March 14, 2026 Seth Grossman Radio: ObamaCare Delays Urgent Tests. Egg Harbor Twp. Approves $36 Million Debt in Low-Turnout ‘Special Vote.’ High Cost of Frivolous Lawsuits and “Free” Concerts and Airshows.

From Weekly Saturday Interview with John DeMasi's "Talk with a Purpose" on WPG Radio, 95.5FM and 1450AM near Atlantic City, New Jersey: Obamacare delays vital tests by months--unless you have special connections. Host John Demasi and Seth Grossman describe how doctor referred them to specialists to test for dangerous symptoms. But specialists could not give either of them appointments to even talk to specialists about getting those tests for months. Each found doctors to take those tests only by using personal friends and connections. This is normal is socialist and Third World countries. It was never normal in America before Obamacare. You Often Need Insider Connections to Get Essential Care: To get the medical treatment you need, you often need advocates with influence and connections. . Impact of Policy: This began in 2014 when "Obamacare" (The wrongly named "Affordable Care Act") took effect. It caused many of our best doctors to retire or join large corporate practices run by clerks and bureaucrats. They big practices depend on the government agencies and big insurance companies that pay them. They no longer depend on their reputations and good will of their patients. These practices often use "diversity, equity, and inclusion" instead of merit when hiring their doctors. A handful of voters approve $36 million of new debt for Egg Harbor Township public schools. Egg Harbor Township School Board members deliberately held special election onf March 10 to guarantee super-low voter turnout: They could have put the question on the ballot for last November's regular election at no cost to local taxpayers. But they chose not to. They deliberately spent probably $100,000 to hold a special election on March 10. (They did not publicly announce the cost.) Many voters knew nothing about it.  Many were in Florida. Many had no idea that the polls did not open until noon. They did this for one obvious reason.  Roughly 18,000 Egg Harbor Township voters voted in last November's election. The school board members knew that most of them would vote "No." They knew most taxpayers in Egg Harbor Township do not want to borrow $36 million just for repairs and maintenance on existing buildings. And so these School Board members wasted money on a special election to guarantee a super-low turnout. Only 2,428 people voted last Tuesday, March 10. That was less than 10% of the 37,000 registered voters of Egg Harbor Township. 1,470 voted "yes" and 857 voted "no". Only the handful of voters who benefited from the $36 million were notified of this special election. trategic Timing: Seth The school sent emails and notices to all teachers, parents of students and employees and contractors. I bet they also used their "emergency" telephone system to remind to vote. https://youtu.be/a0fwj6fzFtE?si=zSQV-fER9-n3Sb1d Failure to deal with the real issue. Government makes everything way to expensive to build and fix. There are ridiculous union rules, environmental rules, diversity equity and inclusion rules, and all sorts of laws that make doing anything a violation of something. The solution to everything being unaffordable? Force somebody else to pay!  Get a "grant" from the state or federal government to pay for a local project. Borrow the money, and get your kids and grandkids to pay! https://youtu.be/3zeRyUceuoY?si=zCv2V3uBSUTKedVB Crazy "fee-shifting" lawsuit laws reward fake "victims" and punish taxpayer. Do you remember the 2020 George Floyd Riots in Atlantic City? That was when more than a hundred rioters broke windows and looted stores on Atlantic Avenue, and in "The Walk" Shopping District. That was when Steve Young and six others deliberately blocked traffic several times None of them cared a bit about the thousands of business owners and workers have to earn a full year of income in a ten-week tourist season. Mayor Marty Small and the Atlantic City Police Department then did an outstanding job. They watched hours of video. They questioned dozens of witnesses. They positively identified 95 rioters who broke windows, stole merchandise and fought with police. They used enormous discipline and patience in not arresting Steve Young and his bunch until they actually blocked traffic on the Expressway ramp. And then Governor Murphy and the then-Atlantic County Prosecutor stabbed our law enforcement in the back. They did not prosecute or punish a single person who was caught red-handed breaking the law, breaking windows, blocking traffic or stealing merchandise. Youhad had even worse riots in Trenton, and nobody was punished for anything there either. And of course, not a single Republican politician in New Jersey said or did anything either. The bottom line, is that all charges were either dropped or not pursued. And now yesterday, it was reported that Steve Young and the other six who were arrested for blocking traffic on the Atlantic City Expressway are suing the taxpayers of Atlantic City for $50 million!   Frivolous Lawsuit Laws: These are a big, big reasons why nobody can afford anything these days, but nobody talks about it.  And it's not just Steve Young. You have a guy in a wheelchair right now going to every small business he can so he can prove they are in violation of some handicap accessible law. Then his lawyer threatens to sue for thousands of dollars unless he gets paid a few hundred dollars for his "emotional distress. Impact of "Civil Rights" Laws: Don't blame lawyers. Blame the politicians who make these laws that are absolutely evil. For hundreds of years, lawyers were paid by something called the American rule.  Clients paid their own lawyers. If the client had a good case, the client usually got a good lawyer willing to take it. The lawyer knew that he was likely to win, get a good recovery, and get paid well out of the recovery. Lawyers did not take crappy, frivolous cases because they were likely to lose or collect almost nothing. But then politicians enacted all of these so-called "civil rights" laws. These so-called "civil rights" laws basically say that if you are a member of a so-called "protected class", the American Rule does not apply. If you are black, Hispanic, female, gay, transgender, illegal immigrant or whatever, and if you say your feelings were hurt by some minor insult or technical violation that happens to everyone in everyday life, you can recover only $200 and your lawyer can get $20,000 from the other side. And if you say your feelings got hurt, you can sue for "emotional distress" even without any evidence of emotional distress. And you can claim punitive damages on top of that.  That's why insurance is so expensive and taxes are so high. Everybody pays big moneyto settle these crappy cases, because they will usually pay more if these cases go to trial. Do those "free" concerts and airshows really pay for themselves? How do we know? How do we know that tourists who spend money during those events weren't coming to Atlantic City anyway? How many came to watch the concert or airshow and then left without spending a dime? CRDA was first set up to be the "Casino Reinvestment Development" Authority. It was supposed to force casinos to invest 2% of their gross casino "win" to improve their properties. Now CRDA takes 1.25% of their win, together with a $3 tax on "free parking" and a $2 "occupancy tax" to pay for "free" concerts, airshows and other public relations stunts. https://youtu.be/IZgyvl0POSI?si=m9n90MV8Bulh-kwf Its Tourist Agency claims that 70% of Atlantic City hotel guests stay for only one night. It claims these "free" events are needed to persuade them to stay longer. But how many don't stay longer because they don't think the city is clean and safe? How many leave early because all the nickel and time taxes added to their hotel, food and beverage bills? TRANSCRIPT OF SELECTED PARTS: SOCIALIST MEDICAL CARE IN AMERICA:  YOU OFTEN NEED INSIDER CONNECTIONS TO GET NEEDED TREATMENT. SETH GROSSMAN:  What you described in trying to quickly get tested for an alarming medical condition also happened to me. Except, for me it was something different. My doctor said you have this condition, and you need to get it checked out right away.  You need to call a specialist. So I call the specialist, a medical group I have been dealing with for years. Now this is in January, and they tell me, "Oh, we can give you an appointment in May or June for or five months from now. Or, we can set you up with a telephone call with a paramedical in April, three months from now." Now if the symptoms show something serious is going on, this can be life-threatening. Fortunately, you and I are both Boomers. We have doctor friends, and friends who are retired doctors. So we both got through to somebody who got us the tests we needed right away. But I really feel sorry for the younger people who don't have those personal contacts. And let's face it, even all those doctors who we have personal contacts with are retiring, they're leaving. And it is a real crisis that we have. Before they started Obamacare, the so-called Affordable Care Act in 2014, I had been going to the same Primary Care doctor for nearly thirty years, and as kid, I went to his father! Within just a couple of years, I'd say eight out of some 10 doctors I knew either retired and went out of business, or joined big practices. JOHN DEMASI:  It's horrible what's happened and you're right.  SETH GROSSMAN: You know nobody cares now that the government is paying, now that the government decides who gets paid, who doesn't get paid, the interest is in pleasing the government bureaucrats, not the patients. And it's a very, very bad thing. JOHN DEMASI:  Yes. It is. Yes. It is. And fortunately, like you said, I know people who know people, and that got me in. You know? So but but you're right. What if you didn't have that?