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April 13, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 13, 2010, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 247 Podcast.
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Yesterday we had the story out of Miami Fort Lauderdale of a woman who needed a transplant in order to live after undergoing numerous treatments, chemotherapy, and such for cancer.
Social Security Administration called her up and solicited her son to be on Social Security Disability Aid.
She accepted, and this put her over the income threshold.
Basically made her ineligible for any future medical treatment.
This story was first reported by WFOR Eyeball News in Miami.
This is what we said about the program yesterday.
Now, I imagine, with all the attention this story is going to get, that there will be somebody come in and a white night save the day and suggest, oh, there was a mistake happened.
I'm sorry.
So we'll see now that since this story has received a lot of attention, especially now.
We'll just see if an exception isn't made here, or some step is taken.
If that happens, don't forget what caused it.
And that is existing federal rules.
This morning on uh WFOR TV CBS Eyeball News 4 at 6.
Co-anchor Cynthia Demas and co-anchor Juwan Strader reported this about the cancer victim Diana Smith.
A South Florida woman will now be able to get a life-saving surgery.
Diana Smith is battling a form of leukemia and needs a bone marrow transplant.
She managed to raise enough money to pay for it herself, thanks to, of course, friends and the community.
But then last week she suddenly found out her Medicaid coverage was dropped.
Several lawmakers have jumped in to help, and Smith will have the surgery later this week.
We've been doing this story, picked up on the radio.
Rush Limbaugh was crediting us with the information he was reading.
It's awesome, and it shows that we have a very giving community.
I say that so much, but it's so true.
So it all worked out exactly as we knew it would work out here yesterday after uh making the story one of national significance.
By the way, speaking, she is uh she's a leukemia victim.
We have our annual curaton.
Uh 20th anniversary this Friday of the annual radio thon.
We do the Curathon to Cure, to find a cure for leukemia and lymphoma.
And uh, you know, last year we were in the midst of a giant economic downturn.
A recession was kicked in in full gear, unemployment was mounting.
We went into it uh with hardly any expectations.
Every year we have exceeded the money raised a previous year.
But last year, there's no way.
I mean, we just can't we're we'll do what we can here, and everybody from me on down, or from me on up, depending on your perspective, was stunned.
Because last year we broke a record.
The previous year was a record, and last year we broke it in the midst of an economic downturn, and the uh the anchor here on WFRR F O R T V C B S4 Eyeball News 6, very correct, talking about we have a very giving community.
This country is a very giving country, uh, regardless of economic times.
We've got the curaton coming up for the 20th time, our 20th anniversary, on Friday, just as a reminder.
Now, I've told you about um uh Jason Matera, big fan of this program, sent me a letter with his book, uh Obama Zombies, uh, saying uh that I had played a uh an instrumental role in inspiring him and motivating him to seek his own niche in the media as a career.
And he has done it.
He is he's tracking people down and asking them questions that if they were a Republican, they would be asked daily.
This is in March.
This happened last month on Capitol Hill while walking in the hallway.
We have a montage of an exchange here between the author and journalist Jason Matera and Barney Frank.
With a bad economy oil, do you think you can give me advice on how to start my own brothel?
So you have experience in these matters.
Maybe I have to make some extra cash on the side.
No, but he's really too silly to talk to you.
Too silly?
Now you had one running out of your own your apartment.
I know your buddies on the house cleared you, but you didn't you didn't think something was up?
I mean your house didn't like smell a little funny at night when you return.
No, because it was not in my house, it was in your apartment, yeah.
No, it wasn't in my business.
And there was no prostitution activity going on in the basement apartment that I love you.
No prostitution activity in the basement apartment.
I lived in that.
We've had Steve Gobey, who was Barney's significant other at the time on this program saying the opposite.
And uh Golby, of course, uh got his parking tickets fixed uh by uh by Barney.
It uh it continued.
I want to know, you know, how can we expect change from someone like you when you turned a blind eye towards Fannie May's corruption because they were stuffing your campaign coffers and you were having sexual relations for one of their executives.
No, of course by the man I was living with was not an executive.
He had an entry-level job beginning in 1990.
So you're telling me Fannie Mae is insolvency.
You're saying Fannie Mae's insolvency wasn't wasn't pillow talk at night.
No.
And I'm telling you that your refusal to listen to speak well for your interest in having changed.
I'm no, you're not, you keep interrupting me.
No, I'm not you said you said you keep doing it.
You wanted to roll the dice on Fannie Mae.
And now my generation is stuck with the debt.
You guys are executing.
Now, if if if Barney Frank were a Republican, I mean this is the kind of stuff he'd be peppered with each and every day.
This is Jason Matera, the journalist author.
And the final portion of the exchange is next.
And you didn't talk about subsidized housing with him or rolling the dice ever.
I did talk about my skepticism about the policy of Both Clinton and Bush of getting low-income people into ownership.
My view was always that that was a mistake.
That in fact they should be helped to rent housing.
And I was very critical of Bolt Clinton's and Bush's policy to push low-income people into buying houses they couldn't afford.
What?
He was critical of Clinton and Bush for getting people into low-income or low-income people into housing when they should have been renting.
Bush, Bush is who tried to stop this.
It was Barney Frank and Chris Dodd who conceived that well, it was actually conceived by Carter, uh, and it was given life by Clinton, and then Barney Frank and Chris Dodd expanded on the uh on the program.
Uh and I hear Barney is out there saying, Now I'm sure Jason was stunned, which is why he was rendered silent when Barney was no, no, no, I was trying to stop this.
I was trying to make sure that these people were not uh loaned money or lent money to be able to uh to buy houses.
Jason Matera.
Uh you'll be hearing a lot about him.
Ben Rothisberger spoke yesterday at the Pittsburgh Steelers Southside Practice Facility after he had been uh cleared of uh any charges being filed in Georgia in relation to um uh a sexual escapade there.
I'd like to begin by expressing gratitude for the thorough investigation process in Georgia.
And the prosecutor's decision not to bring charges.
I know without a doubt, it was the right conclusion.
I don't intend to discuss any details related to the events in Georgia, and I'm happy to put this behind me and move forward.
I am truly sorry for the disappointment and negative attention I brought to my family, my teammates, coaches, the Rooneys, and the NFL.
I understand that the opportunities I have been blessed with are a privilege, and that much is expected of me as a quarterback of the Pittsburgh Steelers.
I absolutely want to be the leader.
This team deserves, valued in the community, and a role model to kids.
Terry Bradshaw, the four-time Super Bowl-winning quarterback of the Steelers, isn't buying any of it.
Our relationship is not any good.
You know.
When I told him to park the motorcycle, he got all right.
Then he had the accident.
And since then, there's you know, he doesn't like me, and I'm learning not to like him.
In my opinion, he has got to realize who he is.
He is an elite athlete in the National Football League.
He is under a magnificent spotlight.
And he has got to be careful about what he does in the offseason.
That's Terry Bradshaw.
Uh responding to uh Roslisberger's statement.
Says, look, I know he wants to break my records.
Go for it.
My job's done.
He ought to, you know, if he wants to go out and wine and dine and do all this stuff, fine, do it after playing football.
He's got to realize who he is.
That's a great point, actually.
A sense of presence.
Realize who he is, quarterback of the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Try this headline, folks.
Health care overhaul will not stop premium increases.
This headline appears in no less than the Los Angeles Times.
Health care overhaul will not stop premium increases.
Baffled by health plans, some lawmakers also seem none too clear.
The New York Times with a story about what's in the health care plan that lawmakers did not know about and are only now learning.
Now the New York Times does this kind of thing to get, you know, win their pulitzers.
They do all this great investigative work after the fact.
Instead of doing all of this great investigative work before the fact and perhaps making sure that something abominable doesn't happen.
Speaking of Pulitzers, Jason Matera would have gotten a pull it to today if Barney Frank were a Republican.
We'll be back.
Sit tight, my friend.
If Barney Frank were a Republican, ladies and gentlemen, he would have experienced Mark Foley's fate.
He would have been gone, and the housing market might well have survived.
If Barney Frank had gone, it could be argued that Barney Frank actually did far worse than Mark Foley.
Foley didn't run a prostitution ring out of his apartment or townhouse or whatever.
Uh and as for interns, I assume Democrats don't want to talk about interns given their hero Bill Clinton and all.
Whatever happened to, oh yeah, Bill Clinton went on to be a famous international citizen after the Monica Lewinsky sexcapade.
If any of these guys had been Democrats, it would have been all over for him, and who knows the damage this country would have been spared.
I'm going to get to this health care stack in the next segment.
Right now, folks, we have some great audio coming up on uh on Obama and this nuclear summit.
They did indeed have breakout sessions.
I was making a joke about it yesterday, and they did indeed have them.
Before that, this is last Friday in Washington, the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
The director of the White House Office for Science and Technology Policy, Dr. John Holdren spoke, and this is a little bit of what he said.
Other countries getting better increases their capabilities to improve the channeling of their countries to improve their economies, and as a result, ultimately to make the world a better and safer place.
We can't expect to be number one in everything indefinitely.
And there you have it from the Obama science advisor, John Holdren.
We cannot expect to be number one in everything indefinitely.
This bunch happily presiding over America's decline.
America's decline is precisely what is happening.
Hey, we can't expect to be number one in everything uh forever.
Why not?
Why not?
Why do we not even aspire to that?
Here's Obama, another summit, more breakout groups.
Illicit trafficking and smuggling.
That will be our focus this morning.
We have the opportunity to strengthen the International Atomic Energy Agency, the IAEA, with the resources and authorities it needs to meet its responsibilities.
That will be our focus at our working lunch.
We have The opportunity as an international community to deepen our cooperation and to strengthen the institutions and partnerships that help prevent nuclear materials from ever falling into the hands of terrorists.
And that will be our focus this afternoon.
They already have fallen into the hands of terrorists.
What the hell's Iran?
What the hell is North Korea?
Terrorists already have access to nuclear materials.
This is uh this is Obama again presiding over America's decline.
Sitting there discussing um strengthening everybody else but weakening the United States, which is what this is really all about.
And they actually had a breakthrough.
Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yahoo!
I am so pleased to announce that President Lee has agreed to host the next nuclear security summit in the Republic of Korea in two years.
Well, oh man, oh man, they had a success yesterday, folks.
They're gonna have another summit in two years in South Korea.
Katie Kurik could barely bottle her enthusiasm.
Tonight, saving the world, leaders from all over the globe come to Washington with one goal: keeping terrorists from getting their hands on nuclear weapons.
Saving the world.
Terrorists already have nuclear weapons, or soon will have, i.e., Iran, Mahmood, Ahmadini Zad.
That's why we're cutting missile defense, right?
We're cutting missile defense because Iran's soon to be nuke.
We're cutting missile defense.
We are weakening the United States.
We're trying to show them that our moral leadership, that we can lead the world on disarmament.
And of course, moral leadership is not what works with terrorists or any other type of bad guy.
Here's Anderson Cooper last night.
President Obama kicking off a nuclear security summit of the White House, 47 nations participating.
His effort's a lot like former President Ronald Reagan, so why are so many Republicans criticizing him?
This is why so many people don't watch Anderson Cooper.
His effort is a lot like former President Reagan, so why are so many Republicans critic?
Because Reagan's name's being taken in vain here.
There is absolutely no similarity whatsoever in Obama and Reagan.
This is Carter.
If you want to have any similarity, this is Carter, and the way he would approach things and did approach things, Obama is simply the second term of Jimmy Carter.
I can't, these people can't figure it out.
Even people on our side.
The era of Reagan is over.
Our people running around, we can't we can't use Reagan's policies anymore, Russia.
We need to modernize it.
Reagan, the era of Reagan is over.
I mean, we had all kinds of prominent conservatives in and out of our media say that.
And yet the left invokes Reagan any time they want to give credibility to one of their own in virtually anything.
Well, let's go back to March 23rd, 1983, the White House.
President Reagan addressing the nation live about defense and national security.
And you tell me, if this sounds anything like Obama.
Since the dawn of the atomic age, we've sought to reduce the risk of war by maintaining a strong deterrent and by seeking genuine arms control.
Deterrence means simply this: making sure any adversary who thinks about attacking the United States or our allies or our vital interests concludes that the risks to him outweigh any potential gains.
Once he understands that, he won't attack.
We maintain the peace through our strength.
Weakness only admites aggression.
This strategy of deterrence is not changed.
It still works.
And we're in the process of changing it.
We're getting rid of our defenses.
We're pairing them back, and yet they want to say that Obama is doing exactly what Reagan did.
There it couldn't be further apart.
Here's more from the same national address, March 23rd, 1983, from the White House.
I know that all of you want peace, and so do I. I know too that many of you seriously believe that a nuclear freeze would further the cause of peace.
But a freeze now would make us less, not more secure, and would raise, not reduce, the risks of war.
It would be largely unverifiable and would seriously undercut our negotiations on arms reduction.
It would reward the Soviets for their massive military buildup while preventing us from modernizing our aging and increasingly vulnerable forces with their Present margin of superiority.
Why should they agree to arms reductions knowing that we were prohibited from catching up?
Now you tell me this sounds like Barack Obama.
Barack Obama is the antithesis of Ronald Reagan in virtually any way you can imagine.
And you people in the media need to be ashamed of yourselves or worse.
This template, this narrative out there that Obama is simply doing what Reagan's doing, and why are we not happy about it?
You impugn the memory of Ronald Reagan when you associate anything this little man-child five-minute career inexperienced community organizer does, and compare that to anything Ronald Reagan did or wanted to do.
It is an embarrassment, and you're not fooling anybody who was alive during the 80s and knows full well what Ronald Reagan was all about.
And it just still amazes me that you people who despise Reagan to this day feel the need to revive him to give your little president some sort of credibility he has not earned.
By the way, uh, ladies and gentlemen, you just heard the soundbite of President Reagan 1983 in the national address to the uh country, uh, suggesting he was opposed to the nuclear freeze.
The one thing that we have been allowed to see that Obama wrote in college while at Columbia was an article supporting the nuclear freeze.
I have it right here.
In my formerly nicotine-stained fingers.
And these clowns in the uh discredited government-run media have the audacity to try to say that Reagan and Obama are oriented toward the same thing, and we have a we have a great breakout.
Yes, we're gonna have another nuke summit in South Korea in two years.
President Obama, when we have a summit in North Korea, that is when North Korea is gone, that will be success.
You see, Barack, you you like people to compare you to Reagan, even though you hated Reagan and his domestic policies, and you wrote about that and you spoke about it.
Reagan destroyed the Soviet Union.
You are re-establishing the Soviet Union, Obama.
Reagan put missiles in West Berlin or some of the uh in uh in uh Western Europe, and Obama put our missiles in a dust bin.
There is no comparison whatsoever.
Reagan would have been focused on destroying our enemies, not coddling them, and certainly not apologizing to them for his own country.
Now we've had Republicans, as I said moments ago, say that the era of Reagan is over, and we have liberals now saying that Obama is Reagan.
Let me be clear about this.
The era of Reagan is never over because the era of liberty and security and capitalism is never over.
Reaganism is simply constitutional freedom.
Freedom will never go out of style.
Reagan and his era will never be over.
As for Obama, one day he's said to be Lincoln, one day he's said to be FDR, one day he is said to be Reagan.
This is said to build up Obama for he has no significant accomplishments of his own.
Zip Zero Nada.
You guys on the left, doesn't it bother you and all that your guy has to be compared to Ronald Reagan, so he appears to have some chops, some cred, some street cred.
Obama is Obama.
He is not FDR, he's not Lincoln, he's not Reagan.
Obama is Obama, which means Obama is a failure.
He will always be a failure because Obama does not learn from experience from evidence or from history.
He has his agenda, he's hellbent on pushing it, he is presiding over the decline of the United States of America, and he is doing so happily and purposefully.
One more soundbite from President Reagan, March 23rd, 1923, 83 from the White House.
The calls for cutting back the defense budget come in nice simple arithmetic.
They're the same kind of talk that led the democracies to neglect their defenses in the 1930s and invited the tragedy of World War II.
We must not let That grim chapter of history repeat itself through apathy or neglect.
We will send a signal of decline of lessened will to friends and adversaries alike.
Free people must voluntarily, through open debate and democratic means, meet the challenge that totalitarians pose by compulsion.
It's up to us, in our time, to choose and choose wisely between the hard but necessary task of preserving peace and freedom and the temptation to ignore our duty and blindly hope for the best while the enemies of freedom grow stronger day by day.
And now that uh freedom's enemies are growing stronger day by day, aided and abetted by President Obama.
So I don't want to hear it anymore.
I don't want to hear from little nitwits like Anderson Cooper or whoever else in government-run media.
Wonder why Republicans are upset when Obama is just continuing the work of Ronald Reagan.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
Obama is simply pursuing the agenda that he has had since he was an undergrad at Columbia University.
The one article that he's written that we have been allowed to see is when he supports and makes the case for a nuclear freeze.
Now we have a recent poll from Carville and Greenberg which uh which said that uh Obama needed to be tougher on terrorism.
Right, so this is how he does it.
He pretends that disarming is how we're gonna beat the terrorists.
We're disarming, we're taking down missile defenses.
We're reducing our own stockpiles.
And that's how we're gonna beat the terrorists.
And somebody wants to tell me that that has any resemblance whatsoever to Ronaldo's Magnus.
You know, when Obama tries to talk tough, but he can't even pull that off.
Talking tough, whittling away our big stick on purpose.
A man who is doing what Obama is doing in the area of national security and nuclear defense and so forth, would only be doing it if he thought and thinks that the problem in the world is the United States.
There is no other explanation for this.
By the way, Michelle Obama, Dr. Joe Biden arrived in Port-au-Prince, Haiti today.
He landed about 1040 this morning.
They took a helicopter tour of Port au Prince, which is the devastated Haitian capital.
More than a million people are homeless.
Many are living underneath tents and tarps.
Hades police are struggling to control this this uh city, the ravaged capital.
This is New Orleans on steroids, and where is the reporting on how all of our I guess Obama's afraid to go in there?
Sends Michelle and Dr. Joe Biden in there, and a bunch of Hollywood celebrities are going in there.
Now remember, we had all kinds of stories when this uh earthquake happened.
Yeah, watch the U.S. response is gonna make it's gonna make Bush and what he did at Katrina look like rank amateurs.
Well, we haven't done a damn thing.
I mean, it's it's this is New Orleans on steroids.
And where is the media offering its analysis and criticism?
Well, of course, it's a rhetorical question.
I don't expect an answer to it.
I asked the question to simply make a point.
Where are the preachers?
And I know where the religious people, where are all of these where are the pictures?
Where are the pictures of the suffering?
Where are the helicopter shots of all the people living underneath these tents and tarps?
Where are they?
You see, if we don't see pictures, it doesn't happen.
If they don't show us pictures, it hasn't happened.
Okay, now to the health care stack.
Health care overhaul will not stop premium increases.
LA Times.
Ladies and gentlemen, none of this will come as a surprise to you or to me.
But it is a surprise to most of the advocates of Obamacare.
The new law doesn't prevent rate hikes, such as Anthem Blue Cross's double-digit increase last year of 39%.
And remember, Obama still running around trying to sell his health care plan by pointing out the anthem Blue Cross 39% rate increase, thinking it's not going to happen anymore.
We've put controls on them.
They're not going to be able to do that.
They're going to go through our commission, and we're not going to let them do that.
We're going to make sure that doesn't happen.
Guess what?
The law doesn't prevent these rate hikes.
It's a very big loophole, says California Senator Diane Feinstein, who is pushing regulatory legislation to correct the error.
Public outrage over double digit rate hikes for health insurance may have helped push Obama's health care overhaul across the that's not what did it.
Bribes, backroom deals, pretending the Constitution didn't exist.
That's what pushed the health care bill over the finish line.
What is this?
It didn't.
The double digit increases Anthem Blue Cross did not move public opinion in favor of the health care bill.
Who wrote this?
Noam Levy, another incompetent, disguised as a journalist in government controlled media.
Public outrage over double digit, the public outrage is over the passage of this debacle.
And it's increasing, Gnome.
And the public outrage is because of how it happened.
As I mentioned, bribes, backroom deals, the kind of thing that you'd be writing a story putting the Anthem Blue Cross CEO in jail if he had done similar things running his business.
If the Anthem Blue Cross CEO had done anything remotely like what Harry Reid did, or Pelosi or Obama, you would be demanding jail and a life sentence, if not the death penalty.
In the meantime, you applaud Obama for governing against the will of the people, and you praise Obama and all these Democrats for a great bill and claim that it was outrage over the double-digit rate increase at Anthem Blue Cross that pushed the bill over the line.
Fraud, deceit, and near criminal activity got this bill over the line.
And all these Democrats that voted for it are now quitting, retiring, resigning, or switching parties so as not to have to pay the price.
Now, Mr. Levy writes, the new law does not give regulators the power to block similar increases in the future.
But now, wait a minute, folks.
I thought I thought the whole thing was about insurance reform.
You know, it it changed, it metamorphosized, metamorphosed, meta it it it uh I'm from real Linda today.
It evolved.
It evolved during the course of its uh lifespan.
I mean, it would start it out we're gonna reform the health care system.
And then we're gonna reform the insurance and health insurance reform.
And yet the new law does not give regulators the power to block double-digit rate increases.
And now with some major companies already moving to boost premiums and others poised to follow suit, millions of Americans may feel an unexpected jolt in the pocketbook.
Well, that may be true for certain millions of Americans who have been misled by people like the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times and CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, Newsweekends, who all reported this health care bill was a panacea.
That it was gonna for how else do you explain people showing up the next day wanting free health care from the doctor or hospital?
What do you mean I don't qualify?
They signed a bill yesterday, I want my free MRI.
Uh no, you don't qualify.
Well, when will I?
Whoa, we don't really know.
The fact is you won't.
Health care is going to become less.
It's going to become scarce, it's going to become rationed.
The intelligent among us, all of this audience and even more, understood, and that's why one of the reasons why the Tea Party exists.
If you must cover everyone and everything, you must raise premiums.
If you're going to enroll 32 million more people, you're two things are going to happen at least.
Premiums are going to go up, and we're going to have a doctor shortage.
Pure and simple.
It's not a loophole.
It's business.
What is this loophole?
Allowing double-digit rating.
It's called business.
It's how private sector capitalism works.
It's called supply and demand.
Although Democrats promised greater consumer protection, the overhaul does not give the federal government broad regulatory power to prevent increases.
Now ask yourselves a question.
Why not?
They said that it did.
They said it was going to lower the deficit.
It was the only way to avoid bankrupting the country was to pass this bill.
And it's going to lower costs.
It's going to expand access to coverage.
And we're going to reform these evil insurance companies, and we're going to make sure they don't allow you or screw you with double digit rate increases.
And yet, the bill does not give the federal government broad regulatory power to prevent increases.
I want you to think about that for a minute during the break.
How can that be?
How can that be with all that these politicians were saying about it on the Democrat side?
How did that not happen?
How did they fail?
Why did they fail to give themselves or the administration the power to regulate even big health insurance?
So Haiti has disappeared off the map.
Its media mentions, you need a microscope to find them.
They don't talk about it anymore.
Would it be fair to say, ladies and gentlemen, Obama just doesn't care about black people?
This is obviously what was said about Bush during Katrina.
Bush obviously doesn't care about who said it, Kanye West?
Yeah, Bush didn't care about black people.
Well, I mean, you got many more black people in a world of big time steroid hurt over in Haiti.
And Obama sends his wife and Dr. Jill Biden for a helicopter tour.
Oh, oh, sorry, he did set up a website for you to donate, and I forgot about that.
Bush never did that.
Yeah.
I'll guarantee you, if the president were white and Republican, we would be hearing that the failures in Haiti are because he doesn't like black people.
He is racist.
More from the LA Times story on the shock.
Discovering there's no way to stop double-digit rate increases in health insurance, at least in the short term.
Regulators will be able to do little more than require insurers to publicly exp publicly explain why they want to raise rates, which is going to require a lesson in economics.
Which is all good.
Why didn't Obama just sign an executive order banning the laws of economics?
Do it with anything else.
Consumer advocates think that'll not be an effective deterrent against premium increases such as the 39% hike at Anthem Blue Cross.
The lack of muscle in the bill, his stoking concerns that more rate jumps and an angry backlash from ratepayers could undermine support for implementing the health care overhaul.
Oh, yeah, it's a tragedy out there.
Oh my, what are we gonna do?
After all of this, after all the bashing of the insurance companies, after all the promises that these kinds of rate increases will never ever again happen.
There's nothing in the bill to stop them.
Obama said people are gonna get excited when they found out what was in the bill.
Pelosi said we had to pass the bill so people find out what's in it.
Didn't Feinstein read the bill?
And what about Obama?
Does he ever have to answer any questions about the huge screw-ups in this bill?
No, he's never asked about them.
The next story, baffled by health plans, some lawmakers also seem none too clear.
This is a New York Times story, an investigative story that's just perfect for the Times.
They do all the investigating after the deeds done, rather than doing all the investigating to prevent the bad deed from being done.
You know what they have discovered in the health care bill?
This is folks, uh this story is actually one of the best, greatest, most wonderful, funny, deserving, delicious news stories I've ever read, and it's a bonus that it's in the New York Times.
Congress wrote a law, Obama signed it, that wait for it, wait for it, kicks Congress out of the federal employees' health program.
You've heard I'm not kidding you.
You've heard Obama say that he wants to give every citizen this access to health care that every member of Congress has.
Oh, what's happened is Congress has lost its access.
They have to go on whatever public plan we all have to go on.
It's in the bill.
Nobody knew it until it was passed.
There is a God.
There is a God in heaven.
He has a fabulous sense of humor.
Details coming up.
So, have you thought about the question I asked?
Why did they not put something in this bill to stop double digit rate increase?
If you thought about it, I'll give you a pretty good possibility.
They want these rate increases.
They want Anthem Blue Cross to be raising 39%, 40%.
They want to be able to say, see, we try to control these people, but they are so greedy.
They are so greedy, even with this massive bill, they're trying to screw the American people, even after our bill.
This is about further discrediting the private sector, health insurance company, and eventually pushing everybody toward a public option.
The government as the savior against high prices.
Possibility.
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