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← Previous segment →hat we're going to get the most entertaining outcome. It's not even, I wouldn't even say it's what I want but it's the most entertaining. We already have video of them saying it about the 2016 election, right? So we know that. We know that the Democrats about 2016, what would stop them from saying it about the next election? Nothing. So entertainment, here we come. It's coming.
Well as I've taught you, you can predict the future by following the money. Follow the money. And here's something that you should have seen coming and you should continue to see coming. It goes like this. I heard Professor Scott Galloway talk about this first but it's also kind of a general math-based business concept. It goes like this. If you're a big company, just like every company that's public, you have sort of an obligation to grow, right? If you have stockholders they're kind of expecting you to grow. So in order to grow, if you're a small company any new market you get into will help you grow. But if you're an enormous company like Amazon or Apple you can't just say, "Oh I think we'll make keychains," because all the keychains in the world wouldn't make you enough money to move your big numbers because you're starting with such a big number. So you have to enter markets that are already gigantic. And there aren't that many gigantic markets left.
There's education, which the private sector has not really gone big on education but it's guaranteed because it's such a big market. One of the big companies has to take it on. Self-driving cars, all of the big companies have to be there. They all have to because it's one of the few things that's so big that it could move their numbers. But the other thing is healthcare. The big companies that are not in healthcare almost have to get into it because that's where the money is. There's nothing else that has enough money flowing around that they can really improve their top revenue number.
And so we see exactly what you would predict. So the Scott Galloway prediction that big companies have to enter big markets, they have no choice. They literally have no choice. So if you wonder was Amazon going to go big in the healthcare market? Yes. Yes. Turns out they just bought a big healthcare provider for 3.9 billion, One Medical. So they're a primary care provider. So that's we're talking about the actual doctor who touches you. So Amazon, and the thing that caught my attention is the way Amazon phrased this.
And by the way if you're not catching this this is one of the biggest stories in the world. It just doesn't have that people dying part of it. You know there's nobody dying so it doesn't look like a big story but it's big. This is really big. Let me just say the way Amazon's representative described it: "We think healthcare is high on the list of experiences that need reinvention." Oh here it comes. Booking an appointment, waiting weeks or even months to be seen, taking time off work, driving to a clinic, finding a parking spot, waiting in the waiting room then the exam room for what is too often a rushed few minutes with a doctor, then making another trip to a pharmacy. And they continue, "We see lots of opportunities to both improve the quality of the experience and give back time." This is from Amazon's SVP Neil Lindsay.
Now is that exactly what you want to hear from your big American company? That is exactly what I wanted to hear. Because they didn't even say cost. It was about the experience being completely broken. And how often have you had a conversation, I've had two of them this week where some just basic healthcare stuff couldn't get done. No, three of them. I think I've been in three conversations this week, yeah just this week, three of them, where just the process of getting healthcare was just so broken that a consumer who is paying for it couldn't get a basic feature. Just the most basic thing. And you're paying for it. Like the whole system is pretty fucked right now. And the expensive, yes, but that's not even the big problem. The big problem is I can't get it.
The big problem, okay depends who you are. If you have money the big problem isn't the cost. So you can't get it. Like I struggle at my income level to get basic healthcare coverage services. I have to fight for it. Like I have Kaiser, you know it's an HMO and they have set rules and sometimes the rules work well but lots of times they don't. They don't work for me or other people. So I'm like fighting for healthcare that I pay for. Like what are the rest of you doing? I mean I'm in a privileged situation. I have money. I've got healthcare, right? Best situation you can be in. And I've got to fight for it. Like they don't just say here's some healthcare, do you want it? No, I got to fight for it. I got to change policies. I got to get exceptions. I got to get a doctor's approval. What are the rest of you doing? I mean Jesus, seriously. I mean I'm in the best situation. I can barely get healthcare it seems like even when I pay for it.
So when I see Amazon saying this thing is just messed up, we're going to go fix this, the first thing I say is who better? Seriously, who better? Nobody better. Amazon is the very best company you'd want to see doing this. Now Apple too apparently has also announced they've got a 60-page white paper detailing how the Apple Watch will be connected to their healthcare efforts. So Apple is also going big into healthcare. Who better? Who better, right? Amazon and Apple just going big on healthcare. If you don't think this is the biggest story in the world it's bigger than everything. It's just there's all good news and nobody died from it so you're not going to hear much about it. So that's all changing. Good news.
So apparently there's even CNN is reporting now, they're not making a big deal of it but on their page they are reporting that the cat is on the roof when it comes to Hunter Biden and various charges that would include, let's see, so they're still being talked about charges that would include tax violations, maybe false statements and connections with buying of firearms, blah blah. And so we don't know if there'll be any charges for that but the investigators, I guess the government has sort of an unwritten rule that they don't like to interfere in politics. So the FBI for example would be less inclined to prosecute Hunter Biden while there's an election coming. You know they might want to wait so it doesn't bias the election. To which I say, wait a minute, isn't this supposed to bias the election? That this is not the bias you're supposed to remove, is it? I feel like this is the bias you're supposed to insert. Does it not make the election let's say more credible for us to have more information about what Joe Biden did or did not do regarding China? Wouldn't you like to know if your current president is owned by China? Or do you think it would be good to wait? I wonder if my current president is in the pocket of China. There sure is a lot of evidence that he made some deals that would just make you suspect that China has some pretty good blackmail material on the president of the United States. But you know what you should do with that most important information that you could ever have about your president? How about wait. Let's wait a few years, see how it plays out. What kind of rule is that?
Like I get the general rule that you don't want to prosecute and influence the elections. I get that. So and I get why they would wait to try to go after Trump for example. Now if we were talking about the president himself maybe I'd say maybe wait. But the presid
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ent's son, what exactly is the reason for waiting on that? I'm not so sure that makes sense, does it? Anyway, and CNN reporter reveals there's new details but they also point out that the Republicans are definitely going to look into this Hunter Biden stuff when they get power, which they probably will. So do you think that maybe the Democrats want to make sure that the investigation of Hunter is…
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