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	Yes, America's Anchorman is away, and this is your undocumented Anchorman sitting in.
	Mark Stein InfoRush at the Golden EIB microphone.
	Mark Davis will be here tomorrow, and uh on Thursday, Rush returns.
	Uh a great honor to be here.
	Uh like to say a big big hello to all you racists, homophobes, misogynists, and other bigots out there.
	Uh you've you've come to the right place.
	This is the the one-stop shop for all your angry white male uh needs.
	Also like to say a big hi, as we said to earlier, to all those Larry King uh Larry King fans.
	Uh Larry King's uh audience f uh uh has fallen by fifty-two per cent.
	Uh fifty-two per cent of Larry King's audience has uh managed to disappear in the last month.
	It's basically you can basically track these networks uh uh audience figures with the Obama approval rating now.
	I mean, they're just all they're just like all sliding off the cliff together.
	And they're all sitting around somewhere at CNN head office in Atlanta, they're sitting around, I can't understand these numbers.
	We've been so supportive on the health care bill.
	Uh and they're just uh just sliding off the cliff.
	So if you're a Larry King fan, or maybe if you're a former Larry King fan and you don't watch the show any uh any longer, he doesn't have Tina Louise or Anne Margaret on as often as you like, and he's talking about health care reform too much, uh call us up and uh and let us know.
	Uh don't don't forget, by the way, this couldn't help him to a nice go.
	Anderson Cooper, who made the stupid uh teabagger remark, the sort of snide little insider teabagger remark, uh as Rush was saying, it's some little um sexual preference.
	We can't really talk about it in great detail.
	Uh but uh but Anderson Cooper introduced it into the political discourse.
	Big time senators, big time denocr Democrats started using it too.
	And uh and amazingly, uh that's done wonders for Anderson Cooper's ratings, because his uh his numbers are down by forty-two per cent.
	Uh but we'll um we'll talk about that and get into some of the costs of health care in in the hour uh hours ahead.
	What I find fascinating, by the way, about government health care systems, is that if you have any uh illness that pre-uh dates the uh existence of government health care, like the illnesses people used to have, uh where you need your appendix taken out, uh or you uh need to have your uh yeah your leg uh operated on, that kind of thing.
	You need uh you need some heart treatment or whatever.
	You have to wait ages for those.
	But uh treatments that you would never have thought of in a million years until government health care came along will be will be done uh no problem.
	Like it's quicker to get it's quicker to get a sex change in Toronto than a hip replacement.
	So um and and so actually it may be quicker.
	If you happen to find yourself at a Canadian hospital and your hips in a lot of pain, you might actually be uh better advised to actually ask for a sex change and then ask if they can slip the hip replacement in while they're taking out all the other bits down there.
	Um so it's something to bear in mind.
	Ums, by the way.
	Moobs.
	Have you ever heard of this thing, moobs?
	This is the big uh big big problem now.
	This is this is the uh preferred term for what they call man boobs.
	You know, as uh like men uh get out we were talking earlier, talking earlier to the lady who uh it was in her health club and they'd uh replaced Fox News with CNN.
	And so maybe uh they've replaced uh Fox News with CNN at your health club, so you don't go quite as often, so your body starts getting a bit adrift, and you suddenly notice you're beginning to develop the old man boobs or moobs as they call them elsewhere.
	I was down in Australia, I was down in Australia talking to a very senior Australian politician.
	I won't pin it down more than that.
	And Tony Blair had just been on the news uh uh on his vacation.
	He was on the beach, and uh he was in his uh in his swimming outfit, and he had to provide some comment.
	I think there'd been some terrorist thing back in London, and he'd had to give he'd had his vacation interrupted from the beach and had to give some uh advice on this.
	I was rather looking forward to talking about Tony Blair uh with this very senior Australian politician and getting the inside dope on this.
	And the very senior Australian t uh politician says to me, Blimey, did you see Tony Blair today?
	Hasn't he?
	Got terrible man boobs.
	And this is the way.
	You see, this is the way the uh world leaders talk about each other, by the way.
	I bet Sarkozy is doing this kind of shtick about uh oh but Obama's got pretty good pectorals, I will say.
	I've got no use for him on any other front, but I got no complaints about his pectorals.
	But uh but this is the way Sarkozy, Obama, uh Tony Blair this is the way world leaders talk about each other.
	Uh and that's yeah, I don't know about Joe Biden on the old man boobs front.
	But anyway, a Chinese farmer has the world's biggest set of man boobs, says doctors.
	Busty Guofeng, 53, is desperately seeking a solution to his massive moobs as they get in the way of his manual work.
	And fascinated locals cue up at his dairy farm to point and laugh, forcing him to wear a heavy coat at all times, even in hot weather.
	Mr. Feng said, about ten years ago my chest started to get larger, but I didn't think much of it as I was putting on weight all over.
	But in the last few years it's become unbearable, and I've been from one hospital to the other with nobody able to help me.
	My breasts are now bigger than ever.
	The doctors don't want to help me with this because they find me a medical curiosity.
	Dr. Zhang Li Lan at the Jinan Chest Hospital in Beijing said he had never seen anything like it in thirty years as a specialist in male breasts.
	He said the man is in every way male except for his enormous breasts.
	Uh Mr. Deng is so dispressed by distressed by his condition, he says he will cut off his moobs himself if no one can help.
	So this is Yes, exactly.
	This guy should be on a plane, he shouldn't be wasting his time in Beijing.
	Should get on a plane to Vancouver, because uh you do get uh you do get government breast reduction uh as part of uh Canadian health care in most provinces.
	I'm not sure if it's in all provinces, but you can get breast reduction free uh from uh from government health care.
	So uh if he gets his uh he could get his man breasts re uh r man boobs reduced, and he could then apply for the d uh role as a female extra in Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean, because they're advertising only for they don't want any implants, uh they only want natural breasts.
	So perhaps when he's just like an appealing 34B, he could play one of the nice little uh extras in the in Pirates of the Caribbean for Disney.
	But uh but you begin to see how how uh the minute you have government health care, all kinds of strange conditions that people never bothered going to the doctor about, now suddenly uh the medical system has to develop uh has to develop approaches for.
	Uh and so this uh this ri and by the way, we didn't hear about this whole man boob business.
	I don't know, is this something they're since they started putting uh fluoride in the water?
	Is it one of those kind of things?
	I don't know what it is.
	Or is it women uh the other thing they say is it's women uh flushing uh old birth control bill pills down.
	But I can't think of you in rural China uh as a child, or maybe that's just for something from industrial pollutant from the city of sixty million people uh shoving all that stuff into the Yankee or whatever.
	But anyway, there's all kinds of uh there's all kinds of issues.
	Of course, if he came to the United States, it would be a pre-existing condition, his uh this poor man's man boobs.
	And there seems to be some dispute on uh this business of where uh the health care bill stands with regard to pre-existing conditions.
	Um we were told the president has told us repeatedly since December, uh that the minute this bill passes, insurance companies will be prohibited from denying coverage to children because of pre-existing conditions.
	Uh he said on January the ninth this year, children with pre-existing conditions will no longer be refused coverage, and they can stay on their parents' health insurance until they're twenty-six or twenty-seven years old.
	Uh now it emerges, according to uh Karen Lightfoot, a spokeswoman for the House Energy and Commerce Committee, uh, that under the new law, insurance companies will still be able to refuse new coverage to children because of pre-existing medical ki uh condition.
	Uh Kate Cyril, a spokeswoman for the Senate Health Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, uh, which also helped write this legislation, said that full protection would come in in 2014.
	Kathleen Sabalius has said, I don't care what the law says.
	I mean, let's face it, that's pretty old fashioned, isn't it?
	Passing a law, knowing what's in the law, following the law as written.
	So Kathleen Sibelius has just said, regardless of what the law uh calls for, we're gonna get uh we're just gonna issue an executive order anyway and make it happen.
	Uh and that's again that's gonna be another reason why this uh bill is unsustainable, because r regardless of what it does or doesn't fund, uh the big r ratchet effect of big government only goes in one direction.
	So even if it isn't in the law, uh and uh there's a whole ton of things that aren't in there, but they will be in there one day.
	It's like the Americans with Disabilities Act.
	I don't know whether man boobs are covered by the Americans Disabilities Act, but if they're not now, they will be in twenty minutes time, because since the Americans with Disabilities Act has been passed, all kinds of strange new disabilities uh have uh been discovered to be covered by the Act.
	I, for example, I for example, I find myself I wake up a lot of mornings and I just don't feel like going to work.
	And uh I initially thought this was because I was a lazy, useless uh and untalented idiot with no skills.
	But it occurs to me now that in fact it actually m I might have been suffering from a lifelong medical condition that probably should be covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act.
	So all these acts, what however narrowly they're drawn at the beginning, they only expand.
	Uh they expand and they grow and they cover more things and they cost more money and they employ more people.
	And this is why the most important thing that uh the new Congress that's elected in November, which hopefully will be a Republican Congress, the first thing it can do in January is starve the beast, starve the beast.
	Lock this creature, lock the health care bill in the basement.
	It's passed its law, lock it in the basement and thr and starve it of funds.
	Uh and y you won't be able to get rid of it for a while.
	Uh it's here to stay at least for a few years.
	But just keep it in the basement, throttle it of funds, prevent it from doing anything, prevent it from employing people, uh prevent it from setting up these unsustainable programs.
	Because otherwise it will just grow like man boobs on a Chinese farmer.
	Uh that it they may initially start out like a PERT 34B, but uh uh within six months it's gonna be a pendulous forty-eight triple F. That is why.
	That is why you've got to starve this thing uh of the funds, starve it, starve it.
	Uh keep it in the basement, lock the door, starve it of funds.
	And we are entitled to that.
	Uh when when you ask your uh Republican candidates uh what where they stand on this thing, that is the minimum they ought to be comb committed to uh in this November's election.
	Mark Stein in for Rush, one eight hundred two eight two two eight eight two.
	Mark Stein in for rush on the EIB network.
	Rush returns Thursday.
	Let's go to Jim in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
	Jim, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
	Great to have you with us.
	Thanks for taking my call, Mark.
	And you know, I wanted to comment and respond to your uh earlier observation about the seeming incongruity between a uh abortion policy and a health care policy.
	And from the leftist pers uh progressive perspective, that's there's actually a a coherent rationale for supporting both of those.
	Okay.
	Yeah, just just before you explain that, uh just to uh recap for people who uh because this is about an hour ago, I'd said on the one hand, people uh the uh the left tells us well, uh our bodies mature earlier, so we should be entitled to have an abortion, no questions asked when we're eleven years old.
	But at the same time our minds uh mature later and later so whether we're incapable of making any other adult decisions now until our twenty-seventh birthday, which is when President Obama tells us it's finally time to move out of our parents' health insurance policy and stand on our own two feet.
	And that there's a conflict between this uh where we're old enough to have sex, have abortions, uh have a gay marriage, whatever you want to do uh earlier and earlier and earlier, but to take responsibility, stand on your own two feet uh and all the rest of it, anything non-sexual, that's now twenty-seven.
	And you think in fact they're part of a coherent strategy.
	Well, it's actually part of a coherent argument and the and the premise for both of those is redistributive social justice.
	People seem to look uh tend to look at abortion policy and uh pro-choice policy under the rubric of uh constitutional rights, the privacy and due process.
	And that was the constitutional argument in Roe v.
	Wade.
	But it wasn't the um it wasn't the motive for rogue wait.
	The motive was redisributive social justice.
	So for example, a woman who has to have a child is titled with taking care of that child, the man can move on and pursue his economic dreams and and and a lucrative career world where the woman can't.
	Well, if you take every left's argument and you look at it under the rationale of re redistributive social justice, you understand or you can see how they can reconcile these seemingly contradictory or or incongruent uh position.
	Uh uh uh capital punishment is another one that you can look at under that rationale and they become more coherent in that sense.
	And this is why, you know, uh the idea of a pro-like democrat is really oxymoronic because what drives these progressive democrats isn't isn't formal justice in in the in the sense that Thomas Sowell describes it, but but uh cosmic justice, uh redistr redistributive uh justice.
	So i when you when you when people stop and realize that then they can make sense of where lusts are really coming from and why on the face of it their arguments seem to contradict each each other, but w really drives their agenda uh beneath it.
	Uh but there's an but there's an also there there's a there's something that goes beyond that, Jim.
	And I think there's a lot of truth in that.
	For example, sex education now isn't really about preventing pregnancy.
	I mean, we know a lot uh about uh pr uh preventing pregnancy.
	It should be relatively easy to do uh after uh yeah, almost uh forty years of Roe v.
	Wade and uh and uh contraception uh teaching in schools and all the rest of it.
	It's beyond that.
	There's also an idea that somehow uh which I think is true, that we have accepted the idea that uh people should be able to have sexual pleasure uh earlier and earlier and earlier, uh but at the same time the uh the uh the the adult responsibilities uh come later and later and later.
	And I think that is.
	I think the thinking behind that is is almost like sex is a distraction for the left.
	The left says you can you can get in on with anything that moves and quite a lot of stuff that doesn't, and that's cool.
	And all the time you're doing that, you won't be noticing in an age of uh ever, ever more uh baroque sexual liberty, uh you won't be noticing all the other kinds of liberties where we're taken away from you.
	In other words, that I think I think the left uses sexual liberty as a kind of feint uh for for all the other kinds of liberties that it's actually uh rolling back on you.
	I mean, what price sexual liberty uh when you're when your property rights, when your uh freedom of expression rights, uh when your economic rights are being rolled back on on every sphere.
	And I think I think that's I think uh in a sense that's the kind of great Democrat uh uh d Democrat con game that uh that as long as they say to you, well, you know, you can do what you want uh with all your bodily parts and stick them anywhere you want to stick them, uh but on everything else, uh and that way you won't notice all the other rights we're rolling back on everything else.
	In the same sense, they want you to be able to do that, but they don't want you to suffer the economic consequences of those choices.
	So they allow you to go and have abortion on demand so that you're not suffering the economic consequences and therefore you have access to the redistributive justice that that they that they want to you know provide for you.
	So they give you they give you freedom in the social aspect but take away your freedom and economic aspect uh but in a sense that you know it's it's distributed free uh you know, economic liberty is distributed equally, but that's a that's a social justice approach uh to economics that's not you know that's not uh uh uh you know an American approach to economics.
	No, that's uh that's certainly true.
	I always uh always love to hear that phrase social justice.
	I I take it you're using it in a parodic sense, Cliff, because I always whenever I hear uh leftists talk about social justice, I always find myself rolling around on the floor laughing.
	But you're in Austin, Texas and uh uh no Jim, Jim, sorry, I gotta uh jumped ahead of myself.
	Jim's in uh Pittsburgh.
	But there are there are uh certainly places where you will hear the word social justice uttered by people with a uh a straight face.
	Thank you for your call, Jim.
	Let's quickly go to Cliff, as I mentioned in Austin, Texas.
	Cliff, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh show.
	Hello, Mark.
	Uh first of all, I wanted to uh for the people out there that don't know, uh Barack Obama has admitted uh publicly on video that somebody in Congress slipped something into the uh the law now that uh could cause you to lose your doctor.
	Okay, I just wanted to make that comment, and then I wanted to ask you a question it uh to see if you may have some knowledge of this.
	Um I absolutely think this law is a disaster, and I I definitely believe that it's gonna drive uh the private insurance companies out of business.
	And what m what that begs the question for me, are there some insurance companies out there the ones that actually insure Congress members that are exempted from all these mandates because otherwise otherwise, where is Congress gonna go?
	That's a that's a very good good point, Cliff.
	I I've I talked yesterday about how the point the object here is to put the private insurers out of business.
	And at that point, where will the congressmen go to dis to get their health care treatment?
	We will talk about that momentarily.
	Stay tuned, Cliff, uh, and we will uh deal with your question uh coming up.
	Because this is one that other socialized and governmentalized health care systems have had to cope with uh in the last fifty years or so.
	I'll answer it in just a moment.
	Love that train love that uh love that train whistle.
	Wow.
	Uh it's just like Amtrak, just like Amtrak, and now we got an Amtrak health service.
	That is uh that is bound to work out just great.
	I just hope that when we're just hope that when we're sitting in the waiting rooms we can hear that lonesome train whistle of the of the doctor approaching approaching in the distance.
	Now, we took a call just before the break uh from someone who made the very good point uh that if if the object of what has been passed uh just over a week ago is to actually put private insurance out of uh the health care business.
	Because after all, there's no other way of looking at this.
	It's not insurance anymore.
	You're not insuring.
	If a guy can come in and say, well, I've got this disease, that disease, and uh and and everything else going, uh, but you still got to uh uh insure me because that's what the government says, then that's not insurance.
	What they will do then is they will try to shift those costs on to other people.
	As we've said uh at the beginning of the show, it's projected that young people, uh seventeen percent uh will see a seventeen percent rise in the cost of their uh health care insurance.
	These are young, healthy people.
	Uh so they are basically do not have any diseases and have a l much lower risk of getting them, but they will have to pay 17 percent higher health care costs because uh all these people who don't really qualify for health insurance are now getting in on health insurance.
	Well, what that's gonna do is that's gonna drive a lot of those young people to figure out some way of getting into a government scheme to go on the uh the the scheme that Obama has uh announced where by until your twenty-seventh birthday you can be on your parents' health care scheme.
	Again, that's gonna put the costs of those up and is gonna drive those people into the government scheme.
	So eventually health insurers are gonna decide that they don't and very quickly, this will all happen very quickly, that it's no longer worth being in the health care business.
	This happens to all kinds of other uh areas of insurance.
	I I recently uh had to uh make changes in my workmen's comp arrangements uh because uh I made the mistake of hiring somebody from New York State, and New York State uh imposes far more onerous uh health uh workmen's comp arrangements uh on uh employers uh than uh my own state of New Hampshire, and our our company uh that we'd had doing workman's comp didn't want to get mixed up with the State of New York entirely reasonably.
	Nobody in their right minds would want to get mixed up with the state of New York.
	So we had to go off and find another insurer, and there's only really two we only found two options uh for companies that were willing to do workman's comp insurance in the State of New York, because the State of New York has chased them out of that business.
	Now what the government of the United States is doing is chasing uh private insurance out of the health insurance business.
	Very quickly this will happen.
	And uh in a short time uh it will become harder and harder to get health insurance.
	More and more people will be uh going towards government insurance, and the Democrats will be able to step in and say, this is why we should move to a single payer government health care system because private insurance cannot cope with it.
	The reason it won't be able to cope is because government ruined the private insurance market.
	It turned them into Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
	It rigged them.
	Uh when you go into a normal bank in the old days and you wanted to buy a house, uh the bank was allowed to do an objective evaluation of the likelihood uh of you being able to manage that loan and pay back that loan.
	So the government set up uh Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac that said you're not allowed by law to take in normal uh account normal risk evaluation.
	We know what that did to the profit mark property market, and now they're gonna do it to the health market.
	Uh and we had a uh a call just before the break saying, Well, where what does that mean for the pol political class then?
	Where are Congress going to go to be treated?
	Because Congress, Congress don't want to be sitting there in the lousy, filthy, dirty waiting rooms waiting longer and longer for worse and worse health care, uh, the way it's going to be for everybody else.
	Uh they want to be on the fast track to uh fabulous health care treatment.
	Well, one of the interesting features of government health care systems, where they're introduced, is the ability of uh uh of the political class to do what they call uh in Canada and Britain cue jumping, which means that uh no matter how long the line is, they can get ahead of it.
	Uh we recently had a situation where the premier of Newfoundland and Labrador uh had a required a heart operation.
	Where did he go for his heart or operation?
	Florida.
	Because if he'd wanted to uh if he'd wanted to have it done in Canada, he would have had to wait and wait and wait.
	Now, obviously he's the premier of Newfoundland, and it doesn't sound like such a big deal if in the if you're in the United States.
	To be honest, it's not really that big a deal in Canada.
	It's actually in fact it's not really that big a deal in Newfoundland.
	But I mean, it's still for the allowances of but making allowances for the uh you know, America's Ricky Martin, Canada has the premier of Newfoundland and Labrador.
	But but but he's a big shot up there.
	So think of him like that.
	Like he's the Ricky Martin of Newfoundland and Labrador.
	Uh so he's a big shot.
	He doesn't want to have to sit around waiting for treatment.
	Uh so he flew and he had his heart operation in Florida.
	And when he got back uh to Newfoundland, he said, Well, it's my body, it's my health, uh, I'll make my own decisions about what's best for me.
	He's in charge of a health care system that specifically denies that right to every citizen.
	In other words, if you're not the premier and you can't afford to hop on a flight uh down to Miami uh and have it treated uh ha ha have your health care needs taken care of in an American hospital, you just have to wait and wait and wait.
	And so that's what people like him do.
	They'll either fly, you know, generally speaking, if you swing by the Mayo Clinic, uh you can usually find a couple of big shot Canadians being treated there any uh any day of the week.
	But more to the point, even in their own hospitals, because sometimes uh I remember the premier of Quebec.
	Um he uh he was the secessionist premier of Quebec, a man called Lucien Bouchard.
	And about fifteen years ago, uh he he had uh he he got some uh necrotizing fasciitis thing in uh hospital.
	His uh which meant his leg had to be amputated.
	Um his leg, in fact, seceded from the rest of his body, much as the way uh he wanted to secede from Canada.
	Anyway, uh the point the point there is that you get fast track treatment.
	If you're if you're a member of the political class, you get fast track treatment in under those systems.
	It's uh it's uh it's a nomenclature exactly the same as it is in Russia.
	I keep every time I'm on here and we subject to healthcare comes up, I mentioned this marvelous film, Barbarian Invasions, which won the uh Oscar a few years ago.
	There's a scene in there.
	This guy's uh father is um dying, he comes back, finds him in the corridor, uh wired up uh with all these tubes snaking down the corridor.
	It's like a third world refugee camp in there.
	No doctor or nurse calls him by the right name.
	So he eventually he bribes everybody, bribes everybody to get this guy moved to a private room on an unoccupied floor.
	He has to bribe the union, bribe the administration, bribe the government, bribe everybody body.
	And as the nurse is wheeling the patient into this room, she says, Oh, normally uh you have to be a friend of a cabinet minister or a hockey player to get a room like this.
	And that's what happens.
	Whenever you have government mandated equality, what you have in effect is government connected inequality.
	The people who are plugged in, so don't kid yourself, by the way, if you've got big time class envy and you think that Obama is gonna stick it to the rich, and you say, good, good for Obama, good for Nancy Pelosi, good for Harry Reed, sticking it to the rich.
	No, they're not gonna be affected by this.
	They've got workarounds.
	You look at all this stuff.
	You look at Obama's pals on Wall Street, you look at his pals, uh, Warren Buffett and Bill Gates.
	They know who to pick up the phone and call.
	When they've got a problem, they can call somebody in Washington who will make the problem go away.
	They've got workarounds.
	You haven't got workarounds.
	Whatever system Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid and Barack Obama are designing for you is the one that you're gonna be you're gonna be living with.
	The idea that he'll be living with it or that Madame Pelosi will be living with it is ridiculous.
	Look at the way Nancy Pel look at the difference between the way you get around the country and the way Nancy Pelosi gets around the country and that ridiculous jet of hers with the absurd entourage that's uh that's bigger bigger than a Gulf Ameriz.
	This is uh she sh flies around in greater luxury uh than most heads of state, than most hereditary monarchs.
	Why?
	She's supposed to be a citizen legislator.
	Uh she tells you, she tells you, she designs the laws you have to live under, but it doesn't matter because you'll be down there in the ground sitting in the waiting room, and she'll be in her private jet uh flying back from Washington to San Francisco, unaffected by it whatsoever.
	Uh and that's the difference.
	We're now m th uh a republic of citizen legislators is now decaying, decaying uh into a an Obama clature who make rules that they're not bound by, but you are, and that's the difference.
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	Mark Stein, InfoRush on the EIB network.
	Great to be with you.
	Don't forget Rush returns Thursday.
	Uh Mark Davis will be here tomorrow.
	Let's go to Harold in San Angelo uh uh San Angelo, I beg your pardon, San Angelo in Texas.
	Uh Harold, you're live on the Rush Limbo show.
	Great to have you with us.
	Yes, uh Angelo.
	The first Parker, who used to be on the baby crockett.
	Oh, right.
	Yeah, and the guy who is responsible for selling millions of coonskin hats to a uh Coonskin caps to a generation of uh not just Americans, but uh kids all around the world.
	You could go to grimy housing projects in Scotland in the nineteen fifties, and all the little types would be running around with their coonskin caps on.
	Great man, Fess Parker.
	That's my town.
	And it doesn't be that it's also the whole place of uh Kenneth Bonto.
	The Banchar idea of fee span.
	Oh, right.
	Well, that's not so good.
	On the whole, I'd prefer the Koopskin cap.
	I I'd rather go with Festparker and the Coonskin caps than C span.
	Maybe I don't know what would the what does the C and C's uh span stand for?
	Coonskin?
	If it was Coonskin span, it'd be a whole other thing.
	But uh otherwise I think I'll go with Fess Parker there.
	Great to have you with us, uh Harold.
	What's what's your point?
	And I'll if you're in Fernandelo, Texas.
	I have two points to make.
	There is a system in the world that has been around since eighteen eighty-three.
	Initiated by uh Bismarck.
	Right.
	In Germany.
	And it's working very well today.
	In Germany, they only spent ten percent of the GDP on health care, whereas the United States is spending sixteen percent.
	Right.
	Right.
	As far as land delays for treatment, fifteen percent of public and private pensions surveys by the Commonwealth Fund reported wasn't four weeks to see a specialist compared to twenty-four percent of the US.
	I read this from the Forbes article date of September twenty-first, two thousand nine.
	Uh it's an article.
	Well, well, let me let me just make a couple of points there.
	First, when you discuss these things, people say that the United States uh spends more on health care.
	Until uh this bill passed uh a week ago, the United States as such didn't spend anything on health care.
	Uh three hundred million people reach individual decisions uh on what arrangements they want to make for their for their health care, and that adds up to a total sum.
	In, for example, the Dominion of Canada, uh health care is a line item in the budget.
	It's a line item in the budget.
	Every province sets a figure for for what it will spend on health care, and nobody, no individual can go two hundred dollars about uh over that.
	If you want to spend a couple of hundred dollars getting an MRI, you can't.
	You can't.
	That govern that that health care uh f spending is a line item in the budget uh set by the government.
	The United States spends more uh because it's the decision of uh three hundred million individuals.
	Now you mentioned Bismarck.
	When Bismarck created essentially the modern welfare state in the late nineteenth century, uh and this is the difference.
	Uh he at that time uh in the eighteen eighties, German life expectancy was forty-five, forty-five years old.
	And you were entitled to your government pension at seventy under Bismarck.
	Now uh the average German lives till uh seventy-eight, uh, seventy-nine, and you are entitled to your government pension.
	I think they've just put it up to sixty in Germany.
	So in other words, uh they're now paying on a scale uh what Bismarck certainly never intended when he set up the the welfare s welfare state.
	I mean, basically, if you were in the in the eighteen eighties, if you made it to seventy, you were very rare, very unusual, and the German state could afford to pay for you.
	Now everybody, uh with life expectancy that is uh near doubled uh in that hundred and twenty years, uh we now give uh pensions earlier and earlier and earlier in uh in the Republic of Germany.
	Uh so that right there, when you say Germany's doing fine, that right there is unsustainable.
	It's quite it's unaffordable.
	And so you don't look at health care in isolation uh here, Harold.
	What you have to look at is its impact on uh the broader economic indicators.
	Germany is now a purely honorific member of the G7.
	It's got a declining population base.
	It will never actually earn its seat in the G7 again.
	All its major indicators are going down.
	It's uh it's its population is aging rapidly and and the immigrants it's having to import uh to compensate for that uh uh uh uh uh have uh in effect figure out that it's a big welfare racket and get on the welfare thing.
	Now you talk about, again, just take a basic uh um uh economic indicator.
	Forty percent of college educated women in Germany are childless.
	So who's gonna pay for that system in the future?
	I have a lot of respect for Steve Forbes and Forbes magazine.
	But if he thinks Germany is an example of a healthy society, uh he's lost his mind.
	Uh because Germany Germany is in steep and irreversible decline.
	In Eastern Germany, in eastern Germany, Harold, the population is emptying out so fast uh that they are ha that the sewers are aren't getting enough traffic, if you'll pardon pardon my being discreet about it, uh, for them to flow properly.
	So they're having to spend huge amounts of government money to narrow the sewers uh to cope with the reduced flow in these government towns.
	It's the precise opposite of what the all the scare stories of the Liberals.
	You know, when the Liberals talk about sustainable growth, the problem in Germany they've got is sustainable lack of growth, sustainable lack of growth.
	Germany is not in any sense a healthy society, Harold.
	Well, uh I suspect the bestware Mr. Limbaugh is today.
	Uh you said he was halfway around the world somewhere.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Is that am I correct in that?
	You think he's in Germany?
	Uh but say he's in Germany.
	You you okay, we're gonna we're gonna put uh we're gonna put Harold down for Germany, and don't forget we're gonna have a big draw and uh and the lucky winner who identifies uh the correct jurisdiction in which Russia's been scouting for still functioning health care systems will win their very own uh Rush Limbaugh guest host.
	Uh obviously the guy will be called Mark, could be me, could be Mark Davis, could be Mark Berling.
	We've got a whole ton of marks uh and uh and and you'll win your very own Rush Limbaugh guest host.
	Uh if it is me, though, I should warn you, I don't I can't keep up the accent for more than three hours.
	So it it gets it stood as in the fourth hour.
	If you want me to like amuse your friends in your rec room and everything, it all starts going off after three or four hours.
	Anyway, great thanks for your call.
	Thanks for your call, Harold.
	Lots more straight ahead on the Rush Libor show.
	Mark Stein in for Rush on the EIB network.
	Mark Stein in for Rush on the EIB network.
	Mark Davis will be here tomorrow.
	Uh and over here, Rush will be back and might even reveal the undisclosed location he's been in on uh Thursday.
	You know, we were talking about the unfortunate condition of that Chinese farmer with the man boobs, as they call them, that he's being treated for.
	Sumo suits.
	Do you know these things?
	The plastic novelties that can transform a skinny sports fan into a comically unstable figure for the delight of a stadium audience are racist and dehumanizing instruments of oppression, according to the student government of Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario.
	They appropriate an aspect of Japanese culture and devalue an ancient and respected Japanese sport, rich in history and cultural tradition, and fail to capture the deeply embedded histories of violent and subversive oppression uh that the group has faced.
	This is all in the two-page apology letter.
	Cancelling a fundraiser that was supposed to feature two people, two students in sumo suits.
	They've now been forced to apologize for marginalizing members of the Queen's University community.
	I w uh this is the tragedy of uh a world of politically political correctness.

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