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Hi there. Welcome to the show. Still coming to you from this blank void,
think of it like Disney World, a bright wonderland where for some reason people
get excited to see a large pantless bird.
It's been a busy week. Rudy Giuliani's law license was suspended, the Supreme
Court released a series of rulings, one of which involved Justice Breyer having
to explain what Snapchat was, and then there was this.
Senate Republicans tonight blocking a Democratic voting bill that would have
overhauled the country's election system. Republicans tonight slamming the
bill as a partisan power grab by Democrats that would federalize
elections, including preventing states from requiring voter ID.
S-1 would take away the rights of people in each of the 50 states to
determine which election rules work best for their citizens.
Well, yeah, it would.
And that is because history shows that certain people in certain states have
determined which election rules work best for certain citizens.
That's the whole fucking problem, Collins.
Your party might know that if it wasn't so busy fighting to cover up that
history. Although, I do get it. If I had the power to cover up past mistakes, I'd
probably erase the whole Drumpf thing from the internet, along with about two
decades of haircuts.
But, like my barber slash therapist tells me, we can't change history, we
can only prevent it from happening again.
And the defeat of this bill comes as Republicans in state legislatures have
pushed nearly 400 new bills and laws restricting voting rights, which, in
many cases, are fueled by lies about voter fraud in the last election,
despite those lies continually falling apart.
Just this week, a Michigan Republican-led Senate investigation
published a report finding no evidence of widespread or systematic fraud in the
state's handling of the election.
And there was actually another even wilder claim that is currently
unraveling in truly spectacular fashion. It's something called...
which isn't actually referring to the many times the Cuomo brothers did news
incest, but it is a spicy meat-a-ball of a conspiracy.
And there were some developments earlier this month about it when e-mails
surfaced between Mark Meadows, Trump's chief of staff, and the acting attorney
general that was sent last December.
Among Meadows' requests that Rosen look into ItalyGate, a conspiracy theory that
people in Italy used military technology and satellites to switch Trump votes to
Biden votes in U.S. voting machines.
Right. The theory is military satellites apparently stole the election.
And I know that that sounds stupid, and that's because it is.
And the theory got early traction thanks to this journalist, who's been called
the Sean Hannity of Italy, which already might be the meanest thing I've ever
heard in my life. But the key question still is, how did that theory get to the
White House? Well...
Last weekend, the Washington Post filled in a key connection. I'm going to tell
you about it. Not because it's important, but because it's incredible.
And it concerns this woman, Michelle Roosevelt Edwards, a businesswoman and
sole surviving consumer of The Bump It.
The email that Meadows sent concerning ItalyGate included this letter, which
outlined the conspiracy and was printed on the letterhead of a company that
Edwards runs. And it doesn't stop there because another of her firms was pushing
the ItalyGate claims around the same time.
And while Edwards claims that she was unaware of that letter, the more you
learn about her, the harder it is to take anything she says at face value,
because this woman has lived many amazing lives.
After unsuccessfully running for Congress in the 80s, she had a stint
designing children's clothing, saying she was known as the Coco Chanel in the
children's industry, a claim supported by no one.
She later reinvented herself as a peace broker for the Somali people, telling
interviewers, they call me the mother of Somalia, I have nine million children.
And who exactly are they there?
Because unless these Somali people unanimously voted to refer to what you
would get if Callista Gingrich stuck a fork into an outlet as their national
mommy, I'm really gonna have to stop you there.
And as Edwards eagerly inserted herself into Somali affairs, a naval
intelligence officer who once worked with her was quoted as saying, the
problem with Michelle is separating fact from fiction, what is real and what is
made up. To which I'd say, I don't know, for a start, maybe the nine million
children thing. But wait, because it doesn't stop there either. Because
earlier this year, Edwards was featured on this TV show in Iceland after taking
over an airline there. It's called Wow Air. It's terrible. That's not the
point. We don't have time.
She took the reporter on a tour of her vast 30 million dollar Virginia estate,
although it was clear straight away that something was off.
It's nearly 1,500 acres.
It takes 11 people full time to manage the outside of the property on a full
time basis.
38,000 feet, 22 bedrooms, three kitchens.
How many of them do you use? All three. That's why the chef's here.
and didn't come to Matreslu instead of us to drink coffee. They came to Kassa
from Kleinurringjakeiði.
And if it seemed like the reporter was hinting at something there, it's because
he very much was.
Before we wrap up, because we started with a tour of your home, when I was
just looking up where I should go on an assert engine,
the stuff that came up was all real estate listings and that this place was
for sale. Is it for sale?
No, it's not now.
And how long have you been here?
This is a recent acquisition for us.
It's very formal.
It's almost like walking into a...
Rented property.
No, it's not rented property. I can assure you So this is where you live.
This is your home. Yes. This is your property. Yes No, it isn't
because of course it isn't in fact the actual owner of that property was shown
that video and said She's in my house.
How is she in my house? Which is just spectacular and the answer may be that
Edwards in addition to being the Coco Chanel for children and the Somali mommy
has also been a licensed realtor in the area, which I'm guessing comes in real
handy when she needs a new place to not live.
And the thing is, this story is funny because it's about a cartoonishly
desperate attempt to undermine an election and somehow involves a squatter
dressed as Orville Redenbacher's first wife who got written out of the will.
And I'm really glad that I got to tell you about it, but it's also important to
remember there are far more effective methods undermining democracy as we
speak, like allowing states to pass laws restricting... in terms of getting
ballot access.
The bullshit artists to really watch out for here aren't actually the ones
wearing gold bow ties in homes they don't own. They're the ones urging
civility while arguing that it's none of our business if some states want to bar
people from voting, because that is the kind of behavior that should make us all
stand up and say, she's in our government, how is she in our
government? And now, this.
And now, on the occasion of his departure from C-SPAN, one last salute
to the most patient man on television.
Next up is Lewis. Good morning. Welcome to the conversation.
Yes, hi.
Go ahead, please.
Hello? Yes, you're on the air. Go ahead.
Oh, on the air where? C-SPAN? Yes. Go ahead. Good morning.
When a pro-Trumper comes on there, you interrupt them, you ask them questions,
trying to get them to back down from being a pro-Trumper. But yet, an anti
-Trumper, you have a nasty habit of letting them rant and rave. What we need
is another Edward R. Murrow, who went to war.
Walter Cronkite, who went to war.
But instead, we got you, Steve.
Am I coming through okay? You're sounding...
Loud and clear. Go ahead.
Very good.
What topic are we speaking about? Because I'm open to them all.
I am against the word goddamn being used on the
airwings. And you just used it. You guys are nothing but hacks.
Please don't cut me off. I know I see your hand going there.
You're getting ready to cut me off because you can't deal with the truth.
And that shouldn't be too much of a... Oh, don't reach for the button. I'm
making good points. No, no, I'm reaching for the New York Times. I want to make
sure that we can show the three headlines here. Please continue.
Okay.
Moving on. Our main story tonight concerns health care.
the field responsible for repairing organs, treating cancer, and removing
foreign objects from rectums, which have recently included a plastic turtle, a
fork, six magic markers, and a cat toy bell, which, credit where it's due, is
the most promising advancement in cat hiding places since Under the Dresser.
Access to healthcare is a big problem in America, and one of the key reasons is
that health insurance is often linked to employment.
Why is that the case? Well, because we do it wrong.
There is a... That's the right way to do it, but we don't do it that way. We do
it the wrong way.
And this is a particular problem at the moment, because employment is still down
7.6 million jobs from its pre-pandemic level. All of which means that many are
struggling to find healthcare coverage right now. So, they might be intrigued
if they stumble on an ad like this.
My healthcare costs were gonna double this year. Doubled.
Doubled. It was down to healthcare or my student loans.
I found a better way. It's neighbors helping neighbors. Liberty HealthShare.
It's freedom from insurance.
At Liberty HealthShare, we support each other and keep health costs down. We're
changing the way you're paying for healthcare.
This is the way it should be. We're all in this together.
Together. Well, hold on.
Because I'm not sure how together you all are. What I saw there was a bunch of
people together with warm lens flares, and then one weird older man very much
on his own in black and white.
He's in a slightly different thing, and we're not gonna say why, but on some
level, I think we all know.
That ad is for something called a healthcare sharing ministry.
And if you haven't heard of them before, you may have come across one and not
even realized it, because they have been growing fast in the U.S. And the key
phrase in that ad is, freedom from insurance.
Because the most important thing to know about healthcare sharing ministries, or
HCSMs, isn't just that they can be cheaper than health insurance, which
they can, is that they are also not health insurance.
Generally, they are non-profits where people who share... beliefs, usually
Christianity, agree to help cover each other's medical bills. Here is a
heartwarming story about what one of them looks like in practice.
We're praying for a young lady named Kimberly.
Bob Stedman and his family are praying for someone they've never met.
She had a shunt installed in her brain.
They've also prepared a card with a check for $561.
To bear her burden by sending them some money. A scene like this plays out here
once a month.
It does take a measure of faith to do it. We are sharing. This is so different
than what we're used to in our society.
He's right.
People actually looking out for each other does sound better than our current
system, which is get sick, have insurance decline coverage, and then
hope Debra Messing retweets your GoFundMe. That's great, Debra, but did
you donate?
Did you?
Did you, Debra?
And it does feel more personal sending $500 a month to a stranger in need than
to a company that sounds like someone made up a word after getting a shitty
Scrabble hand.
Perhaps that is why the local news team who covered that story seemed so moved
after it ended.
I mean, can you imagine being that person and getting the check in the
mail? You know, not knowing that someone was gonna help you and then suddenly you
have all this help? Right.
It's all about faith, isn't it? Faith that it's gonna get paid, faith in God,
and it's just amazing.
It's incredible. Yeah.
Of course they're into this shit.
Faith? Strangers? Coming together?
Throw in a runaway dog who found his owner in the hospital even though he'd
never been to the hospital, and you've got yourself a Schedule 1 local news
thirst trap.
And HCSMs are definitely an alternative, but...
as you've probably guessed because you're learning about them on this show
and not what if John Oliver was somehow less angry, less English, and had Jack
Ryan money, there are also some significant drawbacks which, depending
on the company in question, can range from the disquieting to the
disqualifying. So tonight, let's talk about healthcare sharing ministries,
what they are, what they do, and more importantly, what they don't do.
And the first thing to know is, HCSMs have actually existed in the United
States for decades, traditionally serving small, insular communities like
Mennonites and the Amish.
However... The 2010 Affordable Care Act included a loophole that exempted
uninsured people from paying the tax penalty if they were a member of an
HCSM. And that was clearly immediately appealing to anyone who wanted to opt
out of Obamacare. In fact, some HCSMs like Liberty HealthShare, one of the
biggest ministries, have specifically targeted a conservative audience.
Liberty has run ads on The Blaze and also sponsored CPAC.
In fact, remember that famous moment when Trump molested the flag?
The Liberty logo was an eyewitness to that crime.
And Liberty even made its sales pitch directly to the CPAC audience during
panels like this one.
If you want the government to take care of you, and you think they do a great
job doing it, health sharing is not for you.
If you want to stick it to them, sign up for Liberty Health Share.
Okay. On a list of the worst sounds known to man, self-satisfied CPAC
laughter has to be right at the top, be it only by weeping kitten and mother's
orgasm. Now, that Affordable Care Act loophole did try to put some limits in
place to keep things from getting out of hand. It stated that your ministry, or
crucially, a predecessor of it, had to have been in continuous existence since
1999. But unfortunately, that predecessor detail left room for
exploitation because new ministries simply started affiliating themselves
with previously existing churches.
Take one called Trinity HealthShare. It was founded in 2018, which is, and this
is true, after 1999.
But it argued that it still qualified because it derived its existence from
the Baptist Church, which has been in existence and continually sharing since
the 1600s, which is obvious bullshit.
It's like me claiming that this show has been around for 13 billion years because
the Big Bang was also a bright expanse containing extremely dense material.
That's just not how anything works.
So a loophole that was intended to be small... got pretty big and even bigger
once Obamacare's individual mandate stopped being enforced during the Trump
years. And the result of all of this was that the popularity of these ministries
exploded from an estimated 200,000 members a decade ago to more than a
million today.
And while HCSMs will insist that they make it abundantly clear that they are
not health insurance, many do seem to go out of their way to make themselves
appear as insurance-like as possible.
For a start, they're sometimes sold through insurance brokers alongside
actual insurance plans.
And while the Obamacare marketplace offers plans in four metal categories,
bronze, silver, gold, and platinum, a company called Altrua offered plans in
gold, silver, bronze, and copper, rebranding them last year to diamond,
emerald, sapphire, and ruby. Although, it is still pretty clear what they're
trying to do there. Very much blur the line, while also...
Throwing some extremely unfair shade at Ruby, the objective goat of the Cardinal
Gems. She's red, known for her flaws, and responsible for the most iconic
slippers in the history of cinema.
Eat your fucking hearts out, Sapphire and Emerald, because you could literally
never.
But while these HCSMs may have the optics of insurance, there are some very
important differences.
For a start, they don't have to abide by laws governing insurance products,
meaning there is nothing stopping them from placing restrictions on coverage
for pre-existing conditions, which is exactly what they do.
And not only that, many won't cover services considered essential.
under the ACA, like treatment for substance abuse or mental health care.
In fact, Altrua excludes those and also treatment for obesity or autism.
And Samaritan's classic plan has a list of non-qualified items, including
routine, maintenance, stabilized, preventive, and wellness care. That is
everything from regular checkups to vaccinations.
And even for eligible expenses, the most that can be shared for a given need is
$250,000, which probably explains their full name. Samaritan, not the good one,
though. Just a random Samaritan who might well leave you to die in the
middle of an abandoned road.
And we haven't even gotten to one of the biggest excuses HCSMs can use to deny
coverage, and that is morality.
Because that means that you can be denied coverage for basically anything.
This is a program of the Christian Care Ministry.
And people who smoke or same-sex couples need not apply.
The program also won't pay for illnesses related to alcohol, abortion, or other
lifestyle-related choices.
I need to know that I'm not gonna be paying for someone else who's decided
to... sit on the couch and eat bonbons all day. Wow, that is harsh.
But I will say that judgmental tone is very much in line with how these
ministries operate.
Do people really deserve healthcare coverage if they eat junk food or don't
exercise or are gay?
Just fix it. Eat a carrot. Go for a run. Rub your penis or vagina on someone
else's vagina or penis respectively.
It's really not difficult.
And this is a pattern across HCSMs.
Liberty's materials say an applicant must comply with a Christian lifestyle.
And among the exclusions on Samaritan's classic program, you'll find that they
might pay for treatment for an STD, but...
Not if it was contracted by sex outside of marriage, and that the member has to
explain how the disease was contracted.
Presumably, the hotter the story, the more money you get for ointments.
Vanilla missionary shit isn't gonna get covered here, bud. You better have
gotten gonorrhea from an earlobe if you want Samaritan's attention.
But sweeping moral judgment isn't the only leeway that these organizations
have. Because they are voluntary associations, you have no guarantee that
your bills will get paid. Although, to hear a founder of Liberty HealthShare
tell it, you've really got nothing to worry about there. Just listen to him
reassure people in a video on their website titled, Will My Bills Be Paid?
We've had a successful history of sharing medical bills 100% for every
eligible need ever submitted. So it doesn't depend upon a written contract
where we can sue each other, uh, if someone doesn't send their share amount.
It's really a contract written on our hearts.
Oh, right.
It's a contract written on your hearts.
Figuratively, of course, because literally, it's not a contract.
And as for his claim there that Liberty successfully shared 100% of medical
bills for every eligible need, given, as we've discussed, they can deem any need
ineligible for any reason, that phrase is essentially as meaningless as their
cardiac non-contract. And on top of all of this, there is the practical matter
of how exactly you pay for your care as a member.
The HCSN process typically is you're told to present yourself as uninsured,
then... When you get your bill, the expectation is that you bargain down the
cost of your care as much as you can, then pay the bill yourself, then submit
your bills to the ministry for reimbursement. And if you have ever
waited for your friends to Venmo you after paying for dinner, you know that
the reimbursement process can go very wrong.
Participants in Liberty, you know, the one with the heart contract, have found
payments can be slow to non-existent.
In the past three years, Tiffany Schultz with the Wisconsin Better Business
Bureau says the BBB has taken more than 500 complaints about Liberty
HealthShare, many with similar stories, one claiming 90,000 in outstanding
medical bills that were pre-approved. Either the consumer is out the money and
hasn't been reimbursed or they're ending up going to collections.
That's not great.
And while Liberty claims that 2019 was a particularly difficult year and that
they're proud of the improvements they've made since then, it is worth
noting that Liberty's members still seem pretty active on the Better Business
Bureau website, where they've logged 304 complaints in the last 12 months, which
is a lot, especially when you consider that Cigna, a massive insurer, has just
half that amount while having 15 times the members.
And imagine having more people complain about you than about Cigna.
A company whose logo is a cartoon man standing in a field as his head explodes
from dealing with their customer service.
And unfortunately, in most states, a complaint to the Better Business Bureau
is basically all the recourse you have.
And these ministries have worked very hard to keep accountability at bay,
successfully lobbying for so-called safe harbor laws in more than 30 states,
ensuring that they can operate safely outside of insurance regulations.
And to see just how much you can get away with, it's worth looking at a
company called Allira, which has been... Alira has been heavily involved with a
number of health-sharing ministries over the years. First, one called Unity, then
one called Trinity, which now goes by Charity. Although those names sound less
like healthcare organizations and more like characters in a religious-themed
Captain Planet knockoff. When their powers combine, they get canceled after
two episodes.
Alira presents itself as merely an administrator for HCSMs, but it is...
intricately connected to the ones that it works with and very much by design.
Just six weeks after Trinity was incorporated, it signed a deal with
Alira stipulating that Alira would have exclusive ownership rights to the
membership roster and was the sole party developing and marketing the plans
including the HCSM component.
So, Alira's relationship with Trinity is basically this guy's relationship to his
alien costume.
He can claim... He isn't technically the costume, and that's true, but the
costume doesn't really do anything without him.
And customers in multiple states have claimed that Aleera and its ministries
have been ruthless in denying coverage, wielding morality clauses hard.
When one member was attacked and knocked unconscious outside a bar and taken to
the hospital with serious injuries, including a skull fracture, cervical
spine fracture... and intracranial bleeding, Alira denied her claims,
stating her injuries were self-inflicted, and citing their
guidelines, including the line, follow spiritual teachings on the use or abuse
of alcohol, which I'm pretty sure is the benevolent advice Jesus himself would
have given under the circumstances.
And incredibly, that's not even the worst story of a rejected claim
involving Alira.
Ten-year-old Lola Grace Seegers is healthy just four months after brain
surgery. On September 11th, she was rushed from the local ER in Greene
County by ambulance to Children's Healthier Scottish Rite, where doctors
removed a softball-sized brain tumor.
It was just amazing, the care.
But last week came the bill from their health plan, Alera Companies.
$325,624.
Alera says Children's is out of network and won't pay the $325,000 bill.
We had a life-threatening emergency.
They failed us.
And her.
Holy shit.
They were denied reimbursement for a child who had a softball-sized tumor
removed from her brain, which is incidentally exactly the kind of immoral
behavior I'd expect sharing ministries to classify as fucking disqualifying.
Now, Alira claims that that family's issues were ultimately resolved, but
only after that story was featured on the news.
And it shows just how little recourse you have. That if you don't have a child
that you can get onto TV to shame the company into action, you could be shit
out of luck.
And look, traditional insurance companies...
The ACA also have their share of horror stories when it comes to denial of
coverage, but there are important differences here. Not just in the level
of protection that you have when that happens, but in the degree of financial
accountability. Because while the ACA requires actual health insurance to
spend no more than 20% of money on administrative costs, therefore, leaving
at least 80% for care, there is no such requirement for HCSMs. And you can
probably tell where this is going.
Because investigations have found that out of every $100 a Trinity member paid
in premiums, only $16 went towards paying medical expenses, with the rest
being kicked up to a lira.
And paying out 16% of the money that you take in for coverage is a lot different
than paying out 80, because 80% makes you think, wait, why exactly do we have
insurance companies?
Whereas 16% makes you think, is a crime happening to me right now? And if so,
why does everyone seem okay with it?
And when a local news reporter caught up with the head of Illyria to ask her
about his reluctance to pay out claims, her response was not particularly
reassuring. Do you have any apologies to the members who believe their claims
ought to be played and they're not paid?
We're not a healthcare sharing ministry, Mr. Strickland. We only administer on
behalf of the ministries.
I can't help you any further. I need to get out of town.
Okay, it is never a good sign when a CEO has to end an interview like that.
As I've said before, our company has never done anything illegal.
Now, have you seen a man in a blue fedora? He's supposed to give me a new
identity as I get pulled into a helicopter that's already taking off.
Tell my daughter I loved her and my husband I didn't. I'm out!
Now, I should say...
Other sharing ministries have tried to distance themselves from Alira, claiming
that this sort of deception is not part of legitimate, authentic healthcare
sharing ministries. And Alira is definitely bad.
But one thing insurance commissioners have repeatedly told us in researching
this piece is how little transparency there is into how these ministries
operate and just how wary they think people should be of all of them. And
look, broadly... We have to do more in this country to reduce the cost of
healthcare. Personally, I'd argue switching to a single payer system would
remove a lot of these problems instantly, but that clearly isn't
happening anytime soon. So, in the meantime, I do get the appeal of lower
cost health insurance.
The problem is, this isn't that.
It's not insurance at all.
And states need, at the very least, to pass laws to make sure that people know
what they're getting into with HCSMs and to force them to allocate funds
properly. The problem is, some are going in the opposite direction.
Take Florida.
In 2018, after intense lobbying, it loosened its restrictions on HCSMs even
further. going from requiring that participants be members of the same
religion to merely requiring that they share a common set of ethical or
religious beliefs.
And that could be basically anything.
At this point, the bar to entry is so low, just about anyone can become an
HCSM. And the reason I know that is, this anyone did.
You may remember, back in 2015, we founded a church, Our Lady of Perpetual
Exemption, to demonstrate that tax exemptions for churches enabled some of
them to do terrible things.
Well, just three months ago, we officially founded a spin-off church
called Our Lady of Perpetual Health.
And we founded it where else but Florida.
And I'm happy to tell you that church now has its own healthcare sharing
ministry, Johnny Care.
And the whole thing was scarily easy to do.
So, without further ado, please...
Join me, my most blessed congregants, at church.
And you know, I couldn't run an organization as important as this
ministry all by myself, so please welcome, live from Johnny Care
headquarters in sunny Florida, the Felicity Huffman to my William H. Macy,
my dear wife and business partner, Wanda Jo.
Praise be to you, my Wanda.
Praise be to you, my John and... Praise be to Florida, that blessed state where
minimally regulated insurance knockoffs go to be bored and retired people go to
die. Amen to that.
I have heard the word of the Lord, my John.
Oh, and what did it say, my wonder?
It said thou must free thyself like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter,
from the overreaching grasp of government health care.
Stick it to him.
Stick it to them! Now, Wanda, we're running the ministry as a church, even
though in Florida, we actually don't have to be.
Amen! Praise Florida!
But we do need to fulfill the requirement that our ministry provide
for the financial or medical needs of a participant through contributions from
other participants. And the good news is, we have done that through our
special Johnny Care First Aid Kit containing not one...
Not two, but three Band-Aids. It screams the cheapest option that we could find.
And you know what, Mawanda?
What, Mahjong?
It was.
Now, why three Band-Aids? Because we know that in life, sometimes accidents
happen. But if they happen more than three times, it just stops being our
problem. And let me be clear, when you sign up for membership, you're not
paying for your own first aid kit. You're paying for someone else's, and
they are paying for yours.
And that gives you freedom from insurance and us freedom from
responsibility. And beyond that, it's a very simple system. If you need medical
care, you go to the doctor, you receive it, you request a bill, and then you pay
that bill on your own.
Leave us out of it.
Oh, yeah, because if you submit that bill to us, we're going to reject it.
From his lips to God's bigger lips in the sky.
Testify. Either because you engaged in the sin of fornication beyond the bonds
of matrimony. You whore and little skis.
Or you spent the day eating bonbons on the couch instead of going to the gym.
Or masturbated ever.
Whatever it is, we're going to reject it. And it's as easy as that. No
deductibles, no claims, and no contracts. Except for the one written on
our hearts.
Now, you can become a member of our Johnny Care Ministry for just $1.99, and
we're limiting membership to 5,000 of you in Florida, not because we have to,
but because that is the number of first aid kits that we've bought. So go to
freedomfromhealthcare.org and see if you qualify to send us money and get almost
nothing in return.
As close to nothing as we could get away with.
And to be clear, we should not be able to get away with any of this.
Thank you to Wanda Jo, who, if history is any indication, will disappear for
three years and ultimately resurface in a Canadian Mohegan sun, answering to
Deb. I just love you so much, my Wanda.
Oh, and I love you so much, my John.
Visit freedomfromhealthcare.org to learn how you can stick it to them.
Stick it to them.
That's our show. Thank you so much for watching. Good night.
Bye-bye, my Wanda.
Bye-bye, my John.
Stick it to them.
Praise Band-Aids!
Praise Band-Aids!
Band-Aids be upon us, upon our arms and one of our knees.
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