<p><strong>UPDATE</strong>: Fox Sports released a statement regarding Mark Sanchez on Saturday afternoon, confirming that Sanchez is currently recovering &#8220;in stable condition.&#8221;</p>
<p>“Mark Sanchez was injured in Indianapolis on Saturday and is currently recovering in the hospital in stable condition,&#8221; the statement said. &#8220;We are deeply grateful to the medical team for their exceptional care and support. Our thoughts and prayers are with Mark, and we ask that everyone please respect his and his family’s privacy during this time.”</p>
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<p>“Mark Sanchez was injured in Indianapolis on Saturday and is currently recovering in the hospital in stable condition. We are deeply grateful to the medical team for their exceptional care and support. Our thoughts and prayers are with Mark, and we ask that…</p>
<p>— FOX Sports PR (@FOXSportsPR) <a href="https://twitter.com/FOXSportsPR/status/1974532265561501810?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 4, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
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<p><em>Original story:</em></p>
<p>Sports announcer and former NFL quarterback Mark Sanchez was stabbed on Friday night in Indianapolis, and is currently in the hospital with critical injuries.</p>
<p>The stabbing took place on a street in downtown Indianapolis, according to reporting from TMZ. In addition Sanchez, one other person was injured.</p>
<p>Authorities were notified about the incident at around 12:30 a.m., early Saturday morning.</p>
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<p><em>This is a breaking story, please refresh for updates.</em></p>

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<p>Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, a Democrat, unloaded on a reporter for asking about illegal aliens, which is a legal term for a person who is illegally in America.</p>
<p>Johnson called the term &#8220;racist&#8221; and sarcastically suggested that he should also call black people &#8220;slaves.&#8221;</p>
<p>The reporter asked Johnson about his apparent refusal to file a report to the White House detailing his city&#8217;s spending on illegal aliens. &#8220;What has happened with that?&#8221; the reporter asked.</p>
<p>&#8220;We don&#8217;t have illegal aliens,&#8221; Johnson told the reporter while shaking his head. &#8220;I don&#8217;t know if that&#8217;s from some sort of sci-fi message for which you&#8217;ve had.&#8221;</p>
<p>When the reporter explained that he was merely using a legal term for a person illegally in the country, Johnson made a comparison to slavery. &#8220;Listen, the legal term for my people were slaves,&#8221; the Democrat said. &#8220;You want me to use that term, too?&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Let&#8217;s just get the language right,&#8221; the mayor continued. &#8220;We&#8217;re talking about undocumented individuals that are human beings. The last thing that I&#8217;m going to do is accept that type of racist, nasty language to describe human beings.&#8221;</p>
<p>Johnson <a href="https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQPIhblgYoU/?igsh=dHc4N3I5YWpmODNu">posted</a> the moment to his Instagram account on Saturday and captioned the post, &#8220;This isn’t a sci-fi show. These are human beings. We will not abandon our humanity to score cheap political points.&#8221;</p>
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<p>Johnson has made it a priority to limit the ability of federal law enforcement to detain people who are in the country illegally. Earlier this month, for example, he signed an executive order to create “ICE free zones” in Chicago, which is already a sanctuary city, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chicago-mayor-brandon-johnson-signs-executive-order-establishing-ice-free-zones">The Daily Wire</a> previously reported.</p>
<p>“The order establishes ICE-free zones,&#8221; Johnson said at the time. &#8220;That means that city property and unwilling private businesses will no longer serve as staging grounds for these raids.&#8221;</p>
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<p>Still, President Donald Trump remains committed to fulfilling his campaign promises. The administration started “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chicago-mayor-brandon-johnson-signs-executive-order-establishing-ice-free-zones">Operation Midway Blitz</a>” in Illinois last month, resulting in more than 1,000 arrests.</p>
<p>Federal ICE agents have increasingly become targets of violence, especially in sanctuary cities. On October 4, officers in Chicago were targeted in an apparently coordinated strike. According to Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Tricia McLaughlin, officers were “rammed by vehicles and boxed in by 10 cars” and agents were forced to exit their vehicles on foot.</p>
<p>“One of the drivers who rammed the law enforcement vehicle was armed with a semi-automatic weapon,” McLaughlin explained. “Law enforcement was forced to deploy their weapons and fire defensive shots at an armed U.S. citizen who drove herself to the hospital to get care for wounds.”</p>
<p>The armed woman in question was already on Border Patrol’s radar after she recently doxxed agents and posted online, “Hey to all my gang let’s f*** those mother f***ers up, don’t let them take anyone,” according to the assistant secretary.</p>
<p>McLaughlin said the Chicago Police Department refused to provide backup for the ICE agents.</p>
<p><strong>Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/armed-attack-on-ice-agents-unfolds-in-chicago-pritzker-rails-against-trump">Armed Attack On ICE Agents Unfolds In Chicago; Pritzker Rails Against Trump</a></strong></p>

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Chicago Mayor Spazzes Out Over ‘Racist’ Term ‘Illegal Alien’

<p>The U.S. Department of War has confirmed that it has accepted an anonymous donation of $130 million to help keep U.S. troops paid during the government shutdown.</p>
<p>President Donald Trump said on Thursday that a close friend of his, whom he described as &#8220;patriotic,&#8221; gave the money to keep our military paid during what he&#8217;s called the &#8220;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/reel/821950420784553">Schumer Shutdown</a>,&#8221; referencing Senate Democrat Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY).</p>
<p>The anonymous donor is <a href="https://ca.news.yahoo.com/mystery-donor-gave-trump-130m-165111194.html">reportedly</a> Timothy Mellon, a billionaire railroad magnate and heir to the prominent banking and political Mellon family. Mellon has not confirmed the donation came from him.</p>
<p>During the 2024 campaign, Mellon donated $100 million to groups backing Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who now serves as Health and Human Services secretary in the Trump administration.</p>
<p>The government has been shut down since October 1, after Democrats refused a funding resolution without certain health care subsidies. Republicans have charged that Democrats want illegal immigrants to receive health care paid for by the American people.</p>
<p>“He called us the other day and said, &#8216;I&#8217;d like to contribute any shortfall you have because of the Democrat shutdown … because I love the military and I love the country,'&#8221; Trump said.</p>
<p>The Department of War has since confirmed the donation. &#8220;On October 23, 2025, the Department of War accepted an anonymous donation of $130 million under its general gift acceptance authority,&#8221; Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said in a statement. &#8220;The donation was made on the condition that it be used to offset the cost of Service members&#8217; salaries and benefits. We are grateful for this donor&#8217;s assistance after Democrats opted to withhold pay from troops.&#8221;</p>
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<p>Trump made clear last week that he would find a way to pay troops despite the ongoing shutdown. He signed an executive order directing the Pentagon to repurpose unused funds to cover salaries in the interim.</p>
<p>“Chuck Schumer recently said, ‘Every day gets better’ during their Radical Left Shutdown. I DISAGREE!” Trump posted to Truth Social last week, as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/get-our-troops-paid-trump-says-he-wont-let-military-suffer-due-to-dem-shutdown">highlighted</a> by The Daily Wire.</p>
<p>“If nothing is done, because of ‘Leader’ Chuck Schumer and the Democrats, our Brave Troops will miss the paychecks they are rightfully due on October 15th,” he continued. “That is why I am using my authority, as Commander in Chief, to direct our Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, to use all available funds to get our Troops PAID on October 15th.”</p>
<p>“I will not allow the Democrats to hold our Military, and the entire Security of our Nation, HOSTAGE, with their dangerous Government Shutdown,&#8221; the president added.</p>
<p>The funds donated by the anonymous individual might need to first receive authorization by Congress, Fox News notes.</p>
<div aria-live="polite"><strong>Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/get-our-troops-paid-trump-says-he-wont-let-military-suffer-due-to-dem-shutdown">‘Get Our Troops Paid’: Trump Says He Won’t Let Military Suffer Due To Dem Shutdown</a></strong></div>

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We Now Know Mystery Donor Who Gave $130 Million To Pay Troops During ‘Schumer Shutdown’

<p>An Ohio man who was convicted in the high-profile <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/verdict-delivered-in-death-of-ethan-liming-teen-beaten-to-death-outside-i-promise-school">beating death of 17-year-old Ethan Liming</a> has been released from prison, and was arrested and charged this past week in a different murder.</p>
<p>Deshawn Stafford, 24, has been charged with murdering Timothy Hutchinson, a 25-year-old Ohio man who was working as an engineer in his hometown. Hutchinson was reportedly struck unintentionally during an exchange of gunfire allegedly between Stafford and another individual.</p>
<p>In addition to the murder charge, Stafford is facing charges of felonious assault, discharging a firearm on a public roadway, having a weapon while under disability, drug trafficking, and possession of drugs and drug paraphernalia, the Akron Beacon Journal <a href="https://www.beaconjournal.com/story/news/crime/2025/10/23/deshawn-stafford-24-arrested-in-connection-to-akron-shooting-death/86854916007/">reports</a>.</p>
<p>A <a href="https://www.gofundme.com/f/timothy-eugene-hutchinson">GoFundMe</a> for Hutchinson set up by the victim&#8217;s sister says Hutchinson graduated from the mechanical engineering program of University of Akron less than a year ago.</p>
<p>&#8220;To my brother, his family and friends meant everything,&#8221; Rachel Hutchinson wrote. &#8220;He was stolen from us due to senseless violence.&#8221;</p>
<p>Rachel said her brother &#8220;was an individual who truly never meant another human harm,&#8221; adding that &#8220;[o]ne of his final moments was him bending over asking, &#8216;Can I pet dat dawg?'&#8221;</p>
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<p>Just two years ago, Stafford was found guilty of aggravated assault and assault in the brutal beating death of Liming, who was 17 years old. He was sentenced to just 18 months behind bars.</p>
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<p>Stafford was initially hit with murder charges, but the charges were eventually reduced. Additionally, Stafford&#8217;s short sentence, along with the leniency shown to the others charged in the case put a spotlight on the incident and the criminal justice system. Liming is white and the three charged in the brutal killing are black.</p>
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<p>Daily Wire host Matt Walsh, who drew attention to the Liming case in 2023, posted on Friday about Stafford&#8217;s latest alleged murder.</p>
<p>&#8220;Two year[s] ago this piece of garbage, Deshawn Stafford, assaulted and killed a white kid named Ethan Liming,&#8221; Walsh posted. &#8220;He was sentenced to just 18 months in prison. Now he has killed another person, 25-year-old Timothy Hutchinson.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;When will we have had enough of this?&#8221; he added. &#8220;How long will our communities be held hostage by these barbarians?&#8221;</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Two year ago this piece of garbage, Deshawn Stafford, assaulted and killed a white kid named Ethan Liming. He was sentenced to just 18 months in prison. Now he has killed another person, 25-year-old Timothy Hutchinson. When will we have had enough of this? How long will our… <a href="https://t.co/b4UvU8AdoF">pic.twitter.com/b4UvU8AdoF</a></p>
<p>— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1981759927824658623?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 24, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
<p><strong>Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/verdict-delivered-in-death-of-ethan-liming-teen-beaten-to-death-outside-i-promise-school">Verdict Delivered In Death Of Ethan Liming, Teen Beaten To Death Outside I PROMISE School</a></strong></p>

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Man Convicted In Death Of Ohio Teen Already Out Of Prison And Charged With Another Murder

<p>The vast majority of Americans are no longer willing to pay a $1 monthly fee to supposedly help combat climate change, signaling a major shift in attitude from just years ago.</p>
<p>A poll <a href="https://apnorc.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/EPIC-AP-NORC-Press-Release-FINAL-10.22-1.pdf">released</a> on Thursday from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research and the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC) found that only 38% of Americans are on board with paying a $1 monthly carbon fee.</p>
<p>Back in 2021, 52% of Americans were willing to pay the supposed climate-fighting fee.</p>
<p>Unsurprisingly, as the hypothetical fee goes up from $1 monthly to $10 or $20, only 3 in 10 Americans are okay with paying up. And only 2 in 10 said they would pay $75 or $100 monthly.</p>
<p>Climate activism has become a key issue for Democrats in recent years. High-profile politicians like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NYC), for example, famously said back in 2019 that the world would end in 12 years if we don&#8217;t drastically address climate change.</p>
<p>“Millennials and people, you know, Gen Z and all these folks that will come after us are looking up and we’re like: ‘The world is gonna end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change and your biggest issue is how are we gonna pay for it?'&#8221; AOC said.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">&#8220;Millennials, and Gen z, and all these folks that come after us, are looking up and we&#8217;re like &#8216;the world will end in 12 years if we don&#8217;t address climate change, and your biggest issue is how are we gonna pay for it?'&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AOC</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MLKNow?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MLKNow</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MLK2019?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MLK2019</a> <a href="https://t.co/fbUxr2C0tJ">pic.twitter.com/fbUxr2C0tJ</a></p>
<p>— People for Bernie (@People4Bernie) <a href="https://twitter.com/People4Bernie/status/1087443780565782528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 21, 2019</a></p></blockquote>
<p>Failed 2024 Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris was also a <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2023/presidential-candidates-2024-policies-issues/kamala-harris-climate-change/">climate alarmist</a>, calling climate change an existential threat and releasing a $10 trillion climate plan during her 2019 presidential run.</p>
<p>While an increasing number of young Americans now believe that climate change is mostly man-made, Americans in general are just not okay with personally paying any tax or fee to help combat the apparent threat. They are, however, willing to shift payment to energy companies, according to the AP-NORC/EPIC poll.</p>
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<p>&#8220;While less than half of Americans support paying a monthly carbon fee on their energy use, 56% support taxing companies for the carbon they emit,&#8221; a press release outlined.</p>
<p>&#8220;About six in 10 Americans say oil and gas companies (62%), the federal government (60%), and large businesses and corporations (58%) bear a great deal or a lot of responsibility. By contrast, 31% say the same about individuals, a drop of 19 percentage points from 50% in 2019,&#8221; the poll found.</p>
<p>Old-school environmental activism, like protecting conservation lands and wildlife, was, however, supported by a vast majority of Americans, at 70%.</p>

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Is The Climate Cult Losing? A New Poll Shows It Might Be.

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">More than a dozen Democrat governors have signed on to a new health alliance that is effectively meant to challenge the Trump administration&#8217;s health agencies.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Governors&#8217; Public Health Association, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">which was created last week, seeks to dole out medical guidance that will likely be at odds with the Trump administration&#8217;s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Food and Drug Administration (FDA). It will make </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">recommendations on vaccines and other public health measures, and work with allied states to share medical statistics and data. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It&#8217;s been pitched as “non-partisan” and science- and health-backed, and a way to restore public trust. However, only Democrat governors have signed on to the initiative. So far, those states include California, Illinois, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Rhode Island, Washington, and the territory of Guam.</span></p>
<p>Health and <span style="font-weight: 400;">Human Services (HHS) spokesman Andrew Nixon has </span><a href="https://apnews.com/article/governors-public-health-alliance-kennedy-7d5f277178697bbdfc228567c6d9f616"><span style="font-weight: 400;">called</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> out the allied Democrat governors for imposing school closures and mask mandates, even for toddlers, during the pandemic. He asserted that they are the ones who “destroyed public trust in public health&#8221; &#8212; not the Trump administration.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Nixon added that Trump and HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are rebuilding that trust &#8220;by grounding every policy in rigorous evidence and Gold Standard Science – not the failed politics of the pandemic.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) unsurprisingly signed on to the Governors&#8217; Public Health Association, and has </span><a href="https://gov-pritzker-newsroom.prezly.com/gov-pritzker-joins-launch-of-governors-public-health-alliance-to-protect-illinoisians-from-trumps-attack-on-science?"><span style="font-weight: 400;">claimed</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> it’s a necessary body since &#8220;public health should never be politicized.” Trump and RFK, he claims, have turned the CDC “into a misinformation machine.”</span></p>
<p>Fellow Democrat, California Gov. <span style="font-weight: 400;">Gavin Newsom, similarly emphasized that science should be put before politics. Newsom, who <a href="https://sd11.senate.ca.gov/news/senator-wieners-historic-bill-provide-refuge-trans-kids-and-their-families-signed-law">supports</a> sex changes for minors based on &#8220;gender identity,&#8221; added that “extremists” are trying to “weaponize the CDC and spread misinformation.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The association is primarily funded by a nonprofit called Governors Action Alliance, known as GovAct. The nonprofit claims to be nonpartisan, but supports Democrat causes and generally teams up with Democrats to expand Medicaid and bolster so-called abortion and voting rights.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Notably, GovAct is behind the “Reproductive Freedom Alliance,&#8221; which is a coalition of Democrat governors working to expand abortion. The nonprofit dumped more than half a billion dollars into the initiative. It’s also behind the “Governors Safeguarding Democracy” alliance, which was launched to resist Trump shortly after he won the 2024 election.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The goal of the Governors&#8217; Public Health Association is seemingly to undermine the</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> FDA and CDC with heavy focus on vaccine and abortion “access.&#8221; </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This will, however, come with complications for Democrats. States have to comply with certain federal health guidance or standards if they want federal funding. Additionally, health insurers generally follow federal guidance for their coverage, and large health insurers operate in multiple states if not nationwide. It would be chaotic and impractical to implement different sets of standards in different states.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Opposing guidance could also trigger legal battles. For example, the FDA is currently reviewing the safety of a controversial abortion pill called mifepristone. If there were some determination that the governors&#8217; alliance disagreed with, that could potentially set up a legal challenge.</span></p>

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<p>A Colorado woman bled on the emergency room floor while <a href="https://www.walb.com/video/2023/08/25/anybody-could-have-died-patients-recall-waiting-12-hours-mercy-south-hospital-er/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">waiting 12 hours</a> for care. A New York man who feared he had appendicitis waited eight hours while repeatedly vomiting and passing out. A cancer survivor in <a href="https://sfstandard.com/2025/03/10/ucsf-emergency-wait-times/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">San Francisco</a> waited 28 hours for a doctor to examine her injured leg. By the time she saw a doctor, she was paralyzed.</p>
<p>ER wait times have been steadily increasing since 2012, spiking during the coronavirus pandemic. Today, they&#8217;re higher than ever.</p>
<p>What is happening in America&#8217;s emergency rooms?</p>
<p>A <a href="https://ihpi.umich.edu/news-events/news/wait-times-emergency-hospitalization-keep-getting-higher?" target="_blank" rel="noopener">new study</a> published in the journal Health Affairs looked at data from 46 million emergency visits across all 50 states since 2017. Researchers found a national increase in wait times, with the average wait time exceeding four hours. Additionally, 5% of patients waited more than 24 hours to get assistance.</p>
<p>Notably, the study did not factor people leaving the ER before they received care, which is typically referred to as ER &#8220;abandonment.&#8221;</p>
<p>Staffing shortages are certainly a factor, but they alone can&#8217;t explain increased wait times.</p>
<p>According to <a href="https://paragoninstitute.org/author/niklas_kleinworth/?mab_v3=9924" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Niklas Kleinworth</a>, a policy analyst at the Paragon Health Institute, the problem is largely due to the lack of financial incentives in the American healthcare system.</p>
<p>“I think that the increased ER wait times are actually one of the big <a href="https://paragoninstitute.org/newsletter/the-falsehoods-of-obamacare/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">broken promises of Obamacare</a>,&#8221; Kleinworth told The Daily Wire on Thursday. &#8220;When that law was passed, we were promised that if you gave people more healthcare coverage, they would see their primary care physician instead of going to the ER. They would have more access. But we&#8217;ve actually seen the opposite.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve seen that a lot of the financial incentives for people to take care of themselves and go see their regular physician haven&#8217;t come to fruition,&#8221; he explained. &#8220;And so now people are going to the emergency room to get routine care instead.”</p>
<p>Kleinworth said expanding telehealth services could help solve this problem. In Montana, for example, after Gov. Greg Gianforte (R) signed a bill in 2021 to increase telehealth access and eliminate certain restrictions, emergency department visits <a href="https://mthf.org/news/2024-medicaid-in-mt-press-release/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">decreased </a>with Medicaid enrollees. Mental health services were also more accessible and cost-effective for residents in rural communities and the Native population.</p>
<p>Another problem is the increased rate of rural hospital closures. With fewer rural hospitals, Americans from these areas are forced to travel longer distances to city hospitals, adding to already congested ERs.</p>
<p>Kleinworth explained that federal programs like the 340B Drug Pricing Program actually “encourage consolidation.&#8221; As a result, we’re seeing large urban hospitals buy up small rural hospitals to capitalize incentives meant for rural areas.</p>
<p>Larger city hospitals &#8220;benefit from a lot of the programs that were designed for those [rural] hospitals, like 340B Drug Pricing Program,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And then they&#8217;ll reduce access to services in those areas and redirect them to more wealthy areas where the margins are higher.”</p>
<p>He also highlighted some other &#8220;pretty basic solutions,&#8221; like making sure government programs designed to help rural facilities actually help rural facilities.</p>
<p>Kleinworth also noted that a little deregulation could go a long way to increase health care access.</p>
<p>&#8220;For example, in the state of Idaho, they allow non-physicians like pharmacists to be able to practice at the top of their license. And a lot of people receive their primary care through their pharmacists now,&#8221; Kleinworth said.</p>
<p>White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said this month that <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/10/02/opinion/democrats-are-spending-money-on-healthcare-for-illegal-migrants-in-california-its-6-4-billion/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">illegal immigrants</a> are driving up ER wait times and healthcare costs alike. Democrats say that giving illegals full access to the American healthcare marketplace will help alleviate stress on emergency rooms.</p>
<p>Kleinworth isn&#8217;t so sure.</p>
<p>“Unfortunately, no, that&#8217;s not the solution,&#8221; Kleinworth told The Daily Wire. &#8220;Take California, for example. California is one of those states where they&#8217;ve offered healthcare benefits to illegals for years now. The promise was that it was going to allow them to access their primary care and they won&#8217;t have to go to the emergency rooms anymore. But we find that California actually has some of the highest ER wait times in the country. They also have some of the highest abandonment rates in the country.”</p>
<p>Ultimately, Kleinworth says, we need to seriously overhaul Medicaid.</p>
<p>&#8220;The problem here is that the way the system is designed, it prioritizes able-bodied working-age adults over pregnant women, the disabled, elderly, and children,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And what we saw with Medicaid expansion, a lot of those people were less likely to be able to access their specialists, their primary care physician, so it also increased the ER wait times.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Refocusing the program on the truly needy, instead of able-bodied working-age adults would help,&#8221; Kleinworth said, noting that President Donald Trump&#8217;s big, beautiful bill &#8220;made a lot of progress toward that.&#8221;</p>

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