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Dec. 17, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 17, 2009, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 podcast.
My friends, be very careful out there.
Be very careful indeed.
It's not time to start celebrating and go, oh boy, the left is cracking up.
I specifically refer to this uh Howard Dean going on the attack on uh Obama on health care, saying he's not going to vote for Obama for re-election and so forth.
Howard Dean does not realize it, but he is being used.
Greetings, my friends, and welcome Rush Limbaugh back at it on Thursday on the EIB network, as we come to you from the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
We got the news all over the place.
Howard Dean continuing on the rampage.
He's on the media.
He's got an op-ed in the Washington Post today, beating up on Obama, beating up on Obama's health care.
And I'm going to tell you what this is all about.
Dean is getting access because the media wants Dean to have that access.
I believe, and don't doubt me on this, uh, my friends.
There's an effort by the media and the White House.
In fact, I think the White House is pretty happy with Dean doing what he's doing despite what they say.
I think the media and the White House are in an effort here to make Obama look centrist and reasonable when he is as leftist and irrational as Howard Dean is.
They are more than happy to give voice to Howard Dean or some of these other whack jobs out there because it makes Obama look like a uh like a centrist.
Now, I I don't know that they're gonna be able to pull it off, but I I think this is what the uh what the strategy is.
And I have I have a question for the president.
As we have learned, Mitch McConnell put out a press release today, and I this frankly surprised me.
I I uh I actually learned it yesterday, but I I did not know that there isn't a 2,000 page health bill in the Senate.
There isn't one.
The only people who have seen whatever it is are in the Democrat leadership who have been allowed into Harry Reed's office.
But there isn't a bill.
There is not something that the whole Senate has seen.
It's uh it it's it's incredible.
And so I have a question for the president today.
Since the Senate has not yet finished writing this health care bill, and uh all kinds of deals are being made that will uh that'll make changes to it.
How can you say that you'll sign it when it hasn't even been written yet?
And how can Pelosi say, well, she can say she'll sign anything, because that opens the door for her not knowing what's in it.
But I mean, doesn't this prove that you don't really care, Mr. President, about what fate you impose on the people of this country with this debacle of a bill.
It's just about scoring some political points, uh erecting a monument to yourself that you can brag about in the uh in the State of the Union show.
The politics of this are very simple.
People ask me constantly, why are they in such a hurry?
There's a lot of people still are of the impression that that all of this that's done in Washington is done with good faith and good intentions, and people who are not steeped in the uh we say the swamp and the minutiae of uh of politics don't understand why the hurry.
Why the rush.
Let me explain it to you.
There are five elements to why they're in such a big hurry here.
The longer it's in the news, the more people are gonna learn about what's being proposed, and the more people will end up being against it, and they're already way, way down in the polls.
There is not one single poll that shows the American people in any way shape manner reform for this health care reform.
Most are dead set against it.
The second element of why the rush now.
The Democrat leadership knows that when the uh Congress senators go back home for Christmas, they're gonna catch holy hell just like they did the town halls in August.
But 2010 is is the real factor here.
When Congress comes back, it will be 2010.
And that's an election year, and that will focus their shift or shift their interest and their attention.
They'll be much more seriously concerned about their fundraising and their re-elections, and not doing things that will harm their re-election.
And clearly, voting for a health care bill will.
The fourth element of why they are in such a hurry.
They have to get health care passed before they can pass amnesty For illegals and before they can pass cap and trade.
They have to get that done first.
They can't do amnesty first, because that would raise the price of health care too much.
They do amnesty.
That means all these illegals are now legal and they would qualify.
Right now, the health care reform bill in the House and the Senate, while they make allowances, if you know how to read the bills for covering illegals, they that cost has not been figured in.
The CBO has not been asked to score what the cost would be of providing insurance for whatever number of illegals you want to use, twelve to what to twenty million.
So they've got to do health care.
They got to get that passed and signed into law before they they get into amnesty.
And they're going to do amnesty in 2010 because that's important to them for the November elections.
They can't do amnesty first.
It would it would raise the price of health care too much and it would just raise the opposition.
So they want to have amnesty in time for the 2010 elections.
Delaying health care even further also means delaying other initiatives like cap and trade, because they can't talk about new taxes when they're still trying to sell the health care taxes.
Now the the uh the the nothing has changed in terms of the scope of health care and how bad it is and so forth, other than you got a lot of people now defecting Bernie Sanders.
Say, I'm not voting for the bill last night.
Today he says I'm undecided.
Everybody focusing on Ben Nelson again, too, and uh now the governor of Nebraska has come out and urged Senator Nelson to not vote for this thing, in other words to vote against it, because the governor said it's gonna wreck our state's economy.
And Schwarzenegger basically said the same thing about California yesterday.
It's gonna wreck our economy.
Hey, Arnold, it's already wrecked.
Uh we are we're just trying to limit the damage here a little bit.
Now, as if that wasn't enough.
Listen to this.
This is Obama last night on ABC's World News tonight with Charles Gibson.
And Gibson said there's there's even some Democrats saying now that we've got a bill that's so compromised, it's not worth signing.
If we don't pass it, here's the guarantee that the people who are watching tonight, your premiums will go up.
Your employers are gonna load up more costs on you, potentially they're gonna drop your coverage because they just can't afford an increase of twenty-five, thirty percent in terms of the cost of providing health care to employees each and every year.
And the federal government will go bankrupt because Medicare and Medicaid are on a trajectory that are unsustainable, and this actually provides us the best chance of starting to bend the cost curve on the government expenditures of Medicare and Medicaid.
Now, this is where the President is tone deaf or living in an entirely alternative uh universe.
The people of this country think we're already bankrupt, and that passing health care is going to destroy the future for children and grandchildren.
They already think we're bankrupt, Mr. President, and we are.
You continue to spend money we don't have.
It is being printed, and the inflation rate, the the uh uh producer price index is going up.
A lot of economists think folks were on the verge here of a huge uptick in inflation.
Now, some of these economists may well be surprised if that doesn't happen.
You know the rule.
Whatever economic news there is, the media's experts are always surprised.
Health care premiums are gonna go up no matter what, whether we pass this or not.
Employers are gonna have to offload their health care plans or go out of business, regardless whether this happens or not.
The federal government go bankrupt.
The uh that the world really wants to hear that, don't they?
So the Obama administration continuing to try to frighten and scare everybody into this.
The uh Gibson's next question was well, you you thought you had a compromise last week that was gonna expand Medicare to younger people.
By the way, their health care bill does expand the problems we already have in Medicare and Medicaid.
Even without the Medicare buy-in, you have to understand that the long-term objective here is nationalize single-payer health care.
They just want to get something passed so they have a starting point.
They're taking out all these things uh they think people object to so that they uh make it appear as though it are responsive to public opinion on this.
But Gibson said, look, you thought you had a compromise last week that was going to expand Medicare to younger people.
Senator Lieberman says, Well, I'm not sure I want that, then all of a sudden we hear it's out of the bill.
Do you feel as if individual senators are holding you hostage?
The opposition party uh has made a political decision that we are going to say no to everything.
We're gonna not be at the table, we're gonna just not get involved.
Which leaves you need all 58 Democrats and two independents.
Well, that means every one of them.
Every single one of them.
Every single one.
Every single one of them.
Uh again, dumping on the Republicans when uh he's got his sixty votes.
It's the Democrats that can't get unified on this.
The opposition parties made a political decision, they've got to say no to everything, and that's wise.
Damn straight they have to say no to everything.
Everything in this administration, just say no.
It's not worth compromising on this.
Any cap and trade, amnesty, this, just say no.
But here's part of Charlie Gibbs is so sorry, his individual senators are holding Obama hostage.
Remember, there is no bill.
He talks about the Republicans don't even want to get involved.
Harry Reed won't let him be involved.
Pelosi won't let him be involved.
I just saw a story that Pelosi's over in Copenhagen where it is snowing.
It's snowing in Paris.
It is snowing in London.
It's it doesn't snow.
You know, Copenhagen, surprisingly, does not get a lot of snow, but they're getting dumped on today.
Four inches is a big deal to them.
It's called a blizzard.
Uh that kind of snow in Copenhagen.
They have something uh uh that moderates temperatures there like they have in the U.K., but it's it's uh it's all being defied.
In the midst of all this talk about global warming and glaciers melting, these people are being blanketed with snow.
So Pelosi's over there, and she uh she refused to let any Republican members of Congress participate in her press conference.
Yet Obama and Pelosi both want to run around and whine and moan about how the Republicans don't want to get involved.
They're not being allowed to be involved.
Mitch McConnell, we haven't seen the bill.
Nobody outside of Harry Reid's leadership has seen it when they go in their conference room.
Quick time out.
We'll be back.
Hill Rushbow with talent on loan from God.
In Copenhagen, it is a blizzard on loan from God.
My friends, uh I I always believe God has a sense of purpose, and I always believe that God has a sense of humor.
Just when all of these wackos, Al Gore, Obama, all of these global warming hoaxers, these communists.
Do you know who got the biggest ch uh the biggest uh ovation yesterday at Copenhagen was Hugo Chavez?
Hugo Chavez received thunderous applause when he ripped into capitalism.
He called the world a dictatorship and said it was time to break up the dictatorship.
And he just tore into capitalism, and for the first time all week this place came alive.
It is as I've always told you, the the the radical environmental wackos on the left who sought a new home, communists who sought a new home after the fall of the Soviet Union.
Their objective with this movement has always been to destroy capitalism.
And when Chavez mentioned it yesterday, he got a thundering standing ovation.
It was the single loudest, sustained, largest response any speaker all week has gotten.
So just when Gore and all these inviro wacko commies and phony scientists reach the height of deceit, God dumps a snowstorm on them all over this man-made fraud, this hoax.
And the uh the Reuters' headline is just delicious here.
Blizzard dumps snow on Copenhagen as leaders battle warming.
And it's a it's called a blizzard because they got four inches of snow.
Denmark has a maritime climate, milder winters than its Scandinavian neighbors.
Denmark has not had a white Christmas for 14 years.
All of a sudden, God, with his sense of humor, gives us a blizzard on loan from him.
Right in the middle of these wackos getting together for their little conference.
Rasmussen is out now, and uh I my friends, I, if you don't mind, I'm going to take partial credit for this.
Fifty percent now say global warming is caused by long-term planetary trends.
The political class strongly disagrees.
Rasmussen reports national telephone survey.
Fifty percent of adults now believe that global warming is caused caused primarily by by national or natural things.
Long-term planetary trends.
Public skepticism about the officially promoted cause of global warming has reached an all-time high among Americans.
Now, who, among American media, has been presenting that as fact?
It is I. Here we go again, ladies and gentlemen.
Here we go again.
I'm beginning to feel uh like what Ellen Nordrigan must feel like.
We have been lied to, the American people, we have been lied to and cheated on, like only Ellen Nordrigan could appreciate.
Anybody who trusts Barack Obama and the Democrats does not want to know the truth.
The economy is being held up by phony promises.
It is a sham economy.
We're priving money that we don't have to spend it on things we don't need and don't want, and we're being told it's all for us.
We're being told that Obama loves us.
We're being told that Obama cherishes us, that all Obama wants is what's best for us.
But the facts say different.
From Reuters, the number of U.S. workers filing new applications for jobless insurance unexpectedly rose last week, bumped up by seasonable adjunct seasonal adjustments, according to government data on Thursday, that still suggested the labor market was improving.
Initial claims for state unemployment benefits climbed 7,000 in the week of December 12th from a slightly downward revised 473,000 the prior week.
Second straight week initial claims rose.
But this suggests somehow that labor market is improving.
What is it with this constant surprise and shock?
It's got to be a template.
Do they not realize what fools they look like?
Whatever the economic news is, it's unexpected.
That's Reuters.
Here's AP.
New jobless claims increase unexpectedly.
The number of newly laid off workers filing claims for unemployment benefits unexpectedly rose last week as the recovery of the nation's battered labor market proceeds in fits and starts.
The four-week average for claims, which smooths out fluctuations, did fall, dipping to 467,500 for the uh 15th straight decline.
That was during Thanksgiving.
I told you when they had these great numbers that came out after only a three-day week.
Uh, wait till the next report, and you're going to see that the jobless numbers continue to rise.
Uh there's there there's nothing that's changed significantly that would cause private sector employment to skyrocket.
Hillary Clinton, ladies and gentlemen, coming to the rescue in Copenhagen.
She has announced that the U.S. is prepared to join other rich countries in raising 100 billion dollars a year to finance poor countries for their climate change procedures by the year 2020.
The announcement it says here could give a boost to deadlocked climate talks.
The place was unraveling.
It was falling apart.
Big time.
And then Hillary shows up.
Yeah, we'll contribute to 100 billion, which is what these people want.
And again, you have to understand that that if they could get it all in one big step, they'd do it.
If they could get a global tax and just rape and pillage the United States, they would do it.
But if this is the best they can get, a hundred billion from a bunch of countries for uh each year, that's a start, and they build on it.
And uh, this is in advance of Obama showing up over there, which is designed to have him receive a raucous and loud uh welcome filled with love and devotion.
Yesterday, Bernie Sanders bill.
His amendment, Tom Cobert read it, had the clerk read it.
Bernie Sanders showed up on the floor, he was livid.
Andrea Mitchell, NBC News, watching it.
She spent her whole hour.
Everybody on the left was livid.
How can you do this?
The bill's not germane to anything.
It isn't going to pass.
The reason Coburn did it, two reasons.
Parliamentary and this.
It was the first time that any Democrat or socialist in Bernie Sanders case had actually been honest about what their intentions are.
It was an amendment, 767 pages, spelling out how the U.S. government would become the single payer.
It was all about how we were nationalizing insurance, socializing it, as the first honest step forward.
And they panicked.
They panicked when Coburn said, you know what, I want to have this bill read.
This is the most honest thing I've heard from the Democrats yet.
I applaud Bernie Sanders.
I applaud Bernie Sanders, he said, for being honest about this.
Sanders went to the floor and pulled the bill so as to stop the clerk from reading the bill.
However, the chair allowing Sanders to interrupt the reading and withdraw his amendment should not have been allowed to do so without unanimous consent.
It requires unanimous consent to dispense with reading of the bill.
Once the reading of the bill begins, it requires unanimous consent, all senators voting, to stop the reading.
So they broke Senate rules yesterday.
They allowed Bernie Sanders to break Senate rules in having his bill pulled so the clerk could no longer read it.
Last night on Cavuto, Bernie Sanders appeared.
Cavuto says you're dead set against taking out a public option.
It looks like they have for the time being.
Now would you vote for something that doesn't have that in there?
I'm struggling with this, and as of this point, I I'm not voting for the bill.
I am going to do my best to make this bill a better bill, a bill that I can vote for, but I've indicated both to the White House and the Democratic leadership that my vote is not secure at this point.
And here's the reason.
When the public option was withdrawn because of Lieberman's action, what I worry about is how do you control escalating health care costs?
Get yourself out of the equation is how you do it, Bernie.
You get yourself and Harry Reed and Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama and everybody that has a D next to their name.
In fact, I would suggest replacing the D with an L. Bernie Sanders, L Vermont, liar.
Harry Reed, L, Nevada, liar.
Nancy Pelosi, L, California, liar.
If you want to bring down health care costs, Senator Sanders, get the hell out of the health care business once and for all in total.
Hey, we're back, Rush Limbaugh on the cutting edge of societal evolution.
Here's more Bernie Sanders, and this is where it starts to get funny.
Now, he was on the MSNBC this morning, and remember, yesterday he said, I'm not voting for the bill.
I'm struggling with this.
I'm not voting for it.
I'm gonna do my best to make this bill a better bill.
This morning, he kind of changed his tune.
Question.
Howard Dean yesterday compared the health care bill mandating new health insurance customers without breaking up the insurance monopoly, without introducing a public option or any other competitive aspect, is a bigger bailout for the insurance companies than the one that Ben Bernanke provided to AIG and Goldman Sachs.
Do you agree with that?
I am not there yet in terms of voting for it.
I'm not there yet in terms of voting against it.
Right now, I am dealing with the White House, dealing with the Democratic leadership, trying to make this bill as good as it possibly can be.
It is not my view that passing anything is better than passing nothing.
Really?
Passing anything is better than he doesn't think that.
Really, I wonder if he means it.
Now, interestingly, this this whole this whole embrolio uh uh, ladies and gentlemen, has been brought up.
And the reason the left is unhappy with this is the bill does mandate that everybody buy health insurance.
Everybody has to.
And if you don't buy it, you face a fine, and the IRS will be administering the fines, and you also might go to jail.
Well, that was all fine and dandy with the left if there was a public option.
Or if there was an expansion of Medicare, because then being forced to buy into it was okay because you're buying into a government run plan.
That's fine and dandy with them.
But Lieberman and a couple of others said, look at we're not voting for this thing with a public option in it, and we're not voting for this thing with a Medicare expansion.
And so, in order to get Lieberman's vote, they took those two things out.
And that's when the left erupted.
Because what it means to them now is that the requirement, the mandate to buy insurance, means the only place you can buy it is from the evil, mean private sector insurance companies, which are a hated industry.
And that's why Dean's upset.
That's why all the kook fringe left-wing bloggers are upset, and that's why they consider it a sellout, and that big pharma has won, uh, along with big insurance.
And they're also, they've been mad at Lieberman Since uh uh the 2008 campaign when he was out there campaigning for McCain, and to see uh uh Harry Reed throw everything the left wanted in this bill, throw it out in order to get Lieberman's vote has sent them into a tizzy.
So make no mistake, they don't mind everybody being forced to buy insurance as long as you have to buy it from something run by the government.
This notion that the public option, which has always been misnamed, because the public option may be an option for a couple years, but after that it won't be because private insurance will have been run out of business.
The way it would work under the original plan, private option, a public option would be very, very cheap on purpose and by design.
The purpose of that of making it cheap was to see to it that businesses offloaded their current health care program and plans, their benefits plan, to the public option.
Government, the businesses would love to do that, and then after a while, the price would then come up and it would spiral out of control and then there would be no competition after that.
So the Democrats talking about the need for competition.
We gotta have a public option.
Already, I don't know how many thousands of insurance companies out there there are.
The idea that there's no competition in private insurance is uh is foolhardy.
It's sophistry.
And the idea that adding a government run option to the thousands of existing private options is going to add to c to uh competition is absurd because the end result was it would limit competition because it would shut down the private sector uh health insurance industry in total.
That was its purpose.
That was its point.
And that's another reason the people on the left are upset.
Because they think that their leaders are simply giving up on the idea of eventually having a single payer uh health plan.
Now, there's this story from the uh let's see, it's from the I think Los Angeles Times.
Democrats take aim at health care bill provision.
Thirty-one lawmakers, including twenty-nine from California, object to a facet of the House and Senate bills that would allow insurers in one state to sell policies in many other states.
That would increase competition even more.
Right now, if you live in Florida, you can only buy private health insurance from a Florida company.
Same thing in Alabama, California, what have you.
Now, anybody who understands uh free market economics and competition understands that if somebody in Florida can shop around a whole country for a health insurance policy, and doesn't have to be restricted to selecting one from Florida, you've got competition wide open.
So, 31 lawmakers, all Democrats, including 29 from California, object to allowing people to buy health insurance across state lines.
And what was that devastating about competition?
They want more competition in this, they want the public option to be in competition with the private sector insurance companies.
And yet the one thing that would really provide competition they are opposed to.
The Democrats are taking aim at allowing more competition in the private sector.
That's the bottom line here.
And there's another reason they don't like this.
And listen to me on this.
They don't like the idea of competition across state lines, buying private insurance across state lines.
They also don't like what might go by the wayside, and that is state mandates.
One of the reasons we've had plenty of people that work at insurance companies call here and explain they would love to offer policies that they cannot offer because the states have restrictions on what they can offer, what they can charge.
If you have a piece of legislation that allows individual citizens to purchase health insurance policies from any company in the country, regardless where they are and regardless where the customer lives, then you also wiping out the whole notion of state control and state mandates.
Or you're putting a dent in it, and what are states?
They are government.
So no matter where you look at this, even the latest iteration of throwing out the Medicare expansion or throwing out the public option, wherever you look at this, what you find is the only thing they want is anything that empowers government, be it federal, be it state.
They want to disempower you.
They want to disempower the private sector insurance companies, pure and simple.
They don't have any desire for competition.
None.
Zilch, zero not.
Competition is fundamentally part of capitalism.
And we know that they hate capitalism.
They want no part of it.
So don't buy this whenever you hear them.
This is this is a Linskyite.
This is the way a Linsky advised Obama and taught all these radicals.
Look, you can't go out there, Alinsky said, and tell us, tell everybody who you really are.
You can't say that what you want is the overthrow of the U.S. government.
You can't say you want the destruction of the private sector.
You can't say you want to go out and get social justice.
What you have to do is speak in the language that your audience understands and make them think that you're talking about things they're interested in.
So when Obama comes along and says, Yeah, we need a public option because we want to increase competition, because everybody knows the private sector insurance agencies are a bunch of cheats and liars and thieves.
So they demonize the agency just like they demonize big oil, just like the demonize big pharma.
They demonize big insurance, say we need this government option.
We want competition.
In fact, it's just the opposite.
They know.
They know that most Americans understand full well the effects of competition.
Makes everybody better.
It lowers prices.
It's inevitable.
It's the way free markets work, not what Democrats want.
But they can't come out and say, what we really want to do is control every aspect of your life.
And we're going to do it by making you buy health care from us.
And you're going to have to live a certain way and vote a certain way in order to get covered.
They can't say that.
Well, Bernie Sanders did say this is this is why this is why the uh Coburn read the bill.
Bernie Sanders was essentially in its 767-page amendment saying just that.
So they had to stop the reading of the bill.
They had to stop it.
He was panicking and went down there and he got him stopped, even though he violated Senate rules to do it.
So you hear Obama and Reed, whoever it is on the Democrat side talking about competition.
Common sense folks.
You know they hate the cat the capitalist system.
They hate the private sector.
When they start talking about competition, you have to scratch your head and say, wait a minute, that's part of capitalism.
That's part of free market.
We know you guys don't like that.
So they have to speak in terms that they think you understand and lie to you in the process.
So you go along with it.
And see, that's not what's working anymore.
And it's it's it's thank goodness to the so-called new media or the alternative media.
We've got over 60% of the American people in a Rasmussen poll who oppose this.
How do those 60% who oppose it know what the hell's in it?
F. Chuck Todd's not telling them.
Chris Matthews not telling them, CNN's not telling them.
The New York Times is not telling them.
The Washington Post is not telling them.
Time Newsweeks, uh whatever, they're not telling them.
The Los Angeles Times is not telling them.
But how are they finding out?
This is why everybody's so shook up on this.
It wasn't long ago that something like this would have sailed through in a matter of months, with hardly any uh waves, any problem whatsoever.
So now they're up against uh uh an opposition media they don't know how to deal with other than to demonize, but the facts of what's in this bill are getting out, and more and more people don't want it, which then closes a loop and explains in part why they're in such a hurry to do this.
Now back to Bernie Sanders.
We're gonna let you hear exactly what happened on the Senate floor yesterday.
This is Bernie Sanders interrupting the reading of the clerk on the Senate floor, reading his amendment, and you will also hear the acting president of the Senate here, Senator Ben Cardin, the Democrat from Maryland.
President.
The Senator from Vermont.
I withdraw my amendment.
And Mr. President.
Regular order, Mr. President.
Senate.
Mr. President, the Senator has that right.
The amendment is withdrawn.
That was Cardin, and no, the Senator doesn't.
Well, he has the right to remove it, but it can't be stopped.
It can't be removed, it can't be with called, uh, recalled until there's uh unanimous consent.
Every senator must agree, and they bypassed that step.
Now, I'm no, snurdly, I'm not surprised.
These are Democrats to hell with rules to hell with the parliamentary process.
This is full-fledged fraud and deceit.
And Bernie Sanders uh submits his amendment, and Coburn says, Wow, they're being honest here.
Let's go read this so people know what he's talking about.
And he showed up and he was livid.
He continued with this.
We have a 12 trillion dollar national debt, and the best the Republicans can do is try to bring the United States government to a halt by forcing a reading of a 700-page amendment.
That is an outrage.
I love it.
I absolutely the outrage is that you wrote the amendment.
The outrage is that your stupidity brought it to the floor and signed.
You the Democrats have to know that the Republicans have threatened, they have already they have they've promised they're going to read this bill once it comes there.
So they actually did it.
And to say there's a 12 trillion dollar national debt, and the best the Republicans could do is try to bring the U.S. government.
We're trying to stop the debt from piling up even further, Senator Sanders.
We are trying to protect the United States from people like you.
Checking the email again during the break, and a lot of people, and I get this is a good question.
I'm glad I got the question so I can explain it to you.
A lot of people saying, Rush, why is it guaranteed that insurance premiums are going to go up even in the private sector, even if the public options gone, and even if the Medicare buy-in is gone, what what is guaranteed about premiums going up?
Great, great question.
And I, L. Rushbow, ladies and gentlemen, am happy to provide you the answer.
You are going to, if the bill were signed as it is today, you would then, everybody be mandated to buy insurance from a private insurance company in your state.
And right there, people say, well, what does that mean prices are going up automatically?
Because of what else is in the bill?
The bill mandates that people with pre-existing cover uh conditions be covered.
The bill mandates that people who are going to die in two weeks be able to get insurance three weeks prior to that.
That means the insurance companies look at it it's it's it's it's just economic common sense.
Insurance companies are not social programs.
Insurance companies don't give it away.
If you mandate that they cover people who are a guaranteed loss for them, they go out of business.
So they have to raise their prices to accommodate the mandates that exist elsewhere in the bill.
Now, for some people in the bill, some poor people, there are subsidies for them if they cannot afford to buy insurance on their own, if they're if because the bill requires everybody to do so.
But if they can't pay the premium based on their medical condition and their health at the time from a private insurance company, if they meet a test, and of course that's a new bureaucracy that's gonna get all gambed up, but if they meet the test, uh then they get subsidized by who?
Who's subsidized?
The insurance companies.
Well, who pays the insurance company?
We either, the rest of us.
So the reason prices are going to skyrocket is because of what else is in the bill.
The mandate to cover everybody, regardless of what their health is.
This is like being told, like a uh uh uh an insurance company being told that they must sell homeowner fire insurance after the house fire has started.
You're away, you come home, you don't have adequate fire protection in your homeowner policy.
When you drive up to the uh block in which your house is, you see it's going up in flames.
You call the insurance companies.
I want, I want, I want insurance policy to cover my house being burned down.
The insurance company said, Well, what's the situation now?
Well, it's half gone.
And if the government says that the insurance company has to sell somebody fire insurance when their house is burning, guess what they're gonna charge for it?
Through the roof.
This is exactly what's happening in this bill.
And the reason it differs is because health now is considered some God-given right that nobody should ever get sick, and that if they do get sick, that they should never die.
They should always get well.
Now the market doesn't work that way.
No entity works that way.
You know, I've talked to I've talked to football coaches.
In fact, we talked to Jimmy Johnson once.
We interviewed Jimmy Johnson when he was coaching the Dolphins, did an interview with him for the Father's Day issue of the Limbaugh Letter.
And I asked him, Do you treat every player the same on the team?
No, you can't.
You can't treat every place.
Some of them don't have the same ambition, some of them don't have the same drive.
Some of them, some of them uh you don't have to worry about their commitment, others you have to you have to do certain things.
If uh if a guy screws up during the week in practice and and you uh uh you you delist him that week and put him on the inactive list, some players are gonna react positively to that and say, oh, I've got to impress the coach more, or they're gonna pout.
You have to know who you're dealing with.
No two people are the same, no two life circumstances are the same.
But yet to have some generalized policy on health coverage and insurance coverage mandated by the government is just an excuse, folks.
I mean, it's it's a it's a fuse.
You lighten the fuse and costs are going to skyrocket.
The dirty little secret is the same truth would exist if there were a public option, if that were the only place you could go, because the rest of the bill mandates that people with pre-existing conditions be covered, people with uh uh even if you don't even have a pre-existing condition.
There are even circumstances in both these bills where if you are diagnosed with uh without without any indication you're sick, if you're diagnosed with something that could lead to your death in a matter of years, you are able to go out.
The insurance companies have to be able, or have to sell it to you, have to sell you a coverage when you haven't had any prior to that.
So that's why the prices are gonna go up.
The federal government, pure and simple, and the health care bill.
There's no way anybody's health insurance costs are gonna go down when the government's involved in any aspect of this.
Look at it uh this way, ladies and gentlemen.
When you are covering known illnesses, you are no longer insuring against something, you are paying a monthly fee so others will cover your existing illness.
You're no longer a risk.
Your illness is a reality, and this is not insurance.
It's being called insurance, but it's not.
It's be it's it's something entirely different.
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