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Jan. 4, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 4, 2010, Monday, Hour #2
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Happy New Year, America.
January the 4th, 2010.
America's anchorman is resting up and he will be here live behind the golden EIB microphone this Wednesday.
Until then, it's your undocumented anchorman, Mark Stein, sitting in and happy to be here.
Looking ahead to 2010, which it now is.
So we're not looking ahead.
That was a bad start, just like that.
So we're now in 2010.
If we have another year like last year, we're done for.
We're done for.
You think of the things that would have seemed insane just 18 months ago.
The idea of the United States government owning the automobile industry.
The idea of the United States government giving a blank check to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which they did on Christmas Eve in the late Christmas Eve news dump.
The Obama administration basically gave a blank check to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
In 2008, when they got into trouble in the fall of 2008, they were given a kind of $200 billion bailout.
Last year, Congress increased it to $400 billion.
And on Christmas Eve, they decided, no, no, no, we just can't keep expanding it.
It's far too many zeros to write.
You can't get them into the little box where you have to write the check figure in numerals anymore.
So we're just going to give you a blank check.
Fill it out for whatever you like.
Spend what you like.
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are emblems of what has gone wrong with American capitalism.
They represent the malign alliance of government distorted capitalism with opportunists in what still passes for the private sector who want to find ways to rig and gerrymander the market to their convenience.
And that is the biggest threat, this alliance between sclerotic outposts of capitalism, such as the automobile industry or this rigged housing market, and government.
And every time they come together and announce a solution with a bazillion zeros on the end, like this one the U.S. government's just given Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, that means that people in functioning, efficient, profitable businesses are going to be stuck picking up the tab.
And eventually you'll reach the situation where there won't be enough profitable, efficient businesses to pick up the tab.
This is extremely bad news.
Not just what the government did with General Motors, but the fact that people accepted it.
The fact that the nation sort of psychologically adjusted to the idea of a government running a cash for clunkers program.
If we have another year of this, plus healthcare, plus cap and trade, plus any other big 2,000-page unread bill that Congress decides to pass, then I think the dynamism of the United States will be slipping perilously close to the cliff.
We're not going to be hearing expressions like the American Dream anymore because there won't be an American Dream.
Because one thing you can bet on is that whatever house you live in and whatever car you drive and wherever you go on vacation, your kids and your grandkids are going to be living in worse houses and driving worse cars and going on lousier vacations.
So there isn't going to be an American dream because the idea of upward progress which is built in to the American identity, the idea of social mobility is not going to be possible because they're going to be paying off the hole that Barack Obama and Barney Frank and Nancy Pelosi are digging for us.
You reach the stage where you begin to see it very clearly.
It takes you a while.
You know, Europe has been in decline for a long time and incremental decline can be very agreeable because you still have all the great infrastructure of a once great society.
You still have all in Europe they still have all the fantastic looking buildings, the palaces, the spectacular architecture.
They have all the infrastructure of societies that have reached the very top.
And so incremental decline can seem terribly, terribly agreeable.
But you get to the, you slip past the point of no return.
The difference, we speak when we speak about the Western world.
It's a convenient phrase and it has a certain degree of truth, but there are huge differences in the dynamism of the Western world.
There's a column in the New York Times this morning that points out, for example, that for the last 30 years, the United States percentage of global GDP has stayed constant at 21%, whereas Europe's has declined from 40% down to something like 21%, just approximately the same as the United States today.
So across 30 years, Europe's percentage of GDP has declined as it's introduced more and more unsustainable social entitlements that have made life very agreeable in the present tense, but in fact doom you in the long run.
And that is the course that Barack Obama set the United States on on January the 20th, 2009.
The government shouldn't be propping up General Motors.
The government shouldn't for one simple reason, because General Motors is set up on the basis that it loses money on every car it manufactures.
So this is the old salesman joke, you know, you lose money on every model you sell, but we'll make it up in bulk.
The more cars they sell, the more money General Motors loses.
There's no point in propping up a system that dooms you from the word go.
There's no point in the government providing incentives for General Motors to develop what they call new green-friendly solutions for automobiles.
If there's not a compelling market reason, the government isn't savvy enough to distort the market to the degree it does and expect all the ducks to line up in a row.
So if we have another year like 2009, I think we are in pretty serious, catastrophic, possibly fatal trouble by this time next year.
The alternative is that there's punishment for what Obama and Barney Frank and Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid have done at the polls.
Significant punishment to a degree this November, to a degree that makes it impossible for us to continue on this present course.
In other words, it would be like 1994 and Obama would be forced to govern as Clinton did after 1994, where he steals half of Newt Gingrich's ideas and says they're his ideas and then demonizes Newt for sticking with the half that he hasn't bothered stealing.
That would be about the best solution looking at what could happen to Obama In the second half of this first term.
But you know, everything, by the way, I've changed my mind on this slide.
I used to like, I was always a bit gloomy, Gus, and I used to go around saying, Well, look, you know, socialized healthcare is pretty bad in Canada.
Socialized healthcare is pretty bad in the United Kingdom.
I think government healthcare in the United States is going to be even worse because it's not even going to have, it's not even going to have the mitigating factor, as I mentioned last week, of the equality of awfulness.
The knowledge that when you go along for healthcare treatment anywhere in Canada or the UK, that you're going to be treated as awfully as anybody else.
We're seeing in the construction of this monstrosity all kinds of exemptions already.
And then, and we've now reached the stage where we're getting exemptions to the exemptions.
For example, after their assault on small business, the sustained assault on small business that the United States government has done this last year, they now announced that businesses with fewer than 50 workers would not be penalized if they failed to provide health insurance.
Get this, by the way, this is where it gets into the constitutionality of all this.
We're now saying that you will be fined if you fail to provide health insurance for your workers.
You will be subject to fines if you're an individual who fails to provide health insurance for yourself.
Anyway, they decided that small businesses with fewer than 50 people would get an exemption from this.
Then the labor unions objected in the construction industry and they went to work and persuaded the Senate to pull that back so that if you're a construction company, okay, this is the exemption to the exemption.
If you're a construction company with fewer than five people, you're not allowed.
You're not allowed.
You'll only be allowed with fewer than five workers to be exempt from the penalties for the failure to provide insurance.
Now we've got this.
This is from the daily item.
Amish eye loophole in healthcare proposals.
The Amish, they're plugged in.
I don't know how, but there's obviously a big Amish lobby group in Washington.
And the Amish lobbyists on K Street have gone along and have decided that they would like an opt-out from the $750 fine for individuals who don't have health insurance.
So you get this.
If you don't have health insurance, you'll be fined $750 unless you're Amish.
If you're Amish, you'll get the Amish opt-out.
There's never been a better time to become Amish because you won't have to pay the $750 fine you'll get for not having health insurance.
Now, how does that?
You're probably asking, okay, we've heard about the construction company exemption and the Amish exemption.
How does this impact Amish construction firms?
I have no idea, but I'll bet you Harry Reid is writing a clause for that in the bill right now.
If you are an Amish construction firm, you will probably get a double exemption to the exemption from the exemption.
And so we will, if you're just a regular non-Armish construction firm, you'll be penalized for not having health insurance for your workers.
But if you're an Amish construction firm, you'll be able to do burn raisings all across Pennsylvania and never have to pay a single fine for not having health insurance for your workers.
You'll be able to drive down I-95 from Maine to Florida, and there'll be groups of Amish construction workers raising barns down every side of the highway all the way.
And this is why American government health care is going to be a disaster on a scale unforeseen by Canadian healthcare and British government health care.
Because when you take European-style government health care and you sluice it through Harry Reid and Ben Nelson and Mary Landrew and all the other jelly spine squishes, you're going to come up with something inconceivably worse than was ever devised in the worst nightmares of European government healthcare.
If we get another year like last year, we are in serious trouble.
So we have to roll this bank big time this November to have any chance of actually preventing the world's most dynamic economy sliding off the cliff into European-style sclerosis.
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Amish eye loophole in healthcare proposals.
Those Amish lobbyists.
Boy, they're plugged in.
Boy, they're plugged in.
And you know, I don't want to demonize anybody, but I never really fell for it when I get these emails about the international Jewish conspiracy and all the rest of it, because I think if you look into the international Jewish conspiracy, you'll find there's really an international Amish conspiracy behind it.
The Amish are now looking for a loophole so they don't get the $750 fine that you'll have to pay if you don't have health insurance.
If you're non-Armish and you've got no health insurance, you're going to be fined $750.
But the Amish will get an exemption so they won't have to pay.
That's great for Amish recruitment, isn't it?
Do the Shakers have an exemption?
I think there's one Shaker community left in Sabbath Day Lake, Maine.
So they probably can't afford a big-time lobby group on K Street.
But if the Shakers aren't hopping mad over this Amish healthcare exemption, then they really ought to be.
So you last six Shakers up in Sabbath Day Lake, Maine.
You want to get this same kind of exemption.
You want to see if you can't get a Shaker lobby group down in K Street with the Amish lobbyists and get this same exemption.
Let's go to John in Crofton, Maryland.
John, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Great to have you with us.
Happy New Year, Mark.
Happy New Year to you too, John.
Let's hope it's better than 2009.
It's unfortunate that Rush isn't here today, but I understand he's doing well.
And I want to use an Italian wish and say, Percento Ani, may you last 100 years.
And in the dialect, it's Pachendan.
Yeah, that's good advice.
And you know, since this couple of days in hospital, he's now determined he's going to be on air till the year 2057 until the last three liberals in America give up in disgust.
So we share those wishes, John.
You know, his grandfather lived to at least 100 years old, so that's why I had that thing stuck in my mind.
And this is the time of year that you say Pachendan for good luck.
Right.
But you were talking about infrastructure, and I'm Italian.
It came to mind.
The picture in my mind was of the Coliseum, which was built thousands of years ago.
And it's still standing.
And you said in Europe, you know, they've been in decline, but yet they have all this beautiful architecture and everything, their infrastructure.
And recently I mentioned, compared the United States to Edward Gibbon's masterpiece, The Decline and Fall.
And I think, you know, we're falling in that category where Rome didn't protect its borders and they were invaded.
They weren't creating wealth.
And we're in that boat now when they had to rely on the rest of the empire to funnel wealth into Rome.
And then they had all these freeloaders that were there.
That's why they built the Colosseum.
That's right.
So they can get them bred in circuses.
Right, right.
That's where we're going.
Yeah, the Coliseum was the dancing with the stars of the time, wasn't it?
That was basically, it was like the virtual, it was like reality TV.
In fact, it was a lot realer than reality TV if you were on the receiving end.
But they were, yeah, that was the thing.
And you're right.
You're right, John.
That as in Rome, people find it hard to pick up on incremental decline because incremental decline is terribly agreeable, particularly if you're in old societies.
In Paris, if you're sitting on a beautiful boulevard having your cafe au lait at a sidewalk cafe, the fact that you are no longer a power in the world doesn't really bother you.
In fact, it's agreeable.
You don't have to have policies.
You just have attitudes.
If you look at that's why Europe is hot for all the craziest schemes.
If you take Kyoto, for example, Europe signed Kyoto and then didn't abide by it because it thought, well, you know, why would we?
We just strike attitudes.
And our attitude is that we're opposed to all this global warming business.
But if you're a serious nation, if you're a serious nation, then decline is a choice.
Charles Krauthammer gave a speech a couple of weeks ago and he said decline is a choice.
And that is what Americans are choosing if they follow Barack Obama and Barney Frank and Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid down this path.
They're choosing, you are choosing decline.
You're not choosing government health care and more environmental regulation and all the other stuff in these ghastly 2,000-page bills.
You are choosing decline.
And you're lucky.
You won't get to see the worst of it, but your kids and grandkids will.
And let's not forget, by the way, that Europe's decline has been insulated by American power.
After 1945, Germany basically became this great social welfare case where people leave a social welfare state where people leave school at 34 and take early retirement at 43.
And they can do that because America picks up the tab for the defense of Germany.
Even today, 65 years after the Second World War, the United States Army is living in Germany.
It's living on the German plane, waiting for an attack from a country that went belly up 20 years ago.
So European decline has been insulated and cosseted by American power.
Who's going to do that for American decline?
Who is going to make America's decline comfortable for Americans the way America has made Europe's decline comfortable for Europeans?
No country in history has been able to afford what Obama is now attempting with the health care bill and the cap and trade and all the rest of it.
You cannot make that arithmetic add up.
And when you are either as ignorant or as hostile to private business as this administration and the present Congress is, there will be an awful lot of damage done to an awful lot of people, perhaps irreparably, before you figure out that you didn't know what you were talking about and you screwed up really badly.
We cannot afford another year like last year.
More straight ahead on the Rush Limbaugh show.
Great to be with you.
Don't forget, Rush will be back on air live Wednesday.
And if you go to RushLimbaugh.com, you can see the video of his press conference and also read his message to listeners.
Hey, let's go to Joe in Somerset, Pennsylvania.
Joe, are you in Amish country?
Yes, it is.
Yes, it is.
Hi, Mark.
Nice to talk to you.
I enjoy listening to you.
Oh, it's great to have you with us.
So you're not in the construction business, are you?
I most definitely am.
And our mainstay has been the dairy industry until about 2002 when it took a real knock for the worse.
We do do an awful lot of agricultural work and mostly dairy construction.
Okay, so they're like big cow barns, that kind of thing.
That's right.
In fact, we're trying to get some cows into a barn right now, and we're dealing with Somerset weather.
So my throwaway remark about Amish, basically federally subsidized Amish barn raising going down the whole length of I-95 from Maine to Florida.
That hit too close to home to you.
Very close, yeah.
I mean, 95 is on the other side of the state, but still, you know, they're a tough competition because they don't have to carry the workers' pump that the rest of us do, and they have different loopholes that they can work with.
And plus, an awful lot of times they bring 13, 14-year-olds out to work.
Yeah, that's true.
It's one of the few communities left in America where when the teens get out of school, the workday is just beginning.
Joe, Joe, let me ask you this, though.
How many people do you employ in your construction business?
About eight.
Eight.
So, in other words, you're three above the limit now for getting the exemption from having to pay the fine for the health insurance.
I already warned my employees that they're going to get a 10% pay cut if I have to pay it.
Right.
So, they'll either get a 10% pay cut or you'll lay off three of them.
Right.
So, this, so the Obama stimulus, once again, is working its magic in Somerset, Pennsylvania.
Now, why do you think the number five was, I mean, that's just plucked out of the air, isn't it?
There's no significance to five other than the fact that it happened to be the number that these union labor unions in the construction industry asked for.
I mean, this is the problem with designing a bill this way, that you cannot craft it to take into account millions of people across America who have very particular situations like you do.
Well, and, you know, I will defend the Amish to a degree.
They only educate through the eighth grade.
But when these young men come on my job, they actually understand what Pythagorean theorem is.
They know A squared plus B squared equals C squared.
They know more about carpentry than a lot of union carpentries.
Yes, it's a very strange thing that.
You know, when education was only mandatory to the eighth grade for all Americans in many states, as it was a century ago, believe it or not, people were educated by the eighth grade.
Now that Barack Obama wants everybody to go to college till they're 37, like they do in Germany, they'll be learning in college what they do in middle school.
We're going to have fully qualified 37-year-old PhDs who are complete morons.
But the point, Joe, is that you can't design a system with enough exemptions and exemptions from exemptions that's going to work for a guy like you.
It's always guys like you.
It's people who run small businesses that employ, you know, five, six, seven, ten, twelve, twenty people that get clobbered when government starts micro-regulating like this.
And when they say the age of big government is over, what they mean is the age of big government is over, but the age of super duper micro-teensy-weensy government regulating every single crummy little aspect of your life is just beginning.
And that's what's happening with bills like this.
That's right.
The small business people have become the ugly stepchild that nobody wants to deal with when it comes to the government.
We carry an awful lot of the water.
No, I tell you, thanks for your call, Joe.
Not the ugly stepchild.
You are.
Who was that?
Was that Sleeping Beauty or Cinderella who had the ugly stepsisters?
I can't remember now.
Yeah, Cinderella had the ugly stepsister.
I apologize to Sleeping Beauty.
I don't know what her stepsisters are like.
I don't want to get into any trouble here.
Cinderella had the ugly stepsisters.
No, you are the Cinderella, Joe.
You don't get to go to the ball, and the ugly stepsisters are like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
They're the two ugliest stepsisters ever devised.
General Motors, they're an ugly stepsister too.
I would be in favor of, by the way, if we have to have all these special exemptions and carve-outs, I am saying now, I would be in favor of putting the Amish in charge of General Motors, because then we would get some really interesting new models.
I think it would be interesting to see what interesting new designs that the Amish came up with for General Motors and for Chrysler as well.
They would certainly last.
HR makes the point that they would certainly last longer.
That's very true.
But you were worried about the methane emissions from the new General Motors.
Yes.
So we would have, like we had when I was trying to fly down here last week, and Vermont airspace was closed again because of the excess bovine flatulence.
It would be the same thing now where Pennsylvania airspace would be closed because of the excess equine flatulence from the new Chevrolet models.
There's all kinds of problems.
But this is why the government shouldn't get into it in the first place.
Because the government micromanaging the economy by coming up with a humongous bill and you say, right, right, well, now everyone's covered.
We're going to have health care.
We're going to do this.
We're going to reform healthcare for 300 million people.
But they don't do it for 300 million people.
They look at you and say, well, which subcategories do you belong to?
Are you in a labor union?
Well, then you go and stand on that side of the line.
Are you Amish?
You go and stand on that side of the line.
And eventually they've carved out so many contradictory opt-outs for this or that group that the only thing you can say with certainty is that this thing is going to be a disaster on a scale unknown to man.
You look how long is the tax code at the moment?
However many trillion, 7 trillion pages long.
You look at what's in the healthcare bill and think how long that tax code is going to be by the time they've said, well, you have to pay the $750 fine because you don't have insurance, unless you're an Amish, in which case you don't have to pay it.
If you're an Amish construction company that employs more than five people, you'll have to pay this much of a fine.
If you are in a mixed, if you are in a mixed marriage whereby, say, you're an Imam married to an Amish lady, then you would only be entitled to half the Amish discount.
Unless, of course, by that point, Imams have managed to carve out some kind of health exemption.
So that if you're running a mosque that employs less than 50 jihadists, you won't have to pay.
You won't have to pay the $750 fine per jihadist for not having health insurance.
Because they don't need health insurance because they're going to be blowing themselves up on your flight.
But the good news is President Obama has just appointed, made his first transgender appointment.
I just saw this on MSNBC just now.
He's appointed, he's made his first transgender appointment.
The transgender community was complaining that he hadn't made his first transgender appointment.
Now, I don't know whether they've got an opt-out in the because they require particular kinds of medical health care.
So have they got an opt-out in this healthcare bill?
Do they have to pay the $750 fine?
If you're an Amish transgendered person in the construction industry, what exemption are you entitled to there?
You cannot devise a health care plan for 300 million people and give it to Ben Nelson and Mary Landrew to carve up.
This makes a mockery of the supposed, oh, you know, we're all in this together.
We're all equal.
Everybody's fair.
Everybody's going to be the same.
Even by the socialist principles of fairness for all, equal outcomes for all, equal opportunity for all, this bill is disgusting and an abomination and should be thrown out if not in Congress, then by whatever new Congress gets elected this November.
We cannot.
We cannot afford to go forward with this system because it will be a brutal disaster.
As I said the other day, in Canada, everyone gets appallingly treated.
Unless you're a cabinet minister or a hockey player, you get the same crumminess.
When I used to write about healthcare in Canadian papers, two or three or four days later, there'd always be a letter saying, well, yes, Mark Stein's right.
Our healthcare system is terrible and it's appalling and you have to wait years to get seen.
But say what you like about it.
The one good thing about it is that Mark Stein gets the same lousy treatment that I do.
He can't write a check and buy his way around the lousiness of our system.
It's lousiness for all.
Lousiness uber allers.
And that is the point of a government healthcare system.
A government healthcare system with opt-outs for Amish and construction workers and transgendered Amish and transgendered imams and all the rest of it.
That is never going to work.
That is going to be more expensive, more wasteful, more bureaucratic, and will give the IRS more powers to interfere in more decisions that you make as a supposedly freeborn citizen than anything yet devised because government healthcare licenses the government to involve themselves in every aspect of your life.
And that's the point to remember.
Government healthcare is not about healthcare.
It's about government.
And that's why if you look at that bill, if you look at that bill, it actually doesn't do anything for the uninsured.
Large numbers are left uninsured.
It doesn't do anything for Medicare patients.
If you're on Medicare, your treatment is going to be work.
Worse, it doesn't do anything for those people who have health insurance except charge them more for the privilege of having so-called Cadillac plans.
The common element to every feature of that healthcare bill is government.
Government healthcare is about government, not healthcare.
Lots more straight ahead.
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Let's go to Carolyn in Cincinnati.
Carolyn, you're live on the Rush Limbush Show.
Great to have you with us.
Hi, Mark.
It's great to talk to you.
Good to have you here, too.
You looking forward to the new year ahead.
It can't get any worse.
We'll check back with you next January and see whether you feel that way.
It can get way worse.
And you don't want to take comfort in that cliche, Carolyn.
Well, I'm hoping the next round of elections maybe will see a turnaround if the Republicans don't manage to snatch defeat from victory like they usually do.
Yeah, yeah, that's again, that's not something I'm sure I'd want to bet the future on either.
No, I have a warm fuzzy feeling either.
Now, you called because you were objecting to my rampant Amish phobia.
No, this is like Amish Monday, though, instead of Wego Wednesday.
Yeah, yeah, that's true.
We're shaking up the format here.
We don't stand still.
You know, other talk shows, they just say, okay, the Wego Wednesday thing seems to work, and they just leave it at that.
But that's why we're a cut ahead.
It was actually supposed to be Mennonite Monday, but it didn't protest so well.
Well, you might get a call from a Mennonite.
I don't think you're going to get any phone calls from the office.
No, well, that's the great thing.
For hate mongers like me, that's what's so good.
You can demonize them and they don't call up to hassle your mag.
So my Amish phobia, it seems to be working out.
But it wasn't necessarily to defend them.
It's just that a few summers ago we were in Holmes County, Ohio.
We were on a tour of an Amish farm, and we had a non-Amish guide.
And she explained to us that the Amish, it's frowned upon in terms of like Social Security, welfare, any government benefit.
And that apparently the communities will put money into funds.
And if they have members of their community that get sick and need to be hospitalized, they pay cash.
They negotiate cash rates with the hospitals and the doctors that are much lower than what an insurance company would pay.
Yes.
No, I just, I thought that was interesting, but they just, you know, they don't want to have any connections like that.
No, and you know, and you know the brilliance of the point you're making is that when you restore medical care to a normal market relationship, it is cheaper.
If you go along to any U.S. hospital and say, well, I've got a bit of a problem, I need a shot, I need my leg being amputated or whatever, and the bill comes through a month later and you look at it and it will say on the bill there the so-called uninsured discount, which it can be 20 to 30 percent.
You pay the uninsured discount, you're getting a better deal.
And the other thing you're doing is you know exactly what that broken leg or whatever it is you're being treated for costs, what that hernia or whatever it is costs.
Every other way of doing it, inserting all these third parties, whether it's insurers or government, between the doctor and the patient, prevents people from understanding health care as a normal market transaction.
You've made a brilliant point.
The one demographic group in America who are supposed to be unworldly are actually getting the best deal in their health care simply because they pull their cash and they go along to the hospital and they pay cash for the treatment.
And that is an ingenious point.
And you know the way they say these things, oh, we should all be on Congress's health plan.
It would actually be better for this country if we were all on the Amish health plan, restoring the normal market features of health care that actually do make it surprisingly affordable and more importantly, give the people who use health care a sense of it as a market transaction.
So Carolyn, you're pro-Armish when it comes to the healthcare debate.
Well, I think that that makes a lot of sense.
And I think I'll be better off doing that.
I work in a company where we deal with a lot of smaller companies.
And what a lot of the smaller companies are doing, which is the way that it should go, is that they're establishing health savings account or flexible savings accounts.
And then they have high deductible insurance coverage.
So you figure out, I've got four kids myself, how many ear infections, how many visits to the doctor.
Let's deduct that money, put it into the account.
It's going to be there, and I'll just pay them.
The problem is that most doctors' offices are so ingrained in what is the insurance going to pay that they don't even have available a non-insured cost.
Well, you'd be, that may be true in Cincinnati, but it's actually the opposite in New Hampshire.
If you go along to the doctor, I had this with a foreign visitor who was staying with me, and they were saying, oh, a very wealthy person.
The only problem was the wealthy person was not a United States resident, was just visiting from another country.
But they insisted, oh, you're not insured.
Oh, well, okay, it'll only be $50 then.
Oh, wait, is that too much?
Well, maybe we can make it just $35 or whatever.
And they were because they were so unused to the idea of somebody just going along and wanting to have it as a normal market transaction.
And you're right, this high-deductible thing, because if you're talking about kids and ear infections, that's not something you insure for.
You insure for things that are unlikely to happen.
That's a given.
You know, your kids are going to have a certain amount of small problems and all the rest of it.
You insure for your house burning down because it's highly unlikely to happen.
You insure against your car flipping over on the median and bursting into flames because it's highly unlikely to happen.
So you're thinking straight here, Carol.
And lots more straight ahead on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Amish Monday on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
It's a new innovation for the new year.
We started off by just saying we wanted the Amish to be running General Motors because they'd be full of new models like the new Chevy Tahoe, which is just one horsepower, literally.
And then we decided we were going to put them in charge of healthcare too, because the Amish healthcare system seems to be working out pretty well.
That's what I love about this show.
It always leads you in directions you never thought to go in.
The Amish is the solution for everything.
In the next hour, we may get to the Mennonites, we may get to the Shakers.
We'll see how it goes.
But 1-800-282-2882.
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