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April 13, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 13, 2010, Tuesday, Hour #2
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Now look, if a New York Times is right, and who are we to doubt them?
If Congress is not covered by their current insurance plan, doesn't that mean that they don't get to keep the plan that they like?
Obama ran around and said, if you like the plan you're in, you like the doctor, you can keep it.
But somehow, Congress has just lost its own health care plan in the health care bill.
Greetings and welcome back, Rush Limbaugh behind the golden EIB microphone here at the Limbaugh Institute.
Telephone number, and we will get to your phone calls whenever soon this hour, 800-282-2882 and the email address L Rushmow at EIBNet.com.
You notice how these politicians who voted for this health care law now act like they had nothing to do with it?
They act like they're spectators and they're outraged over how this happened.
Feinstein's wondering, how in the world is there no uh control mechanism in there to prevent double-digit rate increases for health insurance company?
Did you not read the bill?
Senator Feinstein voted for it.
They all get to act like spectators.
They didn't know this about it, they didn't know that about it.
You see how they play this game, folks?
They talk about what was supposed to be, they talk about what is going to be, they never want any accountability for what is.
Obama never has to answer any questions about the huge screw-ups in his bill or anything else that he does.
And if Congress, folks, I look a serious question here.
If Congress is not covered by their current insurance plan, and who's going to pay for Harry Reed's hemorrhoid surgery, and I say that only because he looks like he's running around in pain.
He's either constipated or have hemorrhoids, because he looks like he's got that kind of pain every day.
Here's the story.
And I uh it's it's just it's too delicious.
Baffled by health plans, so are some lawmakers.
Robert Pear of the New York Times.
It's often said that the new health care law will affect almost every American in some way.
Who said that?
Who said that other than us?
In a new report, the Congressional Research Service says the law may have significant unintended consequences for the personal health insurance coverage of senators, representatives, and their staffers.
For example, it says the law may remove members of Congress and congressional staff from their current coverage in the federal employees' health benefits program before any alternatives are available.
The confusion raises the inevitable question.
If they did not know exactly what they were doing to themselves, did lawmakers who wrote and passed the bill fully grasp the details of how it would influence the lives of other Americans?
Well, where in the hell has that question been?
This is exactly my point.
They do this investigative stuff after the fact, they'll get a Pulitzer for this.
Where was this question before the vote took place?
Where has this question been for a whole year?
Of course they didn't know.
This was not about health care, Mr. Pear.
Doesn't this now make it obvious this is not about health care reform?
This is about control.
This is about winning.
They'll worry about all these details later.
This is an amazing paragraph.
The confusion raises the inevitable question, if they didn't know exactly what they were doing to themselves, did the lawmakers who wrote and pass the bill fully grasp the details of how it would influence the lives of other Americans?
Hell no.
All they knew was they were gaining more federal control over people's lives, and they'll work about the details later.
Problem is they're going to lose their majority.
They're going to lose their working majorities in November, and the chances, I mean, we're setting up here for a great case to be made for repeal in any number of ways.
The law promises that people can keep coverage they like, largely unchanged, but for members of Congress and their aides, the federal employees' health program offers much to like.
But the report says men and women who wrote the law may find the guarantee of stability does not apply to them.
It's unclear whether members of Congress and congressional staff who are currently participating in the federal health plan may be able to retain the coverage.
And even if current members of Congress can stay in the popular program for federal employees, that option will probably not be available to newly elected lawmakers, the report says.
Moreover, the strictures of the new law will apply to staff members who work in the personal office of a member of Congress, but they may or may not apply to people who work on the staff of congressional committees and in leadership offices like those of the House Speaker or the Democrat-Republican leaders and whips in the two chambers.
Now, Mr. Pear, we knew this.
We reported this very fact numerous times before the vote.
But here is the August New York Times now just learning of it because the Congressional Research Service has just told them.
These seemingly technical questions will affect 535 members of Congress and thousands of congressional employees.
But the issue also has immense symbolic and political importance.
Lawmakers of both parties have repeatedly said that their goal is to provide all Americans with access to health insurance as good as what Congress has.
So Congress must now decide what steps, if any, it can take to deal with the problem.
It could try for a legislative fix or it could adopt internal policies to minimize any disruptions.
So, folks, Joe Biden was right.
This is a big effing deal.
I mean it is.
This is why you repeal the thing, aborted the whole thing.
This whole thing might have been avoided.
That and the fact that no mechanism to stop double-digit rate increases in the bill.
If there had been any transparency, if the bill had been posted for five days before the vote, as Obama promised, maybe some of the state-controlled media would have figured this out in time.
Maybe some of this could have been avoided if the bill would have been posted.
Might have been avoided if Obama wasn't the least experienced, least accomplished man to ever occupy the Oval Office.
He's the least experienced and least accomplished man in whatever room he walks into.
He's not qualified to run anything, and this proves it.
His health insurance control bill kicked Congress out of their cushy plan.
And it's all in the New York Times.
Of all places, the New York Times is going to get a pull itcher here for digging up the dirt.
That Obama plan, Obama health care, kicks Congress out of their cushy plan.
The Republicans better do more here than just ridicule the Democrats.
They've got an opportunity here to reject this whole thing.
During the Great Recession here.
Go out, buy your own insurance, rejoin the people you represent.
Actions speak louder than words, act now and bury this monster.
Because this is what we're just in the uh second or third week after passage here.
And look at look at all the stuff that we're sure to learn in coming weeks and days.
And as this stuff continues to come out, guess what?
Public opposition to the bill is going to grow.
Now, I don't know, you know, public opposition to Congress getting kicked out of their plan.
That will not be opposed.
The people will support that.
But it's not going to be enough to affect the overall trend in the approval numbers of the bill, which is tanking.
The people who oppose this bill as expressed in polling data is an ever-increasing numbers.
Now, if the Congressional Research Service can go to the trouble to figure out what this bill does to Congress, could we ask the Congressional Research Service to try to figure out what the bill does to us?
It's unclear, even to the Congressional Research Service, even after careful analysis what this all means.
What internal policies can we adopt to minimize disruptions to our health care insurance?
You notice the tone of the story is, oh my gosh, this is so sad for Congress.
This is so sad.
Well, what are the what remedies does Congress have?
Well, maybe they can do some internal legislation or have some minor regulations change, or maybe do a legislative as though we're supposed to sit here and feel sorry for them.
They screwed up their own bill and their own coverage.
Nobody from the Congressional Research Service on down or up is asking what's in the bill for us.
And things that we don't like, things taken away from us.
What can we do?
What can we do to minimize disruptions to our health care insurance?
Even if they had posted the bill for five days, it's two thousand seventy-four pages.
Who could have read it in five days and made any sense of it?
It's all legal ease, and it's what John Conyers even said.
Chairman of the judiciary.
Well, I'm not going to read the bill.
You need five lawyers, translators to read it.
We don't read the bills here.
Alcy Hastings rules.
What rules?
I mean, we make them up as we go along.
And no rules.
And apparently there's no common sense whatsoever in this legislation.
Everything that we feared that this debacle is slowly and surely coming to light and will soon be realized by practically everybody.
Remember, these screw ups, eh, you'll fix them.
The point was to win.
And the point was to gain as much control over the private sector as possible.
Quick timeout, folks.
We'll get to your phone calls when we come back.
Okay, let's go to the phones.
800 282-2882.
And we start in Omaha.
This is Andrea.
Great to have you with us.
Hello.
Hi, Rush Mega Ditto from Omaha, Heartland of America.
Thank you very much.
And um thanks for taking my call.
I one of the things related to the health care bill that I think has gotten very little attention, but it's frustrating.
Millions of parents like myself with a graduating high school senior is the uh student loan program.
Um you know, this is the the time of year where the students are getting their um letters of acceptance and their financial aid package offers.
Right.
And I have a letter on my desk that I have to accept or decline, you know, by the end of this week for the college that my daughter um is going to here in Nebraska.
And the thing is that with the changes in the student loan program, I can't get any information on you know what's going to happen with it, except that the government's taking it over as of July 1st.
Um, you know, here's what we think you're going to be eligible for in loans.
And you know, an undergraduate student can only borrow in their first year.
They're only eligible for like five thousand dollars in a student loan, which when you have a tuition and room and board of, you know, upwards of over 20,000 a year doesn't make much of a dent, um, even with the scholarships in you know, the case of my daughter.
You dare to express a lack of gratification to the Obama administration.
Five thousand dollars you sneer at.
Say, Pat, it's not that I I you know, I put myself through college and graduate school.
I have a PhD and a doctorate in pharmacy, which I earned last year.
I have, you know, a gazillion dollars in student loans.
I am grateful that I had the chance to put myself through.
But um, to do this at this time of year when we are all trying, you know, us parents are trying to um figure this out for our kids.
And by the way, you know, the financial aid office tells you that the government and they assume that students no longer can put themselves through college, that they will rely on the parents' income as a big part of that formula.
Well, you try to get some answers about where do you apply now?
You know, we all had picked out like direct lenders we were familiar with.
All that's out the the Well now, wait, wait, wait, wait, just a second here, Andrea.
Uh the the Obama program doesn't kick in till July 1st, so can't you still go get a a uh a standard student loan from a lending institution that will soon be put out of business?
I mean the government's just gonna assume those obligations once the program kicks into effect.
Nope, nope, no.
No, apparently not.
So um really of course, though, you know, the other thing I heard on our local radio station that carries your show is that there's some kind of um cap Now that's imposed for families that make a hundred thousand dollars that you're not gonna be your kid isn't gonna be eligible for you know, they have the subsidized and the upsubsidized loans.
And I called Congressman Lee Perry's office last week to try to get some answers about this, and all I got was we don't know what was in the bill, it's too soon.
We were trying to find out, we'll have somebody call you back, and of course it's a week later, and here we are trying to get our financial aid stuff done.
And I know I'm not the only one out there, and here's the thing like I am I a middle class person because I make uh about a hundred thousand dollars a year.
I have two kids in college, and the government, you fill out their stupid FAFSA form, and the government tells me that for each child I can contribute twenty-seven thousand dollars toward their education.
Okay, so if the government takes thirty percent of my income in taxes between state and federal and Medicare and social security, and I'm contributing twenty-seven thousand dollars to each child, then what am I supposed to live on?
I'm wondering.
But they don't take that into account.
Oh, yeah, food stamps.
Yeah.
You know what?
I wouldn't take uh okay.
My grandmother, when she came over here from Italy in the 1900s, lived on beans and dandelion leaves rather than ask people for a handout.
And I'm sorry, but I know Andrea said Andrea, I love you.
You I know you have an answer for everything I'm throwing at you, and therefore you're gonna figure this out.
I have no doubt you're going to figure this out.
You're the kind of person that's gonna figure it out.
But a lot of people are not.
A lot of people are gonna be totally flummoxed by this, and uh and they're gonna be left behind, just like a lot of people think they're gonna get health insurance and coverage and treatment, and they're not, and they're gonna be left behind.
Well, the other thing was um kudos to Senator Kent Conrad, one of my neighbors, I guess, over in South North Dakota, who tried to pull off the Bismarck bank job and get the bank of North Dakota cut out as a special carve out in that program.
Well, but it's a it's a state-run bank.
I mean, it's it's not a private sector bank.
So that was just a that's a that's a a giant trick.
Yeah, well, all of this, and plus the other thing is they keep saying, Oh, all these savings are gonna go into the Pell program.
They lie too, because the Congressional Budget Office actually took some of the savings from the government taking over the student loans and put it over on the health care side of the bill to balance out the cost.
Oh, we're gonna save this much in student loans, and we're gonna put that on the other side of the balance sheet.
Why don't you try this?
Why don't you try calling whoever you're talking to about this and assure them, even if you have to make it up, even just tell them that you voted for Obama and you plan on voting for him in 2012.
What can they do to help?
Uh well, I'll call Senator Nelson's office with that one.
Do that.
Do that.
Thanks, Russ.
Um, I thought your daughter's already getting a college education.
Well, I have one in college that's finishing up, and I have another one that's gonna start in the fall.
And um, God love her, she's got an academic scholarship and a voice scholarship, and um she's gonna get a lot of money.
That's what you're talking about.
Look at you have you have the mettle to figure this out.
Um you you are you were going to.
Uh I've got a story from the New York Times, uh, what's in the Obama new student loan proposal.
Uh it's a primer.
I'll I'll check it out uh here at the break coming up at the bottom of the hour.
It appears to be actually helpful.
And maybe uh we'll link to it at Rush Limbaugh.com.
You can go there to read it and see if it does offer any uh assistance to you.
Anyway, uh Andrea, thanks much for the call.
I appreciate it.
Folks, Obama bowed again.
He bowed to Hu Xintao, the uh Chinese Chicom leader.
What is with the what is it with this?
You know, there's also a story the American thinker is run a timeline analysis.
Last Saturday, Obama left the White House at uh 920 without the press pool.
He left it on the press pool.
He said that he went to watch one of his daughter's soccer games at it gave the address.
So the press pool gets in a car and they head over to that location.
They get a phone call saying Obama's on the way back.
No, you you've missed him.
Well, some people went and looked at this address, and it's it's not a neighborhood that Obama would let his daughter go to.
Also, Sidwell Friends did not have a soccer game scheduled Saturday morning if you go to their website.
The length of time to travel from the uh White House to this neighborhood location makes it such that wherever Obama went, he only stayed there for 30 minutes and then came back.
The press was initially in a tizzy because there was no press with him.
They told the press to assemble at 1115, and Obama leaves at 920, gets back at 1045, 10.30, something like that.
Nobody knows where he really went.
It doesn't make sense because there was no soccer game scheduled on the Sidwell Friends uh soccer schedule on their website.
Sidwell Friends would not be playing a soccer game in this neighborhood.
The American thinkers posted a picture.
There is a soccer field at this neighborhood, but it's not Sidwell Friends wouldn't send their kids there to play.
Uh well, it it I don't know, it's Clinton-esque, uh, but it it it it's it is curious.
What was he doing out there?
What was he doing?
And of course, the uh the media, this is this is this breaks with decades of tradition.
Uh, but they are not offended by this, as they would be.
I don't know if I don't know if Michelle knows where he went.
I have I have nobody knows.
He went to a soccer game that wasn't played.
Okay, we're back, and I have perused the New York Times story published March of 2009, a year ago.
What's in the new student loan proposal, and here's what's relevant.
And we, by the way, have linked to this now at Rushlimbaugh.com.
Lenders, probably the most controversial part of the proposed budget, involves an issue that most students don't care about, where their loans come from.
Now, their parents will care about that.
The administration wants to get rid of the federally guaranteed student loan program called the Federal Family Education Loan Program.
Under that program, banks and other companies like Sally May have provided loans to students for years at rates set by Congress.
The loans are guaranteed by the government.
Under the Obama proposal, students would borrow directly from the government.
Now they can still borrow from banks, but the loans would not be guaranteed, and the interest rate would not be set by the government.
So apparently, you can still get a student.
If you want to go to a bank and get a loan for your kid to go to school, you can, but it's not going to be in any way guaranteed, and you're not, you're gonna the bank's gonna charge you whatever interest rate you can.
Now, this is a as of a year ago.
I I caution you that this provision could have been changed from the time this whole thing was written to the time it was included in the health care bill.
Remember, we're just learning now about some of the screwier things that are in the health care bill or not in it.
So this could have been changed.
But as of a year ago, the New York Times says you don't have to go to the government to get a loan.
You can go to your bank and get a loan.
And it's not going to be called a student loan.
It's going to be a standard loan for whatever and whatever interest rate you get, you get.
Whatever they charge you, they charge you, and it's not guaranteed by the government.
Otherwise, you got to go through the government to do it.
Loan amounts.
Times says this is actually the more important question for students and families.
The administration aims to provide borrowing options for students to make it easier to pay for college without turning to private lenders, primarily by expanding the Perkins loan program.
So basically, they're taking $70 billion out of the private sector here.
They're administering it themselves.
The administration is.
And we all know why.
This is to give them more control over education in the country, because who can afford to go to college anymore on their own?
They can't.
Most everybody is going to have to take out a loan, even if they get scholarship.
And with Obama in charge of that, you know, somebody gives you money, they have a large say in what you do with it.
Now, currently, undergraduate students can borrow up to $4,000 a year and up to 20,000 overall through Perkins.
The bad news is that interest on Perkins loans would accrue while a student was in college.
That's one of the ways the government envisions paying for all those Pell Grant increases, which I haven't discussed, but they are part of the uh revision here in the student loan program.
one thing this story does not address is the main question that Andrea had, and that is she's got to respond to the college by the end of the week, but she can't get her financing squared away till July 1st when the government takes over the program, so she doesn't know what to do.
The only thing based on this, Andrea, the only thing you can do is go out and get a standard loan for a year or two from a bank at whatever interest rate they charge you, and realize it's not guaranteed, and then after that expires, you pay that off if you can get such a loan, then you go into the student loan program.
I think the big lesson here, there's a huge lesson here.
Well, yeah, that they screw up everything, but that's not the huge lesson.
We know that.
The huge lesson is this is what happens when you become dependent on these people.
This experience, Andrea, is already worth a college education for your daughter.
This is what happens when you have to depend on the government for anything.
And the point is, they're making it impossible for most Americans not to have to depend on government.
They are structuring things so that more and more Americans are going to have to depend on government at one level or many levels during the course of their lives.
The real lesson here is don't depend on them.
Don't get yourself in a situation where you have to have their involvement before you can get anything of any significance done, because they do screw up everything that they touch.
So you can still go to a private bank, Andrea, and you can still get a loan.
But don't think of it as a student loan, not guaranteed, and not uh interest rate is not set by the government.
The bank gets to set that, charge you whatever they want.
All the reform did was take away the federal money from private banks.
Uh so you know the federal money was given to banks, banks loan the money, Congress guaranteed it, Congress set the rates.
That's all changed.
Federal money doesn't go to the banks anymore.
So you can still try to get your own loan by the end of the week.
For at least the first year, first two years.
Under the new law, private banks will no longer handle federally backed student loans.
So if you go get a bank, as I've been saying, if you get a loan from the bank, it will not be federally backed, which is important to some people.
You you but in the end it may be better because you're not tied to the government in any way, shape, manner, or form for the money.
Ted in Boston, welcome to the EIB network, sir.
It's great to have you with her with us.
Mega Mega Ditto's from Boston, Rush.
Thank you, sir.
It's nice to speak with you after all these list uh after all these years of listening to you.
Thank you, sir.
And uh the reason I'm calling is I'm holding here in my hand is I have a notice of assessment from the Massachusetts Department of Revenue.
I don't have health care insurance and I haven't for several years.
And um Mitt Romney signed this the health care law into effect in 2006, and it's just now catching up to people like me who don't have health care and uh have health insurance.
And so I just want everybody to know that um if you don't have health insurance, you're going to get an assessment uh, and I assume that the same thing will be going on at a national level.
Oh, there's no question.
There's no questions.
I mean, that's that's part and parcel of the federal uh health care overhaul, if they remembered to include it in the bill.
So many.
Now let me ask you a question about this, Ted.
Have your costs come down any at all uh with the with the Massachusetts health care bill.
Well, there was a ruling today in court about the health insurers going um, I believe it was against the attorney general to try to raise their rates, and uh they're trying to get an injunction to raise their rates and the state uh fought it, and today I think they the judge ruled uh for the state and that case.
Really, I've been waiting for the outcome of this.
Here's the here's the details on that.
We had this last week.
The insurance companies in Massachusetts are nonprofits.
They wanted to raise rates, the insurance companies that handle eight hundred thousand patients or citizens in Massachusetts.
They wanted to raise rates anywhere between eight and thirty two percent.
Duvall Patrick, the governor, running for reelection, stepped in and in his first campaign act, stood up to the insurance companies, these nonprofits.
Over my dead body, you're not raising rates.
It ain't gonna happen.
Not only that, you are going to, and so the insurance company stopped selling insurance.
It was a losing proposition.
Deval Patrick came back and said, Not only are you going to start selling insurance, you're going to offer quotes to people at last year's rates.
So they sued.
And we were expecting a decision yesterday.
Remember, we didn't hear anything about it yesterday.
Haven't heard anything about it yet today, except from this caller who says that the court sided with the state.
So that the insurance companies cannot raise their rates to meet their expenses.
They are a nonprofit organization, these insurance companies are.
So I don't know where this goes now.
I don't how in the world do these people stay in business?
They're nonprofit to begin with.
Ted thanks and a heads up on that.
We're gonna do some uh research and see if we can find an actual news story on that.
Let's run to audio soundbite number uh number 14.
This is somewhat associated with this.
Last night on Hardball with Chris Matthews, their chief Obama apologist.
Richard Wolf was on there.
Uh he's an author, and so and you know it's tough to assign chief Obama apologist to anybody in MSNBC because the competition is so close.
But we'll give it to Wolf here on a nod.
Matthews says, all right, you keep bringing up the magic name Sarah Palin.
Uh she's talking again this week about death panels.
All they had was a provision that one Congressman suggested, which is you can get payment if you want to get counseling on those issues, like you know, deciding what you do at the end of your life, what kind of treatment you want at the end to keep you alive happens all the time.
Not a death panel.
Palin just made it up.
Death panels got repeated over and over.
We're seeing the same thing again about these 16,000 IRS agents.
Okay, it is gone through the senator's mouths conversation.
Well, tell me the whopper.
The idea is that the IRS is hiring all of these thousands of people to enforce the mandate.
But in fact, the IRS's responsibility is to put out tax credits, not to collect revenue.
Do you believe what you just heard?
The chief Obama apologist at MSNBC just said the idea that the IRS is hiring all these thousands of people to enforce the mandate, but in fact the IRS responsibility is to put out tax credits, not to collect revenue.
The purpose of the IRS is to not collect revenue.
This from Richard Wolfe, the chief apologist for Obama at MSNBC.
So all these thousands of agents have been hired to make sure you get your tax credit handed out to you.
Right.
Uh-huh.
Well, here it is.
Uh uh, ladies and gentlemen, from the Christian Science Monitor, and we got it from NPR.
We have it from the Boston Globe.
A Massachusetts court Monday ruled against health insurance providers seeking to raise their premiums 8 to 32 percent.
Massachusetts enacted a universal health care plan in 2006 that includes politically controversial measures such as the individual mandate requiring all adults to buy insurance, with opponents of the national health care legislation passed two weeks ago promising legal action.
The Massachusetts case was seen as a foretaste, a foretaste of what could lie ahead.
In this instance, the court affirmed that for now at least, the state has the authority to oversee the industry.
Well, why not?
I mean, that's what the whole point of the legislation was.
The fact that they left this out of Obamacare.
It's even funnier now.
There is no mechanism in Obamacare to prevent double-digit rate increases in Massachusetts there is.
The challenge arose from a bid by health insurance providers in Massachusetts several weeks ago to raise their premiums to cover their costs.
These are non-profit companies.
Massachusetts insurance commissioner Joseph Murphy called the increases excessive, noting that the medical consumer price index uh projected a necessary increase of only five percent.
Murphy rejected 235 out of 274 proposed rate increases.
Six insurance companies sued, arguing the state does not have the regulatory authority to cap premiums.
They said they would lose a hundred million dollars without the premium increase, plus even more in the administrative costs of having to redesign their plans.
In addition to the suit, the insurance companies filed a preliminary injunction to prevent the state from regulating their premium increases until the case is decided.
They also asked for an expedited trial.
Suffolk Superior Court Judge Stephen Neal denied the request to expedite the trial and the injunction.
He said that until the health insurance companies exhausted all available administrative remedies within the State Department of Insurance, the court has no jurisdiction.
Only then could the insurance companies move through the normal legal process.
He No, it's not over, but they can't raise their rates.
Who knows how long the trial's gonna, maybe a year.
And before they can even get to the trial, they got to go through all the machinations of a government bureaucracy and explore all the options in the bureaucracy before even bringing the case to court.
The judge added he wanted to avoid stepping in the insurance commissioner's shoes and revising the regulations temporarily until the later court date.
Furthermore, the regulations did not cause irreparable harm because lost profits could later be recouped, the judge said.
I would love to know how do you recoup lost profits.
When you are a nonprofit to begin with, I want to know how you recoup lost profits.
So anyway, the judge sided with the state, and people are looking at this as a foretaste of Obamacare, because this is exactly what people thought Obama was going to do to insurance companies like Anthem Blue Cross.
But we've learned today, that there's no mechanism in the federal health bill to control premiums at all.
The insurance companies are left to their own desires.
If they want to raise rates 39%, they can do it as of now, despite all the promises Obama made.
So, anyway, back to Massachusetts.
What do you do now if you are an insurance company?
Remember, they stopped selling policies.
Uh do you close shop?
You shut down?
I mean, how in the world do you continue to operate here when you face the prospect of losing a hundred million dollars?
And a judge says, don't worry about that, you're gonna recoup that late.
How?
How do you recoup a hundred million dollars that you've lost and not be guilty of overcharging in the future?
And don't think that that won't be something they're accused of.
Here's uh Eric, Pensacola, Florida.
Great to have you on the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Hi, Russ, how are you doing?
Very well, thanks.
Yeah, Rush, I um I was really troubled by some things on the uh the school funding for the school loan program, and uh, it didn't make any sense to me, so I started delving into it a little bit.
Well, I'm an attorney, so I I looked at the law itself, and it appears to me that it's tied to a provision dealing with the National Health Service Corps, which I think some people have talked a little bit about.
Um, and basically what it does by putting the Federal Government in control of student loans, um, in combination with the National Health Service Corps provisions, which I can tell you a little bit about, um, it's basically going to put the federal government in at least nominal control over the funding for medical school training.
Um, the existing National Health Service Corps is is basically the recruiting arm for the Surgeon General's uniform health services.
Yeah.
And it's basically a way to fund doctors and other health professionals who go through their initial training and they incur a service obligation, a lot like you know, military officers, flight training, that kind of thing.
That can be anywhere up to from six years, ten years, or basically anything that the Secretary can play.
Yeah, anything at the Secretary's discretion.
It's in there over a thousand times in this bill.
So it's it's it's like if you graduate from a military academy, you owe them four years.
Exactly, but it's a minimum of six, and and it can be as much as the basic specialty, you know, requires.
And pretty soon they're gonna be able to tell you where you have to go.
Well, but deeper than that, because because the by the federal government becoming the monopolist lender for medical schools, now there may be Yales or Harvards or Princeton's or whatever that have, you know, their own endowments to fund their own, but they're gonna be a vast minority.
Most of the medical school training is gonna be funded by the federal government, which then is going to be able to either lean on or dictate the curriculum in medical schools, and ultimately, you're gonna have a government trained uh doctor who's gonna then be a government.
Hold on, hold on.
I gotta take a break, but I don't want to get rid of you yet.
Just hang on.
We'll be right back.
Obama supporters openly admit, and they are recruiting for members to infiltrate Tea Party protests and gatherings on uh Thursday to uh perform acts which will bring discredit upon the Tea Party.
They're purposely going to infiltrate, they're gonna act like Tea Party members, and they're gonna be a bunch of brats.
Be advised.
They're even advertising that they're gonna do this.
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