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	Yes, the big voice on the right is away today, and it's your small, furtive, creepy foreign accent on the right, sitting in.
	Mark Belling is going to be here tomorrow, and Rush returns for full strength, all-American excellence in broadcasting to take you through the end of the week live on Wednesday.
	I mentioned when I was here on Friday that I was going to be out in Ohio in a beginning of next month, and apparently I confused the date or something.
	So a couple of people asked me to clarify it.
	It's October the 10th at the Ashbrook Center, which is a great center for liberty and for the cause of liberty, and actually highly relevant.
	The name, people, because the Ashbrook Center is at Ashland University, and people get them mixed up.
	I got it mixed up because you think, oh, it's the Ashland Center at Ashbrook University or whatever.
	And it's called the Ashland, Ashland University is named after Ashland the town.
	But Ashbrook, the Center, which is part of Ashland University, if you're following this, if you record it, get out your cassette recorder and record it and play the tape back very slowly, it'll all make sense.
	But the Ashbrook Center at Ashland University in the town of Ashland, Ohio, is named after an Ohio congressman, Congressman Ashbrook, who ran against Nixon in 1972 in the Republican primary, basically because he felt Nixon had wandered too far towards the mushy middle.
	And in fact, way over the mushy middle, he had income and prices controls, which is a socialist thing.
	And he was responsible for the Environmental Protection Agency, which is empowering the big, arbitrary, whimsical, tyrannous, bureaucratic state, which is now more important, the bureaucracy is more important than the President, the House, or the Senate, because basically the bureaucracy is for life, and everybody else comes and goes.
	And you don't need a president for life if you've got a bureaucracy for life.
	When Obama, when he was here on Friday, when I was here on Friday, at the end of the show, he was given a speech somewhere and he said, you always say the thing.
	The trick is always, you'll know this if you're ever like coaching a witness, if you're a lawyer coaching a witness for a trial.
	And you keep saying to them, you know, whatever you do, don't say, oh, there's nothing illegal about it.
	Because immediately the jury thinks, obviously, this is illegal.
	You always say the thing you don't mean to say.
	So on Friday afternoon, Obama said, we're not a banana republic.
	We're not a banana republic.
	In fact, we're actually more sophisticated than a banana republic because you don't need a president for life if you've got a bureaucracy for life.
	And Nixon, one of the worst things of the Nixon years was that he significantly empowered the permanent bureaucracy.
	And Congressman Ashbrook in Ohio decided to primary the guy and ran against him in the primary to his right.
	And I think there's an important lesson there.
	It's not, you don't necessarily have to win.
	It's not necessary to decisively to beat someone in a primary or to beat someone in the general election.
	What you're doing is you're keeping you're keeping real principles and real ideas alive so that the mushy opportunists, squishy politicians of no fixed beliefs who often emerge as the victors in Republican primaries have to keep taking those views into account.
	You keep those political ideas in play.
	And a lot of people in countries that Americans think of as liberal, oftentimes they wind up actually having semi-conservative policies is because the losing Conservative Party is sufficiently alive that the ruling Liberal Party will steal some of their ideas.
	In Canada, the right split in the 1990s, and there were basically the old Progressive Conservative Party split into three parties.
	The Quebec Separatist Party, the Reform Party in Western Canada, which was like a libertarian party, and then the mushy Conservatives in the middle.
	And the Libertarian Party didn't win elections, but it was so successful that it obliged the Liberal Party of Canada to do things to neutralize the appeal of the right-wing party.
	So, for example, it started paying down the debt.
	Imagine that.
	A Canadian Liberal government paid off the national debt.
	I was at a conference somewhere, I think it was a national review, and somebody said, if only we could persuade American Conservatives to be as fiscally responsible as Canadian Liberals.
	The Canadian Liberal government paid down the debt because it was terrified that the Conservative Party would otherwise use their irresponsibility as a rallying cry.
	And that's why when Congressman Ashbrook, when he ran against Nixon, it's important to have people who, however painfully, tug the debate to the right.
	Every time you have someone whose big thing is to move to the mushy middle, to meet your opponents halfway, to surrender half the stuff, to surrender on immigration, to surrender on Obamacare, to surrender on whatever's next to surrender on.
	It's always important to have people to tug them back, tug them back, even if they don't mean it.
	I mean, half these senators saying, oh, I'm going to vote to defend Obamacare.
	They don't care.
	They don't care.
	To them, it's a gesture they're making to avoid primary contests.
	Well, so what?
	So what?
	It's like Milton Friedman says, if you wait to elect the right people to do the right things, you'll be waiting forever.
	You've got to create conditions where the wrong people are forced to do the right things.
	So if all these Republican senators of no fixed beliefs start saying for entirely opportunist reasons to avoid primaries or whatever, no, I'm going to vote to defund Obamacare, that's good.
	That's absolutely necessary.
	And that's what this Congressman Ashbrook did from Ohio when he ran against Nixon because he felt Nixon was moving too far to the left in 1972.
	And I'm going to be out there on October the 10th, October the 10th, at the Renaissance Theatre or Renaissance Theatre, I guess you say, in this fine country.
	Apologies to anybody in Madsfield, Ohio, for mangling the name of your theatre.
	I think it's the Renaissance Theatre or Renaissance Theatre, as sinister foreigners say, on October the 10th, speaking for the Ashbrook Centre.
	But that's why it's absolutely critical.
	It doesn't matter if these are losing battles.
	You know, that's the trouble with the whole David Brooks approach when he was writing about people like Ted Cruz are really a new phenomenon in Congress because they're not interested in making things happen.
	They're not interested in working with the other side to make things happen.
	Too much has happened too fast.
	And particularly these days, I mean, you can make an argument for working with the guy across the aisle in the 1950s or the 1920s when they were small manageable bills crafted by the people who were introducing them in the Senate or introducing them in the House.
	It wasn't these vast entourages back then.
	People knew what was in them and they knew what they were about and they were able to, and you could have a negotiation with a guy like that.
	With a 3,000-page bill with continuing resolutions, that's a perversion of government.
	The 3,000-page bill is a perversion of government.
	Nobody knows what's in it.
	The old phrase that is known to common law, ignorance of the law is no excuse.
	Right now, even the people who make the laws, supposedly, are entirely ignorant of what's in them.
	That guy, John Conyers, do you remember when people were talking about how it ought to be a requirement that every law be read in full on the floor of the House or the Senate, and that every congressman and senator ought to be obligated to read the law?
	And he said it wouldn't make any difference because I would need a lawyer with me to tell me what it all means.
	He's a legislator.
	He doesn't know what the laws he's inflicting on you mean.
	And he says he doesn't have time to do it.
	This is a guy, by the way, it's out there on YouTube.
	You can see this fascinating video of him on a commuter flight back from Washington to Chicago.
	Is it Detroit or Chicago, John Conyers lives in?
	I think it's Detroit, actually.
	Flying back home on his little commuter plane.
	And somebody uploaded a video to YouTube of John Conyers with all the time in the world browsing that month's issue of Playboy.
	So maybe if you could, you know, like the Playboy Centerfold, their three pages, you have to unfold it.
	And because the girls now are too big to fit in just a double-page spread, so Heff introduced the centerfold.
	And that's how you should think of a law.
	It's one thing, you know, you might have to fold it out.
	It might be a bit long, a bit complicated.
	So like a Playboy centerfold, you should be able to fold it out and see what's fully in it.
	But the idea that it should be 2,000 pages, that's not a law.
	It's a perversion.
	Government by continuing resolution is a perversion, where you have these fake, phony showdowns.
	October the 10th, October 10th, actually, by the way, that very same day that I'm going to be in the Ashbrook Center in Ohio, that very same day is the day when America is supposed to come to an end, because that's when the government shutdown will begin, and that's when Granny will be eating dog food and all the rest.
	And we all know none of it is ever going to happen, that all the checks will still go out and the State Department will still be flying back the remains of Minneapolis jihadists who self-detonated in East Africa.
	All the government programs will still be.
	So it's a phony, stupid, perils appalling, tire to the railway track, the Republican guy in the top hat with the big twirly mustache laughing and cackling maniacally as the train roars down on the helpless little girl tied to the American government.
	tied to the tracks.
	We all know it's rubbish.
	Continuing resolutions are nonsense, phony crisis.
	And Republicans at some point have to restore accountable government and say, we're not going to go along with this.
	We're not going to go along with this.
	You want to put a number on Obamacare and fund Obamacare?
	Let's have a bill to fund Obamacare.
	Let's have a bill to fund the State Department so we can weed out the money that's going to bring jihadist remains back home.
	Let's have human-sized government accountable to the people's representatives.
	That's absolutely vital because this system doesn't work.
	Nancy Pelosi doesn't know what's in it.
	Nancy Pelosi says there's nothing more to be cut.
	Nancy Pelosi says, you know, we've cut everything to the bone.
	There's nothing more to be cut.
	The reality is everywhere you look in any American government department, there's disgusting waste.
	And because of the failure of any kind of parliamentary accountability in this country, the total failure at the national level, where you have nothing, where there isn't even a legislature anymore.
	There are no parliamentary debates anymore.
	That's why C-SPAN is full of Prime Minister's question time from London and Canberra and Ottawa and everywhere else in the world, because at least there people can stand up and insult the Prime Minister and tell him his numbers are wrong and all the rest of it.
	You don't just have one senator delivering his speech written by some peripheral little minion of his to an empty chamber and it's broadcast on television in the pretense that it's some kind of real legislative debate that's going on.
	There's no such thing that happens in the United States.
	And as long as we have this phoniness over the phony government by continuing resolution and phony showdowns, we're never going to get out of it.
	And it's time for the Republican Party to actually go beyond the Obamacare thing and say what Obamacare represents is the corruption, the total corruption of functioning, responsible government accountable to the people in the United States.
	And that is actually what is behind all this.
	That's why he can shove it down the people's throat.
	That's why Obama can threaten the world is coming to an end on October the 10th.
	And playing those games with him is a waste of time.
	It's time to actually get back to proper, legitimate, responsible, accountable government at the federal level in this country.
	Mark Stein, in for rush, lots more straight ahead.
	Mark Stein, in for rush on the EIB network.
	I said a moment ago that Harry Reid, in parliamentary terms, was one of the most contemptible figures in the developed world.
	And I want to explore that a bit.
	And this is like arcane, this is a bit of arcane Senate procedural stuff.
	So it might give you a headache and you might be tearing your hair up.
	But bear with me.
	Bear with me.
	I'll try to explain it in layman's terms.
	And lots of, by the way, lots of legislatures have arcane procedural rules.
	If you've ever been at the House of Lords and seen the Lord Chancellor walking backwards, holding the cap of maintenance, or the gentleman usher of the black rod slamming the door in the face of the House of Commons, you'll know there are all kinds of arcane procedural rules.
	The difference is that in the United States in the 21st century, Harry Reid makes up the procedural rules as he goes along.
	And again, the difference here is what he can do with a simple majority and what he needs 60 votes for in the Senate.
	There's a difference.
	He ought to be trying to get 60 votes on this stuff, but if he can do it by simple majority, it's a lot easier.
	Now, what he wants to do is to fund Obamacare by changing the House's bill, the continuing resolution, and changing it, amending it to a bill that fully funds Obamacare.
	And so to pass that continuing resolution but change it to fund Obamacare, he needs, as I said earlier, he would need to find six Republicans to change their position on the Obamacare law and vote with the Democrats to fund it.
	So without that locked-in agreement, without that 60 votes, voting for cloture on the House continuing resolution is actually his best path to funding Obamacare because it becomes, in effect, the equivalent to a vote in favor of Obamacare.
	So the point for Republicans here now is they've got to deny cloture on that.
	And this is where it starts to give you a headache.
	And this is testament to how perverted and corrupted American parliamentary politics has become under the present system.
	And in fairness to John Kerry, this is how you wind up with apparently sane guys standing up in public and saying, I voted for it before I voted against it stuff.
	Republicans have to deny cloacher on the House continuing resolution unless Harry Reid agrees that his amendment to strike the defunding language is going to be subject to the 60-vote threshold.
	In other words, unless Harry Reid agrees that an amendment to remove the defunding requires 60 votes, then the Republicans have to vote to deny cloture on the House continuing resolution.
	And that agreement, by the way, has to be locked in by for it to mean anything with this slippery, wily, duplicitous skunk of a man.
	That agreement has to be locked in by unanimous consent before the cloture vote.
	Now, do you see why people would rather just shoot themselves in the head, would rather perform root canal surgery on themselves than pay any attention to what is happening in Washington.
	In other words, none of it means anything.
	So when you're listening to a senator saying he wants to defund Obamacare, does that mean he's voting for the continuing resolution?
	You know, that's why it all gets crazy.
	So unless Harry Reid, but this is the point, all the power is in the hands of a parliamentary leader, a House leader, the Senate majority leader, a guy who holds the position of leader of one half of the legislature.
	And in most functioning societies, he would be tied in by rules that were established decades, if not centuries, before he ever held the job.
	But Harry Reid, under the perversion of parliamentary procedure that occurs in the United States Senate.
	By the way, I'm in favor of abolishing the United States Senate and salting the ground so that it never rises again.
	But under that, he gets to make it up as he goes along.
	And so he's going to make it up to go along to suit him, which is that he can effectively fund Obamacare with 51 votes if he dupes the Republicans into going along with the initial motion on the continuing resolution.
	So unless Harry Reid agrees to a 60-vote threshold for amendments, and unless that is chiseled in granite before they hold the vote on cloture, Republicans have to oppose cloture on the bill or they will basically be dragged along in support of Harry Reid's scheme to fund Obamacare.
	And evermore thereafter, people are going to be going all over the Sunday talk shows and say, oh, well, this or that senator voted for Obamacare and voted for Obamacare and all the rest of it.
	Again, it's parliamentary maneuvering, but the trick is to enable Harry Reid to say he's got the votes to fund Obamacare and that it's now a bipartisan measure because Republicans have supported it.
	And this is why, by the way, nobody can understand this.
	And I don't blame you for saying, to hell with this, I'd rather change over to the thrash metal network.
	That's giving me less of a headache.
	You're absolutely right.
	This is disgraceful and it's a perversion of parliamentary procedure.
	Yes, Rush returns live on Wednesday.
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	By the way, I don't want to give the impression that guest hosting for Russia is one of those jobs Americans won't do.
	Mark Belling, Mark Belling, who is an American born and bred, I do believe, unless that accent's a fake.
	If so, it's a hell of a job keeping it up for three hours.
	But Mark Belling is going to be here live tomorrow.
	Let us go to Mike in Salem, Alabama.
	Mike, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh show.
	Great to have you with us.
	Mark, it's an honor, sir.
	No, no, the honor is all mine, Mike.
	Just want to let people know that the way things are going out here, I drive a truck for a living and I deliver stuff.
	They're talking about on our insurance and stuff, we've got a letter that they're going to have a meeting here before too much longer and probably ask some of the employees to go to half days or half weeks so that the insurance will be changed.
	Talking about the insurance is going to go way up on us, especially family coverage, that they'll still cover the employees, but that rate's still going to go up some.
	But if you're a family and you have to, and I'm a single dad now because of the economy and just the wear and tear and sadness on me and my wife trying to struggle and make things work, and she couldn't take it anymore, and she left me with two teenagers and just trying to make it out here.
	And people don't understand that those millionaires that are up there in Washington that don't have to worry about if their kids have food, don't have to worry about, because I make too much money to get any of the helpful stuff that's supposedly out there that our government provides.
	And also the free cell phone that I even stood in line for 30 minutes to see if I could get two of them from my two teenage boys so I could stay in contact with them.
	But I've gone, again, I have a job.
	I make too much money and couldn't get that either.
	I have this meeting about midway of the month, and I just don't, I don't know where it's going to go.
	I don't know what's going to happen to this country.
	I just.
	Well, let's just walk through that step you're talking about because your company is basically saying they cannot afford the impositions placed on them by Obamacare.
	And so the first thing they're going to do is they're going to drop the coverage of your family.
	So the guys who your colleagues, they may have coverage like you, they've got coverage for the wife and kids and all the rest of it.
	And now that's gone.
	So it's just going to be you who's going to be covered.
	And you say you've got two teenage children.
	And if they need health care, you're either going to have to pay for it out of pocket or you're going to have to find some other means of some other insurance plan or whatever.
	But basically, if they drop the family coverage on October the 1st and your kid has an accident on October the 2nd, you've got to write a check or that kid is not going to get the health care that he needs.
	That's what's happening to you, Mike.
	Yes, sir.
	That's what's going on.
	They're just saying they're not coming straight out and saying what they're going to do.
	But from what we're hearing is they're going to make it to where we don't get a full 40-hour week so that the insurance has some kind of a plan where if you have family coverage, you can't afford it.
	I mean, there's no way possible that I can afford it with what I make.
	I don't know what middle-class America is.
	When I hear $70,000 a year, I don't know of anybody that I know close to me that even close to that.
	But yeah, but at the same time, Mike, you thought you had a pretty good job because you thought your job came with family health care.
	So let's wind it back a couple of years.
	Let's wind it back two, three, four years when Obama comes in and he starts talking and he's doing all this stuff.
	If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor and all that kind of stuff.
	And you assumed, am I right here that you assumed when he was talking about fixing health care, when Nancy Pelosi has said we've fixed health care, we need to pass the bill so you can find out what's in it.
	You assume that he was fixing health care for the whatever it is, 40 million Americans who have no coverage.
	You thought you're responsible, you work hard, you've got a job that provides health insurance for your family.
	Did it occur to you at any point that Obama and Nancy Pelosi were going to yank the rug out from under the provision you've made for your family?
	No, sir.
	I mean, you have no idea until you start getting these letters and start getting things telling you that you're, I mean, even my family practice doctor, he's telling us now that he's just going to retire.
	Right.
	Right.
	And I mean, I don't understand why are the congresspeople that we called, I've called, I've done exactly what Rush has said to you, what you have said, done.
	I've talked till I'm blue in the face to people.
	And I just have the feeling that they're all safe and secure.
	They're millionaires.
	They don't need to worry about anything.
	They're covered.
	They're taken care of.
	But the people that are out here getting up every morning at 6 o'clock, making sure their kids go to school, and then they're told that their kids are fixing not to have health care.
	And if I do keep it, it's going to cost me every bit of two weeks' pay just for my insurance for my family.
	Right, right.
	And that's actually not insurance anymore.
	If you're saying it costs you two weeks' pay, in other words, if you're saying it's basically costing you half your income, that's not insuring.
	That's not insuring against a disaster.
	That is a disaster.
	That's basically saying the only way you can have health insurance, that's entirely unrelated to the cost of any illnesses your children are likely to get.
	That is basically the cost of imposing this huge, monstrous, unsustainable bureaucracy on what was once, at one point, once upon a time, long ago, a functioning health system.
	And you know, Mike, you've said you've got nowhere calling people in Washington.
	I don't think this can be solved in Washington.
	And if I were you, I would start addressing it at the state level.
	States need to push back hard on this because this is killing people where it lives.
	And you'll see it in your town.
	Terrible things will happen to neighbors and people you know and people you work with because some clever guy in Washington decided he could devise a health care plan for 300 million people from Maine to Hawaii.
	Nobody has ever attempted that in human history.
	And the idea that it could be pulled off without people warned of these consequences.
	People warned of these consequences.
	But that's why, you know, don't just tell your congressman, deal with it at the state level.
	We're going to need state solutions to these things.
	But demand too of the Republican Party that it doesn't just engage in the procedural machinations necessary to stop Harry Reid, but that it also offers some constructive solutions because you did everything right.
	I mean, this is what sucks about life in the United States in a republic that was born with the idea of liberty.
	You get up every morning, you go to work, you've got two teenage kids you're trying to support.
	You took a job on the basis that it came with certain benefits, including the provision of family health insurance.
	Now you're discovering that they're still going to insure you, but they're not going to insure your two children.
	So that's the nature of that job has changed.
	You are, in fact, poorer.
	It's like taking a wage cut.
	Nobody in Washington, D.C. is taking a wage cut.
	Nobody in the unions is taking a wage cut.
	Nobody in Congress is taking a wage cut.
	That's a real wage cut for you.
	Because if your kids get sick, you've either got to write a check or you've got to make alternative arrangements for them.
	And whatever system eventually emerges from this, it has to be one that gives more control to families so that they do not have the rug yanked out from under them in the way that this government did to you, Mike.
	And I hope it goes well for you.
	But there are stories like this all over the country.
	And if it's any consolation to you, you know, they're at all levels of American life now.
	The universities that are doing the same, they're dropping the family coverage.
	All those tenured professors teaching transgendered and colonialism studies who thought they had it pretty good.
	Their spouses and their kids, they're now being dropped from the coverage.
	Eventually, this will reach up to impact everyone except the tiny little privileged nomenclature at the top, as you say, the people for whom it doesn't make any difference.
	But all these changes, all these changes, that you can't reform this system.
	Obama, I think, understands that.
	That's why he thinks when it collapses, it'll be a one-size-fits-all, socialized, universal, single-payer system.
	The alternative is to actually dismantle it in the other direction: to say, look, nobody else, there's all kinds of ways you can do healthcare.
	You know, if you go to Italy or if you go to Sweden, they have a government system and they have a private system.
	And believe it or not, the public system is genuinely public, and the private system is genuinely private.
	We're the only ones.
	I mean, even when you try to explain it to foreigners and you say, well, it's because here the employer provides healthcare.
	And you go, and the foreigner will go, the Italian or the Swede or the Finn or whoever it is will go, why?
	Why is that?
	Well, that's true.
	Why is that?
	Why is that?
	It distorts the labor market.
	People take jobs, a job they don't particularly want to do.
	Because if you notice, if there's two working people, it's the standard pattern in my corner of northern New Hampshire.
	You'll have a guy who's got his own little construction firm.
	He's a carpenter, he's a painter, a plasterer, he does snow-plowing or whatever.
	And it's great.
	He's his own boss.
	He's out there in the open air.
	He loves it.
	And then his wife has to do some boring administrative job that she finds boring as hell, but she does it because it provides health insurance.
	It distorts the labor market.
	There's no reason.
	Who said that health care had to be part of anything to do with your employment?
	Who took the two?
	It's like saying, why not say health care insurance is to be provided by your church?
	Why not say health insurance is to be provided by the Elks Lodge?
	It makes no more sense than that.
	There's no other country in the world that does it this way.
	And so the Republicans have to come up with, they have to clear these monstrous carbuncles that have accrued to the rusted hulk of America's healthcare structures and actually think about the best way to hook up a patient with a doctor with the minimum number of intervening parties.
	That's to say, with the minimum number, instead of putting your boss in there and whoever the administrative services company, the boss contracts it out to, and the insurer that the administrative services company contracts.
	All that's rubbish, nonsense.
	But we have to get back.
	So if we either get back to a genuinely private system or Obama, maybe before the end of this term, will say, you're right, Obamacare doesn't work.
	We're moving for a single-payer government healthcare system that will be the biggest employer on the planet.
	Its bureaucracy will be so large.
	Mark Stein Farush, more to come.
	Mark Stein in Farush on the EIB network.
	A 66-year-old politician in Gigante, Colombia, the town of Gigante, Columbia, a member of the Gigante Municipal Council, underwent a penis amputation after enthusiastically overdosing on Viagra.
	A 68-year-old politician from the Gigante Municipal Council in Columbia overdosed in Viagra and he underwent a penis amputation.
	And he apparently he's said to be recovering well after his penis amputation.
	I regret to mention this because I'm worried Nancy Pelosi will be proposing it for the Republican Party.
	Although you may find it hard noticing the difference at some point.
	So let's go to Christine in Cookville, Tennessee.
	Christine in Cookville, you're live on the Rush Limborough Show.
	Great to have you with us.
	Thank you, Mark.
	It's so nice to speak with you.
	It's such a pleasure.
	I'm a big fan of yours as well as Rush.
	What I wanted to bring to the American people was when I had the privilege to attend a dinner on Saturday evening for the local Republican Party in Cookville, and Dr. Ben Carson was our speaker, and we were so privileged to have him.
	One of the things that he brought up was that we do need to call our senators and let them know how we feel about Obamacare and defending it or defunding it.
	My husband actually is also a neurosurgeon, and I have to tell you that the insurance companies are already telling him who he can operate on and who he cannot operate on, who's basically it's the death panels and already are in effect.
	And we have to call our senators.
	And I just called our two senators from Tennessee, and I told Senator Alexander's representative that if he has any prayer of being re-elected this fall, the first thing he needs to do is defund it.
	Mike Lee says that he has 48 votes in the Senate right now to defund Obamacare.
	We need to put the pressure on the rest of the senators who are not behind it right now and let them know where their constituents stand.
	Right.
	And actually, your husband, Christine, is the way of the future when he's saying he's being told who he can and can't operate on.
	That's basically what this is about now.
	Basically, the care of the sick is being taken out of the hands of the doctors, out of the hands of the hospitals, and it's being pushed way along the line.
	If you notice all the new insurance plans, right here in New Hampshire, Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield, their latest plan only allows you to go to 16 of the 26 hospitals in the state.
	So people are going to be driving, you know, instead of driving to the hospital that's 40 minutes away, they're going to be driving three hours to the hospital that they're allowed to go to.
	That's all that.
	That's the people who are going to get the care they need when they get there.
	No, no, they don't.
	But you think about it, if you've got a chronic illness, Christine, if you've got chemo and you're having to drive to a hospital three hours away and then three hours back, that's way more stressful than if the hospital's half an hour up the road.
	I mean, this is transforming for everyone, even those few people who are still going to have reasonably functioning health insurance policies at the end of it.
	This changes everything about American health care.
	Thanks for your call, Christine.
	She said she was at dinner with Ben Carson and she's been calling her two senators there in Tennessee.
	And it shouldn't be necessary to do that.
	This is not a popular bill.
	No one's asking these people to stand against a massively popular piece of legislation.
	They're just asking them to do what is necessary to prevent a disaster, an untold disaster, that actually affects people where they live, that actually affects people's lives.
	As I said, that's not a small thing.
	If you've got cancer and you can't go to your hospital half an hour away, but you have to go to the one three hours down the road, that means your friends, you're going to be dying alone in a strange town, unsurrounded by tiresome loved ones, because they can't take six hours to make the drive to come and see you and give you some flowers and a box of chocolates.
	It affects real people, real people, and the absolute essence of how you live in America.
	And when Nancy Pelosi says, no, this is it, we've passed Obamacare, she said this the other day.
	She said, this is the secret to liberty.
	This leads you free to pursue your happiness.
	No, it doesn't.
	It leads you free to pursue the ever-shrinking number of doctors in your state that your healthcare insurance plan is going to go and let you see.
	It's an absolute disgrace, and it should not require political courage for Republican senators to oppose this.
	Mark Stein for Rush, more ahead.
	Mark Steinfarush, story at hotair.com, revealed Obama came up with Obamacare because he needed a throwaway applause line in a campaign speech.
	It was like his red line with Syria.
	It was a complete accident.
	Obama came up with Obamacare because he needed a throwaway applause line in a campaign speech, just like the red line in Syria.
	But unfortunately, on Obamacare, there's no Vladimir Putin to rescue him on it.

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