Cara Santamaria
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Exactly, they're not getting education.
But you can see where parents get really stuck because yes, their kids could be in daycare for, or they could be in school for seven hours a day, but if they're in this clinic for 10 and 12 hours a day, now I don't have to pay for daycare.
Now I don't have to pay for after school care.
They're getting everything they need and the state is paying for it.
So it's actually a trap for a lot of parents who are struggling financially as well because how could they not?
And it really does remind me, Steve, I had a patient recently who asked me to dig in a little bit because they were getting like basically predatory ads on social media.
It's an older adult patient for these, you know, Medicare approved and Medicare paid perfectly free to you ads.
healthcare advocate companies where they'll help you navigate your healthcare system and they'll basically act as like a case manager for you and I googled some of these companies and everything I saw was like this is a scam it's just another way for these companies they figured out how to charge Medicare for services and then like fall short on delivery and
Absolutely.
And like my cynicism says, and I'm not saying this is a blanket statement, but the minute that an industry is developed that is sort of a helping industry, whether it's educational, healthcare, you know, providing food to individuals who are food insecure, the minute that you see like a social justice oriented industry form and then private equity gets behind it, I would say let's make sure that we're being really careful here.
Exactly.
Pollution?
Health?
Yeah, like environmental health.
Oh, refugees?
Sure.
So it's Al Gore, right?
Al Gore.
So what's the relationship to Al Gore?
You said there isn't one at all?