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Feb. 26, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 26, 2010, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 247 podcast.
Yeah, I'm j I'm I'm certain it's it's it's just an oversight, and I I probably ought not be all that offended by it.
I mean, why if you if you're gonna if you're Obama and you're gonna spam conservative talk radio seminar callers, and you're gonna create a website and teach your idiot followers how to do it, why would you leave off the largest audience in the country?
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
Yep, yep, yep, yep, yahoo.
Well, I guess they're gonna say welcome to Seminar Caller Friday.
Unbelievable.
Love it.
You know the rules on Friday, folks.
Uh we go to phones.
The program is all yours, the content's all yours.
Unlike Monday through Thursday, where I demand that you talk about something I care about.
Friday, I throw that out the window.
Here's the number 800-282-2882, and the email address, L Rushbo at EIB net.com.
Okay.
Okay, Ed, you can kind of turn down the thank you.
Um the uh broadcast engineer is stuck on a train someplace uh trying to get into the city in uh in Manhattan because of the uh snow cane that we've got going on up there.
So um uh HR, I see you made it in with uh with hardly any problem.
Yeah, so uh everybody that matters is here.
We have uh folks, uh it's gonna be uh this is one of these I should warn you kind of days.
Uh up very, very late last night uh with uh several friends amidst great revelry and uh well I got here very, very early.
I um I uh I didn't get a whole lot of sleep, no.
I didn't.
But as you know, I'm not one who needs uh a whole lot of sleep.
At any rate, the Obama administration, through their um their organizing for America website has put together a uh uh uh a page uh where their mind numb robots can go to learn how to get on radio talk shows and uh and then when they get on shows what to say.
Uh the Obama administration's very concerned, ladies and gentlemen, that their health care message isn't getting out.
Uh that it's being distorted and lied about by uh talk radio hosts.
So I went to this website, and the doctor Dr. Laura comes up first.
Uh and it says, if you can't get there, click on Find Me Another Show.
So I clicked on all of them.
I clicked on every one of those find me another show buttons.
I found places I had never heard of.
I did not see me.
I did not see this show, I did not see this phone number.
Now there's one of two reasons why.
And it's not an oversight.
I know they didn't forget it.
It's either that that they know that they're they're their uh spammers already know how to get hold of this program.
Maybe they know that uh their spammers don't have a chance of getting through, Mr. Snerdley.
And it could also be, and I think this is probably the most likely of the three scenarios.
They know that their spammers, their seminar callers, will not stand a chance if they do get on the air.
Here are the calling tips.
Snurdley and I talked about this earlier today.
We're still undecided.
Uh, but we might devote just a whole half hour to nothing but Obama seminar callers today.
Uh we haven't decided.
It's open line Friday, it's what the day is for.
Here the here are the calling tips.
Uh be polite, respectful, and clear.
Remember you're representing organizing for America.
That one's gonna be tough for them uh to accomplish because there's nobody in this group on the left that that that's not so outraged and angry.
I mean, be polite and respectful is something that I don't think they accomplish once during an average day anywhere.
Um how radio stations will connect you will depend on the show.
Some radio shows may connect you right away, but most will take your name and basic information and put you on hold.
You may or may not be able to hear the broadcast of the show while you're waiting.
You may hear the radio host say something like, hello, We have your name on the line with us.
And that's how you will know that you have been chosen to appear on the air.
You believe.
Yeah.
The next point is then begin to talk.
The next point is some hosts may challenge your views.
Stay calm and firm, sharing a personal story about how health care reform affects you.
Oh, you mean grab sound bite number nine out there, Ed.
Uh Audio Soundbite number nine.
We put together a montage of Democrat sob stories from the health care summit yesterday.
So you you spammers, you seminar callers, um uh sharing a personal story about how health care reform, like like if you happen to be using the dentures of a dead woman, like Louise Slaughter uh mentioned yesterday, uh sharing a personal story about how health reform affects you and your family.
Great way to show the importance and urgency.
So if you're confused about this instruction, here are the professionals at this.
I can certainly remember Malia coming into the kitchen one day and saying, I can't breathe, Daddy.
My mother didn't have reliable health care, and she died of ovarian cancer.
Young man by name.
I remember a little boy who was 11 years old, his name was Marcellus.
I had a message on my machine.
I was just diagnosed with a tumor.
Got a letter yesterday from a farmer in Iowa.
I knew this kid, Samuel Bourne, and he had leukemia, my own father-in-law and his final illness.
People from California who were told by Anthem Wellpoint that their insurance was going to go up 39%.
A guy in my state, Kevin Galvin.
Her sister died.
This poor woman had no dentures.
She wore her dead sister's teeth.
Can you believe these stories happen in America?
So that's that's just a little hint.
Uh this is a page from the Democrat playbook that's been used and worn uh for now over 30, 40 years, and this is uh this is how you should do it.
Well uh and the final calling tip if you can't get through, don't worry.
If the show you call is busy or not accepting calls at the moment, uh then simply click on give me another show to find another.
Now, here are the discussion points that uh uh Obama's website, Organizing for America, suggests that it's seminar caller spammers.
Uh for most Americans, their health care plan covers too little and cost too much.
Far too many people delay or even skip the care they need because they simply can't afford it.
So you call up and you tell a host that and then after you have a discussion, and then you say this the plan the president laid out includes the largest health care tax cut for middle class families in history and makes coverage more affordable for tens of so in this in this case, it you're gonna have to willingly lie to make this point.
Uh your your president for you spammers is asking you to willingly lie about his plan.
You've got to be able to do that.
We suspect it won't be much of a problem for you since that's what leftists do.
Uh the uh the uh next uh discussion point, the the plan will give millions of Americans new choices in health insurance by making coverage more affordable, ending the denial of coverage for pre-existing so you have to just keep lying.
Once you get through, I and talk to the host, you just have to keep lying.
Uh, too many in Washington are now saying that we should delay or give up on reform entirely.
But Americans understand this.
Well, there's actually a poll on that out today.
Um what is it?
H, I don't have it right in front of me, but it's a Zogby poll, and something like 40 some I'd say it'd be better to do nothing.
Forty-nine percent better to do nothing.
37% say, yeah, we got to do something.
Forty-nine percent say better to do nothing.
No, then this is Mr. Obama's straw man.
Uh some say that we should do nothing.
Well, nobody's actually saying we shouldn't do it.
I'll say it uh in comparison to this piece of legislation.
So uh that's our attempt.
Snerdley is uh has been instructed that if you are calling from the organizing for America website, uh if you are uh calling here to uh uh get on this program to further uh uh expand the area of Oh, I am on the list now.
Oh, they put me on the list now, huh?
Oh, okay.
Well, see, see, I knew it was an oversight.
I I knew it was what I was.
I was all prepared to take it personally, but I I knew it was an oversight.
Okay.
So anyway, Snerdley's waiting for you.
Uh, and if you do want to call here and be a seminar caller and just tell us.
You know, what we always put people that disagree to the front of the line.
We never hang up with anybody here.
And so if if if you want to go for it, um use this program to spread the lie.
I'm I don't even want to say that, because I don't want to be contentious.
If you want to use this program to spread the word on the Obama health care plan, feel free.
Um, what is it, ladies and gentlemen, that the Democrat Party hates and doesn't like about black Democrats who run or serve as governor in New York?
They just got rid of Patterson.
And this is just like Obama got rid of his Senate opponent back in Illinois, dig up some dirt, let the media run with it.
In this case, the New York Times, the New York Times now successfully taken out two governors in a row.
Client number nine, Elliot Spitzer, and now Patterson has announced he's not gonna run.
What I don't understand here is Patterson's knownness has been coming for a long time, and New York Times has been leaking that they got a big story coming.
Obama asked Patterson not to run.
Patterson was defiance, said hell you, I'm running.
And if you are a black Democrat in New York and you want to be governor, it ain't gonna happen.
They're gonna see to it that it isn't gonna happen.
I don't know what it.
They they sold out, they sold out to Carl McCall.
We had to end up raising money for poor old Carl McCall.
So what I don't understand, Patterson has known this is coming, right?
Why didn't he call Bill or Hillary Clinton to learn how to handle these bimbo eruptions and trooper gate issues?
I mean, this is a repeat.
We got an aid to Patterson roughing up some woman, I guess.
Uh rough sex, and so I mean, this is right out of Clinton handbook.
The Clintons, my friends, have a wealth of experience, and nobody consults with them on this.
Now, had had had Bill or Hillary been consulted earlier in the game, uh, this this would have never caught Patterson off guard.
Clinton's experience with Paula Jones, Jennifer Flowers, Juanita Broderick alone, uh, make some and who was uh who's that uh Kathleen Willie.
I mean, this is a long, long list out there.
Elizabeth Grayson, exactly right.
They the the Clintons would be natural consultants.
Uh but then you throw in trooper gate.
I mean, you've got I you can't go get any better advice than the Clintons, and I don't think he called them.
Now, if if Patterson is gonna bully a woman on behalf of an aide, then for God's sake, do it right.
Did anyone consider just killing her cat?
Did anybody drag a 100 bill dollar bill through a trailer park?
Like uh James Carvel said of Paula Jones.
I mean, this is not reinventing the wheel, Governor Patterson.
I I I'm stunned that you just sat back and let this happen to you.
The uh the Clintons a valuable resource to all Democrats, and they've been swept under the rug.
And don't give me the Haiti excuse.
Um they're not stuck down there.
Uh Governor Patterson has only himself to blame here.
Uh well, of course, George W. Bush, too, maybe me.
Uh a little bit.
CNN poll.
Have you seen this?
A majority of Americans think the federal government poses a majority.
Think the federal government poses a uh a threat to rights of Americans.
Fifty-six percent of people questioned in a CNN opinion research corporation survey released today, say that they think the federal government's become so large and powerful that it poses an immediate threat to the rights and freedoms of ordinary citizens.
By the way, you know what I saw?
I saw a blog.
You know that killer whale telecom or whatever was at a tea party?
That murderous whale was at a tea party rally.
I saw a picture of it.
I mean, these Tea Party people.
Really, some some bloggers photoshopped the whale sitting there among the Tea Party protesters trying.
Uh it's clever.
Very clever.
So 56% of the people think their rights are threatened.
And how many of you, ladies and gentlemen, Take uh 81 milligrams of aspirin today because you think it's gonna help uh cardiovascular disease, and maybe help if you have a heart attack or some such thing because you've been told to do it, right?
Well, let's see now.
Uh we were supposed to eat oat brand and uh don't eat oat brand.
Uh exercise and don't exercise.
Uh eat coffee or drink coffee, don't drink coffee.
Uh eat low fat, then it doesn't matter.
Uh eat high carbs and low carbs.
Uh the danger of daily aspirin.
Uh, here from the Wall Street Journal.
Yep.
Uh can leading uh lead to bleeding ulcers out there.
There's nothing sacred.
I mean, once one now now, folks, if if aspirin's gonna kill us, what's the point of living?
Hey, Snerdley.
Any seminar callers yet?
None.
Uh must not be any, because I mean, if anybody can spot seminar callers, it's Snurdley, and then of course, uh I am the expert at seminar caller spotting.
Here's some of the uh the state-controlled media headlines about the health care summit yesterday, Washington Post summit fails to bridge partisan gaps on health reform.
Story details.
Uh Democrats are not being honest about the costs.
Obama had a disturbing tendency to dismiss arguments as talking points.
Uh and uh there were no raves for Obama in in any of the major papers.
Zip zero nada.
Uh from the politico, the aftermath, confusion, conflict.
Uh and the summary of this story is that if the goal was to make Republicans look bad, it failed.
Uh also says the bill that changes the uh the Senate bill that hasn't passed can't be done via reconciliation.
Which is uh interesting Republicans looked reasonable and sincere.
Republicans look as though that's odd.
But to these people, it is odd.
News channels quickly lose interest in summit.
This is the state-controlled associated press as published in the uh New York Times.
And the uh the the claim here is that Obama came off like any opinionated cable TV host.
Uh Roland Martin, uh CNN to Wolf Blitzer, I wouldn't score it, which uh Roland, easy to see why.
There's nothing to score.
No raves from Chris Matthews.
He was upset that Obama kept calling these guys by their first names uh rather than Senator this or representative that.
So he was most upset about the protocols.
Uh then again from the uh political truth squatting the summit.
And I it this story points out how Harry Reid, Tom Harkin, and Obama are all lying.
Read on reconciliation, Harkin on including Republican reforms, and Obama on people losing their current coverage in higher premiums.
I mean, this is not uh folks.
I actually thought that what we were gonna get here was uh rave reviews for Obama, but it was so bad that all they can do is say that it was a tie.
And when they say it's a tie, that means that it was a clean sweep for the Republicans.
And I'll tell you the two stars, and it's hard to it's hard to select two.
Paul Ryan just ate Obama's lunch yesterday.
And I I hope some of you had a chance to see the video of Obama's piercing expression on his face.
I mean, it he was ticked.
He was this is not at all how it was supposed to go.
Ditto Eric Cantor.
Uh these guys just did a superb job.
And we got audio sound bites to review some of this.
Uh when we come back from the break here at the bottom of the hour, I got a couple from Paul Ryan uh that I that I definitely want you to hear.
However, ladies and gentlemen, um, we we we we uh found in our archives uh instructions for seminar callers from uh James Carbot.
This goes all the way back to the 90s.
Uh James Cardwell teaching the troops here, almost as like full metal jacket drill instructor.
See how ahead of the game we are uh here at the EIB now.
That goes all the way back to the 90s.
All right, we'll review some great audio from the healthcare summit when we get back, right after this.
Open line Friday, Rush Limbaugh on a roll.
Great to have you here.
Telephone number 800-282-2882.
Hey, Snerdley.
Any seminar callers yet?
Well that's uh that's it's just disappointing.
Not one seminar caller yet.
Not even an attempted seminar caller.
Well, we don't know that they're they may just not getting through, but I mean you Snurdly goes through phone calls faster than any call screen in the country.
He's been trained by me.
Snurdly can spot in five seconds whether or not you're qualified to go on this program.
And bam, if you're not, it's thanks, try again, and we move on down the line.
And he hasn't found anybody.
He hasn't found not one Obama spammer.
Seminar caller.
I love this headline from the Heritage Foundation.
And their morning bell blog.
Somebody needs to tell the president his health care plan is dead.
And really that kind of sums it up.
It's dead.
Here's Paul Ryan.
At the health care summit, this set Obama in too rage.
You could see it.
This is a Ponzi scheme that would make Bernie Madoff proud.
When you take a look at the Medicare cuts, what this bill essentially does treats Medicare like a piggy.
It raids a half a trillion dollars out of Medicare, not to short Medicare solvency, but to spend on this new government program.
When you strip out the double counting and what I would call these gimmicks, the full ten-year cost of this bill has a 460 billion dollar deficit.
The second ten-year cost of this bill has a 1.4 trillion dollar deficit.
Hiding spending does not reduce spending.
And so when you take a look at all of this, it just doesn't add up.
Now Obama is seething.
He's sitting there, his lips are pursed, and he's got two fingers up on his lips.
Uh emphasizing one of them.
He does this.
He's been caught doing this numerous times, uh, even in his career as a as a U.S. Senator.
And he come out and say, uh, Paul, this is all well and good, but uh, we gotta dispense with the talking points here.
If we're gonna have a conversation, you gotta dispense uh with the with the theatrics and the uh and a talking point.
But Ryan was having none of it.
We've been talking about how much we agree on different issues, but there really is a difference between us, and it's basically this.
We don't think the government should be in control of all of this.
We want people to be in control.
And that at the end of the day is the big difference.
We are all representatives of the American people.
We all do town hall meetings, we all talk to our constituents.
And I've got to tell you, the American people are engaged.
And if you think they want a government takeover of health care, I would respectfully submit you're not listening to them.
That is bold talk for a lowly little congressman to spew right in the face of our new young president Barack Obama.
Basically telling I I loved it, and I I uh I want to hear from all of you who had been sending me these vicious emails all week about how there's no difference in the two parties.
Hey, the Republicans and the Democrats are all the same.
I want to I want to hear from you.
Uh and uh give me that uh analysis and then let me know how that works on the health care summit.
Now, Ed, jump forward to Soundbites 28 through 30, because Mike Pence was on Andrea Mitchell, in the same washing.
Their show yesterday afternoon, and uh it Pence was panning Obama's performance in the health care summit.
Andrea doesn't like it.
First question.
The most remarkable exchange, I think so far was between a combatants from the 08 campaign, McCain and Obama.
What's your impression?
This is a good government, it's bad TV.
I gotta tell you, I'm uh I'm not impressed with what we're seeing.
It it for all the president's, you know, repeated, somewhat condescending statements about he said to John McCain, the campaign is over and we've got to get away from talking points.
All we've got from the president today is talking points.
All we got is a president restating the bill that he dumped on the American people on Monday, and the American people want to scrap and move on.
Uh, with all due respect, uh, Congressman Andrews and try to get in there and defend her new young president, but uh Pence did not come up for air.
So she waited and asked another question.
Let's say that there were talking points in the president and his colleagues Democrats.
What what what's not a talking point from what everybody from Lamar Alexander presented very nicely, talking point from the Republican side has been Let's start over.
So do we ever get past these two sets of talking points?
It really all begins with the president being willing to start with a clean sheet of paper, which he's obviously not willing to do.
Instead, the president started out with a long monologue defending his government takeover of health care.
And I gotta tell you, I I really think the real winner today is the price is right.
I mean, I gotta think that millions of Americans, you know, saw this as TV land uh and not a real negotiation and and tuned over to another channel pretty quick.
The real winner this was the price is right.
And you know, Andrea's sitting there just this is none of this went according to plan.
The the day this uh the day was over yesterday, Republicans were to have been shamed and shocked and embarrassed and never showing their face in Washington again.
Obama was supposed to have just run over them like a Zamboni machine, getting the ice ready.
Oh, did you see, speaking of that, the women's Canadian hockey team celebrating after their victory?
Did you champagne and cigars?
The babes were smoking cigars, they they won and they came back out on the ice.
The fans are going nuts out there.
They're pouring beer and champagne into each other's mouths.
Yes, exactly right.
And then they start puffing on the stogies.
Oh, yeah.
And I'm thinking, where are the nags now?
Where are the nags now?
Because there's some real women.
And I'll bet you when you get their hockey uniforms off of them.
Ha ha.
I'll bet I'll bet they're I'll bet you they're in different clothes, snurly.
I'm just saying, I'll bet you these are real women.
I'm just I'm just they are.
You want to hear part of how Obama closed, because Penseer's talking about a real winner here with prices right.
Um the Republicans got two hours yesterday total.
Obama and his gang got four.
And then getting the last word, Obama closed the summit with a threat.
He said, I don't think, Tom, that we're gonna have another one of these, because people don't have seven to eight hours a day to work some of these things through.
So, Obama admits it was a total waste of time.
Senators don't have time to be dealing with issues like nationalizing one-sixth of the economy.
So Obama then said, What I do know is this.
If we saw a movement, significant movement, not just gestures, then you wouldn't need to start over.
Because essentially everybody knows what the issues are, and procedurally, it could get done fairly quickly.
We can't have another year-long debate about this.
The question I'm gonna ask myself and I ask all of you is is there enough serious effort that in a month's time or a few weeks' time, six weeks' time, we can actually resolve something?
And if we can't, I think we have to go ahead and make some decisions.
And that's what elections are for.
We have honest disagreements about the vision for the country, and we'll go ahead and test those out over the next several months until November, all right.
Uh he knows what's gonna happen.
Dingy Harry knows he's toast.
Dingy Harry knows it.
Obama knows a lot of Democrats are toast in the House and the Senate.
The story's out today that Pelosi's lost control of the House, lost control of the Democrats in the House.
This Wrangle thing is not good for her.
Um, and uh, let's see, the the Wrangle thing, and then there's oh, they're gumming up the works on this jobs bill the Senate sent over.
Nobody wants any part of it because it's not big enough.
Congressional black caucus.
What do you mean?
$15 billion?
Well, that's not serious, graft.
You expect us to be able to do anything with that?
So they want they they wanted the original $85 billion that Dingy Harry'd put together.
I mean, this is um it this is a delight to watch.
But my buddy Andy McCarthy spotted something yesterday.
While and I got a I got a I got an email question from a friend.
What's really going on in Washington?
Well, we're all being distracted by this uh dog and pony show up there called the health care summit.
You know what was going on?
The Democrats were trying to criminalize interrogations done by CIA people.
They were trying to sneak in a little passage that could imprison these guys for 15 years and and so forth and and uh and and do it while nobody was looking.
And everybody said, Why why now?
What why are they doing this now?
And Andy McCarthy said, because I'll tell you why.
They had to wait till now because they knew waterboarding was not illegal.
Waterboarding was not torture, and they just got that report back.
So it would have been it would they have no chance to succeed with this.
They had to wait until all that had passed and all the review had come down.
Uh but still, the Democrat Party yesterday in the House of Representatives tried to handcuff the CIA interrogating terror suspects.
And it didn't work.
It it was it was stopped, but they're still out there trying to still out there trying to hamstrung uh hamstring the country.
Any seminar callers yet, Snerdley.
Well, got the it's gonna be a while then, folks.
We tried, and we really did.
Uh uh Obama, we tried.
Uh we looked long and hard, but our board's full now.
And it's gonna be a while before it opens up.
Okay, one more Mike Pence.
Back to Andrea Mitchell, MBC News from Washington.
She said, Well, aren't they saying let's come up with a smaller package?
He's not saying let's go back to the Senate bill, even though Eric Cantor brought the whole Senate bill.
Oh, gosh, Andrea, when did he say let's go to a smaller bill?
He didn't rule out the use of reconciliation.
Uh Harry Reid oddly denied that he's been talking about reconciliation.
That would certainly be news to most of the reporters here in Washington.
What I think the American people have seen is almost like a professor with a a petulant group of students.
He has repeatedly interrupted Republicans.
What I see is a lot of political posturing, a lot of sentimental statements by Democrats around the table that all seem designed to get us to a point where they can throw their hands up in the air, say to the American public, you know what, we tried, but now we're just gonna have to ram through that government takeover of health care that uh these Republicans aren't willing to help us with.
Professorial Obama that he came across as a lecturer yesterday, but you know why it didn't work?
Remember now when Obama went out to the Republican retreat in Baltimore, he was uh at a podium that was raised on a stage.
So he was uh physically, if not in stature, uh, elevated above the audience.
Here, he was just one of a whole bunch of schlubs at the same table on the same size chair, with and there was no echo.
There were no God echo, uh, and Obama wasn't any bigger than anybody else.
He it was not elevated, so he he just and he's Pence's right.
Those Democrats came petulant.
Harry Reed, uh you know, it it it's it's it's like I don't know, it's like he was sitting on something and and and uh he didn't want to admit it, it's uh just irritated all day.
Okay, it's open line Friday, and uh I want to grab a couple calls here to open up the lines.
Uh so maybe some of these seminar spammers uh could get through today.
Jamie in Petaluma, California.
Nice to have you up for us today on Open Line Friday.
Hi.
Thank you, Mr. Lombaugh.
First of all, let me say thank you so very much for being the tip of the conservative spear that's being thrust into the soft, squishy yellow belly of liberal idiocy and hypocrisy.
Thank you.
My honor, sir.
Uh basically, yesterday, aside from watching each politician trying to one-up each other with who has the worst health care sob story.
I noticed that Obama stated that everyone must be a part of the government plan because a larger pool of insured people creates lower prices for insurance.
Yeah, yeah.
Well, that's the exact same reason why Anthem Blue Cross is raising their rates, and yet he exploriated and ripped on them mercilessly for raising their rates.
If Anthem Blue Cross stated that the reason why they're raising their rates is because they had a large group of healthy insurance drop out of the insurance pool, and they have more unhealthy people.
That's right.
That they're having to cover the costs for it.
Isn't it?
Right.
And why did they drop out?
Because the economy's in bad shape and they had to make other priorities, like eating before having health insurance.
Yet Steve Poisoner, who is the insurance commissioner of California running for governor, sitting here acting shocked and surprised about the rate increases, and yet one thing a lot of people don't know is that any health or any insurance increase by any company is applied for many months in advance, and that the insurance commissioner's office has to approve of any rate increases or decreases.
So either Mr. Poisoner has no idea what's going on in his own office, or he knew about it and chose to go after Blue Cross anyway.
Exactly.
So, Mr. Limbaugh, thank you once again so much for being the leader that you are.
We appreciate it.
William Tucker at the American Spectator today.
It's got some interesting little factoids in it.
About halfway through yesterday's uh summit, Democrat Congressman James Clyburn of South Carolina told another of the many insurance company horror stories that peppered the proceedings.
This is Clyburn.
I was talking to a man recently who had undergone a transplant.
When he was done, he was horrified to learn that his insurance would only cover uh follow-up procedures for three years.
After that, he'd have to pay with his own money.
A gentleman was called in, he was very, very emotional.
He was getting ready to have transplant surgery, but he was told that because he's on Medicare, his post-operative treatment's going to be limited to three years.
After that, he's going to have to pay for it himself.
He was very, very emotional.
Now, now think about that for a moment.
This patient was about to receive a transplanted organ.
Clyburn didn't specify what it was.
And the horror, he's gonna get a he's gonna get a totally paid for transplant.
The horror is that he was going to have to start paying his post op bills in three years.
If this is the worst we can say about American medicine, are we really in that bad a shape after all?
Well, I have a I have a different uh observation on this.
I mean, look at where we are with this.
This guy is he about had an emotional breakdown because he was told he's got to start paying his own medical bills after three years.
He gets a free transplant, he gets a free aftercare for three years, and then he's on his own, and he's mad and thinks he's getting screwed.
Here's another little factoid.
Only six percent of the population actually buys their own insurance.
And for this, we're painting the insurance companies as the villains here.
Fourteen percent of the population is on Medicare, 14% is on Medicaid, the other 66% do not have insurance.
They have health benefits where they work.
It's not the same thing.
Nine percent get its benefits from government employment, four percent from the military, the remaining 43% get their benefits from private employment.
Uh and and it's tax-free, by the way.
Those your health benefits that you get at work are tax-free.
You're not buying insurance at all.
Your employer is.
And you may have copies and deductibles and so forth, but you're not buying insurance policies.
Your company is.
Only six percent of the population actually buys their own insurance.
And yet we're gonna blow up private insurance for this.
You want to hear another statistic?
When I heard this, this blew my mind.
You could take the annual profits of the private health insurance companies, and buy health insurance for people for two days.
You could combine all the annual profits of the private sector health insurance comp business, and you'd have enough money to buy health coverage for Americans for two days.
And yet Obama and the Democrats rail about these obscene profits that are being made by private insurance companies.
I have some um some information here, uh, ladies and gentlemen, very, very difficult for those of you who think that the parties are the same, uh, that there's not a dime's worth of difference.
Major, major uh information.
It'll be very, very hard for you to digest this, but I'll and I'm gonna be nice about it.
I'm wondering also, do you think Obama's getting reports on how many seminar callers are getting through uh radio talk shows and and what they're saying?
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