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Nov. 20, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 20, 2009, Friday, Hour #3
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I am Rush Limbaugh.
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I've had a guy on hold here for a long time, and I meant to get to him uh right at the conclusion of the previous hour.
And I got diarrhea of the mouth, and I I didn't I didn't get it done.
So let me go uh talk to Bob here.
Bob's in Westminster, Maryland.
Uh before we get into Obama and Reading Pelosi crashing the economy.
How are you, Bob?
Good, thank you.
Yes.
Welcome to the program.
Yes, what I wanted to bring up with you, uh, a lot of people, yourself, Hannity, Beck, other conservatives in general, keep asking, why do liberal women, women like Sally Quinn and Barbara Waters and those types so hate Sarah Palin?
And to me, the reason is very simple.
It should be obvious to anybody who knows any of this women.
They had to sleep their way to the top, and Sarah Palin didn't.
Okay, that's why they resent her.
That's why they hate her.
Okay, okay.
Uh slept their way to the top.
We've had about 30 seconds here to uh bleep this.
I'm gonna put this up to a vote of the staff.
No, no vote, no bleep, no bleachel, no bleep.
Ryan, no bleep.
New York says no bleep.
Okay, we're good to go.
Um so uh they slept their way to the top.
Uh Sally Quinn, you said.
Sally Quinn, Barbara Walters, those types, liberal women in general.
Now, uh for the benefit you you said we all know this.
How how do you know this?
Well, Sally Quinn, you know about the relationship she had with Ben Bradley when Ben Bradley was still married.
Uh, I'm not aware of that.
Sally broke up his original marriage.
She did.
What w uh did Oprah do a show on that?
Or I mean how does how do people know this?
I know it was just by reading.
Well, but yeah, but where?
Do you remember where you read it?
No, that was years ago.
It was back in the 80s when it happened.
Okay, and she was where was she working at the time.
Ben Bradley was in the Washington Post.
Where was she working at the time?
I think she was like a photographer columnist or something with the Washington Post at that time.
Oh, hence the casting couch theory.
Yeah, exactly.
Exactly.
Uh Barbara Walters.
Uh is this widely known as well.
Well, she in her autobiography in her recent book bragged how she'd had an affair with, I think it was if I remember correctly, Senator Brooke from Massachusetts.
And others, and that's how she was.
Yeah, was that was Edward Brooke, is that right?
I think so, yeah.
Are those sirens I hear?
Uh closing in on you.
And and Sarah Palin has not done this, is the theory.
I do not think she has, and I'm sure the way they've combed every record she had, that if there had been such an issue, it would have uh surfaced.
Well, you know, I'm I'm I'm fascinated in people's theories about this.
Uh there there clearly is a a Sarah derangement syndrome out there that the left has.
Uh and uh it's it's not because they think she's stupid.
It's not that.
It's uh I think they're jealous.
I think they're jealous of the reaction she gets.
A whole bunch of things go into this, but I mean you you may have a point.
All right, uh we were talking moments.
Thanks, thanks, Bob, for holding.
I appreciate that.
Now, we we were talking uh uh let's see.
We were talking about the timing of this bill and when the taxes start and when the spending starts on health care.
Because you know to to come up with a phony, supposedly low cost over the ten-year period.
The health care spending doesn't start for the first four.
The tax increases start first four, first year, but the spending doesn't start start till year four.
So you've got basically six years of services with ten years of tax increases.
So, and they're gonna vote on this in the Senate tomorrow.
Now, one question that I have is what are they going to do with all this new tax revenue they're collecting to segregate it to make sure it does pay for whatever new spending comes on health care?
I mean, where are they going to put it?
Is it going to be a health care lockbox?
Now, this was part of the Stupec Amendment.
Stupak said, hey, there's no there's no record here of the allocation of funds.
Where the hell is the money going?
All this new tax revenue.
Hint hint, there isn't going to be as much tax revenue as they think, because this stuff's gonna further shut down and stifle economic activity.
And it's gonna prevent hiring.
Uh it's gonna it's gonna force people off of their current insurance plans into the government option at some point, because businesses are gonna have to offload these costs, which is the design.
But over at Real Clear Politics, the horse race blog, there's a post by Jay Coast, COST.
Have Democrat leaders gone mad?
With the introduction of Harry Reed's health care bill, talk will inevitably focus on whether the public option or the Stupak Amendment will undermine the legislation.
But if the bill dies, I don't think either of these will be the primary cause of death.
I think this will be the culprit.
This is the CBO's analysis of how the Reed bill will cut Medicare.
The total reductions come out to 491 billion dollars over 10 years when everything is factored in.
Now, the following has been said by other commentators, but Mr. Coast writes, I have to add my voice to this chorus.
This is insanity, Democrat leaders.
Why are you doing this?
Why are Obama, Pelosi, and Reed doing this?
How could they be so foolish as to repeat the most egregious mistake of the Republicans of the 104th Congress when they tried to reform Social Security, you recall?
Why are Reed Pelosi and Obama forcing their vulnerable members to vote on a bill that would cut Medicare in this fashion?
Do they dislike their moderate colleagues?
Do they find the the chore of being the majority party too burdensome?
Have they simply gone mad?
Why are they doing this?
Uh they do hate their moderate colleagues.
There's no question about it.
So this guy's theory is that if this bill doesn't go anywhere, it's because people are going to find out there's nearly $500 billion in Medicare cuts.
But that's not news, at least not to me.
I mean, I've been I've been following this for I don't know how long, and I've known the $500 billion of Medicare cuts.
Uh in fact, folks, I'll tell you what I think.
I don't think they're gonna be in there.
I don't think when this bill finally gets implemented, they're gonna be any Medicare cuts at all.
Because I don't think they are this insane.
I think Medicare cuts are just in this, so they can come up with a phony cost that is ostensibly low.
Do you really think the Democrat Party is gonna have $500 billion in Medicare cuts that will be totally on their shoulders that every seasoned citizen in this country will know they did?
It's just like this abortion stuff.
When the final bill is done, and maybe not the final bill.
Remember, it doesn't that these cuts are not gonna start happening immediately.
Only the tax increases, the spending and stuff and all that will start later.
Maybe the cuts will start soon, but uh because there are never any cuts.
You see, this is this is the big fallacy.
Everybody's buying into this cut business.
There aren't gonna be any Medicare cuts, just like in the final bill, there will be federal funds for abortion.
And it may not be the final bill.
Let's say that they pass a bill, they get a conference committee report with the House and Senate that has $500 billion of Medicare cuts in it.
President signs it.
all hell gets raised.
They'd go in the next session and they'd just take it out.
and Like the doctor, oh, we save Medicare.
We save Medicare from the evil Republicans.
The Republicans forced us to put that in there, but we saved it.
We saved Medicare.
I don't think anybody in their right mind should believe that the Democrats are actually going to cut $500 billion in Medicare.
The only folks, the only reason they would do that.
I don't even want to contemplate this.
But people are talking about it with this mammogram stuff.
Uh, The death panels, the only reason that they would do that is if they really don't care whether people live beyond a certain age.
If the cuts in Medicare are going to come in treatment for certain kinds of diseases in certain aged people, and maybe even regardless of age.
But I and we know that's going to happen.
There is going to be rationing of care.
But I just we're talking about the most radical leftist Democrats.
They are not going to cut the size of government anywhere.
They're going to say they are, so they can get a lower cost when the CBO scores this stuff.
That's how we're going to pay for this.
Well, $500 billion of Minicare cuts.
What stuns me is that is that apparently a lot of people believe that that's actually going to survive in the end of the day.
I don't think it will.
Quick time out.
More phone calls coming up after this.
Okay, we're back.
El Rushbo here at the uh uh Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
All right.
Some economic stories here from the politico.
Obama takes friendly fire on the economy.
Here's the pull quote.
The wave of Democrat grief had been building privately for months, but Hill Democrats had held back on publicly criticizing the Obama presidency.
But now Democrats who see that their economic agenda seems to be flailing and fear getting wiped out in the 2010 congressional elections are going public with a burst of criticism, and much of it has poured out in the past 48 hours in the Washington Post.
Growing discontent over the economy and frustration with efforts to speed its recovery boiled over Thursday on Capitol Hill in a wave of criticism and outright anger directed at the Obama administration.
Episodes in both houses of Congress exposed the raw nerves of lawmakers, flooded with stories of unemployment and economic hardship back home.
They also underscored the stiff headwinds the administration faces as it pushes to enact sweeping changes to the financial regulatory system while also trying to create jobs for ordinary Americans.
President Obama's allies in the Congressional Black Caucus, exasperated by the administration's handling of the economy, unexpectedly blocked one of his top priorities, using a legislative maneuver to postpone the approval of financial reform legislation by a key House committee.
Representative Peter DeFazio, Democrat Oregon said Wednesday that he thinks Tim Geitner should step down, pointing to his handling of the aftermath of AIG's meltdown.
The Congressional Black Caucus wanted the administration to do more to help African American communities suffering in the economic decline.
The caucus itself did not publicly detail its concerns Thursday, but one member, Maxine Waters, issued a statement.
The recession has created a unique systemic risk that threatens all parts of the African American community, including the poor and the middle class.
Now, I know Maxine just wants them walking around money.
I think I think the Congressional Black Caucus is being shut out of the slush fund.
And that's that's what's got them upset.
Somehow they're getting shut out of the slush fund.
I mean, Landry's getting a hundred million dollars for Katrina, but none of them are.
They get sent to jail.
William Jefferson, Congressman, Democrat Louisiana.
So and now Democrats fight over funds left from bailout, not bail out the slush fund.
Senate Democrats want a big chunk, 40 billion towards loans to small businesses.
This time an effort to direct small amount to the private sector.
40 billion, 40 billion dollars?
We're spent over 1.3 trillion 40 billion for small business.
Anyway, there's trouble in paradise out there.
U.S. mortgage delinquencies reach a record high.
10% of mortgages are now delinquent.
Los Angeles Times foreclosures Will keep rising through 2010.
Report says the Mortgage Bankers Association says delinquencies and home repossessions have hit a new high, blaming job losses for most of the pain.
It sees a continued surge in foreclosures through all of next year.
For those of you in Rio Linda, that would be 2011.
And is there another economic disaster story?
Yes.
Culture Clash and Medicine.
This is about the mammograms.
Folks, did you realize we're just a couple notches above what hell must be like.
And we're still spiraling down.
I mean, it is a disaster out there.
And when the Democrats start belly aching like this, and you got people on real clear politics, Mr. Obama, Mr. Pelosi, Mr. Rewell, what are you doing?
Do you remember?
What are you doing?
This is insane.
Yeah, they're going to do this healthcare thing.
That's I I do think that they're committing suicide.
They don't know it.
And there's this from the CNN polling unit on top of all this economic news.
Nearly two years into the recession, and it's not two years.
They say this thing wanted to start in in the in December of 07 under Bush, but it didn't start then.
That's just a tar Bush with this.
But anyway.
Nearly two years into the recession, opinion about which political party is responsible for the downturn is shifting.
A CNN, opinion research corporation survey released this morning, indicates 38% of the public blames Republicans.
That's down 15 points from May.
When 53% blame the Republicans.
Twenty-seven percent now blame Democrats.
That's up six points.
So the bad news to the Democrats is that the number of Americans who hold the Republicans exclusively responsible for the recession has been steadily falling by about two to three points a month.
So there's a there's a shift out there.
And now the White House has stepped back from stimulus jobs claims.
This is Louise Radnovsky in the uh in the Wall Street Journal.
The White House stepped back yesterday from claims that the stimulus plan created or saved 640,329.2 jobs through September in the face of mounting criticism over errors in reports by tens of thousands of recipients of uh stimulus money.
So they're backing away from that.
They haven't saved or created a single job other than the public sector.
All right, to the phones uh Chris in Willow, Alaska.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Rush, this Chris in Alaska.
Can you hear me?
Yeah, I hear you fine.
You hear me?
I've got you.
I'm on a radio phone rush, so uh if something happens, you I'm a long way from the nearest road.
Okay.
I just wanted to let you know that we do, in fact, live in two Americas.
We live in the America of uh Sarah Palin, and we live in America of the East and West Coast, Rush.
And I tell you what, being remote, we like uh living in in Sarah Palin's America.
And uh having spent many, many years in uh in Bush, Alaska, where it's cold, we just had a wolf walk across our front yard.
Uh, do you know it was colder in Fairbanks, Alaska last year than it was the year that Al Gor Gower was born?
Oh interesting statistic out there in the global warming debate.
Yes, and we spent the coldest year last year in this cabin, and I live in a cabin with only wood heat.
We don't have running water, and uh we uh we live the coldest year we ever lived last winter.
Wait a minute.
But what well hold it a minute.
You d uh not having running water, is that a choice, or do you just is your cabin that remote that it hadn't been developed with running water and pipes?
Well, we're we we're we're very remote, Rush.
Uh we're three miles from Sarah Palin and Todd Palin's Bush cabin.
We live three miles from her cabin.
And uh they have running water in their cabin.
No, no, they don't.
You got it.
Well, but now when it's this cold, when it's colder than it was when Gore was born, what do you do to take a shower out there?
Well, we uh we just yesterday went down and dug a uh 18-inch hole in the river ice, and we get our water out of the sous set in a river, and we carry it up here in a sled, and we pack it into the cabin and we uh set up a portable shower and we take a shower, and I've also got a little uh heat sauna outside.
You got a heat sauna out there, but no running water.
Last time I saw anybody carrying water to their house was in Afghanistan.
Well, you know, you know, Rush, it's a funny thing.
I I'm uh retiree, of course, uh, and I've got a master's degree in journalism, and I just want to make one more comment.
Do you know the other day when the uh Berlin Wall came down?
Uh we only get two channels out here, ABC and NBC.
And and do you know that they went through the entire program about the the Berlin Wall coming down, and they went without the even the the narrowest mention of Ronald Reagan.
He was never even mentioned.
Hey, let me tell you something.
I get every network, and it was the same on all of them.
And I I like I said, Sarah Palin's America, you know, they've got us uh ru uh the the east and west coast of this country doesn't live like all of us.
You live there, Snerdley lives there, but we we we live different than than the East and West Coasters, Rush.
We're not we don't fit in that and America America's gonna come up.
We're gonna rise to the to the level now that we're gonna substantively change America in the future, Rush.
And we like I said, this guy that called criticizing Sarah Palin, he does he's in he doesn't have a a bit of common man or woman in him.
I don't understand what what's uh what's uh what's subduing this country.
We've we've got to understand that uh that freedom and liberty and those things that we hold dear uh resides right here in my little bush cabin every day and resides in the streets and uh back alleys and roadways of America where common men and women understand that the principles of the Constitution, the principles of liberty still stand tall and still ride high in the saddle of what most of us Americans believe in.
Chris, I can't and don't have to add a single thing, and I couldn't anyway, because I'm out of time.
Thank you very much.
I forgot.
There is another place where inhabitants have to go to the nearest uh sinkhole or wherever they go to get water to take it back to the hut.
And that's Obama's brother George Obongo, oh young Obama.
Um, his grandmother in that village in Kenya, she they just ran water pipes to her house.
School that Obama promised still hadn't been built, but George, I think still in a in that in a six by nine hut, and there's no running water in there.
Okay, uh Leslie and Jack.
Now, that guy from Alaska from Willow Willow, Alaska, that's how the environmentalists want all of us living, folks.
No electricity, running down to the river to get water, digging a hole in the backyard to fertilize your grass.
Leslie in Jacksonville, Florida.
Welcome to the uh people of real linda know what I mean by that.
Uh Leslie Walt, welcome to the program.
Hey, how are you doing, Russ?
Fine, thank you.
I love your show and I love you, and I just wanted to share quickly a story with you about my ten-year-old son.
During the elections, they were given a sheet of paper, and they had on there, you know, to vote for Obama, McCain, or other, and I found out other meant like Ron Paul or somebody else.
Well, can't put other, and he put Rush, Bah, because he didn't know your last your whole last name.
So I get a call from the principal to come down there, and they've got him in the principal's office, and they were out to ask him if to read to me what he had wrote down.
Well, I knew who he was talking about, and I said he's talking about Rush Limbaugh, and they said, No, we know that.
That's not appropriate for him to be talking about him in class.
You shouldn't be throwing your views on him.
And Kent said, She's not.
All I know is that he says that Rush is smarter than my daddy.
So he thought you should have been probably.
Wait a second here.
I want to make sure I understood the theme, the main point here.
Your ten-year-old filled in the other blank with my name, spelled it rush ball.
Yeah.
Right.
Rush Rush B A, yeah.
Yeah.
And and the uh the scroll people were alarmed by this to the point they called you in.
Did you actually say that they told you that you shouldn't be throwing uh my views onto your son?
Yeah, yeah, that I that I should not be getting a 10-year-old involved in adult stuff.
And so I said, Well then why are you doing the election?
Because the school overwhelmingly voted Obama.
What an A Yeah, what did they say to that?
She just they just told me I wasn't, you know, that wasn't appropriate for a 10 year old, and I was like, well, I you know, I didn't know that y'all are having the election.
I didn't I didn't know they were having it.
Chance didn't even know they were having it.
But apparently in class, he had they were asking the kids how they voted, and everybody voted Obama, and when Chance said other, and she said he said Rush, the teacher stopped him, and then sent him to the office, and then that's where they called me.
And they they thought How did this end up?
They took it as that I was I guess had known in advance that this was gonna happen, and that I had told him to put that down.
So so what but what how did this how did this end up?
Oh, it ended up with me telling mind their own, you know, business, and uh they obviously know where I stand because I've got a car with bumper stickers, you know.
That's how I let it known that you know who who I am.
So obviously my two was scared to death.
And you know, y'all he could say because I my husband I always tell Graham, I say that that he that you're a lot smarter than he is, because he said global global warming was a farce from the get yet.
Leslie, Leslie, what is the name of this institution of learning?
It's Duvall County School.
It's you want to know the name of the school?
I can't would you spell that for me?
I can't understand the name.
What county?
Yeah, Duvall D-U-V-A-L.
Duvall County, Duval County Schools.
That's the name of this particular school.
Oh no, South Side Elementary.
South Side Elementary School.
And it's in it's uh in the Jacksonville area.
Yeah.
I just thought it was kind of funny, and I kept meaning to call you, but you know, things happen and I had time today to sit around and wait, so I did.
I just thought it was unbelievable.
Well, it is unbelievable, but at least you're laughing about it.
I got I will bet you I will bet you thank you, uh Leslie.
I'll bet you she is not telling us the big piece of her mind she gave them.
I mean, getting called in for something like this, like your son is some subversive plotting the overthrow of the school or some such thing.
Uh Leslie, thanks much.
I uh I appreciate it.
Bob in Roosevelt, Utah, you're next on Open Line Friday.
Hi.
Good mor good afternoon, sir.
Thank you.
Yeah.
Talking to me.
I got a question for you.
I basically go along with the political suicide on this uh vote, but you see the politicians voting against American people.
And I mean, I need a logical answer.
What could the politicians be more afraid of than the American voter?
I don't think that there is a fear component here.
If there were a fear component, they wouldn't be voting the word of voting.
I think people do not understand who these people are.
I don't think people have an understanding of just how radically left, anti-capitalist, anti-liberty these people are.
I don't think people understand how devoted these people are to the government being the single citadel in this country for everybody.
I don't think people understand their radical thirst for total power.
People do not understand that people like Pelosi and Reed and Barney Frank and Barack Obama and the Congressional Black Caucus.
Practically eighty percent of the Democrats in the House and Senate have been yearning for this for their entire lives.
Many of them since the 60s.
This is their utopia.
They don't care.
They've got it.
It's within their grasp.
You ever wanted something so bad?
You've devoted your life to it, and you get within an inch of it, and you Find out that nobody else wants, you don't care.
This is where we are.
People have uh have been either unwilling to accept or unwilling to believe just how radically left the current Democrat Party is.
There is nothing remotely democratic about this bunch.
There is no democracy going on here.
What is happening is pure unadulterated leftist corruption, and it's happening right in front of our eyes, and they don't care.
They don't care what we think, Bob, because they don't think we have the power to stop them.
And when this passes, they will have even more power, regulating every aspect of our lives, because they believe in their minds and hearts that we have no competence whatsoever to lead our own lives and make our own decisions.
They look at average Americans with pure contempt.
They look at the Constitution with contempt.
So when you look at it, what are they what are they afraid of?
If they're willing to so anger their constituents, what up there must they be afraid of?
There's nothing else they're afraid of.
They're excited.
This is like 14,000 Christmas Eves on one day to them.
I wish I could come up with an analogy that would properly convey the excitement, the passion, the single-mindedness they have about gaining finally after 200 years dictatorial control over the U.S. government.
That's what's going on.
But see, people don't want to look at that way.
You say that and oh, Rush, come on, this is just standard Democrat Republican Party politics.
No, it's not.
Uh, it has gone way beyond that.
These people, they are gonna get.
Here's here's here's the analogy.
If they get this, remember I call them political suicide bombers.
They're strapping the bombs on the bombs of these health care bills.
They're gonna get, with this bill, if it's signed into law, they're gonna get their 72 virgins.
They're gonna get a lifetime supply of Viagra or Cialis.
Their choice, and they're not gonna die.
They're gonna get the 72 virgins in their offices, or in a capital waiting pool, or wherever they want them.
And the Cialis and the Viagra, whatever it is, part of the health care plan that they will sign up for.
I mean, you don't if if if you really have avoided facing the reality of how radical left the Democrat Party is today, then this that I am saying to you is probably not going to penetrate.
No, Rush, that this is the United States.
Can't be happening.
These people, they just want power and money.
Oh, folks, they want to remake.
They're telling us Obama's Barney Frank, they're all telling us they want to remake this country.
They want to be in charge of what everybody earns.
Barney, they're all Frank, they're all out there telling us this stuff.
Just like Mahmoud Ahmadini Zad is telling us he's gonna nuke Israel at some point, and the 12th imam is going to come up out of the well, and we're all gonna be whatever.
In their own way, they are just as as radical as religious radicals are.
But people don't want to face it.
But that's where we are.
So there's no fear here.
There's joy, there's anticipation, there is excitement, and to hell with us.
We're gonna finally be put in our place.
This notion that they work for us, uh-uh, not in their minds, never has been the case.
And now they're going to establish it as fact.
We're their serfs.
Well, well, well, well, well, well, looky here.
Looks like the old swine flu is not cooperating, folks.
From the state-controlled Associated Press Medical Division, health officials say the swine flu appears to be declining through most of the United States.
But the obligatory but the specter of Thanksgiving gatherings makes it hard to predict what'll happen next.
Just when they tell us it's okay to come out of the closet.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday.
That reports, yeah, don't take that down until I actually get into it.
Uh the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday that reports of swine flu illnesses were widespread in 43 states last week, down from 46 the week before.
This another example of good news that the left will not widely disseminate via the state control media.
Now, folks, there's a there's a uh we had a story earlier this week that there's now well along with this, they say there's a new strain of rhinovirus, which is um uh for those of you in Rio Linda, it's not it's not about rhinoceroses, it's about the nose, cold, common cold virus.
And it's it's out there and it's it's confusing people because it starts out much like the swine flu does.
A lot of colds do.
A lot of people think they've got the flu when they got a cold.
Here's how you find out.
There's one way you find out at the same time, if it is a cold, you will be thanking me.
Get Zygam.
Big orange box, found anywhere, two different ways to take it, either one, whichever one you like.
They've got lozenges, liquidizages, the different flavors and so forth.
And if you catch it early, the moment you the scratchy throat, the sniffles, whatever, the watery eyes, whatever you think it is, take it.
And keep taking every four hours, whatever the directions say.
And if it's a cold, the duration will be much shorter and the severity will be much less.
And if it doesn't happen, then you may have the flu.
But there is a new strain of Comical virus out there, and Zycam will.
It won't zap it.
I don't want to create unrealistic expectations, but it will certainly shorten a duration and the severity.
You gotta catch it early.
Here is uh Kenneth in Houston, Texas.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Hey, thank you for letting me be on your show, sir.
Yeah, you bet.
I'm a Democrat and proud of it.
Uh what I was really calling about, uh I don't listen to your show that much because I'm not really around the radio, but I have not really heard you preach in your solution to the medical crisis.
I've heard you bash what the Democrats want to do, but have not really heard what y'all want.
Well, it's not all that complicated.
Really isn't all that complicated.
The first thing I think that needs to happen is this has to be stopped.
And that's why.
I'm I mean, I'm I I don't accept the premise, Kenneth, that we gotta do something, we gotta do something, we gotta do.
I don't accept the premise.
The Democrats are always telling us everything's a crisis, we gotta do this, we gotta do it, we gotta bail out the banks, we gotta have a stimulus, we gotta do it now, or we're dead.
I don't buy their premise.
What has to happen is this has to be stopped.
Now, for health care to be reformed, you got three things.
You got cost, you've got access, and quality.
Those are the three things.
Uh, Kenneth.
Cost needs to come down.
How do you do that?
You increase the relationship between the patient, the customer, and the provider.
Get the insurance companies as out of the way as you can, get the government out of it as much as you can, and get costs down to where people can afford them, just like anything else you buy.
You want to go to a motel, you choose the one you can afford.
You want to buy a car, choose the one you can afford.
Health care, go where you can afford it, shop it, get competition back in it.
That will lower the price.
That will increase access.
You increase competition among insurance companies and doctors, and you'll increase improve the quality.
And you don't regulate the drug companies, and you don't punish doctors, and you don't tell them what they can treat and who they can treat and when they can treat them.
You let doctors be doctors.
You start health savings accounts, let people take what their taxes are being thrown into Washington to spend on who knows what.
Put those in bank accounts that they get to spend on their own health care.
Shop around Fort.
Whatever they don't spend, they get to keep.
At the end of the year.
All kinds of incentives.
Roy, to make it a private sector concern and get the public sector bureaucracies out of it.
But that's for L. Get rid of tort reform, you have some tort reform, get rid of these malpractice suits, sell insurance across state lines, increase competition.
But first, stop this disaster.
The sad thing is this is not complicated.
What's complicated is what we have to go through and deal with now in healthcare.
The fix.
Wouldn't necessarily be complicated to unravel all this stuff, but it's real simple.
We go back to what our healthcare system was like before the government got involved.
I I don't know about you, I'm old enough to remember going to the doctor, the dentist or whatever.
At the end of the month, my parents got a bill, we paid it.
The hospital, yeah, you needed insurance for that.
If it was catastrophic, but we didn't go to the doctor, it was fine and dandy.
And it was priced you can afford it.
That's not the case anymore.
Why is that?
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