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June 25, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 25, 2009, Thursday, Hour #2
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What do you mean if I lost my spirit?
Did it sound like I've lost my spirit the first hour?
How can you how can you ask me that?
No, the government should not be deciding whether I've lost my spirit, but sadly, the government is deciding.
The government is affecting people's spirit.
That's a whole damn problem.
Anyway, greetings and uh welcome back here, folks.
Rush Limbaugh.
America's real anchor man, your highly trained broadcast specialist behind the golden EIB microphone.
800-282-2882 and the email address lrushbow at EIBNet.com.
Let me let me get personal here for a second on this health care business.
Folks, I'm gonna tell you right now, I don't ever use health insurance for medical treatment.
I don't have to.
I'm very fortunate.
I have a blessed life.
My parents would not believe it.
My parents would not believe, they didn't think that a life like I have is possible for someone of my background.
Didn't go to college, eskewed all the social norms growing up.
They wouldn't believe it.
And they also would not believe that this kind of success is possible without all kinds of you know insider greasing of the skids and so forth.
So I don't I don't make any excuses for it, but I'm gonna talk about it a little bit here as a as an illustration on health care.
Because frankly, my friends personally, I don't care what they do, it isn't going to affect me.
And if I were like a member of Congress, I wouldn't care.
Because I have a great plan.
They got a great plan.
They're not gonna live under the plan they write for you.
You need to ask them, are you gonna give up the health care plan you have for the Obama public option plan when you make it law?
And the answer that they will give you, being honest, is no, they're not going, and if they're not going to join the same plan they're writing for you, then that plan has no future.
That plan should not be.
I could sit here, I can ignore this topic, because it's not going to affect me.
I don't care what happens to me, I have the money to go get whatever treatment I want wherever I want to go in the world to get it.
So it would be simple for me to say, screw it.
I don't care, let them do what they want to do, it'll affect me.
But it angers me to no end.
And the reason is I want an America to survive, which offers every one of you the same opportunity I had to reach the point I have reached.
And this man is destroying it.
He's killing the opportunity, he's destroying the spirit people have for it.
A lot of people's attitude now is just to protect what they've got.
Don't cause any trouble, don't make waves, don't get noticed.
Just try to enjoy it for as long as they can till it's taken away.
This is an attitude that is.
Hell, I encountered it out in Hawaii over the weekend.
You wouldn't believe some stuff I heard.
I'll just tell you one thing.
One guy is actually saying he's looking at property all over the world to move to.
I said, you gotta be you you've got to be kidding.
He said no.
I said, Well, how in the hell is what happens in a mainly going to affect you here?
He's retired.
He's doing what he said, Rush.
We in Hawaii, we've got a seven-day supply of anything.
Virtually everything we have has to be shipped in here one way or the other.
We can't feed ourselves in these islands.
We don't have any oil in these islands.
We don't have any refineries.
We've got to ship it every day.
We've ever been delivered here.
We have a seven-day supply.
This guy starts monkeying around with all the systems in the economy to keep people prosperous to hell with it.
Hanging around here is a death sentence.
It's the way he's looking at it.
A couple other people were not got that far gone, but but they were talking about um.
Yeah, you know, I just I I just indulge myself as often as I can now.
Just enjoy myself as much as I can before whole hell breaks loose.
They're not even thinking about what they can do to stop it, and you can't really blame them because they don't see a party to vote for that's standing up to any of this thing in in in in spirit and in uh with any kind of energy.
I don't mean to be bashing the Republican Party here.
I'm describing people's mindset.
Even if they're wrong about what the Republican Party's doing, it's still what they think.
Perceptions in politics are reality.
So back to me in health care.
Doesn't matter.
In a personal sense, they can do whatever they want, and I don't have to sign up for any of their plans.
I've got I've got a health care plan through uh after I have to be a member of a union here, but I've never used it.
I don't even know where my insurance card is.
I don't even know what company or insurance agency the coverage is with.
I never use it.
And I'm never going to have to.
So it would be simple for me to say, okay, folks, you're on your own.
And let's talk about Terry Sanford.
But frankly, Terry Sanford is irrelevant.
Or Mark Sanford.
It's irrelevant to what's going on here.
You know, Snurdle, I'm gonna pay for the plan.
People like me.
In fact, Obama admits it here, grab audio soundbite number seven.
Because Obama talks about his own wealth in this show last night.
And he's talking about this.
It's a montage here of a back and forth that he's having with uh uh with Charlie Gibson.
About a third of the costs will come from new revenue.
And so what I've proposed is is that we cap the itemized deductions that the top two or three percent get, people making over 250 a year, me and Charlie, so that our item uh that so that we're itemizing our deductions at the same level of as as most middle class families are.
I suspect that uh Charlie and I, again, two three percent of the population, we're the ones who would see uh our taxes go up a little bit to pay for that initial outling.
Okay, so it's bye-bye uh what is he say, is it standard deduction?
Bye-bye, the itemized deduction.
Oh, bye bye, item itemized deductions.
It's hello, 39% or greater tax rate.
The Bush tax cuts are going to be uh sunset in 2011, I think, 2010, 2011.
And then there's gonna be other tax increases still on top of it.
So all these people at 250,000, and by the way, Snerdley, people at 250,000 a year are not the people that make 250,000 a year right now do not have enough wealth to forego an insurance plan and go anywhere they want, regardless of the cost to get health care treatment.
It is a myth that 250,000 gives you economic freedom when it comes to health care.
It doesn't.
Oh, that's exactly right.
Subchapter S's, uh people that form their little small businesses and and pay their taxes on their personal return using a sub-S corporation are gonna they're gonna be taxed as though they're 250,000 or more.
So you people who you you can't afford what Obama's plan is, and you, by his own admission, are going to be paying for it.
You know, um I I don't I don't want to get too personal with this.
Um my my point is that if I wanted to, I can say hell with it.
If I wanted to, I could just say the hell I not quit radio show, I just say the hell with worrying about any of this stuff.
None of it's gonna affect me in a major way.
Yeah, all these tax increases, I know I'm gonna get creamed.
But even after I get creamed, I'm not gonna have to join some public option for health care unless I'm forced to.
And I might be forced to at some point.
They might make it so that doctors can't treat anybody that's not part of the government plan.
Yeah, there'll be a there'll be a black market.
I know there'll be a black market.
It might exist outside the borders of this country, but there will be a black market.
Now I have no interest in acting as though I don't care, because I care greatly, because I'm an American, and I literally despise and detest what this man and his administration intend to do to this country and their attempt to destroy the economic opportunity and the engine of Growth that made it possible for
millions of Americans to enjoy a standard of living unknown to exist in the in the rest of the world.
And that is what led to American exceptionalism, American greatness.
The American dream and all that's being it's being it's being threatened.
When you kill people's spirit to achieve it, you're halfway there.
If you're Obama, you kill people's spirit, you're halfway there to getting this dictatorial type control, this authoritarian type control, this despot type of control that uh that you want.
So I have uh I've not lost my spirit, and I am literally outraged by all this.
Any answer to all of this, I don't care where it's cap and trade or this health care boondoggle or immigration reform or whatever the hell else.
None of it has worked, not just when he's tried it, but in the in the entire scope of human history.
None of this as an approach to economic prosperity has worked.
None of this in terms of improving the quality or standard of life has ever worked.
So the answer to me to all of it is just no.
Plain and simple new.
They might want to put a hell no in front of it.
The answer is simply no.
This is not who we are.
All of this is not who we as Americans are or what the United States of America is all about.
The answer to all of it is just no.
Welcome back.
It's Rush Limbaugh on the cutting edge of societal evolution from the distinguished Limbaugh Institute for advanced conservative studies.
You know, Obama's not he's got this slogan when he goes out and makes these speeches, yes, we can.
The audience response is no, you won't.
The response to yes we can is no, you won't.
And after you say no, you won't, then you say no, we won't.
Yes, we can is met with no, you won't, and no, we won't.
Now, a couple more bites from this infomercial that was an embarrassment to what used to be a great news organization, ABC.
And again, it it came in last in its time slot last night.
The 10 o'clock time slot, it was last.
Obama's not the big ratings draw everybody thinks is Obama fatigue settling in.
If they wanted people to watch, they should have had me on.
Anyway, one of the techniques that the state-run media is using to support Obama is to try to demonize even further the insurance companies.
And lo and behold, they had uh guy from Aetna insurance in the audience last night.
Here's Diane Sawyer asking Obama for permission to question a CEO of Aetna.
If I can reverse the order a little bit, Mr. President, I'd like to ask a question of him and then let you comment on his answer.
Mr. Williams Aetna, to take one.
An insurance company, and we hear all over the country people see their premiums going up a hundred and nineteen percent in the last several years.
They see the profits of the insurance companies in the billions and billions of dollars, even in the lead year, they see profits in the billions of dollars.
Is it the president right that you need to be kept honest?
Oh no, this is this this wasn't an infomercial, was it?
This wasn't a stacked deck.
President Wright, you people are a bunch of greedy SOBs.
Making profits.
Who the hell do you think you are making profits?
She wouldn't know the first thing about the risks anybody in the insurance business takes.
She doesn't pay for her own health care either.
So let's bash the insurance companies.
This answer, the CEO's Ronald Williams, that and the present CEO, this answer, one of the few things that made sense on ABC last night.
It's Difficult to compete against a player who's also the person who's refereeing the game.
And so I think in the context of thinking about a government plan, what we say is let's identify the problem we're trying to solve.
Let's work collaboratively with physicians, hospitals, and other health care professionals.
And make certain that we solve the problem as opposed to introduce a new competitor who has the rulemaking ability that government would have.
See, he is right on the money, and this is the thing that nobody's paying any attention to.
Obama's, yeah, you know, our public option is gonna be subject to the same rules that the private sector, the private one.
No, they're not because Mr. Obama's plan doesn't have to make a profit.
And Obama has already established himself as the referee.
As Mr. Williams said, Oh, I'm gonna sit here and I'll I'll allow you to keep your doctor and not allow you to do that.
Who the hell is he to allow us to do anything?
Not a king, he's not a dictator.
The president.
So after this answer, the brilliant Obama gives his rebuttal and calls this guy Mr. Walters instead of his name, Mr. Williams.
First of all, I want to say that uh Mr. Walters uh has been very cooperative.
We've been having a series of conversations, and I appreciate the constructive uh manner in which we've been uh uh trying to work together.
Uh but uh I just want to make clear that uh the government, whatever rules it provides to insurers, a public plan would have to abide by those same rules.
So we're not talking about an unlevel playing, unequal playing field, we're talking about a level playing field.
This is absurd.
This is outrageous.
The rules.
Whatever rules government provides to insurers, a public plan would have to abide by the same rules.
Is the same rules gonna be applied to making cars?
The same rules that are going to be applied to uh mortgages and so what is it?
Can the private plans raise taxes?
No, they can't.
In fact, in fact, private insurers cannot go out and raise taxes to uh defray their costs, but Obama can.
It's not a level playing field, and it never is.
The government doesn't ever have to make a profit.
Another thing they can do is print money if there's a shortage of it.
Mr. uh Mr. Williams over at Aetna can't do that.
All right to the phones.
People have been patiently waiting.
We're gonna start with uh Steve in Fort Lauderdale, who is in residence, and he has a reaction to Obama's show last night.
Hi, Steve, thank you for waiting.
It's an honor to speak with you, Rush.
Thank you, sir.
Uh a couple of points I wanted to make.
The first one, Obama's assertions that doctors are ordering more and more tests to get more and more compensation is ridiculous.
Um I'm compensated to see and to treat a patient regardless of what I order.
But I am having to order more and more tests to protect my backside.
Exactly right.
So we should be talking tort reform, not driving down the Well, you can forget tort reform just like you can forget union reform because the tort lawyers are the second biggest contributing base besides the unions, after the unions uh to uh Democrats and Obama.
Oh, you're absolutely right.
They order all these tests to cover themselves in case some patient wants to sue them for misdiagnosis or something.
That's exactly right.
And you know, I I uh you have to.
Not only is it uh to protect yourself financially, but also, you know, three strikes in Florida, I'll be bagging groceries.
Three three strike, you mean what give me a definition of a strike?
Well, if you uh it's gone through various stages, but if you lose so many malpractice cases, um you can lose your license.
And I and I'm not talking about gross neg negligent things.
Yeah, and how hard is it to get a jury in panel these days that's gonna hate the doctor, hate the hate the insurance company uh and award some schlub gazillions of dollars because somebody misdiagnosed a pimple.
Well, because they want to be the next schlub that gets the next million dollars.
Yeah.
The the other point I wanted to make, if I have the time with you, is him talking about specialists.
Now I'm in a specialty residency.
Um and he's saying that uh that that we need to try to drive more of the the uh compensation to the the general practice folks.
Uh I think it's gonna be a wash in the end without that.
I'm carrying about $300,000 of student loans that's going to be uh accruing interest for the next five years.
The people who have already graduated are now practicing, they're not.
They're also gaining an uh a nice income at this point when I'm not.
So for him to say that, you know, somebody's doing it just for money and we need to try to compensate the general practice people more because too many people want to do it.
Well that means that there's a way to translate that too he wants more people to go to GP rather than specialist.
Forget the why this is what he's having to do to ostensibly cut costs.
So you have the president of the United States telling private citizens who want to be doctors where they can go and where they can't go.
It's exactly out of the Hillary plan by the way.
We'll be back stay with us.
You want to hear something funny but audio soundbite number eleven.
You know yesterday when his Mark Sanford stuff hit I happen to say on the program oh no he could have been our JFK.
He could have been our JFK.
Chris Matthews didn't understand.
Rush Limbaugh said today his reaction to the Sanford News let's listen to Rushboat.
Oh Stanford could have been our JFK another career down the tubes.
Nobody caught him nobody caught nobody caught him in the act he came back I yeah I was screwing off literally south of the border.
Girl from Epanema comes back and admits it I wonder if Sanford thought that he was going to get away with this she turned her head they all do what a price could have been our JFK I could have taught him how to buy this could have had it all.
What do you think he meant by that Rush Limbaugh?
It's hard to interpret him sometimes.
What did he mean by he could have been our JFK?
Was the potential of Mark Sanford that grand before this moment?
I don't know that he's stupid.
It's not the word.
Just tunnel vision.
Just just when you mentioned JFK, you get.
camelot you get great you get wonderful oh American royalty so Mark Sanford has never been that in his mind.
W when you mention JFK in the context of Mark Sanford going to Argentina cheating on his wife it never occurs to these people that JFK wrote the book on how to do it and not get caught it never occurs to them ends up playing part of love client number nine in an effort to try to understand what was going on.
Frank in Central New York, you're next on the EIB network.
Hello, sir.
How are you doing, Roche?
It's a pleasure to speak to you.
Hey, listen, I'm an ex-tech.
I used to work on Blackhawks.
My wife's a professional also.
She's a nurse.
She is now teaching.
I work for the New York State government, juvenile sector.
And we're being hurt just as much up here as everybody else.
I hear a lot of people saying that, you know, the union members, the government employees aren't going to be hurt by this.
They're doing layoffs left and right.
We're about to lose our jobs probably.
about to close my facility.
And I've got five kids.
I settled down up up here and it looks like I'm gonna have to maybe pull roots and go back to my um my other field.
But I enjoy it up here and and it's just sad to see because uh like you always say industry brings money and the government can't survive without it so if they keep forcing the industry out of New York State which they already have we're gonna have nothing up here and we'll all have to leave.
Yeah yeah yeah and here you are you're a little guy little guy you're getting creamed at a uh uh the you were expecting just the opposite I was expecting the opposite we got five kids we live a simple life up here and we're very conservative I belong to the conservative party here and uh I we're just being smashed up here and I I I can't tell you how disappointed because New York State's a beautiful place to live and and uh it's just so sad up here.
I I you know the rest of the country needs to know how bad we're we're we're getting smashed up here.
Um so even the little guy's gonna get knocked out of this Mr. Limbaugh well you have to learn to look on the bright side in all circumstances and for you that would be at least you don't live in California.
Yes sir yes sir I I look I understand your point that You know, they get this.
Let me find this in the stack.
This because you're you're you're talking here about the the whole notion of uh uh these these businesses being run out of the state because of um taxes and and everything else, and therefore the tax base is dropping, and the state's got less money, and you therefore are in a uh job that's expendable.
Something Bloomberg is doing in New York, you know, they get the new tobacco taxes, new smoking rules, and uh they're having to uh post big no smoking signs at every seat cigarette retailer.
I'm looking for the details of the of the story here.
It's at the bottom of my stack.
Now I know I printed this out, and I Oh, hey, by the way, in case you haven't heard this, Deutsche Bank is predicting a 40% drop in New York home prices uh next couple years, that's also the same thing as uh home values.
Here's the story, it's in Channel 2 in New York.
Uh New York City Health Department moving forward with a plan that would require about 12,000 cigarette retailers to post large anti-smoking signs.
It's billed as the first such regulation in the United States.
Do you know how much tax revenue the State of New York uses and where it goes?
It goes to health care countries for kids, it goes to the general fund.
They have just raised taxes on cigarettes, and now they're trying to intimidate people into not buying the product.
What's going to happen when that revenue source dries up?
They're going to come after you and raise taxes somewhere else that you live, folks.
Why not just ban the product?
And the reason if it's deadly, if it kills people, it's causing these monumental health care costs.
Why not just ban the product?
Well, it can't ban the product, the tax revenue is too high.
But now there just isn't any common sense in anything.
Zilt zero dot a Henry in Hamden, Connecticut.
You're next.
Glad you called, sir.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hi, it's uh great to uh talk to you.
I'm a longtime listener, but first time to call.
Thank you.
And I just wanted to say, I listened to what you were saying about you pay for all your medical bills, and I'd love to be able to do that.
But Rush, you are in the top one thousandth of one percent.
And so what about the rest of us who are uh below that, and we need to have health insurance because you know, I risk losing everything working uh, you know, uh as a self-employed uh consultant.
And so uh don't yell at me, don't yell at me, but I want to hear what the um what your plan is for us that are in the you know bottom ninety-eight percent.
Well it's interesting you ask me that.
Uh you you've put me here in the top one thousandth of one percent.
You agree with that, right?
Yeah, but it's irrelevant.
It's irrelevant.
But I will I will wager, I will wager that I spend less on health care a year than you do.
And you know why?
I'm just guessing.
And it may not be true in your case.
I don't know what your family or your health circumstances are.
I'm a Vietnam vet.
I'm in excellent health, but uh my health insurance premiums are eating me alive.
What is your health insurance for?
What for what kind what kind of coverage do you have?
I have coverage so that when I I'm in a managed care plan.
I um I need the protection against if I if I got some very expensive um disease that would uh that would wipe me out if I go to the hospital, I have to pay a certain part.
Um to my knowledge, I'm asking I asked the question, what what value do the insurance companies actually have?
All they do is they just pay bills.
Okay, now the uh there's there's all kinds of reform that could take place in the private sector to lower your costs.
And my first plan, I'd have two things.
I would reform the tort laws, and I would make malpractions I would get rid of the opportunity lawyers have to sue at the drop of a thimble or a or uh or a misplaced stitch.
The second thing I would do would be to put you in control of what you spend on health care by taking all of this money, not even nearly all of it, just a portion of the money we're already spending on Medicare and Medicaid and giving you the equivalent of a personal savings account.
Four to five thousand dollars a year, you spend whatever you want out of that four to five thousand dollars on your insurance, on your health care or whatever, and what's left, you get to keep.
And then and if everybody had this, prices because the competition would be forced to come down.
What needs to happen to make health care affordable for you is not what Obama's proposing because it's not going to become any more, it's gonna be it's gonna be more restrictive.
Well, all I need what I think.
I think that what we desperately need or more primary care physicians.
I think they're horribly underpaid, and I think they break their backs every day to take care of people.
Okay.
And and you've got these cardiovascular surgeons, a lot of them are doing procedures.
You you saw that article in the New Yorker.
A lot of them are doing procedures that don't work.
And you should know because didn't you have surgery um at one point to uh back surgery or something like that?
It didn't, it didn't work, and then you got addicted to drugs.
So a lot of the stuff doesn't work.
And and so uh No, but I was not offered a guarantee.
I was not this I this is the best option that you've got.
And they it sure I gave it a shot and it didn't work.
But you see, I I'm I maybe I'm a little realistic here.
I don't expect perfection from virtually every human being who performs any service.
I expect them to do their best, but I don't expect perfection.
I know when I'm taking a risk, and I know when I'm paying for it.
I don't go into these kind of things with guarantees.
What we need for you to be able to afford health care that you want is for you to be able to pay for it yourself.
Now we're spending gobs and oodles of money on health care, and it still isn't it it it's not working for you.
We are spending so much almost one twentieth of the U.S. economy right now is health care.
We I mean nobody ought to be having trouble with health care in this country at all.
It's not the fault of the insurance companies, it's not the fault of the doctors.
You've just been led to believe that.
It's the fault of the federal government.
Let me tell you something.
And I'll tell Obama at the same time, Henry, Medicaid is 40 years old, Medicaid over 40 years old.
Medicaid covers poor people and the working poor as they're characterized.
It is breaking state budget after state budget, it is breaking the federal budget.
Medicaid is trillions of dollars in the red.
Now, how can we manage health care for the poor differently than you manage them now?
We're not gonna change the procedures.
Medicare and Medicaid are going to become the foundations for the new public option, Henry, that you're gonna have to opt into, and it's already in the red.
Here's another question.
Medicare has been around for over 40 years.
It's also trillions of dollars in debt.
How would a national health care system differ from Medicare?
What benefits are gonna be cut?
What costs are going to increase?
How is it gonna be managed better than it has been managed now?
Henry, you've the problem you face and millions of other Americans face, is not your insurance company, and it's not your doctors wanting to You have no right to tell a doctor what he has to do.
If a guy wants to be a cardiovascular surgeon, it's his business.
It isn't yours, Henry.
You think we need more primary care physicians?
Ask yourself why we don't.
Could it be that they're being not compensated by the people in charge of reimbursing them, Henry?
Could it be the government, not the greed and the selfishness of the cardiovascular surgeons?
But what business is it of yours to tell anybody what they can do for a living, Henry?
You're not paying them.
Somebody else is paying them on your behalf, and they're skimming a lot of money, and the system is In debt and it isn't gonna work by expanding it, Henry.
I'm sorry to be yelling at you, but I get so frustrated here.
Here's another question.
Mr. President, you say the current health care system's unsustainable.
Well, how is nationalizing it going to make it sustainable?
I will bet, even though I can afford every dime of medical coverage.
I'll bet the amount of money I spend on health care a year is less than the average American who is just as healthy as I am and doesn't need it either.
You ever think, Henry, people go in the doctor too much?
You ever think Henry that maybe the news media telling you you're gonna die every damn day from some stupid ass piece of coffee or a loose chunk of change falling from a tree or the planets colliding a billion years?
You think people are maybe convinced they're gonna die simply because they're eating trans fat?
Think that might be why they're going to the doctor?
This whole thing is a rigged scam.
And at the root of the problem, Henry, is the United States government and the state governments who have run this system into the ground and bankrupted it.
They've made it unaffordable for you.
We'll be back.
Screw it.
Let me explain again with a personal story.
The whole concept of health care savings.
Brian, how many years ago was it you had to drive me up that hospital for that intestinal infection?
Or was that like three years ago or four years ago?
I went to Mexico, uh, golf tournament relating to common man.
I went to Mexico, I came back with a bug, and it bug didn't show up for a month.
I was I had intestinal blockage, incredible cramping pain, tried to deal with for two or three days, finally couldn't.
Went up to see the doctors.
Whoa, you in the hospital, dude.
Thought I had colon cancer.
I knew I didn't have colon cancer.
They did a CAT scan.
I can't do an MRI because of my cochlear implants and a magnet in there.
Anyway, the the short version of this.
A hospital stay was two or three days.
$7,000 was knocked off my cost because I paid cash.
Now you tell me it's not possible to save money.
Because they didn't have to hassle with insurance, they didn't have to hassle with anybody's time working with all the insurance companies on all the forms.
They didn't have to spend a minute of time with me filling forms out.
I had to fill out all the personal data because I paid cash seven thousand dollars less than it would have cost poor some poor schlub who came in there with insurance.
Now don't tell me it isn't possible to save money on health care.
It's the same old thing, folks.
If the private sector takes over, if you have to pay for it and it's priced accordingly, the price is gonna come down.
The way this happens is with medical savings accounts and with tort reform.
At least it's a good start.
How many of you would love not to have to deal with insurance company for 90% of your health care coverage?
Well, the way to do it is an old-fashioned concept.
Pay for it yourself, but it's gotten so out of whack you can't afford to pay for it yourself unless it is a simple checkup.
And whatever's being proposed by these cotzes in Washington is only gonna make this worse, limit your options, and they're gonna devise a plan that they are not going to enroll in themselves.
Jeff in Columbus, Ohio.
I'm glad you called, sir.
You're next in the EIB network.
Hey, Rush, good afternoon.
Yes, sir.
Hey, I'm a veteran also.
And my question is why is this vet paying full price for his insurance when all he has to do is go out and get a catastrophic insurance policy, which isn't gonna be as much.
Well and he can use the VA.
Look, uh all a valid question.
But I figured out at a strategic point, Henry's call, he was a fraud.
You're saying he's a fraud because he's a vet and he had to go out and buy his own policy?
What the hell is that all about?
Yeah, that's from it.
He's he was a fraud all the way around.
Uh what I should have asked Henry is um, hey, Henry.
How much you pay for your policy?
What is your income level?
But by the time it came around to asking that, I was over time on the segment like my like I am now.
And it didn't matter because I don't know if I'd have gotten uh straight answers.
Because Henry's point uh was not what he was trying to make it out to be.
Uh his point was trying to discredit me, probably calling from Rahm Emanuel's office.
Maybe from the Oval Office, for all I know.
They're listening in there and trying to do battle.
Folks, I want you to stop worrying about me out there.
All these emails, rush, you're getting red in the face.
No, that's a suntan from Hawaii.
You stop yelling at people.
I'm not y it's called I'm having trouble suffering fools today.
It's just it's just that simple.
But I'm fine.
In fact, I have never been better.
I'll be back.
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