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Aug. 27, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 27, 2009, Thursday, Hour #2
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I just got a dispatch here.
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Stand by.
Uh audio sound bites twenty-six to twenty-seven.
And then we'll get back in order at uh audio soundbite number five.
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Two articles on Drudge Today that, if they were forwarded to every email address in the country, would put an end to uh Obamacare.
Reading reading these two stories, and I've already touched on one of them today, but reading these two stories pretty much explains why Americans are attending town hall meetings and droves fully armed with information.
We are not simply going to turn every detail of our lives over to bureaucrats.
And the left has the audacity to say that they are the champions of privacy.
That was the Trump card in their arguments against the Patriot Act.
That's their Trump card for arguments for abortion.
It was all about privacy.
Well, when it comes to the details of every square inch of our glorious naked bodies, Those days are over under this administration.
Our tax information and medical treatment details will become Obama's bedtime reading.
How does telling Obama the result of my latest physical?
And what tax deductions I took on my tax return?
How's that going to advance health care?
But we're going to have to do that.
First, both the stimulus bill and uh and the non-Kennedy care would make medical histories and tax records damn near public information.
Under Obamacare, the details of your life would be shared like a joint and a hooker at a Democrat caucus.
It's just amazing.
Section 431A of the bill.
You like that one?
Well, this is what it would be.
The details of your life are going to be shared like a joint and a hooker at a Democrat caucus of Democrat Convention.
Section 431A of the House Bill says the IRS must divulge taxpayer identity information, including the filing status, adjusted gross income, the number of dependents, and other information as is prescribed by regulation.
That information will be provided to the new Health Choices Commissioner, the guy that heads up the death panel.
And state health programs also will be using it to determine who qualifies for affordability credits.
Section 245B2A says the IRS must divulge tax return details, no specific limit on what's available or unavailable, to the Health Choices Commissioner or the death panel guy.
The purpose again is to verify affordability credits.
Section 1801A says that the Social Security Administration may obtain tax return data on anyone who may be eligible for a low-income prescription drug subsidy who hasn't even applied for it.
A better candidate for a future privacy crisis is the so-called stimulus bill enacted with limited debate early this year.
It mandated the stimulus bill already mandated the utilization of an electronic health record for every person in the U.S. by 2014, but included only limited private privacy protection.
This is this story is again from CBS News.
So your tax return information is available to anybody in the government for any reason relating to health care at any time they want it.
The second article comes from the UK.
It explains how under single payer universal nationalized health care in Great Britain produces nurse ratchets to care for their patients.
In the last six years, the patients association claims that hundreds of thousands have suffered from poor standards of nursing, often with neglectful demeaning, painful, and sometimes downright cruel treatment.
The charity has disclosed a horrifying catalog of elderly people in pain, in soiled bed clothes, denied adequate food and drink, and suffering from repeatedly canceled operations, misdiagnoses, and dismissive staff.
Now, all of this has nothing to do with health care.
It has to do with seizing liberties and controlling our lives.
Sirius, does anybody have any questions at this point?
We all know what the end game here is.
The question is how many people want to live in this kind of a country, and how many don't?
How many people want their tax returns available and their medical records available to anybody in government for any reason at all, primarily to determine whether or not you qualify for care?
And we there seems to be a horror story or two every week coming out of Great Britain about their national health service.
Yesterday it was 4,000 women giving birth in hallways, latrines, elevators, and so forth in hospitals because there's a shortage of beds.
4,000 women.
Now the problem here is that once you get the public option, you got nowhere else to go.
There isn't going to be any competition.
And you're just going to become a budget item.
Every human, and that's why these people showing up at town halls are aren't.
That's that's why they don't want any part of this.
Couple more sound bites.
Senator Kennedy, perfectly civil, not personal.
Senator Kennedy, as David Brooks and David Schuster told us yesterday, oh, he never got personal.
No, he was a model of civility.
We could learn a lot as we go forward, uh, emulating the behavior of Senator Kennedy.
Here he is on the Senate floor in 2007.
We still cannot get a two dollars and fifteen cents over two years.
Over two years.
What is the price?
We asked the other side.
What is the price that you want from these working men and women?
What cost?
How much more do we have to give to the private sector and the business?
How many billion dollars more are you asking?
Are you requiring?
When does the greed stop?
We ask the other side.
And we're gonna we're heading toward 10% unemployment.
You know, the minimum wage ends up hurting the very people Senator Kennedy seeks to help, as do most of Senator Kennedy's plans, end up damaging the people he seeks to help.
But there he is perfectly civil, perfectly reasonable, not uh personal at all, calling Republicans greedy.
You know, I wonder, I'm I'm looking at television now, and the uh state-controlled media is breathless, waiting for the uh motorcade that will carry Senator Kennedy's body to lie and repose at the JFK Library on Rose Kennedy Avenue at uh at the Kennedy School of Government, uh, sponsored by Alan Dershowitz.
And I um they're just breathless out.
They can't wait.
Uh but way the same graphics been on the screen here, awaiting departure of Senator Kennedy Motorcade from Hyannisport.
They're showing us the route.
And all of this, and I it I I they're just breathlessly waiting for this blessed event to take place.
In the meantime, we examined the things that Senator Kennedy was supposedly, well, was not supposedly, but was for the minimum wage up, but is it helping anybody?
It's not helping anybody at all.
Now, this is kind of funny.
This is uh yesterday in Jefferson City, Missouri, the state capital of my home state, it's a town hall meeting, and Senator Claire McCaskill said this to the audience.
Obviously, you've got every right, if I decide to run again, to do everything in your power to fire me.
We cut booze and applause and so forth in the interest of time, but the crowd went nuts at the concept of getting rid of her with it.
that she herself put forth.
So here's Ted Kennedy's up there, now lying in repose, getting ready to be taken to wherever in uh in in Boston for two days of lying in repose.
And I'm looking at the Kennedy compound, and I'm seeing pictures and angles and views of the Kennedy compound that I haven't seen before.
And I'm wondering about Senator Kennedy's will.
Is Senator Kennedy a man of the people?
Senator Kennedy, who is beloved for one reason, folks.
He used the government to take money from people at work to give it to people that don't work.
And that was his chit.
That got him out of any serious judgment on any bad behavior in his personal life.
It works for all liberals.
It is their redemption.
All you do is make a big play.
You use government to take money away from people who work and have earned it, give it to people that don't, and you are compassionate, you are caring, and you are virtuous.
And then you can go into La Brasserie in Washington with your buddy Chris Dodd and start having waitress sandwiches.
You remember Michael Kelly, editor of the New Republic, uh pretty nice journal of columnists and so forth.
He was killed in a rock in an IED on his Hummer.
Somebody, friend of mine, oh, it was a North Carolina mistress, a North Carolina mistress, unearthed a piece that he wrote on Ted Kennedy in 1990 for, I think, Congressional Quarterly or Gentleman's Quarterly or Men's Daily or some such matter.
It was long article, and it was I was an incredible.
I I'm surprised I don't remember this when it got published.
But it detailed every reprobate act the guy was known for.
Interviews with waitresses who had been slammed on tables, were walking in the room, and so people had been paid off for their silence.
The waitress sandwich was described in great detail.
The waitress sandwich is this.
Chris Dodd and Kennedy were drinking buddies.
And this piece detailed Kennedy in the first 15 minutes arriving someplace with down three screwdrivers.
And then they'd send the waitresses in there and he'd grab one, throw them on a table, breaking the plates in the glass and so forth.
I mean, that's just minor stuff.
I'm just giving the stuff a family show here that we can discuss.
The waitress sandwich is this.
Either Dodd, it's on the floor, either Dodd or Kennedy on the floor, then the waitress on top of either Dodd or Kennedy, and then either Dodd or Kennedy on top of the waitress.
That was the famous wait the labrasserie doesn't exist anymore.
It shut down, but it was it was widely known that these two guys were corrupt.
But I I never knew that such thing was public, and there wasn't anything redeeming about Kennedy in this piece.
I mean, it was all about his his uh aberrant social life, but all of it was overlooked, of course, because he took money, used the government to take money from people at work, and gave it to people that don't work.
So my question, in a long roundabout way of getting to my point here, I haven't seen his will.
We probably won't see it, but I wonder how much of his estate he's leaving to the little guy.
And I know the answer.
It's a it's a rhetorical question, folks.
He's leaving none of it to the little guy.
It's you and your money that he spends to buy his great reputation.
All liberals use your money to buy their great reputation of compassion, virtue, and caring.
Quick time out.
We'll be back after this.
Sit tight.
Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network always performing better than expected, a household name in all four corners of the earth.
All right, it was the gentleman's quarterly in 1990.
Michael Lewis.
Michael Lewis.
Mental block here.
Hang on just a second.
Very rarely happens.
Michael Kelly.
How are you?
I just want to read this to you.
I want to read you a sample of this story.
In December 1985, just before he announced he would run for president in 1988, Kennedy allegedly manhandled a pretty young woman employed as a brasserie waitress, the woman Carla Gaviglio declined to be quoted in this article.
But she says the following account, a similar version of which first appeared in Penthouse last year, is full and accurate.
It's after midnight, and Kennedy and Dodd are just finishing up a long dinner in a private room on the first floor of the restaurant's annex.
They are drunk.
Their dates, two very young blondes, leave the table to go to the bathroom.
The dates are drunk too.
A former brassery waitress said they'd always get their girls very, very drunk.
Betty Lowe, L O H, who served Kennedy Dodd and their dates, also leaves the room.
Raymond Campett, the co-owner of La Brasserie, tells Gaviglio that the senators want to see her.
As Carla Gaviglio enters the room, the six foot two, two hundred and twenty-five plus pound Kennedy grabs the five foot three, one hundred and three-pound waitress and throws her on the table.
She lands on her back, scattering crystal plates and cutlery and the lit candles.
Several glasses and a crystal candlesticker broken.
Kennedy then picks her up from the table, throws her on Dodd, who is sprawled on a chair.
With Gaviglio on Dodd's lap, Kennedy jumps on top and begins bleeping bleeping against hers, supporting his weight on the arms of the chair.
As he's doing this, Betty Lowe enters the room.
She and Carla Gaviglio both scream, drawing one or two dishwashers, startled, Kennedy leaps up.
He laughs.
Bruised, shaken, and angry over what she considered a sexual assault, Carla Gaviglio runs from the room.
Kennedy, Dodd, and her dates leave shortly thereafter, following a friendly argument between the senators over who's going to pick up the check.
This is the waitress sandwich at La Brasserie.
And it was, I mean, this is mild.
This is just an excerpt from a very, very, very long piece.
Dave in Dallas, as we head back to the phones.
Great to have you.
I'm glad you waited.
Welcome to the EIB network, sir.
Yes, uh pleasure to talk to one of our modern framers.
Uh my name's Dave from London.
I grew up in socialist England under government health.
I've lived in Dallas for 17 years.
My question is, are beer and cigarettes more important than health insurance?
So if you take the uninsured, the people that can't afford health insurance, do they spend two hundred a month on beer, cigarettes, cable TV, cell phones?
I would say, yes, the majority probably do.
So they've already voted with their wallet that beer and cigarettes is more important than health insurance.
So we Yeah, you know, this this comes up a lot of the program.
We had a few were listening yesterday, but we had a glittering jewel of colossal ignorance, a liberal mind-nummed robot by the name of Christine.
Call here.
Did you hear it?
Well, okay.
Well now, Christine typifies uh the entitlement mentality that you know so well from uh from Great Britain.
And it's it's not, you know, Christy, it wouldn't even occur to her to drop cable TV or to I don't know if she smokes or drinks, but to drop other discretionary spending, it would never occur to her, because health care is a right that government is going to pay for.
And that's where a lot of people are with this.
I and and uh but but more and more people this in this country when they hear attitudes like that, say screw you, just like what you're saying.
Stop buying a beer cable TV and pay for it yourself.
If I could have something else, if you go to England today, you'll pay eight dollars a gallon for gasoline, your rent will be double what it is in America, your food costs will be a lot more.
The basic living costs will under socialism will cost more than the cost of health insurance.
So capitalism equals lower costs, better quality goods and services.
There is no better place in the world than America, where the average man, the poor man, has got so much.
Whereas in the socialist countries, yeah, maybe you get free health care, but the health care is half as good as it is in America.
And that's for everybody.
But everything else is going to cost you more, so you're going to be worse off.
You're going to get worse health care than the emergency room health care, and you're going to be paying more for basic living costs so you're going to be worse off than you are today under Obama and socialism.
Well and more and more Americans are under it's not socialism.
You know it socialism it's actually fascism.
And I think we need to be precise about this.
Socialism technically is when the government owns the means of production.
And they don't yet.
I mean they own a couple car companies and they're mucking that up but fascism is where the private sector still owns businesses but the government runs it.
The government by one in one way or another is either in bed with the CEO or the management team or they rule by dictating fiat.
And fascism is is is a more apt illustration of what Obama's establishing and setting up here but they both are horrible.
A man, a legend, a way of life a prophet microphone to South Windsor, Connecticut Stuart, hello sir, nice to have you with us on the program.
Yeah Rush, you know, I'll tell you yesterday's monologue as I was even listening to it, it was just it was brilliant and not only brilliant but accurate and I said to myself there is no way the mainstream media is going to be able to report accurately on what Rush said there is no way because that would make the health care system and what they're trying to do look so poor there's just no way Rush put him in a box and sure enough as you reported today from how they reported on you that they couldn't do it.
All they could say was you were basically middle of the road.
Yeah and tame I was uh kind of restrained and uh and and dialed back uh when I said I was not comfortable being critical of Senator Kennedy well that's very nice of you to say Stuart uh I appreciate that I and you're right I knew that they would not pull in it the last thing they want to do is to make me look good and the last thing they want to do is have any coverage of me that humanizes me against their devilish demonic portrayal of me all of these years.
Can I ask you a quick question?
Yeah.
I think and and I would like to get your comment I don't think Obama I think he's too narcissistic to let Kennedy's name go on this bill.
I think he thinks he can pull it through himself and because of his narcissism we won't want him on there and you know to that Fox poll that Snurley was talking about I think the more Barack Obama talks about health care, the more people are angry about it.
The less he talks about it now that he's on vacation I think people are letting it go away.
I think he's his own worst enemy.
Yeah there's there's no question that the more he talks the worse it gets and they and Fox did do this poll today saying that the uh the the the opposition to his health care plan has stopped falling which is the strangest way to word the results of a poll I have ever heard but that's what they said.
As to your question about the narcissism of Obama that is a that's a great question because Obama with health care is trying to build a monument to himself in Washington Obama wants to be FDR of a second.
He wants to meet a black FDR.
And to put Teddy Kennedy's name on it, his ego is such that that might stand on his way.
I frankly am hoping, however, that they do name the health care bill after Ted Kennedy, and I'm hoping they do it in the Senate, which was his body, where he served, as George Will said, for over one-fifth of the time.
the Constitution has been in existence.
Stop and think of that.
And a great thing about that is the Constitution is still air even after Ted Kennedy in the Senate for 52 years.
But it's threatened by uh the most merciful the one Lord Barack Obama.
That's a good question.
I I uh would they would Obama go along with it being called Kennedy care the Ted Kennedy Memorial Health Care Reform Act and blah blah or um maybe something because you know what you know well I I don't know Snurley certainly says nobody's going to remember the name of the bill they're going to remember Obama uh getting it done.
Obama will see to that yeah um but but if you put see here's here's another out for Obama if you put Kennedy's name on the bill when the thing turns into a disaster you can blame him and there's nothing he can do about it.
That's a Ted Kennedy bill it's all screwed I I had nothing to do with that bill.
That's a Ted Kennedy bill.
We did that in honor of Senator Kennedy.
That's why it's screwed up.
Well, he is enough.
That's a great question, Stuart.
He is a narcissist enough to be concerned about that.
Speaking of the naming the bill under Ted Kennedy, we have a state-run media montage here, day two, pushing health care for Kennedy.
Here we have John King of CNN, Jessica Yellen of CNN, Roger Simon of Politico, uh David Gregory at NBC, David Rodham Gurgen at CNN, Brian Williams of NBC, Kelly O'Donnell at uh NBC, and Kieran Chetry at CNN all talking about the passing of Senator Kennedy and health care reform.
There was a change in the political dynamic after President Kennedy's assassination.
Will there be a change in the health care dynamic after his passing?
Senator Kennedy's death will inspire his colleagues in Congress to find a way to pass health care reform.
If President Obama wants to carry the torch that the Kennedys have passed to him, President Obama's gonna have to pass health care.
As the result of the senator's death because he was such a champion for health care.
This may open a new window for Barack Obama to bring Democrats and Republicans back to the table in Teddy Kennedy's memory.
Democrats are saying respect for Kennedy could change minds now.
National sorrow has created political momentum before.
I received an email today that said, in lieu of flowers, let's pass health care reform.
To honor his memory, could lawmakers find the inspiration to reach across the aisle and get health care reform passed.
Well, I want to throw my hat in this ring here, and uh I I want to endorse the Kennedy health care bill as named.
I uh I want I want Ted Kennedy's name on the bill.
I think it would be a fitting tribute, a fitting memorial.
It would point up the hypocrisy of the Democrats because this bill has nothing to do with the health care he got, had nothing to do with the struggle that he engaged in to live.
Ted Kennedy wanted to survive, he wanted to live.
There's nothing about this bill that is emblematic of the way he went about his life and his health care.
So that'd be appropriate.
A bunch of hypocrites anyway.
So put Ted Kennedy's name on the bill.
And that would make it even tougher for the thing to uh get public support.
What is it, Snurley?
What is it?
Mm-hmm.
Well, they do need they don't, I know.
This is a big myth.
Why do they keep saying they want to get Republicans on this?
They know it's sucks.
They know it's bad.
They want Republicans to be able to take the fall.
They don't want to go it alone because they know nobody's gonna like this.
They know they know we don't like it now.
They're gonna force it on us anyway.
They want to be able to have uh fingers to point at Republicans or Republicans to point fingers at.
Pure and simple.
They don't need, they don't even need to fill Kennedy's seat.
They can do this, and they're only talking about doing it with reconciliation.
51 votes.
They don't need to fill his seat.
They're going to anyway, but they don't need to.
They don't need Republicans.
The biggest, the biggest the biggest pitfall out there is sadly Senator McCain.
Because he's trying to put together one of these gang of 14 deals.
He's trying to broker bipartisan support for these need of reforms.
And uh minus the public option.
And I know he said some good things about tort reform and uh and all that, the Democrats will never go along with.
But I just if I were to Republicans, I'd just back out.
I wouldn't say anything.
Just don't be a part of this.
Let him put Ted Kennedy's name on it and run with it.
But, you know, the You got the straight talk express out there veering from one side of the road to the next.
You never know where it's gonna end up.
And it's frightening, folks.
It's frightening.
I'm just I just remembered Chris Matthews, Obama's the last Kennedy brother.
The extinguished torch has been passed.
Here's Joe Biden, by the way.
It's on the Today Show today.
Mount Lauer.
Uh said many people said he was the crucial ally to Obama as he attempts to get health care reform.
What does his loss mean to that effort?
Well, God willing, maybe his loss and all about him will be the catalyst to make people come around and begin to compromise to get something really important done.
This uh uh uh this is the de this is a Democrat disunity problem.
Here, by the way, is uh one half of the waitress sandwich team, Chris Dodd, yesterday in East Haddam, Connecticut.
He held a press conference to talk about the passing of Senator Kennedy, and a reporter said uh with Senator Kennedy's passing, is this going to add urgency spur passage of his health care bill?
Do you think?
That's what Senator Kennedy dedicated his life to.
I'm dedicated to it.
And in his memory, I will do everything I can as long as I can stand in the United States Senate to help us achieve that goal.
Keep going.
Keep going.
And we'll take a break.
Be right back after this.
Sit tight.
And we go back to the phone to Fayetteville, North Carolina.
This is Michael.
Nice to have you with us, sir.
Hello.
Hey, Roger, it's an honor to talk to you.
Hey, I'm a soldier about ready to go to uh Afghanistan again, and as someone who's fought in Iraq and Afghanistan, I like to say that it's a uh it's a complete slap in the face to see any Democrat take any kind of credit for any progress we've made in Iraq.
Yeah.
Uh uh, are they taking any credit?
Well, you I mean, you've heard uh President Obama, he gets up there and talks about the great progress we made, and you know, I've heard him say it before, so all the obstacles we've come over.
Yeah, you have a point.
You have a point.
It is insulting.
And uh what I wanted to ask you about though was I'm originally from Nebraska, and there's farmers in our family, and he wants to pay for this health care by taxing people over 250,000 a year.
Well, many of these people are farmers, they've already tried to tax them out of the field with cap and trade.
Are they gonna tax him out of the field and lead to a world food crisis with uh with health care reform?
They are going to tax everybody through the roof.
It isn't just well, it is it is gonna be focused on people that that are wealthy because that's who they can tax.
But it that that's really the point of all that.
When you look at the stimulus plants, it this doesn't make any sense.
This is not working.
It's not going to work, it's not intended to work the way we all were told it was gonna work.
Health care is not going to get better.
It's gonna get worse, it's gonna get rationed.
The economy, the energy sector, nothing is it nothing is being improved here.
It's just everything's being wrecked.
The whole private sector is being dismantled in front of our eyes on purpose.
And while people watching this happen, they're told, well, yeah, we're gonna rebuild a new economy in a stronger way.
Well, it'll never ever happen again.
There's gonna be tough sledding for a while, but it'll never ever happen just today.
Just today the CBO says, guess what?
Two point three million additional unexpected jobs will be lost next year.
That's gonna push us over ten percent unemployment.
Now, this is absurd.
The only explanation for this is to is to rack up uh so outrageous, an annual deficit for so many years that the only solution is is a massive tax increase.
He he I'm telling I tell you, was right about this from the get-go.
Barack Obama's primary objective is to is to uh return the nation's wealth to its rightful owners.
I'm telling this guy comes.
If you look at some of his czars, uh, for example, this Mark Lloyd guy, the diversity czar at the FCC.
This is one angry son of a gun.
I've heard him speak, I've read what he's written.
This is one angry guy, angry at this country.
And a lot of Obama's support people are angry, don't like this country from Bill Ayers to Jeremiah Wright on down.
And they think this country was founded in an unjust and immoral way, and it has been unjust and immoral since it was founded.
And it's about time it changed.
About time the little guy got his share because the little guy is only little because everything has been stolen from him by the big guys.
And so that's that's where this is all leading.
So, yeah, farmers are gonna get everybody's gonna get taxed.
Everybody's gonna get taxed.
I uh it it's it's a disaster if if if there's no break put on this, if the guy's not stopped.
Angie in uh in Cherry Hill, Pennsylvania.
Hi.
Great to have you with us on the EIB network.
Uh, good afternoon, Rosh.
Um, I'm actually calling from Cherry Mills, Pennsylvania.
And uh, what I wanted to talk about was mandated benefits laws and how it's killing the cost of health insurance.
People don't treat health insurance enough like car insurance.
They expect that doctors' visits are covered.
In Wisconsin, it's required by law that they cover port Weinstein removal.
It's a birthmark.
It's absolutely ridiculous that people expect these things to be covered.
Wait a minute.
Wait just a second.
I want to make sure I heard what I just heard.
Did you just tell me and the largest radio audience in the world that in Wisconsin it's required by law that medical health insurance cover port wine stain removals?
As of 2004, I wrote I wrote an article about it in a magazine that my friend started.
Wait a minute.
A port wine stain is a red birthmark that typically shows up at the base of the skull.
Oh, it's not actually port wine.
It's a it's a birthmark.
Birthday.
Yeah, it's it's a birthmark.
Oh, I actually thought that in Wisconsin if you spill port wine, you go to the doctor and have him clean it up and your insurance would pay for you.
I thought that's what no, sir.
No, sir.
So you're talking about birthmarks like Gorbachev had.
Yes, exactly.
Exactly.
It's required to be paid for.
I pay for I'm I'm a 28-year-old female, and I have to pay for men to get prostate exams.
I'm I'm required to pay for it in my health insurance.
And you know, men like you are required for women to get mammograms.
Wait a second now.
You sound like a woman to me.
Yes.
You're 28-year-old female.
Yes, sir.
You have to pay for men to get prostate exams.
Explain that.
It's all wrapped up in the cost of my medical care.
All the mandated benefits are.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, okay.
So you your your premium is based, and everybody else's premium is based on that being a mandated benefit.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
Regular doctor's visits.
Insurance isn't supposed to be about every little thing that happens.
No wonder Brett Favre wanted to go to Minnesota.
Yeah, it just it it drives me insane.
Well, now wait a minute.
You said you live in Cherry Hill, Pennsylvania.
Why are you Cherry Mills?
Cherry Mills.
Cherry Mills.
Okay, sorry, Cherry Mills you you live in Cherry Mills, Pennsylvania, so what why are you getting taxed for all this stuff in Wisconsin?
Oh no, it's uh that's a state mandated benefit.
I couldn't find any information on federal mandated benefits, but yeah, it it showed by state what's required to be covered.
Oh, I see.
So you're just talking, you're just doing research out there.
Yeah, I wrote an article about it.
My son started a uh an online magazine, and I wrote an article about it.
Ah, I got it.
Well, these mandates, by the way, um, I th what did I read about this?
This is uh go a couple of uh weeks, maybe a month, when the when all of this government being involved in health insurance started the mandates for few, like fifty.
We're over a thousand and fifty mandates now in some states, have over like it was California with a thousand different mandates.
And we've had uh insurance agents, health insurance agents call here and talk about how it makes it impossible to save any money.
They can't sell policies to people that people want because they are required to cover all these things, such as the things that you are um are discussing.
Well, it's only gonna get worse when you start adding the federal mandates to all of this, which again people understand people know.
That's why they're showing up in armies at town hall meetings and applauding Claire McCaskill when she reminds her audience they can fire her.
How are you?
Welcome back.
When it comes to health care, you know, why not pass why not pass a health care bill the American people want?
Why not just do that and do it for Teddy?
A liberals liberal from the bluest of states.
Seriously, folks, how elitist can you get?
Do it for Ted Kennedy?
Massachusetts got a health care bill.
It's screwing up their health care.
It's screwing up their budget.
They want to get rid of it.
And we don't want it.
Polls show we don't want this bill.
And Ted Kennedy was not our senator.
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