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Sept. 23, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 23, 2013, Monday, Hour #3
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Yes, America's Anchorman is away, and this is your undocumented anger man sitting in live from Ice Station E. I.B. in far northern New Hampshire.
If you're fleeing the country, do swing by.
We love to see you.
You can't miss us.
Got a big sign out in the highway saying last rush, guest host before the border.
We got Mark Belling here tomorrow.
Well, not here, it'd be a little ways uh wester here.
Uh or south of here, maybe.
I think he's doing it from New York, I'm not sure.
But and then uh Rush Rush will be uh in live Wednesday uh to take you through the end of the week.
I said right at the beginning of the show that it's UN Dictator Week, and I love that, all the colour and bustle of uh UN Dictator Week, the happy sound of clashing machetes as uh on rival entourages crowd into the uh elevators at the Plaza Hotel.
It's a wonderful little thrill, the sights, the sounds of uh UN Dictator Week.
I I love it.
But it is also Climate Week, which I think is also run by uh the United Nations.
It's climate week.
And if you don't take uh global warming seriously, uh this is how bad it's heating up and getting out of control.
Climate week now is uh apparently ten days.
It's a ten day week.
That's how long climate week is.
Uh uh they had the big launch party.
What was this at uh the little cupcake bake shop in uh the Bowery in New York?
That can't be the official I mean, I like the little cupcake bake shop in the Bowery.
I'm sure it's a charbing place, but that can't be the official place the whole thing launched.
Anyway, this whole this whole gl uh climate change thing.
The new Australian Prime Minister, who is a great man, uh Tony Abbott.
Uh one of his first actions was to abolish the Climate Change Commission, uh the official government climate change commission, uh, and to say uh that body wasn't needed.
It was complete waste of time, and he fired the head of it, who's one of the big global warming boars they got down there.
Uh but uh climate change, it's actually this is fascinating.
This is this is the moment when a consent if if we're if we remain firm on this, this is the moment when a consensus changes.
Uh the LA Times, the Los Angeles Times has a story today.
Global warming quote hiatus puts climate change scientists on the spot.
Now I was saying this a few years ago, and uh and uh I got a lot of heat from people.
Denier, denier, denier.
Uh these people go crazy.
There's like uh you're not allowed to question any of the theories.
This was just before the big Copenhagen thing, uh the big meeting in Copenhagen, saying there'd be no global warming since nineteen ninety eight.
That is now officially conceded by the intergovernmental panel on climate change.
They're the people who shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore.
Uh they they've conceded that the Earth's average global surface temperature has not risen this century.
This century.
We're now in twenty thirteen.
Uh there has been no global warming, uh as that term is understood if it means anything since nineteen ninety-eight.
Now people are saying, oh, well no, that's just uh that's just a decade and a half anomaly in the long-term trend.
Uh you remember back in the seventies, they were all talking about the uh ice age.
Uh they were warning there was going to be a new global ice age.
Well, you know, maybe the global warming of the eighties and nineties was just a a short-term blip in the long-term cooling trend of the nineteen seventies.
The truth is we don't know.
But what we do know is that there's been a sustained program, uh, in effect, uh and this is what why the Copenhagen meeting was so dangerous, to in effect have a kind of global government, basically planet wide global government restrictions on functioning capitalist economies, uh in in aid of something we don't know whether it's going on or not.
We don't know whether uh man is responsible for it, and we don't know whether any of these plans are gonna make any difference to it.
Like uh the European Union at the height of all this, they drew up their plans for uh taxing bovine flatulence.
And it was they d they drew it up for real, and they uh and if you had like a Holstein in Bulgaria, you would pay a greater flatulence tax than the Holstein in Ireland or in Denmark.
Now I don't know why.
I don't know why a poor bull guard has to pay more for his cow's emissions than some Irish guy does, but apparently this was all worked out at the European Union level.
Now we say the Los Angeles Times.
Fifteen years since global warming.
Fifteen so you think of the children, a generation of children brainwashed by this stuff.
This oh saving the planet, recycling, done all this stuff.
Fifteen years uh making videos showing that the earth is on the verge of burning, blazing, destroying fifty there's been no they entered kindergarten.
When they entered kindergarten, there was no global warming.
There's been no global warming in first grade, no global warming through middle school.
When they graduated from high school this summer, there was no global warming their entire life.
But we brainwashed a generation of children, and we grossly corrupted scient uh science to do so.
And it's hilarious, this they're clutching at straws now, these these global warming types.
There's no doubt, says this guy in the uh Los Angeles Times piece, there's no doubt that in terms of global temperature, we've hit a little flat spot in the road here, uh, says this guy, Bill Patzett of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
He says, We've hit a little flat spot in the road here, Patzett said, but there's been no slowdown whatsoever in sea level rise.
So global warming is alive and well.
Oh.
No, no, global warming in the sense of the globe warming isn't alive, but there's just enough of a little corner of it keeping it going for you, uh in the hopes of keeping all the grant money coming, keeping all the cushy careers coming, keeping all the pseudo government uh special bodies and agencies stuffed.
There's just enough about all that.
Now the and I hope by the way, I think this is great, because some of us said this was hooey.
Rush said it was hooie.
He's got his big owl uh years ago he had his big Al Gore ten years before the planet goes up kaboom.
Uh he had the big Al Gore countdown uh when Al Gore said that, he's had the Al Gore countdown on on the uh there right there on the home page of the website, counting it down.
Some of us said this was Huey.
Complete hooey at the beginning.
Uh and we paid and we paid a high price for called deniers and all the rest of it, and uh I as it happens, I'm actually in court.
I'm being sued by Michael Mann, the guy who invented the hockey stick, uh showing this uh basically the planet's temperature is flat for millennia, and then suddenly this big hockey stick blade shooting up in the twentieth century, and I was mocking his hockey stick in the same way that I was mocking that poor fella in Columbia who took the overdose of Viagra and had to have his penis amputated.
Uh that's basically what's happened to Michael Badd's hockey stick, and I was mocking it because the models haven't lived up to it.
And the guy sued me, the guy's suing me.
Uh yeah, he's suing me for hate speech uh for mocking it.
I'll tell you why he's suing me, HR, actually, since you ask.
Uh it was at the time of the Jerry Sadusky thing.
This guy Michael Bad works for Penn State.
And I quoted uh a fellow at another website who who'd said that uh Michael Bad was the Jerry Sandusky of climate change, by which he meant that, you know, Penn State, whose president is uh is under indictment, the Graham Spania, the president of Penn State, is looking at thirty years in the slammer for covering up what Sandusky and the other fellow were doing uh there at Penn State all those years.
Uh and uh this guy noticed that uh Graham Spania, who who exoderated uh Sandusky at all the other fellas carrying on down there at Penn State, also exonerated Michael Mann from any shenanigans in those climate change emails.
And uh and uh Michael Mann didn't like being called the Jerry Sandusky of Climate Change.
I quoted him as that.
I said I said rather mockingly, I'm not sure I'd have followed that metaphor all the way into the boys locker room with quite the zeal uh that the other guy did.
But the but as a result, we're now in I think we're coming up we've got a court date on Friday, which I think is our uh motion to uh reconsider the appeal of the interlocutory motion uh to uh strike down the order denying the slap mode.
It's some uh some impenetrable bit of mumbo jumbo American legaleese.
But actually it's a clear free speech issue.
Uh Michael Mann has gone around, you know, this the lady quoted in this LA Times piece, Judith Curry, she was a brave uh iconoclastic individual scientist who looked at the evidence and decided she wasn't going to get on the climate change bandwagon that all these corrupted scientists who drank the climate change Kool-Aid got on.
Uh they put on the cover of Scientific American, Judith Curry.
She heads the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
They put on the cover of Scientific American with the word heretic.
They're using the same language as the Spanish Inquisition, and they don't realize, and yet they deny that theirs has become a faith, not a science, but a faith.
When you're using when you claim to be a scientist, when you claim to be scientific American, and you're putting the word heretic out there, uh, and that's what they've done to these few brave scientists who dare who dared to stand up and say, well, you know, there hasn't been anything since 1998.
Maybe the science isn't so clear cut.
Maybe we ought to be asking ourselves why our climate change models are wrong, why they've been wrong for a decade and a half.
But instead, this guy says as far as I said, it's a basic free speech thing.
This guy, Michael Mann, is uh is suing me.
And uh I have to say it's not going so well so far, because we had a judge uh deny the motion to dismiss the case.
And she did something, by the way, she did something I've never had.
I've been in court in Canada and the United Kingdom, all over the world, did something I've never d heard from any other judge.
She mixed up the defendants, and she, in denying the motion, she attributed statements and positions to me and National Review that were in fact held by the other uh uh defendants.
And uh we appealed that motion.
We pointed out, you know, this is uh where is she?
I think the what's it called?
Superior Court of the District of Columbia, Judge Combs Green.
And I've never had this, I've been up against judges all over the world, and I've never had a judge who is actually too stupid to tell one defendant from another defendant.
Uh so she so she denied the motion, mixed up the defendants.
Then when we pointed out, filed a motion to reconsider, say, well, you've mixed me up with some other fella, she doubled down and said that uh and said that she uh and she she knew full well what she was doing.
She wasn't the uh she wasn't hadn't mixed us up, but that she do she was deliberately attributing these things to me.
In fact, uh I think I could make the case uh she's defaby.
She's up for a senior judgeship of all things.
But anyway, but the point but the point about all this is Michael Mann, Michael Mann, uh, who has attacked the integrity of everybody.
He's called other people deniers, uh, he's called them villains.
He's appearing in an ad uh for McAuliffe uh running against Ken Cuccinelli in Virginia.
He's a political figure.
Uh he's a political figure who actively campaigns politically uh for the side uh uh of the political spectrum that benefits him, and yet he wants to make climate change, and they've been doing this for a decade now.
They want to put climate change beyond criticism.
And it's been disastrous for science.
It's corrupted scientific bodies all over the planet.
Uh the hockey stick graph that he did was more responsible for this than almost anything, any other single event.
Uh it was responsible for the IPCC, which is supposedly a respected global body, uh, going out on a limb and making wild predictions about what was going to happen to global warming this century.
And it would have been responsible for embryo global government.
That's what the European Union uh and the United States were in favor of at that Copenhagen conference.
Global government, global regulation of climate change, and the only thing that prevented it was the leak of those East Anglia emails.
And so we got very near to a tipping point where a vast self-enriching bureaucracy, a whole parade of people at special institutions, government agencies, quasi government watchdogs and consultants, was basically going to be regulating global capitalism in service to a fiction.
And those of us who stood out against it, like Rush with the Al Gore countdown to Armageddon, the ten-year countdown to Argument Army.
By the way, there were two countdowns to Armageddon.
Al Gore said it was ten years, and the Prince of Wales said it was something like eight years and three months.
And I've got to give him credit for this, because if you're going to predict the end of the world, any old fool can be like Al Gore and say the world will end in ten years.
But it actually takes guts to say the world will end in eight years and three months.
That's that's specific.
That's got more credibility.
Um but it actually it was a very small number of people who said, Whoa, this is crazy.
This is rampaging out of control.
And the idea that in their last desperate throes of credibility, the people who perpetrated this racket are now actually trying to make it criminal to criticize criminal to criticize people uh who who stood up against this climate change racket.
But that's what it is this week.
Climate change week in the United States uh and around the world, and uh they're finally the IPCC is meeting this week to explain why for fifteen years, fifteen years, that means if you're uh an uh going to be voting, a young adult voting next year for the first time, uh there has been no global warming throughout your entire sentient life.
If you're an eighteen year old uh in Virginia, do you want to vote for the guy endorsed by Michael Mann, uh Terry McC uh, what's he called?
Terry McCaulff, who's on board with this whole scam?
Or do you want to vote with the guy Ken Kucinelli, the one who wanted to shine sunlight on the racket uh that is global warming.
If you're eighteen years old, there's been no global warming in your entire sentient life.
Mark Stein and for Rush, more straight ahead.
Mark Stein Inforush on the EIB network.
Let's go to Drew in Clearwater, Florida.
Drew, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Great to have you with us.
Hey, thanks.
Thanks for taking my call, uh, Mr. Stein.
I've been trying to talk to you for years.
I was lucky enough to talk to Rush three times over the last twenty years.
Anyway, um uh if you give me like a minute and a half or two, I can tell you three things about Obamacare that'll blow your mind.
Uh the first one is uh I have never seen on any TV or radio show an actual insurance expert.
They always have political uh politicians and pundits, and they don't have anybody that knows anything about insurance.
I've just never seen one.
And I listened to all the Salem Radio Network, Rush, you know, Hugh Hewitt, I listen to you every Thursday.
Um I've just never seen an insurance person that knows what they're talking about.
I've got thirty-five years experience in demographics and marketing and as an actuarial in the insurance business.
Um most of these guys, you can't if you ask them one question, what's the difference between health insurance and health care, they can't even answer that question.
I can answer that question in fifteen seconds.
Um the second thing that I or the the third thing that I wanted to uh make is that this whole thing of pre existing conditions, if you apply that to car insurance, just think about this.
You buy a car, you don't get car insurance, you drive your car into a lake, and then you want to buy insurance, and your car has a pre-existing condition.
Right.
You buy a house, you don't buy homeowner's insurance, it burns down.
Now your house has a pre existing condition.
Right.
You don't buy life insurance, and then you're on your deathbed forty-eight hours from death and you want to buy life insurance.
What is that gonna do to the premiums that everyone else has to cover for you?
Well well, Drew, I mean, you you say what uh you can explain in fifteen seconds the difference between health insurance and health care.
I mean, basically if i i the preexisting condition thing, once you take that out, then there is no health insurance.
The term insurance has no meaning anymore, does it?
Um no, no, sir, sir.
If you buy a car and you don't buy insurance for it, and then you wreck your car, you have a pre existing condition because you have a wrecked car.
Right.
And now you're supposed to be allowed to buy insurance.
What is that gonna do to everyone else that's been paying their premiums for years with not having a rack, it's gonna make their premiums go up.
Am I right or wrong?
No, you're right, they're gonna go through the roof because every every teenager who drives his car into the lake, as you said it, uh, and then decides uh he's got his car's got a pre existing condition and wants coverage.
Uh he's gonna drive all the law abiding people's insurance way through the roof but that's what I mean it's not an insurance market anymore once you start doing that because you're not insuring against what might happen you're basically coming up with a scam to predict that have already happened.
The system of Obamacare is if you don't buy insurance you pay a very small tax.
Which John Roberts calls it a tax for not having insurance that's correct.
That's that's that's absolutely right, Drew, and that's why to go back to what I was saying yesterday, that is why for many people the most affordable form of health care expense is going to be paying at least while it's the first couple of years while it's just one percent or two percent is going to be actually paying that cheap Obamacare tax.
That'll be cheaper than health insurance.
Yes Mark Belling comes in tomorrow for three hours of excellence in broadcasting starting live at twelve Eastern don't forget Rush returns Wednesday to take you through the end of the week with the real deal the genuine article.
Just to go back to what Drew was talking there and the idea that you know you can have insurance that doesn't take account of whether you've already got the thing you're trying to get insurance against which is which is the point he was making that if you've got a crash car and it's all broken up you can't then just uh nurse it into the yard of the insurance agency and take out insurance when the hubcaps are falling off and the big end split and the smoke pouring out of the thing.
And that's essentially what we got now with uh with health care.
But it actually uh is is beyond that.
If you go back and this this gets back to how I'm uh what I was saying earlier about how national government don't use the term federal anymore because there's nothing federal about it.
They're microregulating every aspect of life for over three hundred million people.
And that there's nothing federal about that.
Otherwise there'd be uh fifty states making their own arrangements for health care and we'd see how that worked out and there'd be uh if you don't like the health care in Maine you could move to Vermont.
If you don't like it in Vermont uh you can move to Pennsylvania.
If you don't like it in Pennsylvania you can move to Indiana.
But they don't want to they don't want it to be like that.
They want it one size fits all.
And when you do it one size fits all the way these phony pseudo Urzats legislators because they're not real that's a Potemkin legislature.
The the bills aren't written by these guys.
They're written by who knows.
They're written by s some minion down the chain who's doing it in uh consultation with whichever lobbyists and special interest groups have the most pressure on him.
But just to go back to what Mike was talking about in Salem, Alabama.
Mike does a job and his employer provided health insurance and his in health insurance plans are now changing and basically Mike will still be covered but Mike's family, including his two teenage children will no longer be covered.
So in other words, he thought he had health insurance for four people he's now got health insurance for for just one.
This is actually a fault in the law.
The law was written by all the clever people.
All the clever people did came up with this law and they told us they'd come up with a law that works for three hundred million people.
And what it said is that um a certain proportion of an employee's wages was set as the figure for what is affordable in healthcare.
And it was nine point five percent a uh uh of the of the employees wages uh that was defined as the point below which you could be transferred into the subsidized coverage of these state exchanges.
By the way, this is another one of my exploding head moments here because if you are if you live any and I apologize to anybody uh listening to this show in New Zealand or listening to this show in Norway because they're wondering well what is this got to do with health care?
What's it got to do with doctors or nurses or anything like that.
No, it's all insane and you just have to bear with me because this is the insane mumbo j words like exchanges and uh uh are now part of the conversation in health care.
So in other words uh they didn't want people all being kicked off their uh employee uh employer schemes and going on to these exchanges.
So they set this figure of nine point five percent uh that uh uh of an employee's wages uh below which uh you could be put on to the uh to the exchange but it didn't occur to the geniuses in Congress that the nine point five percent only implies to the employee not to the spouse not to the kids not to the family.
So what is happening now where everybody from Mike in Salem, Alabama to uh whatever uh university it was in Virginia uh that said it was no longer going to cover it cover spouses and children uh never occurred to these geniuses in Washington that people would say okay well we'll still cover Fred, but we're not gonna cover Fred's missus and we're not gonna cover Fred's kids.
The the average plan for according to the Kaiser Family Foundation, the average plan for an individual is about five thousand six hundred dollars.
But for families it's up to about fifteen thousand seven hundred dollars, something like that.
So if you're an employer and you've got these increased costs from Obamacare and you understand the legal obligations and you can't dump people into the exchanges and all the rest of it, one very simple thing can be done.
You can take the family off the healthcare plan.
There's a s a guy quoted in USA Today, Kosali Simon, a professor of public affairs at Indiana University, who says quote We saw this two and a half years ago and thought has anyone else noticed this?
This guy specializes in health economics.
And everyone said no no you must be be wrong.
But we weren't and that's going to leave a lot of people out all the clever people, the people like Nancy Pelosi's advice the ones who say you have to pass this bill so we can find out what's in it.
This was in it.
And Nancy Pelosi passed it anyway.
And here's the thing.
We were told that the great wickedness of America, the great wickedness of America, this is how people think of America around the world, that there's all these millions of uninsured people and they can't get any health care because if they're taken to a hospital and they haven't got the right number of their health care policy and they're riddled with gunshot wounds because they happen to live in a neighborhood organized by Obama as community organizer in Chicago.
so they've been riddled full of bullets on a Saturday night and they're taken to the hospital, they won't get taken because they don't have any healthcare insurance and that's how mean America is it's where people are in need of health care and they can't get any because they don't have healthcare insurance.
So the geniuses reform health care and there's actually going to be more people unsured as a result of the health care reform.
All these people were once you know four people were on one healthcare policy, like the case of Mike in uh in Salem, Alabama, now there's only going to be one healthcare policy and the children are going to be out in the coal.
They're gonna some other means is going to have to be provided for them, some other system is going to have to be provided for them.
Nobody else does this.
And you know we we I explained all the little the shenanigans that Harry Reed's trying to do the cloture, the sixty votes at at uh at a certain point somebody in the conservative movement, people need to step back and get less excited about Harry Reed and all the shenanigans between the House and the Senate and say what would we on the right like to see in healthcare and how do you work towards it?
And I'll tell you you know what I would say I would like no employers involved.
I think that's been a disaster for American health care.
I think it's distorted the labor market.
I think it makes something I I think it particularly now where you get into employers having to provide contraception and birth control.
In fact I don't even like the idea of that.
If I was if I was a promiscuous person who wanted to have sex with anything that moved, I wouldn't want my contraception needs uh determined in some kind of insecure healthcare data bank uh that were nominally uh sluice through my employer or whatever so there's all kinds of reasons why it shouldn't be done like that but at some point conservatives are gonna have to start thinking uh about unscrambling all this stuff and what they want health care provision in the United States to look like
uh when this thing collapses, when this thing collapses.
Uh but there isn't going to be health insurance.
How can you ensure if there's pre-existing conditions you can't have a health insurance.
Whatever that is, it isn't insurance.
As Drew was saying, you know, if your house burns down but on Tuesday morning you can go to your insurance agency and say I'd like to insure my house for half a million dollars, then whatever else it is, it isn't insurance.
There is no health insurance.
The government has killed health insurance.
It's kept the name, but the name is no longer anything to do with insurance.
And all this again it comes back to these two thousand page bills unread by the legislator legislature that passes them.
People should be annoyed about this.
People people should say uh th wait a minute would this uh this guy this professor of public affairs at Indiana University, Kasali Simon, he spots this thing, he spots the catch that that the it'll you'll be able to kick the spouse and the kids off the uh off the company health insurance and still meet the demands of the Obamacare law.
But nobody none of the geniuses none of the geniuses in Congress spotted it.
Well in that case you've got a totally dysfunctional legislature.
And we shouldn't be passing laws that way.
Not over one sixth of the economy we've got f we've got a few hundred people annexing one sixth of the economy and then being surprised that there are all these glitches in it.
The system is nuts, nuts, nuts, nuts.
Nothing to do with the founding fathers, nothing to do with the United States Constitution this is this is nothing to do with anything anyone would start out as a means of organizing health care.
It's completely crazy.
And it happened because the American people allowed it to happen and then rewarded Obama uh last November for letting it happen.
And in that sense the American people are to blame for what is about to engulf them.
But it should but i i the lesson to be learned from this is that you do not make law free societies do not legislate this way.
Mark Steinforus more your call straight ahead I love this uh story in the Los Angeles Times I was quoting on uh climate change uh at the top of the hour.
I love the way they put this quote temperature has failed to rise despite soaring CO two emissions.
Don't you don't you hate it, don't you just hate it when the earth's temperature refuses to do what all the climate change models assured us it was supposed to do when they said the science was settled.
Temperature has failed to rise failed to rise how could temperature underperform like this it's absolutely shocking.
Let's go to Bob in Tallahassee.
Bob you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Greetings sir earlier you were talking about the healthcare situation in regards to the economy.
Well look at it like this.
So far the Republicans have not voted for it officially on the record.
Right.
If they vote for the funding then when the economy does fail, Obama's gonna have a finger of blame to point as he always does saying hey they are in on it now too.
Yeah and and you're absolutely right there.
I think that's the way this bill would be in other words if if uh the GOP can be presented as enablers of this disaster then uh then they will be and that and that's then that's what'll happen and they'll take delight in saying oh well you know it was a bipartisan disaster my good friend Senator so and so uh voted to fund Obamacare and all the rest of it.
And another example of uh not funding something and the government will continue to survive.
Look at the original border fence that was approved from Texas to San Diego.
Congress only financed what, fifteen to seventeen to twenty percent of that every year since then the government seems to just continue to operate without any funding for the fence.
No, no.
That's that that's right it makes no absolutely no uh no difference to it.
And by the way, uh a lot of you're right to point out that a lot of that is uh a lot of smoke and mirrors Bob on that uh on that border front sense uh you know they ba the bureaucracy does what it wants uh the bureaucracy has drones on the Canadian border for some whatever reason I don't know why uh but uh they they do what they want and uh the idea these symbolic votes,
the most important thing about them is for the Republican Party to be able to say one, two, three, four years down the line, we were right on this.
We were right on this, and we stood firm, and we stood firm, and we were we were not enticed by explanations.
Oh, now it's the law of the land, it's the law.
All kinds of things are the law of the land, uh, that principled people still stand against and wait until they persuaded their fellow countrymen that they should not be the law of the land.
And that's the position the Republican Party should take on this, Bob.
Another thing, too, another example is for you know before Obamacare was even, you know, uh conception of an idea.
85% of the people in this country approximately had some type of health care and were basically happy with it.
Fifteen percent did not.
Last week Rush was talking about how there's various surveys around where twelve percent of the people surveyed supposedly think that is a good idea.
Obamacare, that is.
Well, look at what are they doing?
They're destroying the eighty-five percent of the pe uh uh eighty-five percent of the people had health care, they're destroying it for them.
And instead of fixing the Medicare, the Medicaid situation, which did need what should we say, repair, reevaluating, re-engineering, whatever.
Instead, they're gonna destroy it for everybody.
Right, right.
And that's that's the great that's the great uh socialist mantra, the equality of awfulness.
Uh and you're gonna and and by the way, Bob, I mean, uh th this came up tangentially uh yesterday, oh, on Friday.
I think eventually they'll they'll because we're now seeing people moving to these concierge health care plans, uh, where you basically pay a uh doctor or it did the doctor doesn't want anything to do with all these third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh parties, just wants to deal with the patient, just wants the patient to pay with cash or with check, pay a certain amount per year, and then you just pay whatever it is, a token sum for each time you go and see the doctor.
Eventually, because th they will they will spend more time trying to shut down that loophole than they will trying to do anything about all the kids being left uninsured because of what happened to Mike in Salem, Alabama.
Uh they will at some point they will make it illegal.
There's uh there's a hospital somewhere down in southern New Hampshire that it's an announced that if you uh walk in with a broken leg and you get your checkbook out, they won't take checks.
They won't take cash.
When Rush had his uh heart attack, uh his heart problem out in Hawaii a couple of Christmases ago, and he came back on air and he he t he talked about the cost of it.
And he said we need when it's taken into the hospital and they asked him for his insurance number and all the rest of it, he said forget about all that and got out his check book and said, How much is it gonna be?
And he put pay Honolulu General Hospital, however many dollars.
They're gonna make that illegal.
You're gonna have to leave the country to do things like that.
Because in the end, what's important to them, what's important to them about this is not the health care you're getting, but that the health care you're getting is regulated by the government and you are living your life in compliance with the national government.
That's more important to them than the health care.
Mark Stein for Rush, Mordecan.
Email uh from Scott Mason on Obama's great line.
If you're under twenty-six, you'll be able to stay on your parents' health plan.
Uh no, not if your empair parents employer no longer offers a family plan.
Uh and that is what hap what's happening.
That's what we heard from Mike in Salem, Alabama, and what we've heard more of today, and was one of the great features of the Obamacare health debacler.
Uh Rush will ret uh Rush no Mark Belling.
Mark Belling's gonna be uh here tomorrow, and he'll have three hours of great entertainment and insight for you.
Uh Rush returns live at Wednesday for full strength, all American excellence in broadcasting.
Uh and if you're anywhere near Ashland, Mansfield, Ohio, uh I will see you there.
I'll be talking live at the Ashbrook Center for live action gloom and doom.
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