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My guest today was one of my favorites, Alex Lawson, executive director of Social Security Works. He was featured in a new video from two-time Emmy winners More Perfect Union about what this regime is doing to Social Security field offices around the country.

They went to Iowa and found closed offices, five-hour hold times that end in dropped calls, and elderly people who have nowhere to turn. It's heartbreaking and infuriating, and you need to see it.

Then Alex and I talked about: Why "Medicare Advantage" is neither Medicare nor an advantage — and what happens when you actually get sick, the trillion-dollar Medicaid cut that's already closing hospitals in Montana and Nebraska, prior authorization showing up in TRADITIONAL Medicare now (I'm living it — literally wearing a heart monitor right now). Plus what "bureaucratic disentitlement" means and how Florida has turned it into a profitable business, and why we're not hopeless — and what Zohran Mamdani is showing us is possible

If you have a family member on Medicare or Medicaid, or you're getting close to 65 and making decisions, please listen to this episode and share it. This is our money. These are our programs. And they are being dismantled on purpose.