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Aug. 3, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 3, 2009, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
You know, this really is mind-boggling.
I mean, I'm sitting here minding my own business, bothering nobody yet, doing daily show prep, and about 10 minutes ago, 15 minutes ago, Cookie sends me the audio soundbite roster.
And I find out looking at the audio soundbite roster that they trashed my diet.
on Good Morning America today.
And then the babes at The View got involved, trashing the diet and me.
They even had some female doctor, their medical correspondent, Good Morning America, come on to talk about how...
I mean, if they want to talk to me about it, I would be glad to tell them, but they didn't.
They just play a couple little soundbites and react to it.
Anyway, greetings, folks.
Well, I'll play the audio for you as the program unfolds.
There, frankly, are things more important than my diet.
Telephone number if you want to be on the show today, 800-282-2882.
And the email address, lrushbo at EIBNet.com.
Screw it.
Let's just get it out of the way now.
Hey, poor people at quick weight loss.
I said, I was only going to mention it one time last Friday.
Those poor people have been overwhelmed.
Their website shut down for a couple hours.
They're still having trouble with all the phone calls.
So I don't know if you people watch Good Morning America.
I don't.
So I didn't know about this until I got the soundbite roster.
Co-host Robin Roberts talking to their correspondent, Yunji Denise, about me and my weight loss.
Robin Roberts says, for months, we didn't know what was going on as the pounds came off.
I didn't even know they noticed or cared.
The radio host Rush Limbaugh is now revealing he's down nearly 90%.
No, 80 in less than five.
No, it's not less than five months.
It's six.
March, April, May, June, July.
I guess it is five.
All right, they got that right.
How did he do it?
Can you do it?
Is it safe?
Rush Limbaugh is big.
Big voice, big audience, big opinions, and simply a big guy.
But the radio giant is getting smaller, thanks to his diet secret.
It's the easiest one, and it's the fastest.
And I'm 58 years old.
That's secret, Quick Weight Loss Centers, a Florida-based company that combines a low-calorie diet, office visits, and supplements, including protein boosters, carb blockers, and appetite suppressants.
Doctors say diets like this do work, but often the weight loss doesn't last.
That's because to maintain it, you essentially need to stay on the diet forever.
Hours after Limbaugh revealed his secret weight loss weapon, the company's name became the fastest rising search on Google.
Like the host, many in his audience are undoubtedly looking for a quick fix.
All right.
Now we've got, let's see, a couple, three more, four more soundbites here, but let me just, let's just take this one.
The appetite suppressant, that's early on, and it's hoodie, and it's in a multiple vitamin pill, and I don't know that it worked.
I'm not hungry on the diet.
It's a lot of food.
It's more food than I've ever eaten on a diet.
It's about 1,500 calories a day, but you don't really add them up.
That's not how you do it.
And the point, you know, all these people are out there, obesity, big problem, right?
Get on a diet.
You got to lose weight.
So I go on a diet and lose weight and they say, it won't work.
Hey, I'm going to put it right back on.
He's been starving himself.
I have not been starving.
These people, these doctors, these medical people can't get it straight.
Either we shouldn't lose weight or we should.
And when we do it, and I'll guarantee you this, if Obama were on this diet, they would love it.
It'd be the best diet that the media had ever heard of, and they'd be reporting it coast to coast, and they'd put Obama's picture on the Quick Weight Loss Center logo and so forth.
The point about staying on the diet forever, I made that point last Friday.
This is a diet you can do that.
It's real food.
It's just, it's everybody says you got to relearn how to eat to keep your weight off.
That's what this diet does.
Now they went out, they got their medical babe.
Dr. Marie Savard.
And Robin Roberts said, what's your take on the diet that Limboy used, Dr. Savard?
I do applaud him for making the attempt.
I call it the four S's, but in fact, what we're talking about first is starvation.
To lose that much weight, and he talked about losing as much as a pound a day, which is not safe.
You need to severely cut your calories, which means you're in the starvation mode, has potentially dangerous health effects.
Second is the notion of structure.
And he talks a lot about the structure.
It means limited choices in the diet.
And as he described, he wasn't allowed to have two proteins together, like chicken and beef.
On the other hand, he contradicts it by saying, for breakfast, I have both a milk and an egg product.
So structure helps people, but it's limited.
And that's the opposite of what we need to learn to do.
None of that doesn't make sense to me.
A diet works.
It works.
It works and it works well.
And it's solid.
Of course, there are going to be limited choices on any diet.
Life has limits.
These people are so contradictory.
Here they are targeting obesity as one of the main things we've got to fix in order to bring down healthcare costs.
And then they trash virtually every way people come up with losing weight.
It'll never work.
And there is no starvation.
Zip zero nada.
And there was no contradiction on the two proteins because at breakfast you can combine, say, a cottage cheese with an egg beater's or whatever.
But that's the only time other than that, they're not allowed.
I don't know why.
I didn't question it.
I tried it and it worked.
Robin Roberts says, what about these supplements, Dr. Savard?
Usually there's a little something extra.
Third S, supplements, both herbal supplements and vitamins along with food supplements.
So the herbal supplements that they're promoting, and they make a big point of saying not ephedra, not the high stimulant ones, but it does have hoodia.
Also vitamins, minerals, fish oils in the diet, and then food supplements, things like shakes and highly processed powders that you kind of mix into liquids.
So supplements are costly.
That's the third factor.
And fourth, a good thing is support.
So if you go in, you have personalized counseling.
You can do it online.
That fourth S is really important.
Yeah, support, like the kind I'm getting now from Good Morning America.
It won't work.
It's too fast.
You starved yourself.
You're going to have health problems.
You're going to die.
You should have not even done it.
Finally, Robin Roberts says, men we know lose weight a little bit faster, a little bit better.
It's not fair, but it happens.
It happens.
He's still losing up to a pound a day, which is a lot of weight loss, and it's unsafe.
He's not going to keep that off.
Sustainability is the ultimate bottom line.
He can't do it with that type of a diet.
What is key and is missing is exercise.
He admits that he gulfs, but otherwise does not exercise.
That's the foundation.
It builds muscle mass.
That's what works.
It's kind of a lifestyle pill that we don't want to swallow.
All right, so I don't know what I'm doing.
I have not, I can't, in fact, I can't, I cannot do what I've done.
Didn't really lose the weight.
And by the way, it's 80 pounds and it's not that five months times 30 average days in a month.
Five times 30 is 150, right?
80 pounds in 150 days is not a pound a day.
What I said was up until about 30, it was pretty close to a pound a day, and I was amazed by it.
So I can't do what I've done.
What I've done that I can't do won't work.
And even if it does work, it won't last because I'm going to not exercise enough to satisfy Dr. Savard.
And so I'm going to regain the weight.
It's just automatic.
This also came up on The View today.
Whoopi Goldberg, Sherry Shepard, and Joy Behar have this exchange about the diet.
Rush has dropped 90 pounds in less than six months, thanks to the Florida-based Quick Weight Loss Center.
That's a short amount of time to lose that much weight.
He's taking an appetite suppressant.
Yeah, which is dangerous.
It screws you up.
That's good.
The thing is, you don't keep that weight off.
Not taking appetite suppressants.
But anyway, there you have it.
So they wish I was dead anyway.
All these people wish I was dead anyway.
So why aren't they celebrating here?
I'm going to die.
I'm starving.
I'm not going to be able to keep the weight off.
I'm engaging in terrific health risks here.
And since they all do want me dead, I think it'd maybe be good if they were just happy about all this.
As I say, folks, it kind of, in all seriousness here, these people, I'm going to be repetitive, these people, whoever, be they in the media, be they in the medical community, are now really focused on obesity, how much it's costing us healthcare-wise, how unhealthy it is.
They're out there urging people to do something about it.
And then when somebody like me goes out and does something about it, that won't work.
It won't keep it off.
That diet doesn't work.
That diet, they say it about every diet.
I have yet to hear a medical person on television tell me the diet that works.
I hear them say, well, reduce your calories and exercise.
Well, I'm doing half of that.
And it's not as like I'm sitting around vegging.
At any rate, it is...
What bothers me about this is that these poor people at Quick Weight Loss Center are now having their diet maligned.
And it's, it's, I just want to reiterate to you, and I'm not being paid for this.
This is one of the reasons I didn't mention this at all during the whole process of being on the diet was that I didn't want to have any official tie-in.
And I don't.
I'm just telling you, and I've done every diet that there is.
I have done every diet there is.
I'm 58 years old.
This is the first diet that I have not felt deprived, felt sorry for myself because I feel like I'm in denial because I've been satisfied.
I've lost weight faster than I ever have at age 58.
And I think it's probably the healthiest I have been eating in years.
So you can believe me who has done it, or you can believe them who haven't done it.
But so they couldn't do it.
They couldn't do what I've done.
Well, they're talking about keeping it off.
Now, they don't know what they've done now.
They don't know what they've done.
Now, they say, no, no, no, I'm not going to exercise.
No, I'm going to keep it off.
I'm not through losing.
That's going to bug them even more.
They're just mad that I look studly.
When you get right down to it, they're just mad that I look good.
That's why they hate Sarah Palin.
And now they can add my good looks and my studdly behavior and appearance to all the other reasons that they hate me.
I mean, they used to make fun of my weight all the time, and now I'm losing it too fast.
You cannot.
That's why, folks, you can't go through life trying to please other people.
You can't open yourself up to the approval of others for anything that you do.
All right, that's out of the way.
Cash for clunkers.
What a boondoggle this is becoming.
The health care plan, people are erupting.
We've got the audio of Kathleen Sebelius and Arlen Specter being told what for.
People in Los Angeles, you ought to go to the Drudge Report.
There's a poster in Los Angeles of Obama made up to look like Heath Ledger's Joker character in the last Batman movie.
And I've always said the downfall for Obama, the downfall, when the tipping point's reached, is going to be when it becomes cool to dislike the guy, when it becomes cool to make fun of the guy.
And it's starting to happen here.
I got to go.
Quick timeout.
We'll be back.
We'll continue after this.
Don't go away.
Folks, I have learned what the government's new insurance companies are going to be called.
As you know, Nancy Pelosi has made it plain it's time this month in August, demonize the insurance companies.
That's how they're going to try to get you to change your mind and go the opposite direction from where you're going now, and that is support Obama's health care plan.
There are going to be two insurance companies run by the government, all-statist and statist farm.
Like a big brother, statist farm will be there.
Statist Farm is also where you will be put out to pasture once you're 70 years old and in bad health.
Just amazing.
Listen to this audio soundbite.
This is from Philadelphia.
At the National Constitution Center on Independence Mall, Kathleen Sebelius, the Health and Human Services Secretary and Senator Specter held a town hall meeting to talk about health care reform.
And during the Q ⁇ A, an unidentified man had this exchange with Secretary Sebelius.
My question to you is when congressmen scoff at the notion of reading legislation because they are dollar fighter and they aren't competent to understand it, how can we be confident that those congressmen are competent to re-engineer the entire health care system?
I am not a member of Congress, have never been.
That's just a fact.
I'm just telling you, my observation is I have never seen members of Congress work harder and it is unacceptable to me for somebody to hours and hours and hours and hours have been spent.
If people say they haven't read the legislation, then tell them to go back and read it.
It's available.
I tell you what, this is just the beginning.
This whole month is going to be like this if these people have the guts to go out and do these town hall meetings.
I think that they won't.
I think they'll do junkets.
I think incidents like this, like we discussed last week, are the, well, these audiences, they show up and they're uninformed.
They've been gymned up by talk radio and it's an unruly mob.
I can't even promise security.
This is how they're going to get out of doing this.
But it isn't going to matter.
This is a fever pitch that people have gotten themselves into over this.
And this is easy to understand.
They haven't read the bill.
It's easy to understand when you've got 72%, almost 80% of the people happy with their insurance, happy with their coverage.
They don't want to give it up.
And they're going to learn.
More and more are learning each and every day that they will lose their private plan.
In fact, we've dug up some audio of Obama from a couple years ago stating that that's his objective is to get rid of private insurance.
He said, it may take a little while to do it, but public option is.
And Barney Frank is confirming it too.
You are going to lose your private insurance.
It's just, it's the plan.
It's in the bill.
It is going to happen.
Obama's out there denying it when people ask him about it.
Sebelius, I think if you see that, she can hardly, she can barely hide her disdain for the voters showing up at these meetings.
There's real contempt and there's surprise.
You know, she is part of this cabal that thinks people look at government as though it's parliamentarian royalty.
And that whenever somebody from the government shows up that we're in awe and that we are totally trusting and that we believe everything they say and that they are instrumental to us and our lives.
And when she gets out there and she sees that, these people never in touch with real America, even though she was governor of Kansas.
These people are not in touch with real America and they run up against stuff like this and they're totally shocked.
They're totally surprised that these people know more about what's in the bill than Kathleen Sebelius even knows what's in it.
But she's really shocked that these serfs have the audacity to object to anything she and Senator Specter say.
Here's the next bite.
Sebelius and Specter had this little exchange.
We provide up the bill.
We have to make judgments very fast.
Thank you.
The Senate bill is written.
So don't boot the trigger for not reading a bill that isn't written.
That's Sebelius there at the end saying the Senate bill isn't written, so don't boot the senator for not reading a bill that isn't written.
They know what that bill's going to contain.
There are a couple committees working on it.
There's some Republicans trying to come up with their own stupid, I think it's idiotic bipartisan contribution to this thing.
But the House bill, they ought to read that too because they're going to be conferencing with it once the Senate bill gets done.
But that crowd, I mean, this is Philadelphia, folks.
This is not some red city or red state.
This is Philadelphia.
This is as Democrat union as you can get.
This is a city that recently built a brand new tall skyscraper.
And they did not install flush toilets.
Well, they didn't install pipes.
I think, get this right.
The new Fangled toilets.
And they didn't install certain aspects of them because they weren't needed.
And the Pipe Fitters Union blew a gasket.
And they had to put in worthless pipes in the building just to keep the steam fitters and the pipe fitters happy.
This is a liberal town.
And these people showing up, I'm sure that this was an unexpected reaction from both Specter and Sebelius.
And you notice when Specter said we have to make judgments very fast, people say, no, you don't.
This bill doesn't get implemented until 2013, four years from now.
Why the haste?
What really is the need for the speed?
People are not stupid.
This is easily understandable.
And that's why there's so much trouble with it.
Back in just a sec.
Hey, welcome back, Rushland Boy.
As always, half my brain tied behind my Mac just to make it fair.
Our telephone number is 800-282-2882.
For those of you that are going to go to town meetings during the congressional recess this month, I have some specific questions that you need to start asking.
And I'm going to be asking them too.
It is time to start demanding that Obama, Pelosi, and Reed, and your member of Congress or your senator, you start demanding what diseases and illnesses are covered.
How much is covered?
What drugs are covered?
Let's start getting specific with these people.
Let's move beyond, why don't you read the bill first?
And let's start asking them specific questions.
How long will it take before I lose my own private insurance or my own employer assurance that I like?
What diseases and illnesses are covered?
And up to what age are these diseases covered?
How much is covered?
What drugs?
Let's start getting specific with these people.
Here's Nancy Pelosi on Political Capital, Bloomberg TV, Al Hunt interviewing her.
Question, you don't expect health insurers to be part of any coalition that supports this bill.
Well, I think I don't like using words like villains, but people call me a villain all the time, so I figure it's probably okay to use it that.
They have been the ones who have held the American people have been at their mercy.
They have not made America healthier.
They have made health care more costly.
And it is important for us to have this legislation that puts the leverage back in the hands of the patients.
It's about the American people.
That just flat out not true.
You are not being given more leverage.
You're not being given more power.
You're not being given more coverage.
And you're not being given more care.
You are being sandwiched and squeezed and all of that.
And their purpose here is demonizing the insurance companies like they've always done to big pharma, big oil, big whatever.
It's now big insurance's turn to be demonized and villainized by these people because they don't like what they see in the polling data.
The polling data, more and more people now do not support the Obama health care plan than do.
And you know, one of the groups, according to polling data, one of the groups that Obama's losing the fastest is the precious independents.
Everybody just in politics goes gaga over the independence.
And the independents are bailing on this thing faster than any other identified political group and demographic.
And they start losing those people.
And then when they start losing the seasoned citizens, folks, when that starts to happen, and it is, then there's going to be hell to pay for these people.
But here's the bottom line.
It doesn't matter to them.
It doesn't matter what you think.
It doesn't matter what a majority of public opinion is.
When they see a majority of public opinion opposed to them, they start thinking, okay, how can we ram it down their throats anyway?
Not listen to you, not react to you, not respond to you.
This is about forcing something down all of our throats, even when a vast majority of people do not want it.
Now, let's move on from this.
We're going to be talking about health care and other things throughout the entire program today, but I want to cover a foundation of topics here to set the table, so to speak.
Throughout the campaign, and even after the imaculation of President Obama, he insisted, he promised, and made no bones about this, by the way.
No bones whatsoever.
It was as firm a promise as any politicians ever made.
And I know we're all cynical about politician promises.
But he said nobody making under $250,000 a year would have a tax increase.
That is now off the table.
And I told you last week when Tim Geithner finished his meeting with the CHICOMs and he said he assured the CHICOMs we're going to get our deficit under control.
I translated it for you.
It means tax increases are coming for everybody.
It came up on the Sunday shows.
Here's first up montage of is the recession over or not.
The Sunday show host had a one-track mind.
Is the recession over?
And of course it is.
Today on Face the Nation is the recession over.
Is the recession over?
The recession might be easing.
When do you project the recession will end?
Isn't the recession leveling off?
And doesn't President Obama deserve some credit?
All right.
Now, we have a situation where the press is now willing to say, the state-controlled media, that the recession's over.
The only problem is people are still losing their jobs.
You cannot have a genuine, legitimate economic recovery or end of a recession if there aren't jobs being created.
Here's Geithner and your middle-class tax increase coming up.
Stephanopoulos says revenues are on the table as well here.
Again, we're not at the point yet where we're going to make a judgment about what it's going to take, but the Metropolitan.
But you're not ruling it out.
You can't rule it out.
Well, I think that what the country needs to do is understand we're going to have to do what it takes.
I'm going to do what's necessary.
You're just being told to wave goodbye to that promise that you're not going to have a tax increase if you earn less than $250,000 a year.
And he said in this interview, we have no choice.
We have no choice.
Country needs to understand we're going to have to do what it takes.
Bob Schieffer talking to Larry Summers.
You don't see another round of tax increases coming.
No tax increases for middle-income Americans.
There's a lot that can happen over time.
But the priority right now, and so you said never a good idea to absolutely rule things, rule things out no matter what.
They already did rule it out.
Obama already did rule it out.
So here you have two officials of the Obama administration virtually promising you that your taxes are going up.
And you look around, if you just examine their policies, you look at the cash for clunker program, and it's got a lot of problems.
And Wall Street Journal, in fact, today has an editorial.
Hey, let's have a $4,500 subsidy for everything.
I wonder where they heard that.
We discussed that on this program Friday.
Listen to how they start this thing.
Americans are streaming back into auto showrooms, and one reason is the cash for clunkers subsidy.
Democrats naturally claiming it's a great success.
Republicans are claiming that because the program has run out of clunker cash so quickly, it proves government can't run the health care system.
How do we elect these people?
What the clunker policy really proves is that Americans aren't stupid and will let some other taxpayer buy them a free lunch if given the chance.
Now, that's the Wall Street Journal's take.
And I think that people are looking at this a little wrong way because what this is, is a tax cut.
Now, not everybody's getting this $4,500 or $3,500.
You have to qualify for the Cash for Clunker program to do it, to qualify for it.
But whose money is this?
Whose money is this?
The government's having to print this money.
We don't have it.
They have already spent all of our tax revenue and then some times 10 or 20.
But this is, to me, an example of how you would stimulate the economy.
Nothing has forced people into automobile showrooms in the last two years like this.
Nothing has.
This is a great lesson in how you genuinely stimulate an economy.
You put money into the pans and pockets of the American people who make up the U.S. economy.
Now, you don't do that by writing them checks.
You do it by cutting taxes, letting them keep more of what they earn, which incentivizes people to go work.
It incentivizes them to earn more money.
But no, what are we doing?
We're talking about extending unemployment compensation benefits.
You know, it's up to 79 weeks now.
79 weeks.
And the more you pay people unemployment compensation, the more they will not seek work.
It's human nature.
And anybody with any economic literacy knows this.
So this is not, we're not doing this to be compassionate.
We are doing this to create chaos.
We are doing this to create a crisis that then Obama and his people can say, okay, yeah, we're the only ones who can fix it, but the government's the only entity big enough to handle all of this.
They want you willingly to turn over as much of your liberty and your freedom and your earning power as you can to them.
Now, the cash for clunkers program, Republicans are opposing it in a sort of unique way.
McCain and some others are saying, you know what this is?
I mean, look at who's the majority of the money is going to automobile companies owned by who?
Obama, the government.
And so these companies are being subsidized, owned by the government, with taxpayer money.
We've got to stop this.
And that's through the Republican point of view.
Jim DeMintz also opposed to the program.
I'm opposed to it because of the precedent that it sets, that you can only buy a car if the government gives you some money.
Now, people don't look at this as getting their, some people do, but most people don't look at this as getting their own money back.
They just look at it as a deal.
But the government proved it can't even run this.
It's the most simple transaction that Americans engage in, the automobile trade-in.
And they can't even manage this, a $1 billion program.
But it does reveal, despite all the flaws, it reveals how you really stimulate an economy.
And I'll guarantee you, if this program dies and doesn't get fueled with any more money, it's because they have ultimately decided they don't want you to have that much money.
They don't want your hard-earned tax money to be returned to you in however way it comes.
It's just a golden opportunity here to learn who these people really are and what it's all about.
But it does show the journal headline here, let's have a $4,500 subsidy for everything.
Craig called it Crackpot Economics.
The subsidy won't add to net national wealth since it merely transfers money to one taxpayer's pocket from somebody else's and merely pays the taxpayer to destroy a perfectly serviceable asset, a car, in return for something he might have bought anyway.
And on the car's website, I went and looked at it today.
There's actually a demonstration of how to take a perfectly good Volvo and ruin it and make it qualify for the program.
There's a video, it's gone viral, as the kids say, on YouTube.
And there are instructions on the car's website how to take your perfectly fine Volvo and ruin it to the point that it qualifies for the program.
Got to take a break back after this, folks.
Sit tight.
All right, Mike, standby, audio soundbites 26, 27, and 28.
Uncovered even more audio of a Democrat town hall that totally breaks down.
This is Tim Bishop in Sautauquit, New York.
But I want to grab a couple of phone calls here.
First, Gwen in Greenwich, Connecticut.
Great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Hi, how are you, Rosh?
Fine.
Thank you very much.
That's great.
Listen, I'm calling about, you were saying that we should ask questions at the town hall meeting.
The first is what diseases are covered.
And I just want you to know that my cousin, who is a surgeon, and I have read through the bill.
And she calls me back and she says, Gwen, this is Medicaid.
This is Medicaid.
This runs just like Medicaid because she takes Medicaid patients.
She says it's exactly the same language.
So the problem with Medicaid is that they do take preexisting conditions.
So they'll take your preexisting condition, all right.
But what she says is that they'll deny you some very needed treatments, which, you know, considering that this is taxpayer-funded, is okay because you can't expect taxpayers to fund every single treatment available to you.
It's just too expensive.
However.
Whoa, whoa, hold that thought right there.
Who says we can't expect taxpayers to pay for everything?
Do you realize how many Americans do expect the people that support Obama's plan precisely support it because of that?
That they think everything's going to be paid for by somebody else.
Yes, but that hasn't been able.
Nobody's been able to achieve that.
Not in Europe, not in any single payer system anywhere around the world, because what happens is you bankrupt the entire country.
So at some point, the disincentive to produce that comes from the additional taxation necessary to fund this is so great that they are no longer able to pay for these programs.
So that's not going to happen.
At some point, they're going to have to cap it off.
And they are capping it off at some point here in Medicaid already.
But the problem, Rush, is that if you have, you know, your life is worth something to you.
And if you have a problem and you can come up with the money, ostensibly if you're on Medicaid, you don't have very much money.
But say you get another job or your family members scrape it together or you get it from your church.
You cannot, by the rules of Medicaid, pay out of pocket to that same doctor for the procedure.
So if everybody's basically going to be on Medicaid, and that is the intention of the Obama administration, then that means that you will not have the option to pay out of pocket for procedures.
That's highly un-American.
It impinges on your freedom.
Under what circumstances could someone pay out of pocket for a procedure if they wanted to?
Well, right now, if you are insurance.
As you and your doctor buddy read the bill, because frankly, let's take a look at some of the very wealthy in this country.
Yes.
All right.
Are you saying that they're all going to be prevented from going to see a doctor for any reason whatsoever if they pay for it out of their pocket?
Well, here's the rub, Rush.
Because the problem doesn't, we're not sure, it's not clear to us that private practice will be affected, as in I want to go see my doctor and have my doctor check me out.
However, where the problems come in is when you need procedures, because they have limited the ability of doctors to open surgeries.
Now, I'm not as clear on this.
And I don't know if we're on the air right now, are we?
Yes, of course we're on the air.
Oh, we are.
Okay.
Oh, yeah.
Say whatever you want.
We're going to publish these things.
And I'm not sure because I was told that we're going to start a blog that's going to explain all of these details.
And I was told that I shouldn't talk about that on the air right now because it's not up and running, whatever.
But I'm not the one to talk about this.
But a doctor who owns a surgical facility will be able to talk about this.
Basically, it's something to do with a certificate of need, which will have to be approved under this bill by the hospital with which you're trying to compete to open your private medical center.
My question was rhetorical.
Yes.
You will not be able to do that easily because those private surgical centers, those private centers that provide those procedures will be starved out of business because they will not get the ability to, they will not get the okay from the hospitals that they are looking to compete with.
But the real problem is a surgical center.
The real question is, will doctors have the ability to opt out of this health care system and just have a stable of clients that pay them privately and personally?
They probably will.
I have doctors like that.
In fact, I pay all my doctors.
Damn well there will because that's the doctors that the members of the Congress and the House and Senate are going to go see.
And that's who the Wall Street execs are going to go see.
And that's who the Hollywood leftist execs are going to go see.
Exactly.
There's going to be a separate system here.
Yes, but Rush, here's the problem.
If I want to go see my doctor, say I get my skin checkup from a dermatological oncologist or something, then that's fine.
He can look at me.
But when he has to send me for a procedure, that's where the problem starts.
Because there will not be the easy ability to open up these surgical centers that serve cash paying people.
Well, but before you even get to that point, you have to have somebody at a federal agency or some health board approve the procedure.
Remember, Obama's blaming doctors for doing unnecessary surgeries to line their pockets.
The government's going to decide who gets what treatment and procedures, as you say.
By the way, folks, I appreciate every one of you.
I'm grateful for you, but I do have to ask you a couple questions.
Who the hell do you think you are?
What makes you think you deserve the same health care as those in Congress in the first place?
Don't you know your place?
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