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July 29, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 29, 2009, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 247 podcast.
Now look at this headline.
And this is from the state controlled associated press.
The headline.
By the way, hi folks, even though you know it, Rush Limbaugh here and the most listened to and best radio show there, so I know you're there and you know I'm here, so let's just go.
Obama retools pitch for health care legislation.
Now what does that mean?
Obama retools pitch for health care legislation, a subhead from state controlled AP consumer protections among the president's new conditions.
When President Barack Obama's retooling his pitch for legislation overhauling the nation's health care system by emphasizing that any bill he signs will include consumer protections as Congressional Democrats struggle to show progress on his top priority.
Among conditions that White House aides say Obama will outline later today, insurers would be required to set annual caps on how much they can charge for out-of-pocket expenses.
They'd have to fully cover routine tests to help prevent illness and renew any policy as long as the policyholder pays the premium in full, squeezing the insurance cut.
But this is not true.
You know what?
Most everything a beloved president is saying about health care is not true.
Retool.
It's just a it's a not so fancy word for switching the lies.
You know, the health insurance.
Obama says health insurance cannot exclude pre-existing conditions.
Have you heard him say that?
And the reason he's saying it is because there are a lot of people who really don't like Obama, but one member of the family has one of these pre-existing conditions and they can't get insurance for it.
Or it's very expensive if they are able to get it.
So he's out there telling them, don't worry, my plan, you're gonna be forced.
The insurance company is going to be forced to cover pre-existing convention uh conditions, except, of course, if you are a seasoned citizen, then your pre-existing condition denies you all treatment, such as a pacemaker.
So this is what retooling is.
He is he gives with one hand and he takes away with the other.
For example, Obama says the Democrats are not cutting Medicare, but the House bill includes $362 billion in Medicare cuts.
And there's an NPR poll out today that reports that the Democrats' health care plan, a plurality of 47% opposed, 42% said they were in favor.
This is NPR.
Now I'm gonna tell you what's going on here.
And I don't want anybody get giddy.
I don't want you to get all excited here.
I'm just giving you a status report as of a snapshot of this moment in time.
The Democrat Party may be cracking up.
I'm not saying it is yet.
It's too early to say that.
But Obama has put this party's fate at grave risk.
As well as has he has put this country at grave risk.
Because if Obama gets government-run health care, these so-called blue dog Democrats, and they know this, are going to pay for it in the next election.
Many of them will lose.
If he does not get government-run health care, then it will be his fault and that of his party's leadership, and it'll be properly and rightly viewed as a as a failure because he made it his top priority and blew it himself on many levels.
It does not help this that he's out there every he's in North Carolina and someplace else today with a with another town meeting or two on this.
Uh he's he's a rookie, he's throwing a lot of wild pitches.
I want you to hear this.
I I still can't get over this sound bite from yesterday from the Teletown Hall that he did with the ARP.
Oh, wait a wee f wait till I tell you what we found out about ARP.
Oh, folks.
The guy that sends out and writes the ARP magazine or the newsletter every year.
Turns out this guy was married to Andrew Andrea Dworkin.
Does that name ring a bell?
No, that's that's that's uh that's Catherine uh Catherine, whatever.
Catherine McKinnon is the is the wacko out of uh out of Michigan, who who was teaching female law students that all sex is rape, including the sex of marriage.
No, Andrea Dworkin.
I have to be very, very judicious here.
I first heard of Andrea Dwarkin when I was in Sacramento and she came into town to do a lecture.
Let's just say that according to the latest demonization group, the group being demonized by Democrats to push health care, the obese.
She could be I poster, child.
Spokes, I know this is unkind, but folks, what am I I mean?
They ran a picture of her in the Sacramento Bee at a restaurant prior to the lecture.
Oh it's just a shame.
It's just I look at I I uh anyway, she was a man-hating feminist.
She was a man-hating and this guy that she married is apparently gay.
Um I I'll I'll get the story.
I've got this whole healthcare stack and just something reminded me of this about when I said the AARP thing because the magazine that this group sends out that every member gets outrageously propagandized.
It's just it's I mean it's it's just like I said yesterday all this group is is a bunch of Uber ultra leftist radicals retired union officials, yeah, retired union members and so forth.
Anyway, I what when Obama goes out, this is this is this kind of stuff that he's doing that is putting his party in peril.
I and I'm not saying that they're cracking up yet, but folks they're unrestrained.
They're they're hubris, their arrogance is breathless to behold they know that they can't be stopped and so Barney Frank's out there flapping his guns and saying some of the most outrageous things Maxine Waters is upset.
Oh we got that sound bite from Maxine yesterday where the chickens are coming home.
Grab that one real quick uh would uh I'm not trying to tease you on this Obama bite you heard it yesterday but uh grab Maxine Waters she's all upset at the blue dogs she's all she really mad and she really mad at Rahm Emanuel because Rahm Emanuel has the guy that came up with a strategy to go get the blue dogs to run in conservative Republican districts and win to give Pelosi a majority.
That may be difficult for Ronnie Manuel but because don't forget he recruited most of them as when he was over in the Congress in the leadership Ron Emanuel recruited uh more conservative members and based on some of the information that I'm getting they told him that they could vote the way they wanted to vote that they would not interfere with what was considered their philosophy about some of these things.
So now the chickens have come home to roost.
Yeah that's what I mean the party it may be cracking up I'm not saying that it is yet but but they there have to be Democrats here more and more of them know what is in store for their party if this passes and some of them know what's in store for their party if it fails.
I mean when you run the show when you when you assume Orifus with this overwhelming popularity such as Obama did you own both houses of conference Congress and you can't pass his signature piece of legislation because your own party won't go along with it.
I'm telling you, it's exciting to watch.
I'm not saying get giddy yet.
This is, I'm fascinated to watch this because it's also very, you know, it's heartwarming because the country didn't buy in this.
The country's not, but we have not lost the United States, folks.
We have not lost the United States of America.
We have not lost it.
Now, there's a very sad, let me find it, very sad, sad poll out here it's a rant it's a Rasmussen poll.
This is it this is a heartbreaking I've got the Obama bite coming up sit tight.
I'm just employing a I just we do it's improv here.
I'm gonna get to it before the commercial break I'm not teasing anybody I'm not using a time old trick to keep you hanging on I know you don't leave this show.
You're not here for Obama bites you're le you're here for me.
So I'm not worried I'm not there's no trick here.
Nearly one out of two U.S. voters 49% now say the nation's best days are in the past that is a five-point jump from last month and the highest level of pessimism on this question in a year.
A new Rasmussen reports National Telephone survey finds that 38% still say America's best days are in the future a finding that's held steady since April.
This doesn't help them either how would you like to be the ruling political party and over half the about half the country says, well, the salad days are gone.
All its head's a bag of excrement.
And you're thinking about your kids and your grandkids.
So you know, this is not at all the way any of this was envisioned.
So I hate seeing people think of the country this way because these are the people who are going to determine whether our best days are ahead of us or not.
But you can't.
I mean, you can understand it.
Here you have the economy the way it is, jobs the way they are and so forth.
Uh people's real lives uh cannot be counterbalanced by whatever rhetoric that Obama comes up with each day at a town hall meeting.
All right, here we go.
This this is a soundbite from yesterday that I if every American, if every doctor, if every just heard this over and over and over again, a death blow could be dealt.
Here it is.
We also want to start rewarding doctors for quality, not just the quantity of care that they provide.
Instead of rewarding them for how many procedures they perform or how many tests they order.
Well, bundle payments, so providers aren't paid for every treatment they offer with a chronic to a patient with a chronic condition like diabetes, but instead are paid for how are they managing that disease overall.
This is just heartstopping.
This is a guy with a five-minute career.
He served a hundred and fifty days in the United States Senate.
Before that, he taught people in Chicago how to agitate.
And now he's going to sit in judgment of how well doctors do their work.
He's going to sit in judgment of how they are monitored.
Do you realize in this is a mere 19-second bite.
We're going to reward doctors for quality, not just quantity.
Instead of rewarding them for how many procedures they perform or how many tests they order, we're going to bundle payments so they providers aren't paid for every treatment they offer.
So it's an insult to doctors.
Only he and his appointed bureaucrats will be able to sit there and judge how well doctors do.
And let me tell you there's only one way they can do that, and that's by getting into everybody's health care records.
That's the medical records.
That's the only way they will know.
He had even admitted they don't have enough bureaucrats yet to put in every doctor's office to monitor every treatment and every patient that comes in.
This is just shocking, the hubris.
This guy wouldn't know, probably, where to find the neosporin at a grocery store.
This guy probably wouldn't know where the band-aids are in his own house.
And now he's going to sit in judgment of doctors while he impugns them, he impugns the insurance agencies and so forth.
I'm you know, I've always thought that Geraldo Rivera was a grim reaper.
Because you know, you watch Fox, and whenever anybody is about to die or has died, that's when that's how I knew Michael Jackson was toast.
When that when Fox finally put Heraldo on there that day, that's when I knew that Michael Jackson was dead.
But now I'm wondering who really is the Grim Reaper.
Is it Obama or is it Geraldo?
Or is it maybe both?
One guy arranges an untimely death, the other guy covers it.
If this passes, folks, I just want to tell you if Obamacare passes, Geraldo is going to be recovering retirement homes like they were ground zero in category five hurricanes.
We'll be back.
Stay with us.
Now, looky here.
I am holding in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers apiece from today's Huffington Post.
By the way, there have been two interesting things happened today in the world of state-run media.
Some newsweek reporter, I the name escapes me right now.
The Newsweek reporter has left Newsweek.
Where do you think this reporter went for his new job?
He went to the Obama administration.
And he's going to work for Obama's new drug czar.
Also the son of David Axelrod, who is 22, has just joined the staff of the Huffing and Puffington Post.
It is incestuous.
And this has got F. Chuck Todd, F. Chuck Todd at NBC has unloaded today.
F. Chuck is livid.
He's livid about all these people that have never had anything to do with journalism, saying things that are critical of the media and destroying its reputation.
He really lights into Roger Ailes, former political consultant running a network.
And he lights into Beck as a former DJ.
And uh and then he lights into Ariana Huffington.
And I know what that's about.
I know what that's on the Huffington.
What would you share a former cosmetics purchaser, I think.
At department stores for herself.
I don't mean to stock stores.
She depleted stores with cosmetics.
But they've hired Axelrod's kid.
Well, what that means to somebody like F. Chuck, yeah, here's F. Chuck.
Then again, imagine where F. Chuck is.
F. Chuck works for NBC.
That means that F. Chuck is a lot of times on MSNBC, and we know that nobody watches MSNB.
That's why he hates Fox.
That's why he hates Beck.
And now he's all upset that Axarod's kid has gone over to Huffington and Puffington Post, which which he probably thinks means that the Huffing and Puffington Post is going to have more access to the White House than he, F. Chuck Todd and NBC will have.
So what's happened?
They're turning on their own out there, ladies and gentlemen.
I mean, this is this is great to see.
The state-run media is admitting that they are losing the battle to shape and influence public opinion on things.
And uh F. Chuck just unloads it.
It's at the politico today.
And also on the politico, a story by somebody named Sam Stein.
Now, why in the world this runs on the Huffington Puffington Post is amazing because a Huffing and Puffington Post is in the tank for Obama.
So the man Barack Obama consulted on medical matters for over two decades, said yesterday that the president's vision for health care reform is bound for failure.
Dr. David Scheiner, a 70-year-old Chicago-based physician who treated Obama for more than 20 years, said he was disheartened by the health care legislation his former patient is uh championing, calling it piecemeal and ineffectual.
I look at this program, I can't see how it's going to work.
Shiner told the Huffing and Puffington Post.
He has no cost control.
There would be no effective cost control to program.
The CBO said it's going to be incredibly expensive.
The thing that I'm really worried about is if if it's the if it's a failure that I think it would be, then health reform will be set back a long, long time.
This is his own doctor.
In the Huffing and Puffington Post, saying it isn't going to work.
This is this this cannot be helpful to uh to the Bamster.
I still am mystified why the Huff Poe public, maybe they're just trying to send him a signal.
Hey, you got a problem here, Bud.
You have to either start lying in a different way, you know, retool a pitch.
But that's going to be tough because we know he throws like a girl.
We saw it at the at the All-Star game.
Get this.
This is from the Arizona Republic.
Call it a sign of desperate times.
Legislators are considering selling the House and Senate buildings where they've conducted state business for more than 50 years.
In Arizona, they're going to sell a Capitol buildings and others.
They're thinking about it.
Dozens of other state properties also may be sold as the state government faces its worst financial crisis in a generation, if not ever.
They just need the money.
They're going to sell the Capitol buildings and maybe some of the thinking of it in Arizona.
Now, as you know, ladies and gentlemen, the woman who largely ran Arizona for recent years is now in charge of Homeland Security.
Are we eventually Janet Napolitano?
Are we eventually going to have to sell the Department of Homeland Security to keep it solvent?
What can be said about Janet Napolitano that hasn't already been said about David Patterson, Deval Patrick, and John Corzine.
At the rate the federal deficits growing, maybe Obama can lease back the White House to bring in some extra cash.
And I have a buyer in my, you know, I've always had a dream of owning a team in the NFL.
But if I could buy the White House in the U.S. Capitol building as an act of patriotism to save my country, wouldn't that be cool?
And maybe if you can't buy the White House in the U.S., maybe I can maybe I can buy part of a building in Arizona government building.
Now, if we could buy Congress, that'd Be a different thing.
But they're already bought and paid for.
Media conglomerate Time Warner, Incorporated said Wednesday.
Its second quarter profit shrank 34%.
Advertising revenue in the publishing division of Time Warner plunged 26%.
Now, let me ask you people a question.
Second quarter problem, that's March, April, and May, shrunk, shrank 34%.
How many Obama covers has Time magazine run?
It's like seventeen or eighteen.
Not just in the second quarter, first quarter, fourth quarter, last year.
So the publishing backbone of Time Warner, Time Magazine, losing money big time with the most popular president, quote unquote, ever, on the cover practically every week.
How's that hope and change working for them?
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
So Obama says he wants to reward doctors for the quality and not the quantity of their work and their procedures.
I'll just tell you, is a damn good thing for Obama, Dr. Chicago.
That the last election was decided on the quantity and not quality of his voters.
As all elections always are.
Dr. Chicago.
I think that works.
Dr. Chicago, not Dr. Obama, Dr. Chicago.
And another little news here for CNN.
Detroit area jobless rate topped 17%.
CNN said earlier this week recession is over.
Government report shows unemployment continues to rise in the motor city, California's Riverside area also ranks.
By the way, this is a CNN store.
Whoa.
It's by Ben Rooney, CNN Money.com right.
So he is he needs to talk to the TV people over at CNN because they say the recession's over, but here's Detroit.
17% unemployment.
We have a call from Australia to lead off with.
Samuel from Canberra, Australia.
He's a subscriber at Rush 24-7 listening on the web stream.
Sam, it's great to have you on the private.
You may be the second person, maybe the third from Australia that we've had on the air.
Well, it's an honor to talk to you, Rush.
Thank you, sir.
I'm just calling about the payment bundling.
It seems very similar to me to the uh Medicare bulk billing scheme that we have down here in Australia.
Uh we which has just really turned into a bit of a failure.
It's got lots of convoluted paperwork.
Basically the way it works, you take your Medicare card with you to the doctor or wherever you're going, you swipe your Medicaid card, and through some very convoluted government process, the doctor then gets paid.
But they get paid once every few months.
So in a bulk payment.
To make this worse, the payments don't keep up with the cost of living.
So, you know, doctors have to do convolute paperwork.
The payments aren't worth it.
They only come through every few months, and they have always bureaucrats scrutinizing every transaction.
So they stop using it.
Most doctors down here will not bulk bill now.
Well, that's the greatest health care reform we can ever have.
People paying for it.
People paying for Whoa!
A novel idea.
The thing is though, you then take your invoice from a doctor to a government Medicare office, and you can stand in line for an hour or so, and then they'll fill out more paperwork and give you some of your money back.
It's it it's just it's taken us over thirty years to get to this point from when Medicare was introduced.
Yeah.
People complain about the public health system, no end down here, and but yet people are so dependent on it.
You know, this is the this is the thing, Samuel.
Um this is just, you know, a little microcosm.
Wherever in the world, in all of world history, socialism, liberalism has been tried with unchecked power.
It has never worked.
It's never ever worked.
Somehow, though.
People buy the promise, they buy the good intention idea.
They somehow deny their own experiences with this stuff not working.
I know it's a lot more complicated than that as to how the left is uh has gotten away with it, but so you are i could you say f uh with any knowledge that uh more and more doctors refusing to treat Australian Medicare patients.
Uh I wouldn't say they're they're refusing to treat uh the opting out of the Medicare system there.
I mean to treat the patients, but they're but they're demanding cash on the spot or some other form of payment.
More and more that's happening more and more.
Yes, it is.
It is.
And of course, that only leaves the people who can't afford to opt out, and they're the ones getting the shaft.
Hmm.
Uh in the Yeah, I'm glad you called here.
I ha a good friend of mine, uh a man well known to this audience, Professor Hazlet is in Australia.
He's there with his wife and his girls, and he's uh he's on vacation of sorts, and he sent me he sent me this the following story last night from uh Australia's ABC News, the Australian Broadcasting Corporate, and it is hilarious.
That's that's our version of the state-run media.
Yeah, of course.
Now get the this story is just let me let me summarize this before reading it to you.
What happened was this.
The Wilderness Society went over and and uh uh were throwing a big party at the Fox studios in Australia, the wildernesses, a bunch of environmentalist wackos.
They threw a party to celebrate closing off certain natural areas, natural wildlife and natural, just land areas that happen to be land where the aborigines live and do whatever it is they do.
So the aborigines, their land was rendered useless by these elite effete snobs in the environmental movement.
And of course, the aborigines don't have anywhere near the income or the lifestyle of these Wilderness Society people.
The aborigines rented some limousines and crashed the party that the Wilderness Society threw, and they had a massive protest, and the Wilderness Society of Feats Snobs were totally caught off guard.
They had no clue that this was going to happen.
Yeah, uh that they were just if it this is funny in multiple dimensions.
The wheel here it is.
The w the now this was uh I guess your time, July twenty doesn't say what the date is, but it's two thirty-nine a.m. here if that helps.
Yeah, so it was yesterday morning.
It was in it was in yesterday morning's Fate A Wilderness Society is used to conducting its own protests in street theater, but the tables were turned last night when a group of aboriginal activists from Cape York gate crashed a fundraising party in Sydney.
Two giant koala bears let a group of aboriginal people in chains through the entertainment district of Sydney's Fox Studios.
The Cape York Aborigines went to Sydney to protest about Queensland's Wild Rivers legislation, which bans development within two kilometers of gazetted rivers.
Now the the Aborigines blame the Wilderness Society for instigating the legislation, which they argue denies them the ability to even use their land.
So they showed up, they had these limousines, they have follow had themselves in chains being led by koalas.
And of course, here you have these hoiti tortilla feet snobs with their little finger sandwiches and their chablis and their brie and whatever, and they're congratulating themselves to this marvelous environmental advancement.
And here come native people who supposedly are the beneficiaries of all of this anti-development, just ripping them to shreds.
I think it is so hilarious.
It is absolutely wonderful.
And I uh I I had the story later down on the stack, but you happen to call, so I thought I would take the occasion of your being from Australia to mention this to people.
Yeah, well, it's not just the aborigines who uh who dislike the wilderness movement down here and uh and are annoyed with all of their closing off various parks and things and stopping logging and they they seem to just completely want to shut down the economy.
Well, that's exactly what's happening here, and they're succeeding.
They have they are shutting down the U.S. economy.
I mean, even even now, Samuel, even now it has been discovered that federal bureaucrats have been told to avoid places like Orlando and Las Vegas when they have to leave Washington for meetings.
A casino just filed for bankruptcy in Las Vegas.
Obama said the days of getting on your plane and flying to Vegas are over if you're a corporate executive.
All of these the the hospitality business in this in this country is suffering greatly along with many others, because people are just the government being told don't go there, and others are afraid to.
Well, what one final comment, Rush.
I I hope that the U.S. government follows Australian government lead and does not put in cap and trade.
I don't know if you've heard of Senator Steve Fielding down here who's opposed to it, but he's part of a a growing uh growing movement against emission trading schemes.
Uh Samuel, hang on.
I have something on that in the stack that I am looking at.
Yeah, you are a gold mine today, Samuel.
Hang on a minute.
I put it, I didn't make it a priority today, but it's uh it's it's here, and it's a trick that Harry Reed is attempting to get cap and trade uh passed without any debate whatsoever as part of the health care bill.
Uh let me I'll find it, I've got it here somewhere, and I'll I'll I'll share it with you.
But this is something they're working on.
It would be it would be one of these things where they would put forth the amendment to legislation, have no debate on it, do it like a Friday afternoon, like they did the 300-page amendment to uh the uh first cap and trade thing.
So they're the Democrats are they're they're gonna slither around and try to get cap and trade done somehow with nobody knowing about it.
Because that's in trouble too.
Everything in Obama's agenda is in deep trouble.
Anyway, Samuel, great uh to have you as a member of the audience at Rush 247.
I'm glad that you called.
Thanks much.
We've got to run, be back and continue right after this.
Okay.
I need to shout big correction.
I was I was wrong about the story I was trying to find.
It is not cap and trade that they're trying to sneak into the health care bill.
I was it is card check.
It's card check, which is already doesn't have the votes.
Roll call is reporting that as Senate Democrats struggle to hammer out a compromise bill on union organizing.
Dingy Harry is sketching a process for railroading the bill through the floor as quickly as possible to prevent Republicans from rallying a major campaign against it.
According to Democrat age quoted by Roll Call, it was yesterday.
Top Democrats are going to look to make their move as fast as possible.
Uh this is not the kind of thing where we could have a long drawn-out rollout.
We'd have to say, here's the deal, get to the floor, get it passed before anybody can mobilize against it.
Um while everybody's watching health care, while everybody's focused on health care, Dingy Harry plans to bring up card checkers, ram it through while nobody's paying any attention.
Also, I just got a note from Eric Erickson at redstate.com says, Rush.
The Democrats are going to meet in one hour to begin marking up the health care legislation in committee.
They have cut a deal with the blue dogs, and they now want to push it through.
And uh Eric has a link up at redstate.com where people can find their congressman's direct dial phone number to call and oppose it.
Don't get giddy and don't discount Ram Emanuel's kneecap tactics out there.
Uh somehow just this morning.
The uh the crawlers on all the networks were that uh Mike Ross, the blue dog leader from Arkansas.
Nah, we're not even close.
We're not even close on twelve issues.
And now all of a sudden they're going to go back into committee, start marking it up to have a vote before they leave town.
They know.
They can see what happened at McCaskill's thing in St. Louis.
They can see they've got to get a vote done on this before they leave because these guys go home and don't vote.
They're going to hear about it from constituents, and it's going to make getting the vote even tougher when they get back.
Jerry in Sisters, Oregon.
It's great to have you with us on the U.S. Hi, Jerry.
Hi, this is Terry, actually.
Hey, thanks for taking my call.
Um I appreciate what you do every day on the forefront.
Thank you very much.
Um, I was um watching your show with V Greta Van Festern last week.
And you said something, and I wondered what your thoughts were on your comment.
What you said was that you thought the vet the federal government should subsidize or provide catastrophic health care.
And I was I was just kind of surprised that you said that.
You know, I am frankly sitting here as host of the program stunned.
You are the only person on my side of the aisle to call here and be critical of anything in that interview.
Everybody else has praised me as though I were Obama and the Democrats love me.
Here's what I meant.
I know I ran by that real fast.
I took there were there were some things that I just assume.
One of the things that I assume the overall broad subject here is health care reform.
She what she asked, what would you do?
Well, the problem with health care is that people are not paying for their own coverage, and therefore skies are uh the uh the prices are out of uh out of sight, and there's no end in sight to price is increasing.
And most medical care, most medical care, vast major just the kind of stuff that that you checkups and you know, it's uh uh uh you have uh hangnail, whatever whatever.
Let let people have their options from the private insurance market to cover just those the the basics.
You know, you go four times a year, you go to get a dental checkup, maybe in a cavity filled or whatever.
Pay for that yourself with your own insurance policy.
The stuff that scares people to death of losing everything is a major illness or a calamitous accident, where tens, if not hundreds of thousands dollars of medical bills are are are ramped up, and you know, you can spend the rest of your life paying for it, and there goes your kids' college education.
So there you have that.
On the other side, we we have the government in the health care business.
We want to get the government out of it, we want to limit it, we want to reduce prices.
So let as as a as just a reform, if the government's gonna do anything, let it just, you know, provide insurance for the big ticket stuff.
But isn't that gonna be a huge cost?
Oh, it'd be much less than having them pay for everything.
It'd be much w it'd be much better than having this Obama Obama nation.
Right.
I agree with you on that, but I would I know what tripped you up.
You can't believe it.
I, El Rushbow said government ought to be involved in healthcare.
Exactly.
Right, okay.
Well, I L. Rushball am realistic.
And right now the government is health care, and we're trying to change it.
So if we could get rid of ninety percent of the government's involvement in it, do you realize what a great improvement that would be?
Mm-hmm.
We've already we've already got a mindset out there among the American people that somebody else should pay for their health care.
That's gonna have to change if there's going to be real meaningful reform.
Right.
But you know, the the the big ticket stuff, that's that's a killer.
That's that's just the insurance premiums on that are are are through the roof.
The coverage itself is uh is through the roof, and the fear of having, you know, at age forty coming down with uh some kind of disease that's gonna require medical care for the rest of your life, that's gonna be expensive or have a major, major accident.
Um, you know, these are these are the things that that when you there there are things in our society people can't afford, uh, and they do have insurance for, and that's just that's that's I think we're gonna do the insurance route go there.
But my my whole point was get the government out of everything else.
Right.
I agree.
I and I certainly hope that the House does not pass any part of this health care program.
Yeah, well, you and me both.
But they're as I just said, they're going into the committee in about an hour.
And they're gonna start the markup on it.
They're g they're they're going to do their best to get a vote done on this by the end of this week before they leave town.
Well, you keep it up, Rush.
We're behind you.
Thanks, Terry.
Thank you.
Appreciate that.
I'm actually glad she called, had a chance to explain that.
Uh this is one of those times where I mistakenly assumed everybody would understand the givens that were in my mind.
And I didn't take the time to uh to explain uh all of those things.
Uh let's see, Exeter, New Hampshire, this is Madeline.
Hi, Madeline, great to have you with us, the EIB network.
Oh, thank you for taking my call.
I've got tingly feelings going up and down.
Well, no, that was somebody else, wasn't it?
Yes.
I want to say the going back to what you discussed about doctors will be uh rated according to quantity, I mean quality and not quantity.
What is to keep a doctor from saying, well, I want my ratings to stay up.
My job's in jeopardy, my position's in jeopardy, my reputation's in jeopardy.
So I'm going to take the patients that have the highest uh r uh uh uh prognosis, the best prognosis, as opposed to those who have a lower prognosis.
That's a great example because doctors like anybody else, they're self-preservationists.
And they're also Americans.
And if they've got a president that's trying to destroy them and their livelihood, but they love what they do, they'll find ways around it.
That's why that that is really a great point.
So the doctors refuse to take the bad hard cases.
That'd be much easier for them to say, You didn't do quality work.
So I'll just take somebody who doesn't need a whole lot of treatment, make them better, and I'll get all kinds of gold stars from Obama and the government will love me and leave me alone.
Quick timeout.
Back after this.
I kid you not.
This is a headline.
Should fat people like smokers be barred from indulging in public spaces?
Here's another headline: Taxing the Fat in your food.
CNN.
And another headline: New York City sending homeless to Georgia and South Carolina.
So they won't need shelters, sending them to warmer.
Mayor Bloomberg to ignore this.
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