Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning the breakfast Club.
Speaker 2: Morning, everybody is j n V Charlamagne de goud. We
Speaker 2: are to breakfast Club. We got a special guest joining
Speaker 2: us today, one gentleman. He's running for Stockton City Council
Speaker 2: District six. He's a friend to the room. You know him,
Speaker 2: ladies and gentlemen. Jason Lee any other brother is a
Speaker 2: CEO and owner of Enhance Health. Matt Hermy, Good morning,
Speaker 2: good morning, good morning. So, uh let's start off with you, Matt.
Speaker 2: What is Enhanced Health?
Speaker 3: So enhance SEUTH today is the largest ACA provider in
Speaker 3: the United States today. Primarily most people don't know that
Speaker 3: you can get affordable health insurance for free. Around the
Speaker 3: COVID era, the government put in place a what do
Speaker 3: you call a low income subsidy. So what we do
Speaker 3: is we help the underserved and unprivileged population get health insurance. So,
Speaker 3: for example, this past year, we got about a little
Speaker 3: bit more than a million policies out to people who
Speaker 3: never even knew that they can get average for free,
Speaker 3: nor did they ever have health insurance. So not only
Speaker 3: do we do that, but we educate these consumers on
Speaker 3: how to access health care. So a lot of people
Speaker 3: just run to the emergency room, they run to urgent care.
Speaker 3: They don't even know that they can get a primary
Speaker 3: care physician. So not only do we help them get coverage,
Speaker 3: but then we pair them up with the doctor and
Speaker 3: really help people get healthy.
Speaker 2: Now, now, how do people do that? I know a
Speaker 2: lot of people that actually have to go to emergency
Speaker 2: room or urgent care when something happens because they don't
Speaker 2: have a primary physician. So what's the process of gaining
Speaker 2: a primary physician and for free? So there's no copays
Speaker 2: in nothing.
Speaker 3: Depends on your state, depends on the policy and from
Speaker 3: the policy that you have. But usually yes, usually you
Speaker 3: will find policies with no copay, but the premium that
Speaker 3: you usually pay is usually expensive in the prior years,
Speaker 3: but that would be free to the individual.
Speaker 4: How how long you've been in the healthcare field and
Speaker 4: I've been at you into it.
Speaker 3: I've been doing about healthcare for about fifteen plus years.
Speaker 3: Always been passionate and and helping people. Always thought health
Speaker 3: insurance is important. And when found out that we can
Speaker 3: give coverage now the individuals for free, it really sparked
Speaker 3: an interest for me to really help people. You have
Speaker 3: people out there that are our single mothers that are pregnant,
Speaker 3: you know, diabetes, mental health, special needs kids that need
Speaker 3: coverage more than anybody, and to not realize that you
Speaker 3: can't get it, the government is doing a poor job
Speaker 3: letting people know that this is here to help people.
Speaker 3: And that's really what my message is is to really
Speaker 3: spread that amongst the communities. And that's why we partnered
Speaker 3: with individuals like Jason Lee and some other celebrities and
Speaker 3: influencers to really help use their platform to spread the message.
Speaker 5: Before we get into the collaboration, you and Jason got
Speaker 5: why should somebody choose Enhance Health over other healthcare program?
Speaker 3: Sure, so in hand self is not competing with any carrier.
Speaker 3: So what we do basically is we are a brokerage
Speaker 3: if you want to call it, where we have access
Speaker 3: to every care you're within the exchange. The exchange is
Speaker 3: where you go to get coverage. So based on your demographics,
Speaker 3: your zip code, what medications you may take, well actually
Speaker 3: give you the information of what's going to be the
Speaker 3: best policy for that individual. So we're not we don't
Speaker 3: just say hey, we're going to put you here because
Speaker 3: we make more money. We place individuals where they should
Speaker 3: go based on what they need.
Speaker 2: How difficult is it, you know, as far as age
Speaker 2: is concerned or pre you know, preconditions like whether it's
Speaker 2: somebody has CANCEL or HIV or you know they are
Speaker 2: smoke or one of those things. How difficult is it
Speaker 2: to place people in places where they can actually get
Speaker 2: the care that they need.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so that's a great question. So in prior years,
Speaker 3: you would go through something called underwriting. Underwriting is where
Speaker 3: they would turn you down. And ACA they made it
Speaker 3: so anybody with press and conditions can get approved guaranteed issue.
Speaker 3: So it's just like anybody if you had no condition
Speaker 3: or you had a condition, anybody can easily sign up.
Speaker 4: How did this partnership come together, Jason?
Speaker 1: So I met Matt, you know, at the Floyd Mayweather
Speaker 1: Fighter who's one of the sponsors. And then eventually when
Speaker 1: we had the Hollywood Impact Awards and we were looking
Speaker 1: for partners that would be able to integrate into the event,
Speaker 1: understanding that it's about how people that have influence use
Speaker 1: their platforms to move the culture. We had lunch and
Speaker 1: when he told me about Enhance and all that he's
Speaker 1: doing to help our community specifically, he integrated into our
Speaker 1: award show, came up on stage with Tiffany and I
Speaker 1: talked about Enhance and what he's doing for our communities.
Speaker 1: We immediately met after that. And you know my background
Speaker 1: before entertainment, I spent eleven years with the Labor Union,
Speaker 1: working with Kaiser Permanente, and I remember when we were
Speaker 1: going through that process of developing the Thrive campaign. It
Speaker 1: was really about educating, specifically people of color who look
Speaker 1: like us, who only go to the doctor when they're dying,
Speaker 1: that preventative care was important instead of managed care. So
Speaker 1: how do we prevent diabetes or colon cancer instead of
Speaker 1: managing it when you get it? And so, as you know,
Speaker 1: I've been like heavily involved in my process. I lost
Speaker 1: one hundred and thirty two pounds because of you and
Speaker 1: our relationship. I started being open at therapy and I'm
Speaker 1: actively participating in it. I feel the change, I see
Speaker 1: people see the change. And then I recently got my
Speaker 1: colonoscopy after I found out my dad had found polyps,
Speaker 1: and they found polyps when they did mine, and so
Speaker 1: I had three and one of them was I guess
Speaker 1: I don't know the speak cancers. Yes, And so now
Speaker 1: I got to go back in three years to get
Speaker 1: it checked again, and so that kind of scared me.
Speaker 1: But you know, as you get older and then you
Speaker 1: get more involved in your process of really wanting to
Speaker 1: live longer and have a more healthier life experience, you
Speaker 1: understand that there's a lot of us that may not
Speaker 1: have the benefits or privileges that some of us where
Speaker 1: we are in our careers may have. And those are
Speaker 1: the people, my family members, my friends, people in the
Speaker 1: hood that I want to make sure they have access.
Speaker 1: So we sat down and I said, you know what,
Speaker 1: we need to create a partnership where we can get
Speaker 1: to the culture where we can where we can do
Speaker 1: it in a way that the government is unable to
Speaker 1: do it. So why don't we create a partnership. And
Speaker 1: that's where we establish healthcare Unlocked. And so we have
Speaker 1: Hollywood Unlocked, and then we have enhanced health And I said,
Speaker 1: our tech and is going to be making health care cool,
Speaker 1: because we should want the young twenty year olds who
Speaker 1: have health insurance or twenty one year olds or whatever
Speaker 1: who have health insurance to understand that participating in your
Speaker 1: health care process isn't when it's too late or when
Speaker 1: it's almost too late. I had pre diabetes, inflammation, sleep appnea.
Speaker 1: I was three hundred and twenty three pounds and I
Speaker 1: was literally on the pathway to a heart attack, and
Speaker 1: I just didn't want to die. So I took aggressive
Speaker 1: measures to get healthy. And now we've been able to
Speaker 1: create a partnership where we can get access for folks
Speaker 1: who may not have had it before.
Speaker 2: And not only that, I think a lot of kids
Speaker 2: when they graduate college, I think the age is twenty
Speaker 2: two or twenty three when COBRA ends, and COBRA is
Speaker 2: when you're under your parents' policy and it ends and
Speaker 2: you have to get your own. And most people don't
Speaker 2: know how. If they don't have a job, they can't
Speaker 2: get out. So this could be a perfect way for
Speaker 2: them to definitely check it out. So I was going
Speaker 2: to ask you, besides that, is this part of the
Speaker 2: reason why you're running for a Stockla City Council District
Speaker 2: six to help people in the neighborhood with things like
Speaker 2: healthcare jobs. I've seen you want to pick it line
Speaker 2: the other day. Is that part of the reason why
Speaker 2: you're doing it?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I mean, you know those folks shout out to
Speaker 1: OP three, the union that was striking and stocked and
Speaker 1: striking against the city. Part of that is there in
Speaker 1: the process of negotiating their benefits with the city. Healthcare
Speaker 1: in the world of the workforce is a benefit and
Speaker 1: those benefits are always at stake because those become one
Speaker 1: of the most significant line items and employer budgets. So
Speaker 1: that is part of it. But it's also you know,
Speaker 1: at my kickoff on December eleventh, we're going to have
Speaker 1: a table there to educate people on healthcare and LOCKED
Speaker 1: and how to get access. We have a phone number
Speaker 1: they can call, and we've also taken this partnership beyond
Speaker 1: just the way. We actually have a whole department at
Speaker 1: in hands health of agents who are helping to sign
Speaker 1: people up and helping to navigate through the process. So yeah,
Speaker 1: this will be a part of my campaign because healthcare
Speaker 1: is important and my district definitely needs to have access
Speaker 1: to it.
Speaker 5: We talked about this earlier, Jason like at the top
Speaker 5: of the show, Well, this is an interview, so shut up,
Speaker 5: Charlotte Mane. But do you think you're you're going to
Speaker 5: be taken serious because of the Hollywood and Locked background,
Speaker 5: because people associate Jason Lee with mess and messages even
Speaker 5: though you know I've known you long enough to see
Speaker 5: the growth, to see the evolution.
Speaker 4: Do you think others will?
Speaker 1: You know, we live in a different time right now,
Speaker 1: where the world took Trump serious even after he said
Speaker 1: grab them by the vagina, and we've seen that in
Speaker 1: most cases, cancel culture applies to the culture more than
Speaker 1: it applies to people that don't look like us. And
Speaker 1: if a person can fast track his way to the
Speaker 1: highest office in the country and become the most powerful
Speaker 1: person in the world, I think anything's possible when it
Speaker 1: comes to me. I think that the reason why I
Speaker 1: wanted to come here and love coming here, the reason
Speaker 1: why I did Simone Sanders show. The reason why I'm
Speaker 1: allowing black storytellers to interview me is because we're not
Speaker 1: a mono list, and we're not the sum of one
Speaker 1: experience or one job. I worked in education, I worked
Speaker 1: in probation, I worked in healthcare, I worked in community organizing,
Speaker 1: and so I'm pretty much just showing people another layer
Speaker 1: to me and now having gone through therapy and understanding
Speaker 1: the power of my platform, which is why I did
Speaker 1: the partnership with Hanson Matt the reason why I decided
Speaker 1: to step into game and to you know, become an
Speaker 1: elected official because I don't want to say politician, and
Speaker 1: because I'm not accepting money from you know, the developers
Speaker 1: in the city or meeting with groups that don't plan
Speaker 1: for economic development on the south side. If they don't
Speaker 1: believe that the black and brown kids in South Stockton
Speaker 1: deserve the same life experience as those on the other side,
Speaker 1: then they're not for me. You know, I'm in the
Speaker 1: business of people. Do I think that people are going
Speaker 1: to come up with mess Yeah? I already got one
Speaker 1: person that email me and said, I heard you own
Speaker 1: You own only fans and are only fans model? I'm like, well,
Speaker 1: only fans is worth eighteen billion dollars and if I
Speaker 1: was an owner and a model, probably wouldn't be running
Speaker 1: for public office. But I'm expecting it. But you know,
Speaker 1: if they know my job, they know that I've pulled
Speaker 1: up every receipt I can find, and I'm ready for
Speaker 1: it and I look forward to it. And what would
Speaker 1: you say to people as sales?
Speaker 4: Okay, we a match receipt, your seat for receipt? Baby.
Speaker 1: I mean the person I'm running against right now, I
Speaker 1: understand yesterday they fought an ethics complaining against her because
Speaker 1: she uses the city resources for her job. She's a
Speaker 1: mental health professional. She's literally going to be absent from
Speaker 1: one of the biggest vote in the city today when
Speaker 1: we're turning out hundreds of people because they're voting about
Speaker 1: a warehouse initiative that's going to cause an extreme amount
Speaker 1: of you know, environmental issues that she has refused to
Speaker 1: meet with the people about, hasn't showed up, had no
Speaker 1: town hall, and she's not even gonna be present during
Speaker 1: the meeting today. So she's one of those people that
Speaker 1: doesn't she cares more about her position in politics over
Speaker 1: the people. I've just gone back and now given a
Speaker 1: bigger platform, a bigger voice, and also outside resources where
Speaker 1: they're more focused on you know, local district attorney holding
Speaker 1: them accountable. I'm talking about, Hey, we got the DJ,
Speaker 1: we got other ways of doing that. I have to
Speaker 1: give a certain shout out to Brando. He's one of
Speaker 1: the city council members up there. When I went back
Speaker 1: to do my nonprofit, he said, why should we support
Speaker 1: your nonprofit to help these kids who are dying every
Speaker 1: day and have no opportunity. When you're friends with Floyd Mayweather,
Speaker 1: and Rihanna, why don't you just ask them for help?
Speaker 1: And although I am talking to Floyd and Rihanna about
Speaker 1: help and everybody else, I know, I just felt like
Speaker 1: that was a loser response to like a crisis that's
Speaker 1: ripple in the community. And so when I went did
Speaker 1: my research on him, I found out he allegedly robbed
Speaker 1: his grandmother. These are the type of people who are
Speaker 1: leading in the city right now. So you know, all
Speaker 1: my stuff is out there and I'm the most transparent person.
Speaker 1: I'm excited about this whole experience.
Speaker 2: I was gonna ask you, you know, what do you
Speaker 2: say to people that say, well, is he taking this serious? Meaning?
Speaker 2: You know, we always see politicians run, and usually sometimes
Speaker 2: they run for the right reason to be in office,
Speaker 2: and sometimes they run to for their side job just
Speaker 2: just get the recognition. What do you say to people
Speaker 2: that say, Jason Lee has so many goddamn jobs. He
Speaker 2: has a show on Revolt.
Speaker 1: Two months ago.
Speaker 2: Oh sorry, no, thank you for that. Yes, yes, it's podcast.
Speaker 2: He has Hollywood Unlocked. He has all these shows that
Speaker 2: he's doing. He's doing hosting, he's traveling around the world.
Speaker 2: When we have time to concentrate on Stockton, California.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm taking this serious one. I went and got
Speaker 1: me a home in the city. I made sure to
Speaker 1: create that as my place of my domicile where I live.
Speaker 1: I actually moved in and I'm excited to be back
Speaker 1: in the community. My show is, my job does require
Speaker 1: me to travel. I think all my global traveling, I'm
Speaker 1: getting out as soon as I can, because you know,
Speaker 1: when I win in the primary March fifth, then I
Speaker 1: have until January first to start. But you know, I
Speaker 1: have a full staff of people who manage my company.
Speaker 1: So I have two days that I film and the
Speaker 1: rest of the time, I'm committed to my nonprofit, Hollywood Cares.
Speaker 1: I'm committed to health Care and Locked. I'm committed to
Speaker 1: doing the work there in the city.
Speaker 4: And are you gonna have to give all that up
Speaker 4: if you win?
Speaker 1: No? Absolutely not. No. I just we did have an
Speaker 1: executive meeting recently where I'm leaning on my staff and
Speaker 1: like the leadership to really own all of the parts
Speaker 1: of my business. So Rob Smith, who's my CEO, is
Speaker 1: in Miami every week all week, you know, leaning on
Speaker 1: our partners there and enhanced to lead health Care and Locked. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it's a valid question. But I'm welcoming all
Speaker 1: the questions. I'm welcoming welcoming all the suspicion because what
Speaker 1: I learned for sure is that we have given up
Speaker 1: in this political game right now because the right right,
Speaker 1: the left is too left. It's like we're in the
Speaker 1: middle of this ping pong match. And so I am
Speaker 1: glad that people are questioning the process. But I'm also
Speaker 1: excited at watching how more civically engaged my community is.
Speaker 1: There's more black and brown people. I mean, one person
Speaker 1: yesterday drove all the way to the airport to get
Speaker 1: keys to a property so they can go and put
Speaker 1: my signs in. I mean, that's how supportive the community
Speaker 1: is an active in this campaign. So yeah, I welcome
Speaker 1: all the criticism. We're gonna still win, though.
Speaker 5: Matt, what are some common mistakes people run into when
Speaker 5: they're choosing their healthcare programs?
Speaker 3: You know, most people are going on that do know
Speaker 3: about insurance because you see the little ads on TV.
Speaker 3: Healthcare dot Gov's very confusing. You know, you could sit
Speaker 3: there and spend forty five minutes and I would say
Speaker 3: most people go to the top writer of your screen
Speaker 3: to hit the X button. You know, and they're out
Speaker 3: not choosing the right policy, not making sure that there's
Speaker 3: coverage for doctors in your area. Just really got to
Speaker 3: pay attention to what's wrong. You know, what symptoms you have,
Speaker 3: what medications to be able to pick the right policy
Speaker 3: for yourself. And that's why we're able to do this
Speaker 3: in about a twelve to fifteen minute window and somebody
Speaker 3: calls in and we're able to pick the right policy
Speaker 3: for you. I would say picking the wrong policy is
Speaker 3: probably the biggest mistake.
Speaker 2: And when you're talking health coverage, does your health coverage
Speaker 2: include eyes in dental?
Speaker 3: It just depends on you know which carrier it is
Speaker 3: and what policy. I mean, we work with so many
Speaker 3: different carriers, every carrier that's offered within the country we
Speaker 3: have on our platform.
Speaker 1: And honest, what about Medicaid redetermination because that's a big
Speaker 1: conversation as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so you have you have twelve fifteen million people
Speaker 3: just got kicked off of Medicaid throughout the entire year,
Speaker 3: and it's happening throughout the year. Most people that had
Speaker 3: Medicaid didn't even realize that they lost their Medicaid. So
Speaker 3: it's another another problem. We're currently in the White House
Speaker 3: and also leaning in on the States on fixing that
Speaker 3: problem for the country as just a massive issue.
Speaker 5: Right now, what do you say to people who say
Speaker 5: they can't afford healthcare?
Speaker 2: It's free?
Speaker 3: You know, it's free.
Speaker 4: Hey, I believe that shut up is free and people
Speaker 4: don't know that.
Speaker 5: That's why that's why partner with folks like Hollywood unlocked
Speaker 5: is good because you can able to find it well.
Speaker 1: And the other thing that's crazy when you talk about
Speaker 1: were in the White House. So you know, I remember
Speaker 1: when I started my when we were at the first
Speaker 1: Christmas party for the President, and I remember we came
Speaker 1: back here and Charlemagne was like, Okay, you know, when
Speaker 1: you get over there and you make those people mad
Speaker 1: or whatever you don't you know, agree with them, is
Speaker 1: going to get tricky. You know. The one thing I
Speaker 1: will say, you're right. The second part I will say
Speaker 1: is that getting in there and learning the different departments
Speaker 1: and how the government works and how the government's broken.
Speaker 1: You know, we did go to the Vice President's house
Speaker 1: for the fiftieth anniversary of Hip Hop, but then we
Speaker 1: set up a meeting with cms and hhs who regulate
Speaker 1: and oversee all the health care in our country. And
Speaker 1: to see like there's this thing that's available, this healthcare,
Speaker 1: access to healthcare, free healthcare in our country. And these
Speaker 1: people have access to the people who are responsible for
Speaker 1: getting the word out, but there's certain things they can
Speaker 1: or cannot do in educating people in partnership with us.
Speaker 1: It has been a really tricky thing. So we're trying
Speaker 1: to figure out how to truly partner with them. And
Speaker 1: I've said to the Vice President's team, this is my
Speaker 1: number one priority right now because I do understand the
Speaker 1: power of my platform. If I can use it to
Speaker 1: promote blue Face and Krashan all day, I could also
Speaker 1: use it to promote getting people healthy, especially people who
Speaker 1: look like us. So, you know, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: yellow tape, but I'm confident that, you know, the folks
Speaker 1: over at the White House are going to figure out
Speaker 1: how to cut through that so we can get to
Speaker 1: the people.
Speaker 5: How come people don't know healthcare is free because you
Speaker 5: always hear about it. You know, people just want an
Speaker 5: affordable health health care plan that everybody always says.
Speaker 4: They want it affordable. But how come people don't know
Speaker 4: it's actually free.
Speaker 3: Well, it's up to the government to put that message
Speaker 3: out there. And how is the government advertising that health
Speaker 3: insurance is free and they're really not. That's really what
Speaker 3: the what the problem is. You know, you have to
Speaker 3: let the people know what's going on for the people
Speaker 3: to know that it's there. You know that you have
Speaker 3: the option to.
Speaker 1: Do so well. And another thing too, like one of
Speaker 1: the things we said to them on the call with
Speaker 1: CMS is, you know, on the same day that Cardi
Speaker 1: b has told me she's going to jump in the
Speaker 1: campaign and support it and do this for free, just
Speaker 1: to use her platform to educate people, especially that New
Speaker 1: York is right around the corner to being one of
Speaker 1: the states that you are helping to make sure the
Speaker 1: people of New York can get signed up. I said,
Speaker 1: it is the same day she just put the administration
Speaker 1: on blast for defunding education and funding a war. And
Speaker 1: so you all can't get to the but you can't
Speaker 1: pay the people that we have relationships within the culture
Speaker 1: to push your program. But we're partnering with people to
Speaker 1: help them push an initiative that is your thing. So
Speaker 1: how is it that you can't figure it out? And
Speaker 1: I keep trying to explain to these people that you
Speaker 1: have to listen to us and That's the one criticism
Speaker 1: that I have of this administration I really believe in specifically,
Speaker 1: it has to have to land this plane at Kamala's
Speaker 1: front door because her team has failed to take an
Speaker 1: opportunity to connect with culture drivers, culture disruptors, to be
Speaker 1: creative and how we reach the people. If the breakfast club,
Speaker 1: Hollywood on log shade rooms, ball alers, neighborhood talk about
Speaker 1: all those platforms are the vein of what everybody's helling
Speaker 1: out online. How do you not make it a priority
Speaker 1: before election day or the election process to tap into us.
Speaker 1: The other thing, I'll say, the DNC and d Triple C.
Speaker 1: You have the reason what one point three billion dollars
Speaker 1: in this administration's campaign. So you need to tell me
Speaker 1: that in every state around the country where the lack
Speaker 1: of access to medicaid or healthcare or voter whatever voter,
Speaker 1: the ability to protect the vote is at a top priority.
Speaker 1: You're spending less than one percent of advertising with black
Speaker 1: owned media. That's crazy, that's insane. But when you show up,
Speaker 1: you know when they say we did it, Joe, it's
Speaker 1: the black vote. The Simone Sanders and the Kamala Harris
Speaker 1: who put their faces out there to drive us to
Speaker 1: the pole or to drive us to the election of
Speaker 1: the ballot box. But then after that, then what nothing matters?
Speaker 1: You know. So when you wonder why people are excited
Speaker 1: about Trump, it's because he's out there being disruptive for
Speaker 1: his interest, and I feel like they need to be
Speaker 1: a little bit more creative and disruptive in ours.
Speaker 4: Is shoved it for his interest, is shoved off for
Speaker 4: his people.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 2: You know, we appreciate you guys for joining us. Tell
Speaker 2: them how they can get in touch with you and
Speaker 2: you know, support your campaign, both of us.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you can go to Hollywood Unlocked, dot com, slash Healthcare,
Speaker 1: or just call straight into a hands at one eight
Speaker 1: eight eight nine eight seven in three seven one nine,
Speaker 1: and I believe twelve hours a day, Monday through Friday,
Speaker 1: you can get help navigate through this process.
Speaker 2: All right, Well, it's Jason Lee, It's Matt Herman.
Speaker 1: It's the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 4: Good morning, thank you.
Speaker 1: Wake that ass up Earth in the morning. The Breakfast
Speaker 1: Club