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March 7, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 7, 2014, Friday, Hour #2
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Any views expressed by the host on this program still documented to me almost always right seven percent of the time waiting on the next opinion audit report from the Sullivan Group at the first week in April, I believe.
And folks, it's Friday, so let's roll live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
All right.
All right.
Yeah.
Thank you.
Are you gonna be kidding me?
You have got to be well.
Well, it's good, actually.
I'm it's open line Friday.
Actually, that's good.
That's good, that's good.
I'm just reacting to a call that we got up there, folks, which we're gonna get to.
Pretty quickly.
Great to have you here.
Open line Friday means whatever you want to ask me about.
Whatever you want to comment on.
Doesn't have to be anything I care about.
Feel free, have at it.
Telephone numbers 800 2828 to the email address L Rushbo at EIBNet.com.
Is that is then Vladimir Posner up there on CNN on the right, talking to Wolf Blitz?
Is that he's bald now.
I guess that happens to people, but uh the red well, yeah, it actually looks good there.
Uh that is Vladimir Posner.
You know, I used to be when he and Phil Donahue.
Well, they were they were best buds.
Remember that.
They were inseparable best buds.
And this was before it was just me that Fox News hadn't no wait.
Fox News hadn't started yet, but there was MSNBC, was America's talking, I think.
And Donna, you had a show on there at night.
And these guys talked about me every night.
They even went on a couple of times.
And and Posner asked me a question about something, and I answered it, and he said, You can't answer it that way.
You simply you you you it doesn't work.
You can't answer.
I don't remember what it was about, but it was, and of course he was dead wrong.
It was he was just trying to intimidate me.
You can't answer it that way.
It was about the the dialectic uh uh of the uh of the Soviet Union to two steps forward, one step back.
Um what days those were?
And uh on the Donahue show that one time and so forth.
Vladimir Posner.
Uh it's it's I guess it's it's it's funny to watch people get older.
You know, you have your I haven't seen him on TV for 20 years.
And he had hair, and uh he he he looks unthreatening.
Yeah.
I know.
He said politics lie, asking about people lying, Putin who politicians lie, it's the name of the game.
Anyway, just to folks, just to wrap it up here about this this IRS thing.
Just keep in mind here, while everybody's focused on how mean ISA was and wouldn't let Elijah Cummings talk, which by the way, again, is not true.
Elijah Cummings had a chance for an opening statement.
The meeting was adjourned, and he went into that show biz routine.
But remember what this is about.
The whole point of these hearings is that the IRS silenced the Tea Party.
They didn't just try, they silenced the Tea Party.
And Elijah Cummings has no problem with that.
Elijah Cummings is actually protecting Lois Lerner and anybody else in the regime that participated in silencing the Tea Party.
That's what this should always be focused on.
And the Democrats have successfully moved it.
The whole point of this scandal, silencing hundreds of Tea Party groups via the IRS.
They did it by declining or delaying the granting of tax exempt status.
They couldn't raise any money.
And money in politics equals speech.
They were shut up.
And Cummings doesn't care about that.
Well, he said, I would never silence any of my Republican colleagues.
Why I would never turn off a Republican microphone.
He is perfectly happy with using a very intimidating agency of the government to shut down the Tea Party.
Yeah, I just it's a sad thing that that uh that focus is being lost.
Now I have intended for the past two days, talking about this teenager who sued her parents in New Jersey.
And I'm gonna do it now, I promise, so here we go.
A New Jersey honor student is suing her parents for for uh, and she's losing the suit, by the way, at least lost an early round.
The judge is Peter Bogart.
She is 18.
She claims she was kicked out of the house.
Her parents say no, she left on her own.
She says her parents were disciplining herself too much, making her do homework and so forth, she didn't want to do that.
And so now she's gone and she is suing them for the money to continue her private education.
Judge Peter Bogard said there was no emergency need for her parents to pay for tuition to uh Morris Catholic High School.
She's at 12th grade, she's got a 3.5 GPA, and in a potential precedent-setting lawsuit, Rachel claimed that her parents, Sean and Elizabeth Canning, threw her out of their home.
But even though they threw her out, they should still be responsible for paying her tuition, her room, and board and transportation and other expenses.
Now, Sean and Elizabeth Canning said that their daughter refused to obey basic household rules, and that she left on her own.
They say they haven't seen her since she left, which was in late October, two days before her birthday.
They both cried during the two-hour hearing in Morristown, 30 miles west of Manhattan, as the lawyers traded angry accusations.
Rachel's lawyer, Tanya Helfend, said that the mom and dad hadn't lifted a finger to contact their daughter, or even to make sure she's okay.
Her relationship with her parents is abusive, the lawyer said, in particular, her relationship with her father.
And the lawyer said, I'm asking this court to help this vulnerable young woman by making the parents cough up the dough.
Now, in court papers, Rachel, the 18-year-old who ran all the way from home, said that her mom has called her fat, while her dad has been inappropriately affectionate with her.
He mentioned frequently that my relationship in his eyes was not one of a daughter, but more than that.
No.
Well, you know, baby boom parents do really want to be friends with their kids.
Some of them do.
Some of them they don't want to be parents, they don't want to be disciplinarians, they don't want to raise them, they want to be friends with them.
And this father may be one of those kinds of guys.
But now, go into court, you throw any allegation around you want.
All you have to say is that her father was inappropriately affectionate, and you know as well as I do that the feminizes and every other social group is gonna be on that like white on rice, which is what I'm sure the lawyer attended.
She didn't say, she stopped short of saying that her father touched her unlawfully.
Now her parents' lawyer, another woman, Laurie Rush Massaray, denied all of the daughter's claims.
The parents introduced documents from the state's division of child protection showing the parents had been investigated for and cleared of abuse allegations.
The bottom line said Rush Masseray, the parents' lawyer.
Rachel left on her own, explaining she's emancipated Herself.
She doesn't want to be with her parents' sphere of influence.
Despite Tuesday's setback, Rachel's lawsuit is going forward.
The judge ordered both sides back to court on April 22nd, but the judge hinted that Rachel might have a tough legal burden to handle.
Judge said, child thumbs her nose at her parents, leaves the house, and then turns around asking, now you have to pay me money every week.
Judge said this poses a public policy issue.
It's a slippery slope.
Damn right it is.
18.
This girl is 18 years old.
Now, during the court hearing, I don't know if you heard about this.
During the court hearing, the father, Sean Canning pleaded.
During court, I'm a liberal.
I'm a liberal parent.
I wish I could have grown up in my house.
I was tougher on my cops at work than I've ever been at my home.
That's for sure.
But I'm a liberal.
I'm a liberal parent.
That may be an indication of where things went off the trancse here.
Just saying.
I'm a liberal parent.
I wish I could have grown up in my house.
Meaning, man, it's a piece of cake in this house, the way I run things here.
Now the latest in this.
The New Jersey parents being sued for tuition by their entitled daughter, were excoriated in a rant today by her on her new Facebook page.
Oh yeah.
The daughter went out there.
What is her name again?
I remember the father's name.
Rachel Cummings got a Facebook page.
And she unloaded on her parents, calling them spoiled baby boomers who would rather feather a retirement nest than pay their kids college bills.
She wasn't just talking about her parents.
She launched into every baby boom parent out there.
She wrote this on her Facebook page.
I have been stunned by the financial greed of modern parents who are more concerned with retiring into some fantasy world rather than provide for their children's college and young adult years.
This was actually a poster, somebody reacting to her post.
She did start by calling her parents spoiled.
And then people posted in agreement.
Suburban baby boomer types are the spoiled lot.
They make massive amount of money.
They are used to flying to luxury destinations whenever they want, buy things they don't need.
People should be inclined to say things my way.
The post appeared on the Education for Rachel Facebook page, which Canning previously told the post she set up to support her cause.
Another poster said, I see parents like this every day.
Children were always an accessory to them.
Nothing more.
And once the accessory grew up and went out of fashion, much like a marriage that people allegedly commit to, the child becomes a throwaway.
That's just how it is.
So, folks, what is happening here is this babe sues her parents, sets up a Facebook page, and people start posting to it, supporting her with all of these assaults on baby boomer parents.
Now, as one who studies sociology and the society and the culture, I find this fascinating.
That we have these millennials now who are looking at their baby boom parents as a bunch of materialistic, selfish concerned only with them, and their kids are just accessories.
I always thought it was Hollywood actresses that adopted babies because it was the latest accessory.
You know, Madonna's setting the trend on that.
But now this group is saying that we're all accessories in all of these baby boom parents.
All they do is care about themselves.
They Just want us for the appearance of a solid, healthy, good family, but they're selfish.
They don't want to pay for us, they don't want to support us, they don't want to pay for education, they don't want to pay for our young adulthood, they don't want to pay for anything.
We're totally on our own.
They're selfish, they're brutes, and we're just accessories.
Well, I don't know.
No, they're paying extra for that Catholic eyes, but they're not paying it, that's the point.
They probably would if she hadn't left home, but she left home.
They're saying, okay, you're on your own.
If you're gonna if you're gonna split the scene, you're on your own.
Here's the real world.
I don't know about you.
When I was growing up, I didn't set the rules in my house.
The parents did, and or anybody else's house I was in.
Even as an adult, whoever owned the house sets the rules there, no matter how old I was.
But certainly kids didn't set the rules.
But I tell you something, folks.
I have noticed, you know, I am a childless father.
Childless person.
And all I've been able to I I observe others, but I've I don't have the actual experience.
That's what's that actually is what has uh made writing these children's books so challenging and fun to do.
But I have I've observed uh over the last couple decades.
I mean, it's different than when I was growing up.
Uh a lot of parents uh demand that their kids be included in every invitation they get.
If it's an adult dinner party, well, I'm not unless I can't bring my kids.
You what?
You want to bring it?
Yes, I do everything with my children, and I'm not coming unless I can't bring my stuff that I mean didn't have so there's little chronicles of changes taking place, but the selfishness of the baby boomers, I think it's fascinating that these millennials are now focusing on that while at the same time expecting to be totally supported.
It's mom and dad who are selfish, focused only on themselves.
Which happens to be true of a lot of baby boomers, in fact.
Let me take a break.
Uh we'll come back and get started with the phones.
Don't go away, my friends.
Right on, right on right now.
Rush Limbaugh.
Open line Friday.
Half my brain tied behind my back, just to make it fair.
Here is uh Joshua in Cleveland.
Great to have you, sir.
Hello.
Hi, Ariel.
Love yourself.
I want to preface what I want to ask before I ask it.
I want to prepare I'm 26 years old.
Okay.
I've been listening to your show since probably 13, 14.
So nice long while.
And I love your show.
I love your opinion.
I love your funny, your humor, your wit.
It's great.
I recently this has struck me as a question I I always I wanted to know.
Okay.
Is your persona that you have on the radio, which I'm gonna be honest, is it's quite boastful and and quite I know it all, and half my brain tied behind my back, which is funny, and I and it's definitely entertaining.
But my question is, is that your real life persona?
When you're at with friends and family, do you walk around with Afrasana?
Or is this just something that you do for show business?
So your your question is uh like when I go home for Christmas, and and I and I walk in the front door of my brother's house.
Do I walk in, do I walk in?
Oh, shoots rushes here.
Now comes the fight.
Um, oh no, no, no, no.
It's no, no, no, it's not but I'll get to that in a second.
No, but you're asking me essentially.
Do I walk in my brother's house and say, greetings to you family members?
I am Rush Limbaugh back home for Christmas, half my brain tied behind my do I do I walk into the house that way.
Well, I'm not exactly that.
I I I can't imagine that you would do that if j judging by your by your intellect that that you would be that stupid that you could walk you like that, but my question is it's an honest question.
Do you No, I understand.
I know you're right.
You're what am I as braggadocious or confident or uh boastful, I think you said.
Right.
Dominant, do I walk into a room and demand that everybody stop doing and listen to me?
And then do I comment on what everybody says and is doing uh and offer my opinion about it.
And do I basically have no time for anybody else and not care what anybody else thinks?
Basically that's my question.
I'll be honest with you.
My opinion is most probably not.
I just want to hear from you the truth.
Well, see, here's the problem in answering that.
Um let me answer it this way.
The uh this is showbiz here.
And there are a number of elements that that have to be used in combination.
And sometimes talking about them destroys the magic behind them.
It's like if you ever heard a couple comedians talking about the business of comedy.
It's just not funny.
It's the most boring thing.
It's it's too inside baseball.
Now, this is radio.
This is media.
This requires an audience.
There is a showbiz aspect to it.
However, my critics sometimes, well, he's just an entertainer, and they will say that as a means of discrediting me.
Well, he's an entertainer.
He's not even believing what he says.
You can't take him seriously.
Other times that at all.
I don't believe that.
I believe that you most you definitely believe strongly what you say.
But I also understand that there is a level, like you said, of show business of entertainment.
You're not going to get people to listen to you if you're if you're boring.
But that's that's that's the question is if you like this, it has it carried over into your into your daily life outside the radio.
You basically am I always this interesting?
Is really what you want to know.
Am I always or am I really when I get home?
I know you're always this interesting.
I'm sure you're always interesting.
No, in fact, I'm I'm probably one of the quietest speak only when spoken to.
Uh and probably the most, one of the most humble, unassuming people that you would ever meet.
And my guess is in truth that you would be disappointed.
Don't go away.
Well, I asked our last caller to hang on, because I wasn't there answering his question, and he he either didn't hear me or either we hung up on him and I'm being lied to when I'm told he hung up.
But regardless, he's he's not there, and I didn't finish answering his question.
Now I don't know if I should if I should if I should continue to answering the story or answer the question.
Well, I'm not gonna let it Yeah, he the basically what am I like when I'm not on the ear?
Um there's a simple story I I can tell that would probably answer his question.
And I I can't give any names, but I guarantee you'd know every one of them.
A um very powerful man invited me to accompany him and about 15 of his friends on a trip to another country to play golf.
And the people on the trip were a couple of um uh people that appear on NFL pregame shows.
There were a couple people that appear on a network morning show.
There were two Hollywood actors uh and some business associates of the host.
And the trip was five days.
And on the last leg home, we're all in the back of the host's airplane.
And the subject of a of a United States senator came up, and I was asked what I thought, and I just started launching, and the host said, Where the hell has this been?
Meaning, we've been five days and you just now start acting like you care and talk about it.
In other words, I had been invited as the Circus Act.
I had been invited as because most of these people were liberals, and I figured it out after after two days in the trip.
I was supposed to be, you know, the uh the circus act, and I wasn't.
I just played golf and chatted about whatever was going on, and that was that.
I went out to dinner.
There was uh, you know, I didn't call anybody names and talk about liberalism because there's no politics was discussed whatsoever.
It's a golf trip.
And politics was discussed on the way back, and the host said, where the hell has this been?
Meaning, why haven't you been talking like this the whole trip?
So that should answer the question for you.
I I I uh I'm Yeah, it's not if you strike my passions, I guess, yeah, you get you get the show, but but um I don't know.
I I honestly I can't answer the I can't answer the question without uh giving things away that are best left mysterious.
I mean, why you you you want there to be some drama, some mystery, some unknown, and there's you know no reason to leave that or to um destroy that.
But suffice to say, folks, when I walk in the room, I don't say, Hi, half my brain tied behind my back.
What are you doing here?
Who the hell invited you?
It's nothing like that.
As I say, I slink from being noticed.
I I sneak around.
I do everything I can not to get noticed wherever I go.
Uh I I am I'm extremely private.
Um probably the most humble person you would ever encounter.
And I'm sure that would stun and surprise, and maybe even disappoint some, but it's the way it is.
Here's Dan in Indianapolis.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Great to have you here.
Hello.
Hi, Russ.
I just wanted to let you know uh after watching a little bit of CPAC yesterday in the Christie push.
I called a local uh supposedly conservative station here in Indianapolis this morning on a pop show.
And uh basically I said, I don't know what uh somebody that is against the second amendment and is pushing illegal uh amnesty is doing uh out in front of CPAC, and I didn't appreciate Rubio pulling for Amnesty either.
Well, they berated me on air for that.
And then I called them back and I told them I didn't appreciate that.
So for the next two hours on that show, all the callers, with the exception of one, was in favor of what I was in favor of.
I want a real conservative ahead of the party or else.
I was I was just reading, just just before the program started, and uh forgive me because I did not print it.
I was harried and distracted and trying to do 20 things at once, five minutes before the program started.
I saw a story about some I think it was MRC TV, was it the Brentball Media Research?
I'm not I'm not sure what it was, and I just barely scanned the headline the first two paragraphs.
And this it was about a conservative group accusing what you're saying essentially that that CPAC is gone.
CPAC is not conservative.
You can't you can't have a conservative political action committee conference with somebody like Governor Christie and John Corny there.
Those are the two names mentioned in this piece.
And so there's a satellite group that is, I guess, meeting there, or just publishing their opinion of what's going on at CPAC.
And said dovetails with uh uh with your point.
And I'm not surprised that you'd get beat up by the hosts, but then the callers, the listeners would be sympathetic to you.
Grab grab soundbite uh, let's see, let's see.
Um, where do I want to start let's let's start at number eight, because I mentioned earlier that no matter where you go in the drive-by's today, Chris Christie's back.
Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, New York Times, LA Times, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC, you name it, they are just back in love with Governor Christie.
They are singing his praises, and they are saying he knocked it out of the park, and he got much bigger standing O than Ted Cruz, and he was much more popular than Ted Cruz.
And he was much more appreciated.
He was much more listened to, and he had made much more sense than Ted Cruz, and he had the audience eating out of the palm of his hand, and he was really, really, really good.
He's put Bridge Gate behind him.
And he's back on top, the conservative uh Republican presidential sweepstakes, so forth.
And it was it was amazing.
If you look, if you just stack headlines on top of each other, one on top of each other, ABC, CBS, NBC, ABC, MSNBC, CNN, Washington Post, New York Times.
It's just in unison again.
Every mainstream drive by outlet is now back to annoying Christie as the Republican debate.
And as I said, we all know that those people in the media want Christie to be the president, right?
They don't want Hillary.
They don't want Biden.
They don't want whoever else might seek it on the Democrats.
And no, no, no.
The New York Times, you know darn well they want Christie to be right.
And the same thing with ABC and CBS.
Yes, yes, I'm being facetious, of course.
Let's listen, we've got a is this a montage.
It is.
It is a montage of various media types hailing the Christie comeback and uh we even have some some Fox people in here.
Governor Chris Christie back on the world stage getting a standing ovation and stealing the show.
Chris Christie coming back the start of the Christie comeback.
Day one looks a lot like a beginning of a comeback for Chris Christie.
Very shrewd and deliberate in making his comeback.
Governor Christie back on the national stage today marked the beginning of Christie's comeback.
Will this put the New Jersey governor back in the race?
It's all there, folks.
I mean it just it isn't amazing how this happens he spoke for I I clocked it myself but 25 minutes and he said two memorable things that I heard.
I'm not saying that he didn't say more than I see the whole thing but two memorable things.
We've got to start saying what we're for media love that.
Why did the media love that?
Because the media thinks that the Tea Party and conservatives are nothing but a bunch of little chihuahuas yapping at the ankles of Obama and every Democrat and all we're doing is whining and moaning and criticizing but we're never offering solutions.
We never speak positively.
We don't have any more.
And Governor Christie came along.
And basically what he did with that comment was slap the Tea Party upside the head.
Nanomedia loved that.
And the second thing he said, let's leave this conference remembering that before we can govern, we've got to win elections.
So let's focus on, again, winning.
And, of course, the implication or the inference that we're to draw there is that Republicans don't.
don't care about winning elections anymore.
All they want to do is complain.
All the Republicans want to do is complain and beat up our beloved president.
All the Republicans want to do is whine and moan.
Governor Christie came in and told him what for.
Governor Christie came in and he told those young kid conservatives, you better start being for things.
And media says, oh, this is wonderful.
And now that's in unison and it is a chorus.
It's the media making you think that they really so.
excited Governor Christie's back why they might even vote for him for president George will last night on special report with Brett Bayer George what are your thoughts on Chris Christie at CPAC today.
MSNBC has been a great benefit to Christie I mean MSNBC has at most a one track mind and it has been just obsessed with him and my enemy's enemy is my friend so a lot of people there were warming up to him so the theory there is MSNBC would not let go of Bridgegate.
In fact it might be one of the reasons Alec Baldwin quit M SNBC because he was so fed up that all they were doing morning tonight was talking about Christie and Bridgegate And George Will said all of that has created massive new amounts of sympathy for Governor Christie.
Doesn't matter.
The bottom line is no matter where you go in the media, Governor Christie is back.
He is on top.
Bridgegate is history.
He cleaned Ted Cruz's clock.
He cleaned Marco Rubio's clock.
He cleaned everybody's clock.
And he lectured those conservatives, and he told them.
You can't just run around complaining and whining.
You better be for something.
So interesting to note.
Quick timeout.
Open line Friday continues after this.
Sit tight.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
This is Jessica in Northport, Florida.
Welcome to the program.
Great to have you here.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
Thank you for taking my call.
You bet.
I wanted I never thought I'd be talking to you about this issue.
I know it's a very controversial issue.
I want to talk about vaccines, but not about the safety or the controversy surrounding autism.
I want to talk about uh what's been in the news recently, and it's very concerning to parents like myself about mandatory vaccinations and parental rights.
In Maryland recently, a judge ordered um every unvaccinated family in a district to be vaccinated by Friday, otherwise they could go to jail.
And this is a a place that has philosophical and religious exemption, and parents had to show up and prove their religious um uh exemption, prove themselves.
And I and this is also happening in Oregon and California, and it's really troubling to me, and I sincerely would like to know your feelings.
Well, before what what is your uh uh fear?
What what what alarms you?
Do you not trust the government telling you that your kid must be vaccinated for whatever it is?
No, because I feel that the government is too heavily in bed with the pharmaceutical companies, which are most definitely making a profit from our bloated vaccine schedule.
And please keep in mind I'm a partial vaccinating parent.
I have two special needs adopted children, so I am very cautious in what I choose to administer to them.
But yet you don't have a choice.
You're being told you have to do this, or you could go to jail.
Yes, it's spreading across the country.
There's several states now where a CPS is being called on pr lovely families that have no business being involved in that sort of system because they choose not to vaccinate or they refuse the hepatitis B shot on the first day of birth.
Hmm.
Well, this is uh uh well, what are your options?
I mean, if you if you if if if you don't do it, who who who will know?
Well, I was kicked out of a doctor's office after my daughter had open heart surgery, and she wanted to administer six vaccines in one day to catch her up after open heart surgery, and the doctor kicked me out, sent me a um certified letter, and um I was genuinely afraid she was going to call CPS because I had heard she'd done it on another family, and thankfully she did not.
My rights in Florida are I can claim a religious exemption, but what about families who aren't religious?
And and uh what about philosophical exemption and what about I know it's it's it's happening uh everywhere.
New York City now has mandatory flu vaccines every year for six months to six years old.
Uh and uh six-year-olds uh attending daycare and preschool.
It's it's uh it's all rooted in this belief that you are not qualified.
You're not capable of protecting your children.
Only the government knows best.
These people that can't do anything right, they can't run the health care system, they can't do anything, they know better how to protect your kid from disease than you do, and they want to exercise this control over you.
And um there's some I saw a report the other day that that hospital systems are now required to have a 90% or higher flu shot reception rate among their staff, or they lose up to two percent of their funding of Medicare and Medicaid.
Exactly.
And school districts lose their funding if their stud if the student body isn't up to date.
Yeah.
But You know, it's it's it vaccinations happens to be your cause.
It's happening to everybody's freedom, virtually every walk of life.
New York City, the LA City Council just banned, or maybe it was New York, I forget one of the two, just banned e-cigarettes.
It's water vapor.
They just banned them.
Just made them illegal to use in public.
It's water vapor.
There's not one element of tobacco.
There's not one carcinogen in these things.
And because it looks like cigarettes and it glorifies it.
So the you know whether it's vaccines or whatever, this is this is Jessica.
I I hate to.
It's not probably not an answer you're looking for.
This is what you get when you get liberals who think they know better, who think you don't know how to raise your kids, and who think everybody should have to follow their dictates in order for us to have a uniform society and a uniform culture.
And I just I I I wish more people would see this and learn from it, be able to identify who these kinds of people are before they go vote.
You know, folks, if you just stop and think about it, you don't have to think about it.
You know it's happening, which is why so agitated.
Choice is being taken away in big gulps.
Look at the choices you no longer have in health care alone.
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