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Oct. 25, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 25, 2013, Friday, Hour #3
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Greetings, my friends, and welcome back.
And ladies and gentlemen, I read the stitches on a fastball.
I can see the spin on the curveball.
And I have sent something that has started one hour ago, and I need to prepare you for it in the drive-by media.
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There's a possibility here that a lot of people are on a on a on a roller coaster.
Uh I must acknowledge, you know it to be true, that even now side is made up of a lot of people who are waiting for that magic moment.
The world wakes up, country wakes up, realizes they've been hoodwinked, turns on Obama, and along with that, things like Obamacare maybe don't fully implement the encounter even more problems and begin to dissipate or so.
No people hold that hope high.
Every day people have that.
And when events happen, such as they've happened this week, all this trouble with the Obama website, and all of the cancellation notices.
I'm sure that many of you are thinking, oh, maybe this is it.
Maybe now people are gonna see what we've been trying to tell them for four years.
People now are gonna figure it out.
Obama's not the Messiah, and this healthcare business is absolute disaster for him.
And that would make sense if you're thinking that way.
I mean, that all these cancellations are real.
The fact that people can't use the website's real.
Everything about this that the that's falling apart, the it's not working, it's an utter disaster.
All of that's real.
Against all that, you have Obama and the regime, and they're not gonna let that happen in their mind.
I mean, they're in their bunker trying to figure out how to counter this.
Should they or not fire Sibelius, for example?
Uh, should somebody else's heads roll as a figurative move.
And then you have the media.
And I just what I want to prepare you for here is that ever since Obama's high-tech guy, Zentz Z-E-N-T-Z, whatever pronounces it.
He just announced an hour ago that the healthcare.gov website's gonna be up and running and totally fixed by the end of November.
And I am here to tell you that that is going to totally change the flavor of the news coverage.
The drive-bys, as we have been documenting, have themselves been pointing out all of the troubles.
Themselves have been acknowledging their shock and dismay at the truth of this.
All kinds of people are finding out that premiums are going up and that deductibles are going up, but co-pays are going up.
People are discovering in the media there is no $2,500 deduction in premium or reduction.
There it's a disaster, and people are finding this.
They're discovering it personally, they're doing stories on it happening to other people, and they're coming to the realization that this is not in any way the way it was sold.
It is not Going to be in any way the way it was sold.
And even if people, well, maybe this is it.
Maybe this is a turning point or some such thing.
But this announcement by the regime that by the end of November, the website is going to be fixed, is the key, the instruction, the sign from the White House to the media to change the flavor of the coverage to once again talk about the success and the greatness and the brilliance of Obamacare.
And don't be surprised if that starts happening just with the announcement that it's going to be fixed by the end of November.
It won't be.
But what the announcement means is that by the time the end of November gets here, it's fixed.
Whether it is or not, that's what that means.
And any problems that happen after that will not be the fault of the website or the regime.
It's got a date now.
And that date, the end of November, happens to precisely coincide with Obama yesterday, extending the enrollment period six more weeks, which he does not have the legal authority to do.
He's once again changed Obamacare without doing it legislatively, but nobody's going to call him on it, so he's going to get away with doing it.
Okay, so the guy's name is Zeinz, and he said that it's fixed by the end of November.
It won't be because it can't be.
This can never work, is the point.
But if the media says it's fixed, it starts doing stories about how great the repairs are going and how hard people are working, and it's only a matter of time now before it starts uh unrolling the way it was intended to be, then that's going to become the atmosphere.
That will be the narrative, if you will.
So I'm just trying to guard you against, you know, in the roller coaster up and down, try to stay level.
Don't get on the roller coaster.
Uh because the regime's not going to give it up.
I mean, the regime is not going to pull it back.
They're not, I don't care how bad it would get.
I mean, I don't think it was ever even realistic that Obama would delay the individual mandate a year.
If even though all these Democrat senators are asking for it, it's just, I can't see him doing it because that strips the guts out of it.
You take the individual mandate out of Obamacare, and you've taken a really significant percentage of it away.
And if you delay that with what's happening in the insurance agencies, and I mean they're canceling people, they're throwing people out of policies, businesses no longer have to provide insurance.
Uh it could it could be at a level of chaos that not even the regime wants.
Yeah, I mean, the only people who be uh like the the poor woman that uh Sean Hannity called and spoke to, she even fired.
But that that's gonna be the extent of heads rolling.
It's not there's not gonna be Sibelius not.
They're not gonna give anybody that satisfaction.
And the only way that would happen is if it were really necessary to save Obama's reputation.
And I don't think Obama will ever get to the point where he thinks his reputation is in trouble.
It never has been before.
He doesn't think that way.
That's so all these people and there are a lot of people calling for Sibelius's head, standard Washington procedure, but uh that I don't think is uh is going to happen.
Now let's just continue with the stack of stuff stories here.
Here's another this is Forbes.
This week, the reality of the Obamacare rollout appeared in a set of news stories that serve as an ironic juxtaposition.
Over 500,000 people Have seen their insurance policies canceled in just three states.
In all 50 states, only 476,000 applications have been filed in an exchange.
Even though we're still learning the true definition of file.
That 476,000 is an inflated number.
The person that wrote the Forbes story says that the uh 476,000 enrolled.
Numbers misleading.
The best guess is that for the 17 states that have reported some data, the number is closer to 193,000 applications.
Once you pull out the Medicaid applications that have been reported, that 476,000 application number goes way, way down.
And the regime is including people are leaving Obamacare, and they are leaving their standard health insurance, and they're making mad dashes signing up for Medicaid, which is the health insurance program for the poor.
And the regime is counting those as Obamacare signups, and they are not.
So what becomes clear is that the federal exchanges in 34 states are accounting for a single digit percentage of the accounts being filed.
It is it is abysmally bad.
It is horribly low.
Nobody in real terms is signing up.
In many states, the number is zero.
And this I mean, they're going to have to deal with this.
I mean, you've heard the number they need 7 million to make it go of this.
7 million young, healthy people signing up, paying these increase increases, but never making claims because they're healthy.
That's going to fund the poor and the seasoned citizen population.
And I think they're whistling Dixie if they think 7 million is going to cover it, but that's the number they're they're putting out there.
CBS News story, arrival of Obamacare, forcing insurers to drop customers with low coverage.
The Affordable Care Act was signed by Obama in 2010.
And since then, he has repeated one reassuring phrase.
If you like your plan, you keep it.
No one will be able to take that away from you.
If it hasn't happened yet, it won't happen in the future.
He's made a almost a weekly history of making this point.
But it is happening.
The president's health care law raises the standards for insurance policies.
Some people think that's a good thing, but hundreds of thousands of Americans whose policies don't meet these new standards are being told that they're being canceled.
But they like them.
They like their plan, but they don't get to keep it.
And the numbers were 700,000 cancellations in the last two weeks.
Now, the Wall Street Journal, Kimberly Strassel, has a piece, Democrats run for Obamacare cover.
Let me give you some pull quotes here.
After 16 long days of vowing to Republicans that they would not cave in any way, shape, or form on Obamacare.
Democrats spent their first post-shutdown week caving in every way, shape and form.
With the GOP antics now over, the only story now is the unrivaled disaster that is the President's health care law.
The Democrats up for reelection in these states know that the sword of Domacles hanging over their heads is not the Republican Party, but it's Obamacare.
Enrollment numbers will thus remain dismal.
The insurance horror stories are only beginning.
The congressional hearings, too.
The administration could sack Sibelius, doubt that, but Kimberly Strassel thinks it's possible.
But the regime knows that getting a replacement nominee through the Senate would likely prove more painful than keeping her.
So she probably gonna hang on, and that's probably true.
If they can Sibelius, can you imagine what the next person nominated for that job would have to go through?
Now it wouldn't be worth the Trouble.
So this every story I'm sharing with you was written before the regime announced an hour and a half ago that the website will be fixed by the end of November.
I'm telling you, that announcement is going to give the media the opportunity to totally change directions on the narrative on the template the way they cover it.
Whether they will or not, I don't know, but I wouldn't be surprised.
You just know they're itching to report success.
They're itching to report how much people love this.
They're dying to report how many millions are signing up.
They're dying to report the stories of people saving money.
They're dying to tell this story.
And they can't do it right now while this website is an absolute disaster, and nobody can get in, and nobody can sign up for anything.
But now that it's going to be fixed by the end of November, remember it's going to be fixed.
Which means all the problems are going to be gone.
Which means it's an opportunity to once again sell Obamacare as the utopia that they've always lied about it being.
So keep your head about you.
Be right back after this.
My uh appreciation for all of you, and gratitude for you is is always at the top.
Uh and you continue to blow me away.
And I just I hadn't mentioned uh my book that's coming out on Tuesday.
I hadn't mentioned it significantly in a couple of weeks.
And I did uh a few minutes on it yesterday, just to remind people it's coming out Tuesday, the actual release date, and I reviewed again what the book is, the title of the book, Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims, and what it is, and the the market it's aimed at and what we're trying to do with it.
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Just you you all just continue to amaze me.
And I don't know how to express my appreciation any more than I do just to say thanks.
Here's Deborah in Warrington, North Carolina.
I'm glad you waited.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi.
It's an honor, Rush.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Uh my question is for about the Obamacare, for people who have health insurance already.
Yeah.
And uh they already have a pre-existing condition, if dropped from their insurance company, then let's say Obamacare goes away, will they be able to get health insurance from a private company again?
Well, if uh here if as I understand it, the question is what does a privately insured person with a pre-existing condition do if they're dropped and Obamacare goes away?
Because you're under the impression Obamacare covers or requires people with pre-existing conditions to be covered.
So if Obamacare goes away, then what happens to you, right?
Or those people?
Right.
Well, in that specific sense, the the one variable there is Obamacare going away.
I I I don't I don't think anybody has yet concluded that that's going to happen.
But if it did, what would people with pre-existing conditions do?
What did they do before?
We'll be back here in just a second.
Don't go away.
Okay, our previous caller, she could have been talking about one or two things.
She could have been talking about people who were already covered on their pre-existing condition because their insurance preceded Obamacare.
Then they dropped it when Obamacare came along and got on the Obamacare pre-existing insurance plan, policy, what have you.
Then if Obamacare somehow goes away, where do they go?
What do people do who had pre-existing coverage and then dropped it to go to Obamacare?
Can you just force insurance companies at that point to take those people again?
Now I am not sure about this.
I uh I'm kind of conflicted about pre-existing conditions.
I I don't see I folks, I I'm the mayor of Reeville and Reedelville and preexisting condition insurance, it isn't insurance.
If if you don't have to buy homeowners insurance until your house is halfway destroyed by fire, we're not talking about insurance then.
If you want to buy insurance against your house buying burning down, you go buy insurance, and then you make a bet that your house will not burn down.
The company's making a bet that it won't, and whatever.
And if it does, then you make a claim and they pay you back.
But if you can wait until the house is on fire and then go buy an insurance fund, that's not insurance.
That that's something else.
And it's the same thing with pre-existing conditions.
If you have a terminal disease and an insurance company is forced to provide you essentially payment for treatment, we're talking about something other than insurance.
And there's no insurance company in the world outside of coercion that would do that.
So the coercion has been employed.
And in many states, this one I'm not sure of.
I don't know how many, but in many states, pre-existing conditions have to be covered.
And this came about by virtue of public pressure and sympathy for people who didn't have the money to pay for their treatment.
And it was the re it's the result of uh ours being a compassionate society.
So in the event, now Obamacare's got this the high risk pools and the preexisting condition coverage, and if it were to go south, I assume that a market would exist, be created somehow, some way, the market's an amazing thing.
Somebody would come up with a way and figure out a way for those people to be taken care of.
If you if this is the I know I'm speaking esoterically here, maybe generically philosophically, but the market is a is a wonderful thing.
If you just leave it alone, I know you have to have certain regulations against predatory behavior, criminal behavior, and this kind of thing, but the market is a beautiful thing.
The market responds to practically every need and desire if there is a compensatory willingness to pay for it by somebody.
Markets work.
It is when government gets involved that markets get gummed up and screwed up and convoluted, corrupted, perverted, and don't work.
Because the government is not an equal player in the market.
The government doesn't have to make a profit.
The market is an unfair the government's an unfair competitor in an otherwise free market.
We're in this mess because the government's already gummed up the insurance market.
It's gummed up the health care and treatment market.
And that's why everybody's going through hoops here.
And so it's it has, it's it's been reduced to, well, what about me?
What about what happens to me?
And everybody's acting as individuals in a victim sense.
I think it all predicates on the fact that I is Obamacare ever going to go away.
And we all want it to.
But that better happen for the because the longer this goes on, the more impossible.
The more people, that's why they're sweating, folks.
The more people that do sign up at healthcare.gov, the more people that they can get registered at these exchanges, the tougher it is ever going to be to get rid of this thing.
That's you know, that's why the defund and the delay movement, either one of them were so crucial.
That's why it'd be so great.
If you could delay the individual mandate for a year, you would you'd come close to dealing a death blow to this.
And then the private sector insurance market would come back in to clean up the mess and pick up the pieces and you have take steps to make sure that there's plenty of competition in that market.
You'll have every circumstance, pretty much.
Not all, nothing's perfect, but you'll have a lot of circumstances that'll be accommodated by the market taken care of if there's a willingness to pay.
And we are compassionate society.
We always have been.
The truth of that's in our daily existence here.
We sometimes have been overly compassionate.
it.
But the I I firmly believe this, and I I know people on the left listening are laughing themselves silly with this kind of faith in the market.
They think that's what's wrong with America.
They think the market's predatory.
It preys on people, it it rips them off, it kills them, it steals from them, and it kicks them out of their homes, and it kicks them out of their cars and all it's a bunch of it's a it's a crock.
The history of the country is all the proof you need that that's not true.
Anyway, uh I don't know specifically what would happen, but I have the ultimate faith that those people would have a solution.
They would have multiple solutions should that eventuate.
Look, a a major future fault line in politics is going to be between those who don't want their Obamacare taken away versus those who want it gotten rid of.
We don't want to get to that point.
You don't want that battle.
You you don't want that battle among people in the country.
That battle you can you can foresee that by imagining trying to take away food stamps.
What would what would happen?
You you saw the other day when a glitch caused there to be no limit on food stamps for one day.
You saw what people did.
Can you imagine telling them that one day it doesn't work?
You can't use it.
I mean, there would be riots in the streets.
Who's next?
Aaron in Chico, California.
Hi, I'm glad you called.
Great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Thanks for us, Megaditos.
Um I'm calling actually in response to uh, I think it was last week, you were lamenting, and I think you were commenting on uh a journalist uh saying about how America has felt like it's been uh under a soft cool or has been taken over essentially by the communists.
And um I kind of wanted to semi-confirm that because uh I like to read uh history and whatnot and uh past economies and past uh you know collapses and so forth.
And uh John F. Kennedy gave a speech uh back in 1971 called The President and the Press, and he uh kind of gave a warning to the press about their role, but he eventually went on to uh to basically tell the danger that uh upon this country and basically what he referred to as a uh a mon a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies on covet means and subversion through uh through our elections and infiltration in ways that we're
not accustomed to, and he uh he spelled out a few ways that this uh this entity referred to didn't call it out specifically by name, but he said it has a vast uh capability of uh political, economic, uh military, scientific aspects worldwide that work in ways to subvert our society in ways that we don't really see it,
and he was really basically giving a heads up to the press, who I think is the biggest problem in this country, because they aren't telling people really what's going on, and if they did, you'd have a much better reaction of people really seeing what's going on rather than just kind of still protecting a certain political group of people, specifically the Democrats.
But and overall, they're the ones who are supposed to help inform us.
And Kennedy warned about that, that if we had all the information given to us as a people that we he trusted us to make the right the right judgment, the right choices based on the fullest information rather than what the press and the media.
There's no question about that.
Look, you here's the here's the thing.
We know who Obama is, and we know what he's going to do every day.
We know who Harry Reed is and what he's going to do.
And the Ditto Pelosi.
We know all that.
There's no surprise there.
They're in a sense, they aren't.
The problem.
The media is.
The media has a constitutional role.
That's what you're just alluding to.
And they've abrogated it.
They have now chosen sides.
The media is the Democrat Party.
They're just another wing of it or another arm of the Democrat Party.
And they remain, they remain the number one obstacle to a fully honestly informed public.
Country like ours depends on an informed public participating in civic citizen operations like elections and the PTA and town councils and this kind of stuff.
It depends on that.
It depends on an informed, participating population and electorate.
And the media is doing everything it can to prevent full information taking place.
We know who Obama is.
It's just that that people who don't are not being told.
And I imagine you could look at it the other way around as well.
Now, what I had said, and I think I think Kennedy was talking about the Communist Manifesto there, either that or the Socialist International.
But I all I said was last week, and it was in relationship to Obamacare that I actually when I was a kid, people that are not my age will not at all be able to relate to this.
I never feared nuclear holocaust.
I never thought that would happen.
I never didn't.
It was even though we had bomb shelters and all, but I never feared that.
But I did have I had nightmares about communists taking over the country.
I had nightmares about being chased by them uh down the streets in my little hometown.
I really did.
And uh not often and not constant, but that was you know, losing the country to the communists.
I mean, they they were making no bones what their intentions were.
It was not something anybody had to make up.
And you're citing Kennedy talking about it.
And I just I mentioned in in sort of a passing way last week that I almost felt with this Obamacare stuff being implemented and everything associated with it, almost felt like I thought I would feel if we had lost a war to the commies, to the communists.
And it was eerie in a sense, and that was the point that I was making.
I I was not suggesting that uh if it happened and that that the this takeover had happened by any stretch, although some people think it has.
I was just uh using that as a as a as a point of illustration to try to share with people how I felt about it that day, just in a in a new way of expressing the idea.
Anyway, Aaron, I appreciate the call.
I'm really out of time.
I've got to take a break.
We'll be back after this.
Okay, Bill and Tucson.
Bill, I've got about less than a minute, but I wanted to get to you because time is you've been waiting a long time.
So hi, how rush.
I've tried to get through to you hundreds of times.
Thank you.
God bless you.
You're the older, wiser brother politically.
I've always wanted, never had.
And thank you for being there.
Your dad and my dad would have been great friends.
I've listened to you since Station 58, KFI Los Angeles.
That's right.
58, you're right.
KFI was stationed 58.
And well, you're dredging up some memories for me about that.
You are family, and I thank you.
And both nerdly and JR, I mean HR rather.
Thank you all.
Well, what a great way to end open life Friday.
Uh Bill, I knew there was a reason that I struggled through things to get time left for one call.
I really appreciate that.
I thank you very much.
Sincerely.
And you have a great weekend, folks.
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