Who is on this subjectordered by the date of their first quote here
2 of 3 lanes rest on fewer than 5 quotes and are marked thin. Offsets are days from the middle first-quote date, 2 Jul 2024 — a date, and nothing else. It is not a claim about who reached a view first.
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Bill Gurley
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20 Mar 2015 – 16 May 2024
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David Friedberg
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2 Jul 2024 – 13 Jan 2026
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Brad Gerstner
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25 Jul 2024 – 13 Mar 2025
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Bill Gurley
Gurley says the government paid doctors $44,000 to implement electronic health records in 2009.
“So in 2009, when the government passed the Reinvestment Act to try and get America going or whatever it was called, they put in place a program where a doctor is paid, believe this or not, paid $44,000 to implement EHR, electronic health records.”
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Bill Gurley
Gurley reports the government has paid $29 billion for doctors to implement EHR software.
“So, the payments for these incentive programs, because I just looked it up to get the recent update, dollars 29,000,000,000.”
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Bill Gurley
Gurley reports the government has paid $29 billion total for doctors to implement electronic health record software.
“So, the payments for these incentive programs, because I just looked it up to get the recent update, dollars 29,000,000,000. So, our government has paid $29,000,000,000 for doctors to implement software”
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Bill Gurley
Gurley reports the government has paid $29 billion total for doctors to implement electronic health record software.
“So, our government has paid $29,000,000,000 for doctors to implement software that they weren't naturally implementing on their own.”
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Bill Gurley
Gurley expresses shock at Senate AI document recommending $32 billion annual spending for AI.
“The big shocker for me was it recommended spending $32,000,000,000 a year. And I didn't even know that was on the table.”
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Bill Gurley
Gurley compares proposed $32B AI spending to NIH's $40B budget and NSF's $9B.
“The National Science Foundation is nine down from 10. So 49, you're going to start the AI foundation or federation or whatever it is, institute at 32,000,000,000 a year.”
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David Friedberg
Friedberg argues that change in income predicts happiness, which drives government spending through voter demand.
“Your change in income is your predictor of happiness. So if we start with that premise of like human behavior, the government now has an incredible the federal government in The United States has an incredible role in supporting a lot of people through active programs that pump money into businesses.”
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Brad Gerstner
Gerstner notes government is spending $42 billion on rural broadband despite Starlink already providing perfect coverage.
“So anyway, they decided they were going to spend 42,000,000,000 on rural broadband. And between ten years ago and now, Starlink's been built.”
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Brad Gerstner
Gerstner argues balancing the budget by 2029 requires reducing government spending 3% annually from $7T to $6T.
“Now you get there by simply reducing the size of government by about 3% a year for the next four years. Again, just still going from 5,000,000,000,000 in 2019 to 6,000,000,000,000 in 2029.”
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Brad Gerstner
Gerstner calculates proposed tariffs would 10x revenue to $500B while Doge cuts $1T spending, totaling $1.5T austerity.
“If you look at tariffs, they're likely to impose, we currently generate about $50,000,000,000 in tariff revenue. The president is targeting 500,000,000,000, so a 10x increase in tariff revenue.”
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Brad Gerstner
Gerstner cites United Airlines government ticket sales down 50% year-to-date as indicator of spending cuts' cascade effects.
“I heard a stat the other day that United Airlines ticket sales to the government this year are down 50% year to date, five zero.”
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“there are reports that they've given out 17 shots of vodka in a single night to a homeless person. And this is like a 5 to $10,000,000 a year program”
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David Friedberg
Friedberg estimates more than half of Americans rely on government checks directly or indirectly for income.
“By my estimate, more than half of Americans rely on a government check either directly or indirectly.”
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David Friedberg
Friedberg estimates more than half of Americans receive government checks directly or indirectly through employment or benefits.
“So you're either employed by the federal, state, or local government or its agencies or one of its contractors, or you're receiving one of the retirement checks from a government agency.”
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Where they overlapsame programme, same subject
- BG2 Pod also carries Bill Gurley and Brad Gerstner on this subject, at different times.