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March 8, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 8, 2010, Monday, Hour #2
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So, Obama, and we just played the sound bites out there.
We just played the sound bites of Obama, just ripping in the insurance company, arbitrarily raising rates.
Arbitrarily raising rates is the last place arbitrarily rates go up in the insurance industry.
That's the last place.
These people, I mean, the insurance company actuarial figures are the most comprehensive statistics kept in any industry for any reason.
There's nothing arbitrary about it.
But what's Obama ever done to lower anybody's costs?
How much of your tax has gone up since the Democrats controlled Congress?
How much has the deficit gone up since Obama was elected?
How much has home ownership gone down?
How much has unemployment gone up?
And now he's going to use all this magic on healthcare.
Now, let me tell you what this assault on the insurance companies is all about.
And this is an important first step.
They have to destroy the insurance companies, especially since there's no public option in the Senate bill.
And make no mistake, the public option is what they all want.
And the House does not have it in the Senate doesn't have it in their bill because they couldn't get 60 votes with it in there.
So, especially now with Scott Brown having been elected.
So, how are they going to get there then?
Because what I told you last hour is true.
If the House passes the Senate bill, that's ballgame.
There is not going to be reconciliation.
There isn't time, but there's no intention to be reconciliation anyway.
You people in the House, you Democrats, who don't like what's in the Senate bill, you better be prepared to live with it and for a long time.
Obama signs it after you guys vote for it in the House, and that's the last anybody's going to be talking about health care for the rest of this year.
Then you guys lose the House, and the Republicans take over in January, and you're not going to get anything you want added to it.
So, what you're going to have to hope for is that Obama's plan in the Senate destroys private insurance.
That's the only way you're going to get a public option.
The only way.
And, of course, the express purpose of the Senate bill is to destroy private insurance.
That's the only way they can get to single payer with the government being the payer.
See, there's a fine.
If you don't have insurance, there's a fine.
And the most the fine is, is $5,000 a year.
And that's for the very rich.
Unless you are in your 20s, your insurance will be a lot more than $5,000.
Most people, therefore, will choose to pay the fine rather than pay the premium.
Because Obama's plan forces the insurance companies to cover it.
It's no longer even insurance.
When you have to cover pre-existing conditions, when you have to cover people from the day they get sick only, that's not insurance.
He's going to put the public, private, rather, private insurance business out of business.
He's going to destroy it.
This is why the Democrats are insisting that insurance companies accept people despite whatever their pre-existing conditions and to begin health coverage from the day they get sick forward.
The pretense, here's what they're trying to make you believe here that with everybody now in the insurance pool, that it won't be hard on the insurance companies because there's such so many people that they can spread the premiums out of so many people.
The premiums are going to come down.
But most of the people who are currently uninsured will choose to pay the fine.
I think if the fine's like eight or nine hundred bucks, and the most it is is five grand.
I would pay five grand not to have health insurance.
Damn, look at if health insurance is going to be the kind I would give it is going to cost me one of these Cadillac plans, $23,000 a year.
Okay, if the insurance company, I'll just use myself as an example here.
If in the Senate bill, this is true, if the insurance companies are required to give me a policy to treat whatever happens to me the day it happens, why pay for insurance at $23 to $25,000 a year and the tax on it to boot?
It's throwing money away.
So I'll pay the $5,000 fine, as long as there's no jail time with it.
I'll pay the $5,000 fine and I'll wait till I get sick or I'll wait till something happens, wait till a car crash, and then I'll sign up.
And they have to take me under the Senate bill.
Now, why would anybody have insurance?
And if you have the option to pay a fine of $800 versus a $5,000 or $10,000 annual premium, what are you going to do?
If the insurance company has to treat you and cover you from the moment you get sick or have an accident going forward, why would anybody have insurance?
You see, my friends, this is the trick.
Nobody will have insurance.
And the insurance companies then will say, well, we don't have any customers and no close-up shop.
And there's only one place left to go.
The exchanges.
Single payer.
That's the plan here.
That's the plan.
There is no public option in this, but that's how they're going to get there.
So the insurance companies will be forced to pay for everybody's accidents and illnesses from the day it happens to them going forward.
That's the only time you're going to want insurance.
And it's not insurance at that point, obviously.
So this will just destroy private insurance as an option.
It'll lead very quickly to government-only insurance.
And the money, look at all the money.
This is basically the $5,000 that I would pay or the $800 everybody else would pay for not having insurance.
That's just a tax.
That's a tax on the uninsured, which we'll all be.
Only idiots would have health insurance under this deal.
Only blooming idiots.
There is literally no reason to have health insurance.
None.
And so can you imagine they say there's 30 million uninsured now.
Try 250 million uninsured and every one of them paying a fine to the government for not having insurance.
Think of the tax revenue Obama will be collecting.
Oh, by the way, when your company stops providing your health benefits because there's no need to don't think that your salary isn't going to go down a little bit.
Well, theoretically, your salary should go up if they don't have to pay the benefits.
But they will know, the business will know that most doofus employees think that it's free.
They don't think it costs the employees.
They know it costs, but their paycheck is the net.
That's what they get.
They don't know that there's an additional 15 to 20 grand above their gross salary for all the benefits and the pensions and the 401ks and all that.
So business, well, you know what?
We're opting out of the insurance business and so forth, or at least they can't give you a raise.
This is just amazing.
Well, companies, no, well, companies, if they don't provide health insurance, yeah, I think they get fined too.
If they don't provide health, see, they do, because technically, if you have health insurance as a benefit, you really don't have insurance.
Your company does.
You do not have insurance.
You have a co-payment or whatever deductible, but you are not insured.
Your business, your company is.
You're part of that plan.
So, yeah, they would get fined too.
They'll throw everybody off.
It would be the smart move.
Why would anybody have health insurance?
But why would you buy automobile insurance if you didn't have to have it until the wreck happened?
You wouldn't, would you?
If AAA or State Farm had to pay for every expense you incurred in a crash from the moment only of the crash, why have insurance?
I'm laughing about this because I can sit down there.
There'll be some schlubs who will still insure themselves because they won't want to pay the fine or whatever.
But this is just, folks, it's so devious.
And I'm going to ask the question again, those of you people in Medicare, Medicaid.
Anybody ever denied you a procedure or test or medical device, medicine, Medicare, Medicaid VA?
These programs ever deny anybody anything?
Or do you get everything you want when you want it in whatever quantity you want?
Seems to me I hear constant complaining about Medicare and Medicaid, VA.
The answer to the question, of course, it's rhetorical.
They don't provide anything and everything whenever somebody wants it.
The government today runs programs which deny people certain procedures and medicines and devices.
And Obama never mentions that.
Instead, he talks about the evil insurance companies that say no to certain things for certain people because it's insurance.
It's not welfare.
So today, the Obama administration is denying people certain care.
Today, the Obama administration serves as the largest insurance company in America, and they say no all the time.
Medicare is an insurance program, Medicaid.
Obama runs it.
They say no to people all the time.
Many people seek disability under Social Security.
They're turned away.
Does that mean that Social Security should be abolished on the spot?
Does Obama demonize Social Security?
No.
See, Obama acts like the federal government is this tiny entity that doesn't have a record and is just so philanthropic and so caring.
It is always there for everybody, for everything.
But in truth, the federal government is a behemoth, has a long record, decades long.
It is inefficient.
It is incompetent.
It is wasteful.
It is abusive.
It is not this perfect entity Obama seeks to portray.
Never has been.
Now, what Obama does not explain to us and has no intention of explaining to us is how he intends to make government-run health care different than all the rest of the federal government.
That is, how's he going to make health care customer-friendly?
How is he going to ensure that everybody gets whatever they think they should get while cutting costs?
How will he ensure that it doesn't run up massive debt like Medicare and Medicaid?
What exactly will Obama do to make sure that it's different?
He can't, and he won't do a damn thing.
He is an out-of-control, power-hungry demagogue who attacks anything that is private, promotes anything that is public.
He has no intention of fixing anything.
His agenda is to nationalize and centralize.
He is accountable, ladies and gentlemen, for nothing, taking responsibility for nothing.
He sounds like a fool running around the country attacking people and enterprises while pretending he can deliver the impossible.
And what's happened since he took over?
Everything's going to hell in a handbasket, and we're running out of handbaskets.
Back in just a second.
Don't go away.
The employer fine, three grand.
If they don't provide health insurance, it's $3,000.
Everybody's going to lose your company-provided insurance under the Senate bill if the House passes it and Obama signs it.
If you don't provide health insurance for your employee, this is for firms with 50 employees or more, you have to pay a fine of $3,000.
Now, what company wouldn't pay $3,000 per, I don't even know if it's per worker.
Probably is, but that's far less than what it's costing to cover them.
So they will leave their private insurance companies and give Washington that much more money.
It's a win-win for the business.
They offload their health care costs.
They pay a pittance of a fine of $3,000.
And it's a brand new tax on the uninsured.
And it's going to lead to the destruction of private insurance.
And hello, single payer.
I want to put a question directly to Obama.
Mr. President, why do you deny services, prescriptions, and medical devices to people who need them under Medicare, Medicaid, and the VA, and the S-CHIP program, by the way?
You know, the state children's health insurance program?
Not everybody gets what they want in that program either.
Why, Mr. President, do you deny services and medicine and medical devices to people who need them under Medicare, Medicaid, the VA, and the S-CHIP program?
Why do you, as the biggest executive of the biggest insurance company, the federal government, why do you, Mr. Insurance Company Executive, deny needy people when they require what they require to improve their lives?
My point, ladies and gentlemen, is that Obama is the evil insurance CEO.
He's up there creaming.
Obama is that guy.
And all of his bureaucrats at the VA and Medicare, Medicaid, S-CHIP are his executives.
The government is the biggest insurance company in the world.
And they deny people all the time things that they need.
And by the way, look at what this insurance company pays its doctors.
This insurance company, the federal government, pays its doctors so little that they're opting out of the government's own program, which is supposedly the most compassionate and the most giving.
And the fairest of any insurance company in the world.
Plus, this insurance company is broke.
At least the private insurance companies are showing a meager profit of 2% every year.
But Obama's insurance company is in hock, almost to the point of bankruptcy.
And by the way, for those of you who are elderly, you think this insurance company is going to give you what you need at your age?
They're already denying coverage to the elderly on basis of their age and expense.
I mean, this is the best way I can think of to illustrate the point.
He is the guy that he's up there ripping to shreds in every healthcare speech.
And the biggest insurance company in the world is the U.S. government.
Medicare, Medicaid, VA, SCHIP.
They deny people all the time.
Their costs are out of control.
The people in those programs constantly complain about the inefficiency, the lack of treatment.
He's promising more of the same.
Another question, Mr. President.
If the American people hate their health care system so much, why are you having to desperately pressure members of your own party to change it?
You know what?
What's going on in the Democrat Party right now is a cleansing.
Obama, I saw, I forget who wrote this.
Some blogger I'd never heard of.
This is a fairly decent point.
I took it personally at first, and I realized I shouldn't have.
That Barack Obama has done more for conservatism than anybody since Ronald Reagan.
He is destroying the Democrat Party.
Problem is he's destroying the country at the same time.
But what's happening to the Democrat Party is a cleansing.
Obama from South Chicago, Pelosi from San Francisco, the media elite in D.C. and New York are using what's left of the so-called moderate Democrats to advance their radical agenda and then wipe out the same people in their party who helped them deliver it.
No big tent, but a gulag.
The Democrat Party has become a gulag.
Where's this story?
Representative Brown, Republican Georgia, tells Newsmax some House Democrats agree with Republicans on certain health care, but they fear Pelosi punishment.
The Democrat Party is a gulag.
That's where Dick Durbin works, by the way.
A gulag.
And the Democrat Party, the news about the Democrat Party sounds more and more like what we used to hear out of the old Soviet Union and Stalin and what we hear out of Venezuela.
It is a gulag, and they are purging the very people who are necessary to enact their agenda.
Oh, yeah, it's what Stalin used to say.
He did.
Stalin used to say, well, we'll have fewer Democrats, but they'll be better Democrats.
Well, that's what Obama's saying.
That's what Pelosi said.
Yeah, yeah, we're going to have fewer Democrats, but they'll be better Democrats.
That's exactly what's going on here.
They don't have a big tent.
They have an expanding gulag.
This tax, this penalty, this is another SOP to the unions.
Big companies that have massive health care obligations will dump them on the taxpayers, protecting SEIU and the UAW and Teamsters and all the rest of them.
But did you know that on television yesterday morning, Dan Rather said that Obama is so incompetent he couldn't sell watermelons?
Did you know Dan Rather said that?
He did.
I have the audio tape.
Chris Matthews did not have a tingle up his leg when this happened.
Hi, welcome back, Rush Limbaugh.
This is from the Politico.
Just now, well, actually, just about 1137 this morning.
Team Obama predicted healthcare had a 51% chance of passing at the beginning of March, according to a preview of New York Times reporter Peter Baker's ROM Opus.
They have rushed this out.
There's a New York Times magazine piece coming out Sunday on Rahm Emanuel.
They've rushed it out because all the problems in there.
They've rushed at least a summary of it out.
And they are obsessed with polls in this white house.
As we all know, Obama says he doesn't care about polls.
They predicted healthcare had a 51% chance.
Baker writes, if the president and his chief of staff managed to salvage their ambitious campaign to overhaul health care in the next few weeks, a proposition the White House privately put at 51% as the month began, then as Rahm said, they'll be seen as smart all over again.
But that 49% chance of failure could devastate Obama's presidency, weaken Democrats heading into the fall midterm elections, and trigger an even fiercer, more debilitating round of finger pointing inside the administration.
Hmm.
Well, anyway, that's it.
Let me grab a phone call here.
We haven't taken one yet today.
I just realized that.
I've been on such a roll.
This is Dan in Los Angeles.
Nice to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Yeah.
How you doing?
Very well, sir.
Thank you.
Yeah, I was calling just to alert you to the fact of what Dan Rather said on Chris Matthews' show.
Yeah.
Were you aware of what happened?
Yes, I was.
We have the audio soundbite here.
Oh, you do.
Yeah, yeah.
Pretty outrageous stuff, and then you look on the internet, and I couldn't find that anywhere.
Where's the outrage from the Al Sharptons and all those other guys?
Well, exactly right.
You have to hear the bite.
It's coming up just a second.
It's sort of like the turnout in the Iraqi election, 62%.
But at last count, 38 people had been killed.
38 people shot.
That's more people who die in our elections.
But by the way, it's a higher turnout, too.
And if that had happened when Bush was president, Biden and Obama would be running around talking about how this policy is horrible.
This is an absolute failure.
We should have never held the elections.
38 people dead.
Now they're out there claiming credit for it.
What a great stable situation we have.
It's amazing.
So it's yesterday on Chris Matthews show.
This is a syndicated Sunday show.
And during the panel discussion, Dan Rather, who now works at HDNet, said this about Obama and health care reform.
Part of the undertow in the coming election is going to be President Obama's leadership.
And the Republicans will make a case.
And a lot of independents will buy this argument.
Listen, he just hasn't been leading.
Look at the health care bill.
It was his number one priority.
It took him forever to get it through, and he had to compromise it to death.
And a version of, listen, he's a nice person.
He's very articulate.
This is what's going to be used against it.
But he couldn't sell watermelons today.
He couldn't sell watermelons.
To who?
A state trooper?
He couldn't sell watermelons on the highway.
Yeah, the rest of it is if a state trooper is flagging down the traffic on a highway, Obama couldn't sell watermelons.
And Chris Matthews, that.
I'll tell you, from Masa describing Rahm Emanuel walking in a house shower with no curtain stark naked, poking him in the chest, yelling at him about health care, to Dan Rather saying Obama couldn't sell watermelons on a highway with a state trooper flagging down traffic.
I'm telling you, folks, they are falling apart.
I mean, no, it's no longer Black History Month.
The visit happened during Black History Month.
Oh.
Well, I don't know if the menu was still up there or not, but this isn't just hilarious.
Dan Rather!
He couldn't sell watermelons.
And, you know, no wonder you can't find a soundbite anywhere on anybody's website.
We only have it because we roll on all these stupid shows.
But there's no, nobody, they've taken it down at the Matthews website.
They've taken it down at the HD and they've taken it.
You can't find it.
I'm sure they've scrubbed it at YouTube here.
And because you might not be able to find it anywhere, we need to listen to this over and over and over again.
Part of the undertow in the coming election is going to be President Obama's leadership.
And the Republicans will make a case.
And a lot of independents will buy this argument.
Listen, he just hasn't been the lead.
Look at the health care bill.
It was his number one priority.
It took him forever to get it through, and he had to compromise it to death.
And a version of, listen, he's a nice person.
He's very articulate.
This is what's going to be used against him.
But he couldn't sell watermelons today.
You know what we need to do here, Mike?
Cut to the chase here.
Just roll off.
Nice person, very articulate, but he couldn't sell watermelons.
Just roll that off.
Now, and we know from the earlier part by these talking about Obama, because he says here partly, here, just listen to it again for yourself and establish beyond a shadow of a doubt that he is talking about Obama.
Part of the undertow in the coming election is going to be President Obama's leadership.
And the Republicans will make a case.
And a lot of independents will buy this argument.
Listen, he just hasn't been the lead.
Look at the health care bill.
It was his number one priority.
It took him forever to get it through, and he had to compromise it to death.
And a version of, listen, he's a nice person.
He's very articulate.
This is what's going to be used against him.
But he couldn't sell watermelons.
Okay.
He couldn't sell watermelons.
A state trooper was flagging down traffic on the side of the road.
He's a nice person.
He's very articulate.
This is what's going to be used against him.
But he couldn't sell watermelons.
Okay.
What?
No, we're not going to stop.
What do you mean?
Why shouldn't we stop?
I know Matthews is okay then.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, hey, let's hear it for Chuck.
Oh, Chuck, stand up, Chuck.
I mean, these guys, they are just filled with this kind of.
Of course, we, of course, are the party of, no, we're the party that have a big tent.
These guys, this Democrat Party's a gulag.
It's a growing gulag, and the very people they need to pass this health care bill are being purged from the party.
I know you got Dan Rather.
He's probably, how's he going to get out of this?
How's he going to get out of this?
He probably won't have to get out of it.
They'll probably give him another award.
You know, when the fake documents, Bill Burkett and all that, and Bush and National Guard, Brokaw and Jennings circled the wagons and they gave Dan Redder some sort of lifetime achievement award.
So maybe he'll get another award here For this.
Or, I know what, just say he was bar hopping with Ben Roflosberger earlier in the week and he just wasn't quite sobered up.
Okay, we have a whole soundbite here.
There's a crosstalk at the end on a state trooper line.
And yeah, some of you have written me notes.
Don't you understand that Rather is saying this is what Republicans were saying?
Of course, Republicans are going to say this, but it doesn't matter.
The Republicans have not said it.
Dan Rather did.
Part of the undertow in the coming election is going to be President Obama's leadership.
And the Republicans will make a case.
And a lot of independents will buy this argument.
Listen, he just hasn't been leading.
Look at the health care bill.
It was his number one priority.
It took him forever to get it through, and he had to compromise it to death.
And a version of, listen, he's a nice person.
He's very articulate.
This is what's going to be used against him.
But he couldn't sell watermelons if you gave him a state trip as you flagged down the traffic.
If Matthews is trying to stop him there...
So even if he's trying to indict the Republicans here, if Matthews caught it, he'd have been laughing and agreeing with him.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, watermelons and fried chicken, too, Matthews would have added.
But Matthews, oh, no, no, no.
No.
All right.
Let's go back to the phones.
Ed in Chicago.
You're great.
Great to have you on the program.
Nice to have you with us at EIB Network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
How are you doing?
Did those from the Great Britain?
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
You've been.
Democratic heartland of the Midwest, hopefully not long.
Listen, you were talking about the Academy Awards, and I think you missed one of the highlights.
The highlight was when Catherine Bigelow, who won the best director for the Hurt Locker, received her award.
You have to take a look and focus your attention past Catherine and look at the presenter, Barbara Streising.
You know, you're absolutely right about this.
I'm surprised that Streison didn't stab Bigelow.
Well, she looked like a vampire that just had a steak driven through her heart.
Catherine Bigelow praised congratulated and thanked our troops.
Congratulated, thanked the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Yes.
And they bring Babs out for the big best picture award, best director, and they have to give it to Bigelow.
And she even, and when she announced it was Bigelow, she said, well, what's she saying?
We've reached it, crossed another threshold, or first woman to ever win the best director.
And then she, and she did it twice.
She came back out after it won best picture and thanked the troops again.
Yep.
And I thought it was wonderful.
It was.
You know, the hurt locker is the how to put this.
It's the least seen best picture in the history of the Oscars.
It only made $14 million, I believe.
Well, it's going to make more now.
Well, sure, it is.
It cost $15 million to make.
Avatar cost, what, $250 million to make and made $2.5 billion.
And the director, Avatar, used to be married to Catherine Bigelow.
Yeah, that's a kick.
And for two years.
1989 to 1991.
Well, maybe three, depending on when it started.
And so, yeah, that was interesting.
This movie, The Hurt Locker, have you seen it?
Yes, I have.
It's not without controversy.
The guy who wrote it, his name is Boll claims that the idea was not that the actual soldier involved here that is the focus of the movie claims he had the idea, gave it to the reporter, and the reporter stole it.
So that's being discussed.
And then special forces and special ops guys who've seen the movie have said everything in this thing is wrong.
They don't have us in the right uniforms.
There's no way a guy would go outside the green zone all by himself and bomb.
No way.
It never happened.
Well, you know, I'm a Vietnam vet myself.
Yeah.
And I've watched various movies portraying the war.
And the fact is, is that they have to take some freedoms because basically war is pretty boring.
As we used to say, it's 99% boring than 1% of the time is when your adrenaline really rushes.
And to think of how they could really portray the war in a correct light, I mean, people would leave the auditorium.
It wouldn't be any good watching.
I haven't seen it yet.
I'm not being critical.
I'm just telling you some controversy surrounding it.
Well, there's always going to be controversy because the guys that actually live it can always pick it apart.
Yeah.
It actually doesn't portray what they do on a daily basis.
But again, who would sit there and want to watch what they do on a daily basis?
By the way, I don't want to take anything away from Bigelow here.
You understand this?
Oh, no.
But Cameron never had a chance.
No.
Up against his ex-wife in Hollywood.
There is no way that he's going to win this.
Well, I think Babs showed her true self, though, because like I said, when Bigelow came through and thanked the troops, both in Iraq and Afghanistan, Babs' face, what's left of it, like I said, it looked like a vampire that was just exposed to sunlight for the first time.
Well, yeah, she was.
As I say, I'm unsurprised she didn't put a chokehold on her or something.
Because, you know, it's bad enough in Obama's escalated things in Afghanistan.
I'm not happy about that.
Now, Hollywood, basically awarded director comes out thanks to troops.
Rather than Obama.
You know what I expected to happen last night?
It didn't happen.
And this tells me, this is how bad it is for Obama.
He should have won an Oscar just in case he decides to act later in life.
Just like he won the, what is it, the Peace Prize.
He won the Peace Prize on the come.
And so they should have given him an Oscar in case he did.
But he didn't even get mentioned.
Obama didn't get mentioned, and neither did Bush, and neither did Cheney, and neither did I. Drudge got mentioned, but that's because he was in a movie.
But you know it's bad out there when they don't.
And they had, and even Ben Affleck, he was a presenter.
And Ben Affleck, you know, he came out the other day and he said, everybody disappointed in Obama.
Haven't closed Gitmo.
He's escalating these wars.
Redid the Patriot Act.
They're not happy out there.
And if anybody was come out and sing Obama's praises, it would have been Ben Affleck.
But it didn't happen.
I'm not answering the question, Brian.
I don't have to explain to you why I'm doing it.
Why are you watching?
First you watched The Bachelor and now you're watching the Oscars.
I've watched the Oscars before.
I watched The Bachelor.
I have not lost control of the remote, and I haven't lost control of my television.
The staff here are very, very brave.
Very brave.
I've not lost control of remote.
I have not.
If I want to watch something that she doesn't want to watch, she goes to another room.
I don't lose control of it.
I watched The Bachelor because I finally had to do some cultural examination and analysis.
And I'm telling you, I am very frightened.
I told you this after I saw that show.
I am very frightened.
I don't have to.
Is it not obvious?
You want me to tell you why?
Let me think about it.
Let me think about it.
I got to grab a call here before we go to the break.
This is Richard in Naples.
Richard, welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello.
Hi, Rosh.
Hey, welcome from Sunny Naples.
Hey, a two-part question for you regarding health care.
If the health care bill passes, where would you go for health care yourself?
And the second part of that is associated with it is what happens to the doctors.
Do they have to participate in the federal program or can they opt out of it?
Well, in the first place, none of that's going to happen for four or five years.
I understand that, but if it does, what happens to the doctors?
Are they going to be forced into a federal program?
Yes.
That's going to be the only people providing insurance.
Where then would you go for health care?
Where would I go for health care?
Yeah, if the private doctors have to go into the federal program.
My guess is even in Canada and even in the UK, doctors have opted out.
And once they opt out, they can't see anybody, Medicare, Medicaid, or what will become the exchanges.
They have to have a clientele of private patients that will pay them a retainer.
And it's going to be a very, very small practice.
I don't know if that has been outlawed in the Senate bill.
Okay.
I don't know.
I'll just tell you this.
If this passes and it's five years from now and all that stuff gets implemented, I am leaving the country.
I'll go to Costa Rica.
Hey, I just saw on the news where Fidel says you come to this country, you need medical insurance.
Well, I wouldn't go there anyway, but I mean, you're going to have to have health care if you visit insurance.
If you visit Cuba.
By the way, you know who the biggest medical claim rejection company is?
Medicare.
Medicare denied 6.
What is it?
85% of claims.
The closest is Aetna at 6.80.
And the rest are in the 4s and 2s.
The biggest denier of medical insurance claims is Obama's insurance company, Medicare.
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