 5:00
A typical Canadian family quoted the Fraser Institute Vancouver,
British Columbia will pay $13,000 for healthcare in 2018. That's
what the bottom line was. And it varies based on how much money you
make. Now this is actual payments, people okay. This isn't the
government paying on your behalf. This is the hidden taxes and the
direct taxes that goes specifically for healthcare and nothing
else. So we're paying 100% more than most European countries, the
average, by the way, in Europe is about $5200 a year. We're
paying more than 10,000. And Canadians are paying on average,
almost 13,000. That's $70 less. 13,000 a year for it. And some
families in Canada, if you have an income outlet of $300,000, you
are paying $40,000 in taxes for your healthcare, explicitly for
healthcare. So government involvement doesn't make things cheaper.
Now and to top it all off, the care in Canada My mother has had a
pancreas attack here, pancreatitis, and so she's up there in a
hospital. Now. You're not gonna believe this, Jim and Bernie,
there's no way he's gonna believe this. She spent three days on a
gurney in a hallway, in the hospital, she needs an MRI, but they
can't get her one. The waiting list for MRIs is longer than
some people's life expectancies that need them. This is my mother.
And they're paying 50% more than we are.
Jim 6:51
Yeah. People just don't realize, all you have to do is look at the
registry of motor vehicles and say, okay, these are the people who
are going to be running my healthcare. Man, seriously.
Jim 7:04
By the way, with all due respect to a lot of fine people who work
for the registry, because I know fine people who work for the
registry with all due respect there, though. No, no, absolutely,
absolutely not.
Craig 7:16
It's the efficiency of the registry combined with the heart and
soul of the IRS.
Jim 7:23
Wait a minute, that deserves a... (RIMSHOT) Alright, let's,
I appreciate that. And that's good,
Craig 7:29
Sorry about that. I had to say something.
Jim 7:33
No, I'm glad you did. We're so glad that you did. Now I want to
talk about a couple of things and you said you had some stuff you
wanted to talk about. But I want to talk about Google. I have been
erasing all of my Google history and and going through all the
different things. And I have noticed that I'm not getting those
annoying ads for the last thing that I looked at online or the last
thing I searched. And that you know, they keep telling me, Jim,
this isn't, you know, it's not going to help with your suggestions,
but I don't care. I know what I want. I'll look for it myself.
Craig 8:13
Yeah, it's I think this is great news. Okay. And I frankly, I think
this came from Facebook, you know, staring down the highest fine
ever in US history. And so what Google has been doing, they've had
for a while now, controls you can go in and you can manually turn
things off. That's what you've been doing. Right?
Jim 8:33
Right. Exactly.
Craig 8:35
Here's what they're doing right now. They will within the next
couple of months here probably as early as June. You can already go
to Google account. There's simple on off controls for location,
history, web and app activity. But what they're adding is auto
delete controls. Because if you're searching for new pair of shoes,
right? A there's nothing wrong with being ads for shoes. But you
don't want to see that for the next six months or whatever.
Jim 9:04
I don't. I use that example earlier. Yeah, looking for a specific
kind of loafers for the summer. And it's like, okay, I already got
them, I don't need the ads anymore.
Craig 9:16
Well, they're gonna have a rolling delete function, you can choose
a time limit between 3 and 18 months, after which all of the data
is going to be automatically deleted on a rolling basis. That I
think is great. Yeah, it's a little bit of a privacy thing. It's a
balance really, between absolute privacy that Apple afford you and
what Google and Facebook have been doing. I think it's great. So
keep an eye out for that. We'll make sure we'll let you know when,
when that actually happens. So you can turn that on,
Jim 9:50
That is good. We're talking about Craig Peterson, a tech talk guru.
At the end of this segment, we're going to give you a number and
other than the Canadian stuff unless you want to include it in that
that stuff that you texted me. He'll give you everything we talked
about today and more. An d I will explain to you how to do that.
Craig, Facebook, you know, I am a free marketer. Facebook,
people have been talking about busting it up about the monopoly
busting. First of all, I don't know how you, you do busted up if
you wanted to. But what are your feelings?
Craig 10:31
Well, I think it could be for instance, they could split out things
like some of the advertising, marketing, and you know, they've been
buying various apps and things. There's ways to break them up. But
personally, I think we've got two basic problems here. One is the
government, if you're too big, you are too big to fail. And so
businesses don't look at it and say, well, if we paid two billion
dollars to buy this other company, that's going to hurt our cash
position, or maybe it's not going to be worth it. Maybe we're going
to go out of business and lose our phony baloney jobs on the board
of directors. Okay. So we come in and we bail out companies. So
that's the first problem. And therefore they continue to grow, grow
bigger and bigger. And then the Anti Trust Act, and it comes in the
government says whether or not they should be able to merge. Free
market, they probably should be able to do whatever they want to
do, but let them fail. Okay. Number two, the biggest problem I have
right now with Facebook and many others is in Facebook is being
protected by the federal government, not just from failure, like if
they were really hurting financially, but they are being protected
because of the way our patent laws are written now. Remember, they
were rewritten not too many years back. Right? And the
Constitution, they it says that Congress is supposed to promote the
product, rest of science and useful arts by securing for limited
times the right to their discovery, writing. Okay. So what the
government's doing now is they're allowing Facebook to say, Well,
you've got a business process, you've got a way of selling
advertising, you've got a way of connecting families and people
together, etc, etc. So the government is now enforcing the
monopoly. So you can have another little Facebook come up. So right
now you you've got somebody that is kicked off of Facebook,
demonetized on YouTube, whatever it is. problem was, they would go
to a different platform, and they'd be often running, there
shouldn't be a half a dozen Facebook competitors out there right
now that are doing quite well. But because of the way the patent
laws are written, and they don't need to be this way, they are not
conforming with the basics of what the Constitution says. But
because the way they're written, Facebook can take their lawyers,
can sue the company to death very, very quickly. Yeah, so they're
just not bothering to try and compete. We've got to take the right
to an invention, codified that in law, but an idea is not an
invention. The next logical step in software is not an invention,
you can tell upset about this, because I had this happened to me.
I've had Microsoft do this sort of thing to friends of mine. It's a
terrible thing. And it's resulting in a real bad situation in the
economy for consumers.
Jim 13:30
I couldn't agree with you more. I could not agree with you more,
because it's just that I think it you know, like people talk about
where's the conservative Facebook? Where's that? Where's their
Facebook for that? We know that when you do a Google search,
there's evidence to suggest that you're going to get CNN, you're
going to get CNN, New York Times, and you're going to get the
Washington Post, even though those are not the sites with the most
volume and that's just not fair. And there should be competition in
that market. All right. We're out of time Craig but we're not out
of material for the listeners. If you text my name to this
number.
Craig 14:21
855-385-5553. That's 855-385-5553.
Jim 14:25
You will hear from my passionate friend Tech Talk guru Craig
Peterson. And he'll provide this information to you. Standard data
and text rates apply, and he will not annoy you and he won't sell
your name to somebody who will try to sell you a supplement. Okay,
so don't worry about it Craig, great segment. Thank you so much for
your time.
Craig 14:49
Hey, thank you. I'm gonna climb down off my soapbox and get back
door.
Jim 14:52
No. You get on that soapbox anytime you want a great job, Craig,
thank you very much.
Craig 14:57
Thanks.
Jim 14:57
All right, a final word when we return. You're listening to the Jim
Polito show, your safe space.
Craig 15:03
Whoo, I think maybe I'm finally calming down a little bit. Well, it
got me going. Anyways, have a great day. We'll be back on tomorrow.
Take care everybody. Bye bye.
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