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Feb. 22, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 22, 2010, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
It's a suicide pact.
I mean, it's all you can say this thing is.
They don't care.
They know Harry Reed's going to go down to flames.
They know Obama's going to go down in flames in 2012.
They don't care.
His approval number down to 45% in Rasmussen.
It's minus 19 on the strongly approved, strongly disapproved Rasmussen graph.
The American people don't want any part of this.
They're going to ram this thing down our throats.
They do not care.
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I've I've been trying to gather as much information on this stupid thing as I can.
And by the way, I feel I I ladies and gentlemen, I somewhat feel responsible for what's happening today because it was I and I alone who for a year said, where the hell is his plan?
He doesn't have a plan.
He's letting Reed go down with his ship, and he's letting Pelosi go down with a ship over in the house in the Senate, but he hadn't put his own name to any plan.
Where is his plan?
Well, he's got a plan now.
And still not a piece of legislation.
There's just a bunch of outline and overview things.
Uh reason I flunk speech, because I didn't do outlines in college.
Gave every speech, but didn't outline them, so I got an F. Should have called the course outline 101.
Well, Obama obviously passed it because he's got an outline here proposal.
Let me go through some of this stuff for you.
And they were going to bring this back at all times.
They're threatening reconciliation.
Folks, this is a monster.
The first seven pages are a summary, and it's all Robin Hood.
It's all Robin Hood.
Then it gets ugly.
It's the fourth quarter.
We got two minutes.
He's down 13, and Peyton Manning's hurt.
Uh it's this thing is going to get uglier and uglier.
Do you realize?
This line's actually in it.
The president's proposal provides that if yes, I'm going to get to see Paxner.
Ha!
What we're not even three minutes old.
You just I haven't brought it up, so you think I'm gonna forget about it?
No.
This is this proposal is actually in this president's outline.
The president's proposal provides that if necessary, funds will be transferred to the Social Security Trust Fund to ensure that they're held harmless by the proposal.
That's that's an admission it's gonna fail.
So they're trying to create another revenue stream here.
So what that means is if Social Security goes broke, revenue from health care taxes will be transferred.
Oh, by the way, do you realize Obama didn't wait for the CBO?
This is a one trillion dollar plan, and you know what?
It's gonna ensure everybody that's uninsured, 31 million people now, and it's not it's not gonna add to the deficit.
You believe that?
Oh, yeah, it's so it's magical.
It's pure magic.
It's gonna cover everybody that's not covered.
He's gonna really choke those insurance companies, too.
He's gonna take over the federal government, it's gonna take over setting their rates.
Uh, and uh and make sure uh everybody gets covered, spend a trillion dollars.
This is this is this is didn't he just have these two clowns come out there and run his deficit commission last week, uh reduced spending commission?
And he comes up the following week.
Hey, here's my one trillion dollar plan.
Doesn't add to the deficit, insures everybody.
We got we got a we got a panacea here.
Now, how would you like to be Irksome Bowles and uh Alan Simpson, babe, uh as they go into this thing now?
And by the way, Ben Nelson's deal is not survive, but Mary Landrews does.
Yes, it does.
The Louisiana purchase survives in the Obama plan.
Uh and of course the sycophant media is is playing right along.
This is the big week.
The big ladies and gentlemen, I want to propose my own health care plan.
I want to propose my own health care plan.
It's very simple.
Uh I don't know what the health plan details are.
I'll get to those later.
But the first part of my plan will pay every senator 10 million dollars personally to vote against this.
I will then pay as many union big head uh head uh uh uh union chiefs uh as I can find 15 million dollars each to not support this.
I'm gonna guarantee you it'd be what's gonna happen anyway, and it'd be a lot cheaper than going through the motions and passing this thing.
You wouldn't know how many times the word tax is mentioned in Obama's health care bill.
What is it?
Uh 35 times.
Thirty-five times tax is mentioned in the Obama health care bill.
So, yep, then Nelson is is hung out to dry here, uh, eliminating the Nebraska FMAP provision and providing significant addition federal financing to all states for the expansion of Medicaid.
The public options not in it, but that makes what what I just read essentially says that it is.
If you believe that there's not a public option in this, uh you're too too gullible.
And besides, this is just uh phase one.
Now, it also will increase the threshold for the excise tax on these Cadillac health plans and 23,000 for a family plan to 27,500 and start it in 2018.
It's 2010, right?
2018.
Nobody's fingerprints on this thing are gonna be around for you to uh punish.
They're all gonna be gone.
Louisiana purchase stands, at least the way the way uh the way I read it.
Um and there's actually there's uh there's more.
Uh, ladies and gentlemen, Obama's plan would set a national eligibility threshold for Medicaid, the uh federal state insurance program for low-income Americans at 133% of poverty.
The uh Senate preference, uh, rather than 150% of the federal poverty level as opposed, proposed by the House.
So under the White House proposal, states would get 100% federal funding for any newly eligible Medicaid participants for four years from 2014 to 27.
So the states are being incentivized to go higher and go sign up wards of the state.
Now there's no public option, right?
They're big time touting, no public option.
But listen to this provision.
Under the White House proposal, states would get 100% federal funding.
And remember now, this isn't gonna add to the deficit.
We'll get 100% federal funding for any newly eligible Medicaid participants for four years from 2014 to 2017, with 95% reimbursement in the following two years and 90% after that.
Folks, I mean, we're talking dead-on bankruptcy here.
National bankruptcy.
We're talking about bankrupting the country.
Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid are broke.
There is no Social Security Trust Fund anymore anyway.
That's why he's talking about refunding it.
None of this is sustainable.
Expanding any of this is sheer madness.
Promising to fund Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid is a lie.
We don't have the money.
And as I asked mere moments ago in a very brilliant way, how can Obama say that he's setting up a blue ribbon committee to fix the deficit than make these irresponsible new spending promises?
They don't care.
They literally don't care.
A bipartisan commission is a lie.
Obamacare is a lie.
The country's broke, and this just accelerates our already certain bankruptcy.
And the state-controlled media are saying Obama's bill helps cover 31 million Americans.
Sorry, it mandates coverage with the threat of a fine or a tax.
It coerces coverage.
This is raw bare knuckle government power.
Fines for not buying Obamacare, unconstitutionality throughout this thing.
Thank you, Professor Obama.
In fact, this is blue ribbon commission business.
This is kind of fun.
Let's go to the audio sunbites.
During the campaign, Obama ridiculed McCain's idea for a fiscal commission, a blue-ribbon commission to study our debt.
McCain proposed it too.
And Obama September 16, 2008, in Golden Colorado said this morning, instead of offering up concrete plans to solve these issues, Senator McCain offered up the oldest Washington stunt in the book.
You pass the buck to a commission to study the problem.
Now here's the thing.
This isn't 9-11.
We know how we got into this mess.
What we need now is leadership that gets us out.
I'll provide it.
John McCain won't.
And that's the choice for Americans in this election.
Okay, so September 16, 2008, it's the oldest Washington stunt in the book.
You pass the buck to a commission to study the problem.
Here's Obama last Thursday.
Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles are taking on the impossible.
They're going to try to restore reason to the fiscal debate and come up with answers as co-chairs of the new National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform.
I'm asking them to produce clear recommendations on how to cover the costs of all federal programs by 2015.
And to meaningfully improve our long-term fiscal picture.
It's the oldest Washington stunt in the book.
And just a year and a half ago, Barry Obama was ridiculing it.
Last Thursday, he appointed one of his own.
In the book.
By the way, from the Los Angeles Times, this is from uh yesterday.
Headline really says it all.
White House adjusts strategically on Republicans.
The Obama administration aims to put members of the GOP on the spot, forcing them to compromise on issues or be portrayed as obstructionists.
That's the health care summit Thursday at Blair House.
Is there any reason not to go to this thing?
Somebody, somebody help me out here.
Is there any reason for the Republicans to trudge up there and appear at this thing?
Obama's plan.
Put it out there.
And look at everybody knew from the get-go what this is.
This is designed to make the Republicans look like the obstructionists.
Republicans won't work with us.
The Democrats cannot get anything passed in the House and the Senate, and they have all the Democrats they need in the House to do it, and they had all the Democrats in the Senate.
They couldn't get it done.
There's nothing to shift blame to the Republicans, and the Republicans are being advised by people you can't reject the uh invitation of the president.
Well, why don't you uh Bader, I think there's a letter he released this morning questioning why they should go now.
Uh I don't I don't know what the the status of it is, but here it is.
As voters lose patience with political gridlock, they are not losing patience with political that that's another story that's being spun.
Folks, the American voter love the gridlock right now.
The gridlock is what is saving this country.
Gridlock is what is preventing the uh Obama administration succeeding at their destructive agenda.
Voters are not losing patience with political gridlock.
Democrats are.
The Obama administration is embarking on a strategy aimed at putting Republicans on the Either participate in bipartisan exchanges initiated by the president or be portrayed as the party of obstruction.
You may as well be portrayed as the party of obstruction because you can't stop them anyway.
I mean, you can, I guess now with the Scott Brown over in the Senate.
I'll tell you what, this is no slam dunk.
They just made it by three votes in the House on the Pelosi version of this.
And uh we're getting closer and closer to November, and these blue dogs over there, the Democrat Party, the people are dropping like flies.
And I I'm not sure they're gonna get this passed out of us out of the House this time.
You would think they'll do it because where's Pelosi?
You talk about going underground.
You talk about low profile.
Where's Pelosi?
We haven't seen her.
And we haven't seen Dingy Harry except when he was trying to act like he wasn't at the Obama Town Hall when he was speaking.
Let's go back to the audio sound by just want to play this for your entertainment.
This is this morning.
At the White House, President Obama addressing a national governor's association.
Just a small portion of what he had to say here.
As a condition of receiving access to Title I funds, we will ask all states to put in place a plan to adopt and certify standards that are college and career ready in reading and math.
Did you catch you catch that, sir?
What did you did?
You catch that?
What what?
No.
You missed it.
You missed it.
See, you're listening to the substance here.
You missed this.
Play it again, Mike.
There's a condition of receiving access to Title I funds.
We will ask all states to put in place a plan to adopt and certify standards that are college and career ready in reading and math.
This is this is what?
This is what Harry Reid was talking about.
Obama can turn on that black dialect when he wants to turn it off.
And the President of the United States just said here as a condition of receiving act.
And I wonder if this is on a teleprompter.
Somebody put this on the prompter.
As a condition of receiving access to Title I funds, we will ax.
All states.
Who's he trying to reach out here to?
The Reverend Jackson?
The Obama criticizer, and who's he who's he?
Now, if I use the word axe for the rest of the day, uh, am I gonna get beat up and creamed for making fun of this clean, crisp, calm, cool, new articulate president?
Maybe we should do it and see what happens.
I'll I'll ask my advisors.
Uh, and I might even ask Governor Kumo, uh, as the Reverend Jackson pronounced his name.
We'll be back.
It's uh it's fascinating out there.
Uh General Powell, the prototype future Republican, was on what?
Some show Sunday, and uh, I know, I don't uh don't regret my Obama vote.
No, why would I regret my my uh Obama vote?
And it's a bad day for Barry, folks.
It's a real bad day.
He was the guy that was going to begin the process of lowering the sea levels, right?
Well, um that's that's not happening.
Uh the sea levels um uh they're not rising.
Uh the climate scientists have withdrawn their claims of rising sea levels.
The study claimed it last year's sea levels would rise by up to 82 centimeters by the end of the century, but the report's author now says that the true estimate's still unknown.
Another nail in the coffin of the very dead global warming science.
Everything Obama has staked himself to is being yanked out from underneath him.
Now, you know uh uh I want to look at the Democrats here as uh a couple of parents, in a way.
You you you people know that having children will not save dysfunctional marriages.
It just doesn't work.
And to the Democrats, passing Obamacare will not save you.
It is going to destroy you.
It is a suicide pact.
Troubled marriages become more troublesome when new responsibilities are added to uh couples who are already prone to anger and disagreement and frankly hate each other.
Obamacare is not being conceived by a bunch of happy people who are likely to stay together, folks.
This health care plan has been prepared in anger.
This health care plan's been prepared in defiance.
This health care plan is being revived to ram it down your throat and my throat and everybody.
The purpose of this health care plan is for them to show you who the hell is boss, and there you think that they think that you are respected.
No, they think you are stupid, and they're gonna ram this down your throat regardless.
There's not happiness, there is no joy, there is nothing that is positive about the conception of this health care plan this November.
The American people are going to impose a divorce decree on the very Democrats plotting to conceive a bill that will destroy private health insurance.
A bill that will grow up to become a single-payer, government-owned and operated, rationed health care system doomed to the Democrats are giving birth to every movie monster you have ever seen.
From Freddie Kruger, hell I can't remember them all.
Every movie monster ever, the Democrats are conceiving it.
They are they're not happy with themselves.
They're in a series of rampant divorces, they're angry, they're throwing the kitchen sink at each other and try to help themselves out.
They're not conceiving a health care plan.
Obamacare is an act of anger, it is an act of desperation.
It is a law that soon to be fired Democrats will abandon and leave on the doorstep of the rest of the country.
A bill with no visible means of support.
We are getting a total deadbeat offspring of the Democrats here.
No visible means of support or love.
Nobody's going to love this bill.
Nobody's going to have any support for it.
It's going to be an unwanted, unloved bill dependent on the expanding bankrupt government.
What could possibly go wrong here?
What could possibly go wrong?
This bill, while it is right now just an unviable tissue mass, which has zero humanity in it, needs to be aborted.
I've always been pro-choice.
I've always chosen life, except in this case.
This bill needs to die.
This bill's being conceived by the most unhappy bunch of parents.
It's a bill conceived in grievance and anger and desperation and defiance, and an attitude of screw you to us.
We will be back.
I thought we were going to laser-like focus on jobs.
I really...
You know what, folks, honest to God, I think I I think I'm serious about this.
I'm not trying to be funny.
I don't think Barack Obama is psychologically grounded in reality.
me.
I'm not a professional in this regard, but something here just isn't right.
And it's frightening.
It's really, really scary.
I've been axing people about this during the break if I should go further on this.
Some people think I should explore it.
I'll keep axing.
You'll never get to what you really need to know if you stop axing.
Axing is, I mean, that's...
Unless you're talking about wiping somebody out.
Axing is uh how you express your curiosity.
Now, Snergly, uh, look, I'm I'm gonna get to it.
Yeah, I got an email just a minute ago.
Would you stop being mean to Snerdly?
Hey, emailer.
Snerdley should stop interrupting me.
He's not the host I am.
Uh all I'll tell you is any organization that has a straw poll vote on who the party presidential candidate ought to be comes up with Ron Paul is not an organization of conservatives.
I'll just tell you.
I mean, something's something's haywire there.
And I know the Ron Paul people go in there and they but they had to be attendees to get in there.
Ron Paul winning a straw poll at a conservative conference.
Uh speaking of audio sound bites before we right after this, folks, we've got the insurance lady from Georgia on the phone.
This is Stacy, and she she's the one who has all the answers.
She is great on all of this health care stuff.
She's the one, if you'll recall, talked about her company uh reestablishing an office in Costa Rica and flying Americans down there for treatment to escape Obamacare.
We'll find out what's on her mind just a second.
But audio soundbite time, just as Obama this morning at uh the National Governors Association is making a speech.
He is so proud of his his uh his suicide health care plan that he barely even mentions it.
As governors, I know you feel the same responsibility to see the people we serve through difficult times.
Man, I know you share my feelings that we've also got responsibility to think beyond the crisis and build an economy that works for our future to tackle some of the problems and barriers that have held us back and to secure our rightful place as the preeminent economy in the 21st century.
That's why we've taken up the cause of better health care that works for our people and our governments alike.
Okay.
Umlasting love.
Uh, Geraldo Rivera, Saturday night.
I've every time I see Heroldo, I think somebody died.
When he shows up on Fox is doing a show, Geraldo at large on the Fox News Channel.
It turns out that last year's CPAC keynote speaker Rush Limbaugh was ahead of the political curve when he dared to say then what other conservatives now openly embrace.
That is failure.
Obama failure.
Every, you know, Mitt Romney was talking about it.
So there's Heroldo saying I was a year ahead of the curve.
A grim reaper, the grim reaper, actually has me in my proper place.
A year ahead of the curve.
Here's Margaret Carlson.
This is last night, Friday Night on Bloomberg's political capital, Albert Hunt uh said, Margaret, were you excited by Marco Rubio?
He was exciting everyone there.
He was this year's Rush Limbaugh.
He's the first candidate to tap into the Tea Party movement, but still be a you know sensible kind of insider.
And Saturday night, CNN's newsroom, the political editor Mark Preston said this about CPAC and me.
We saw Glenn Beck just speak behind us.
Not quite the uh speech that Rush Limbaugh gave last year that a lot of people said really helped kick off conservatives, really gave them a kick in the pants, so to speak, as they moved forward through the year.
So wanted to get those out of the way.
We'll talk about CPAC later on in the program.
I want to go to Stacy now is on hold uh from Georgia.
Stacy, great that you got back in again.
I'm glad to hear from you.
Yes.
Very well.
Thank you.
Well, listen, I I printed off this monstrosity.
Um, at least it didn't take me two thousand pages, but I printed it off about an hour ago and have been flipping through it.
And um I could go for hours on this, but my general sense overarching, the very largest and very strongest private health insurers will survive maybe ten years under this plan.
Let me explain to you why.
We talked last time about HSAs.
Yeah, let's define the term health savings accounts, right?
Exactly.
This uh this quote unquote plan virtually eliminates HSAs, it will eliminate HRA's health uh health reimbursement accounts and some uh of the FSA provisions as well.
Um it also makes a mockery of this this nonsense that you get to keep your plan if you want it.
So sorry.
But you know, I can this is what I mean.
Stacy, this is what the guy is not grounded in reality.
There's not a soul in the world that believes they're gonna be able to keep their plan.
There's no need for this if you're gonna if you get to keep your plan.
If there's no government, if no public option, which is also BS, this is what this this it's just scary.
We have somebody who is not grounded in reality, he's living in his own world.
Well, and he certainly knows nothing about health insurance.
If you look at the He doesn't know anything about anything, Stacy.
This is the point.
He's a community irritator, agitator, or he doesn't know diddly.
All he knows is what Harvard taught him, which apparently also includes how to say X. Please don't do that.
That gets on my nerves.
Oh, please don't do that.
Anyway, let's talk about there's a paragraph on page three, strengthen oversight of insurance premium increases.
Yeah.
Basically, the feds and the state are gonna have the ability to tell insurance companies what they can charge for premiums.
But if you look in the extended consumer protections against health insurance practices provision, you'll see that we'll be required to cover adult dependence up to age twenty-six, apparently without any student regulations or anything to that effect.
So you could theoretically have uh 26-year-old with three children who's married still be on my insurance plan because she's under 26.
Right.
Um but the point is, we also have no no annual or lifetime maxes.
We have um I'm sorry, I lost it.
Where did it go?
No, let me let me step in here because what that all means is, and you're you're in you're an insurance agent.
What it means is by the way, is it insurance or insurance?
How do you prefer it be pronounced?
I am an insurance business analyst.
What I do is I compare the I take the business requirements and determine how to automate those through computers.
Okay, insurance.
Yeah.
Now, what what the government is forcing insurance companies to insure all of these people, regardless pre-existing conditions, and then on the back end of that's gonna tell them what they can't charge.
Your first comment rings true.
This is a disguised attempt to wipe them out.
The only question is how long is it gonna take?
I think it'd be 10 years.
Like I said, for the largest companies, it'll be 10 years.
Now let's also talk about MedAdvantage.
You know, the the Gatorade was um exempting Florida from the Med Advantage uh revocation.
Over on page eight, the first paragraph, you'll see where um Obama or Emmanuel or whoever wrote this nonsense says that MedAdvantage is a very pro very profitable line of business.
I don't know what fantasy land that person's living in.
We barely make enough to cover expenses on our MedAdvantage plans.
By the way, you should know.
Lady Stacy retreats to one of the few remaining phone booths in in America to make this phone call.
But I mean, it's just that it's insane.
It's it's a craziness what he's talking about.
So one, we don't make a lot of money for it.
But then he turns around and says that they're gonna force us to go to fee for service reimbursement rates.
Well, let me explain to you what that is.
A fee for service is where you tell a doctor I'm gonna pay you twenty dollars for an office visit.
Okay, that's fee for service.
Who's telling a doctor?
The insurance companies telling a doctor to have it the government.
Well, the that's the government's Medicare plan.
That's what they do.
Okay.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
So what we do in in our networks, we have networks, we have providers.
We say, you know, it costs you fifty dollars generally to do a visit.
How about if we pay you 45 dollars, but you'll have you'll be in network and get a lot more people.
The government, the reason they created Med Advantage to begin with was that providers were not taking Medicare.
A Medicare patient could not get a visit because the fee for service was so ridiculously low, it wasn't worth it.
So they created Men Advantage in large part to get access to our provider networks.
Just making it worse.
They got a problem not working, they come up with a solution, it just makes it worse.
Well, no, no, Raj, Medvan uh Metadvantage has been very successful in access for these seniors.
Particularly why it wouldn't be we we my point is I Stacy, I love you uh and your expertise here.
I really do.
But I think looking at and I and I enjoy hearing from you on the on the on the guts of this stuff.
But let's take what you just said med advantage.
Why did we need it?
We needed it because a previous government attempt to make something work didn't.
So we had to so we didn't need med advantage, we needed get the government out.
Get get the person who's screwing it up out of the equation, out of the assembly.
Get them out of there.
We're just adding more and more and more more to it.
And I think at some point, um, whereas, you know, this is your business, this is your nuts and bolts.
You have to look at the specifics of this on the on the scary idea that it passes.
But somebody like I, uh oriented toward defeating it.
I don't I can't get bogged down in the minutiae here.
I'll lose people.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
I'm I'm please I am not being critical.
Well, let me bring it up a bit then.
How about that?
Well, you're doing you're doing I I just I I'm personally going to attack the ideology of this and the basic structure and the premise behind it.
Screw the details, but I go ahead.
In fact, let me take a break here, because I do want to hear more of what you have to say about it, because this is the best way I will have.
I'd much rather listen to you than have to read this crap.
So hang on.
Back to Stacy in Georgia.
She is an insurance uh analyst, and she's giving us her lowdown, the first glance look at the uh uh uh plan Obama actually posted at White House.gov today.
Welcome back, Stacy.
Hey Russ, have you read page five yet?
Have I have I Nota?
I have summary I I've I've read I like I told you, I can't read the stuff.
I have you know, tell me about the I I th I know the first seven pages are like a Robin Hood uh summary, and then it really gets ugly.
Tell us about page five.
Listen to this sentence.
The president's proposals builds on those provisions by incorporating a number of additional proposals that are part of the administration's 2011 budget or were included in Republican plans.
It said that.
Well, I've heard I've I've heard that they're trying to incorporate some so-called Republican shreds of proposals in this to try to get the uh the bipartisanship to play out.
Okay, well it's BS.
Let me tell you why I'm reading page five.
This is where all the databases come into into play.
And if you read page five, you'll see that anybody who is uh participating in a federal health program, see your insurance exchanges, which by the way is not fleshed out at all in this document.
That means that every claim that is submitted on your behalf is gonna go into this database.
And supposedly they're gonna use to look for fraud and abuse, quote unquote.
Um, so all you privacy lover advocates out there, good luck with that.
Um, and they also have a nifty little provision about limiting Medicaid.
Now, mind you, they want to expand Medicaid to cover everybody, but they're gonna limit drug access.
High cost drugs are gonna be looked at and denied.
So I I'm floored, Rush.
I'm just I'm so floored.
I can't you can't possibly be floored, Stacy.
You you had to expect this.
Well, I expected it, but not in such an idiotic I mean, my my twelfth grader could write better than this.
I mean, it is so full of internal contradictions.
It's I I mean, you can't process it all.
I'm wasting my lunch breaks in here reading this nonsense.
Stacy.
I mean, I look at I'm I I hate to be doctor reality here.
They don't care what you think.
I know they don't.
They don't care what you think of the contents, they don't care what you think of the structure, they don't care whether a 12-year-old, 12-year-old could grade it, read it or otherwise.
I uh but Rush, they've got me in the crosshairs.
You know, that's another thing that's really griping me about this, is that my company employs about 15,000 people all told.
If this goes through, I mean, that's fifteen thousand people, but we have no jobs, and we are a high-tech industry.
Believe it or not, health insurance is a very high-tech industry.
It pays extraordinarily well for the technical expertise.
And they've got me in the crosshairs, and it just it's just I just don't know what to say.
Although I will say this.
I certainly hope one of these Republicans who's gonna go traceing up there and try to play the bipartisan nonsense, realize he's saying that their proposals are in here, but in looking at it, I haven't seen one yet, except the tax break for people who buy their own insurance.
That's it.
Yeah, and that won't survive when they take this to legislation.
Oh no.
Because what you're reading from is not legislation.
It's just an outline, it's just a suggestion.
It's basically just so Obama can say, Oh, here's my plan.
People say I don't have a plan, I've always had a plan.
Here it is.
Well, Russ, next time you say something, I'm just thinking maybe we don't want him to have a plan because this takes the worst of the house.
I didn't think the bills and puts them into one.
Look, I didn't want him to have a plan.
I was pointing out that he didn't have a plan.
And look, Stacey.
I love you, Rush.
Stacy.
You are not the only person in the crosshairs.
My point is we all are.
Exactly.
We're all we're all in the crosshairs.
This man and his administration are gunning for everybody who has had success, wants to have success, and uh they're they're they're gonna I mean, they they want to shut down, you know, fairness doctrine, radio TV, they want to do these kind of things.
They're um look at what they're doing with the um the economy, they're destroying it, all this debt.
I mean, uh even people who are not born, people who are not even conceived yet, people who are not even thoughts in their future parents' minds are in the crosshairs of this administration.
And this is the warning bell that I L Rushro have been ringing and sounding here for the past year.
Well, Rush, guess what?
Um, part of the uh where I'm talking about they're getting rid of the HSAs, they have this interesting uh phrase that says, prohibit discrimination in favor of highly compensated individuals.
Now, I don't know who's discriminated against based on somebody else's paycheck.
But I have a feeling that when that gets into legislation, you're gonna see some really ugly stuff going on.
Well, well, of course you know what that means.
No, I don't tell me.
What does it mean?
Prohibit discrimination in favor of highly it means the rich are gonna stop getting all the good stuff.
We're gonna take from this is income redistribution.
This is returning the nation's wealth to its quote unquote rightful owners.
This is a civil rights bill.
This is reparations, whatever you want to call it.
But Rush, you know, I know insurance policies.
We have nothing whatsoever, no benefit structure based on what somebody's annual salary.
Exactly.
You're this white.
This is why it's why this is not about health care, Stacy.
It's about income redistribution and class envy and getting people who can't read this to think it's gonna be good for them because rich people are going to get stuck again.
I gotta go.
I'm over time, but I glad you called.
Don't doubt me.
Sometimes, folks, the greatest ideas happen on the fly.
Do you remember America held hostage?
Uh we began the countdown of the number of days left of the Clinton administration.
Well, how about and people say you need to do it again?
Now we never go back and repeat stuff unless we do a best of kind of day.
But how about um America in the crosshairs?
Or Americans in the crosshairs, and think of the graphics.
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