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May 8, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 8, 2014, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
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Greetings, my friends, and welcome.
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And I am your harmless, lovable little fuzzball host, Rush Limboy here on the left coast.
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Okay, I've got a I don't share this with you because it's just kind of funny.
I've got a story here that I haven't been able to make hide nor hair of for 30 minutes.
I've been trying to figure it's a healthcare story, and it's it's uh I'm not even gonna tell you which I don't want to embarrass anybody, but I'm still trying to figure this out because it talks about well, no, I if I start talking about it, I'm gonna confuse you.
Because I don't know yet what it means.
But I'm hell bent, I'm gonna figure this out before the program's over.
The confusing part of it is no, I'm not even good.
We're I'm just gonna keep it.
I'll look at it during the commercial breaks and try to figure this out.
I mean, it's about all right, all right.
I'll tell you here we go.
You it sturdy is begging me.
I swear, folks, I was gonna start with Monica audio here.
Actually, that's not what I was gonna start with.
I can't believe this.
We are one of the few people talking about the 300 or more Nigerian girls kidnapped by Boko Haram.
Which, when I hear that name, I think of a whiter shade of pale.
Boko Haram, a Proko Harem.
But it's not who it is.
It's a terrorist bunch.
Hillary's State Department refused to designate them a terrorist bunch from the Daily Beast.
Hillary State Department refused to brand Boko Haram as terrorists.
Under Hillary Clinton, the State Department repeatedly declined to fully go after the terror group responsible for kidnapping hundreds of Nigerian girls.
And that means they are what?
They're African American.
Well, they're African, they're black.
That's not a terror group this bunch is.
It's a strange article to see in the Daily Beast.
You can think maybe in the Daily Caller or Breitbart, but this isn't a Daily Beast.
But why only blame Hillary?
Obama could have overruled her for crying out loud.
And if you listen to Obama's speech, you know, he is here.
He's out here, folks.
This is an absolute.
I mean, I my travel schedule has been such that I haven't been affected.
Travel wise, have you guys been affected travel-wise, my I haven't either.
But man, it is sickening to read in the media out here what's going on.
It's just, it's just sickening.
It's depressing.
It it it's another collection of stuff that just doesn't make sense.
The people bending over forwards and backwards to be with this guy, you would think would run as far from him as they could get.
And they can't get, he can't wait to just get close.
It just boggles the mind.
Anyway, so we've been unaffected by that and and travel-wise, but it's been interesting to see how the local constabulary has gotten prepared for the visit for the uh the president.
Anyway, he's out of here today, right?
And he heads down to San Diego, then up to San Jose.
He's a it's a big fundraising swirl, and he's been given a bunch of uh awards along the way.
I mean, I I just it doesn't compute, folks.
You take a guy who gave the speech he gave in Cairo, and the people giving him awards out here last night.
None of it makes any sense.
You literally go crazy if you spend any time trying to logically understand it, because there isn't any logic.
It's just pure 100% politics and groupieism.
Rich people willing to pay to be close to power, no matter who holds it.
Anyway, back to this Daily Beast story.
It's really odd because this is a left-wing publication That is making a big deal out of this group, Boko Harum not being branded as terrorists.
This is the same bunch that did not want to admit that it was a terror attack that killed four people in Benghazi.
This is the same bunch that wants everybody to believe that they have vanquished Al Qaeda, that they have vanquished terrorism.
Talk about living in a dream world.
State Department under Hillary Clinton fought hard against placing the Al Qaeda militant group Boko Haram on its official list of foreign terror organizations for two years, and now lawmakers and former U.S. officials are saying the decision may have hampered the American government's ability to confront the Nigerian group that shocked the world by abducting hundreds of innocent girls.
What in the world is shocking?
That Al Qaeda would commit acts of terror.
What?
Are we supposed to think that Mitch McConnell is going to grab a bunch of Republicans and fly over to Nigeria and kidnap the girls?
Are they so caught up in this Republican war on women that they can't believe that left-wing terror groups would do it?
Damn right, but left-wing terror group.
You want where else would you put Al Qaeda on the political scale?
Anyway.
Certainly Obama could have overruled her.
And if you hear him speak, uh when he talks about it, what Bo Karam has been doing has been on his mind constantly for years.
That's what he's been telling these people.
He's funny, he's been so worried and so concerned.
Anyway, that's not the point.
The point is, I have to show you a couple pictures here on the ditto cam.
And I'm not going to be able to zoom it or any of that, but I think I think you'll get close enough.
It's actually one picture printed twice here.
And it's unbelievable.
And I just before I show you this, I want to ask you what message does this send.
And then I want to ask you, is the United States really this powerless?
And then if you answer, yes, we are really this powerless, then isn't Obama to blame?
By the way, speaking of that, little minor detour, Dan Henninger yesterday to Wall Street Journal had his uh his weekly column.
And like everybody, he's just been watching in stunned amazement as the left, without any compunction whatsoever, just simply goes out and destroys people for saying things the left doesn't want to hear, doesn't like, like the guy at Mozilla, uh Condi Rice at Rutgers, uh things like that.
And he blames it right.
It is all made possible by Obama.
Every bit of it.
And he cites a specific, it's all emanating from universities, and he's he cites a specific compromise ruling at a specific university involving Title IX that sent the signal to every university in the country that they are free to engage in this fascistic behavior.
So that's coming up too.
But this picture is of the first lady.
It's about what Boko Haram did.
And it is a plea to try to get the kidnapped girls returned.
It is Mrs. Obama is in a diplomatic reception room of the White House, where I've been there many times.
It's it's it's uh one of those popular entrances used for diplomats, guests, friends, and so forth.
It's just you go to the diplomatic reception room, take a left, and there's the elevator of the residents.
It's real close there.
It's where Obama comes out and gets in a helicopter, all the presidents do.
That's the diplomatic reception room, most cases.
That's where this picture's taken looks like.
I I just think this is pathetic.
I I'm just stunned.
We got 300 Nigerian girls kidnapped by an Al-Qaeda group.
And nobody cared or talked about it for a while.
Hillary wouldn't call them a terror group.
Now all of a sudden, for some reason, we're on a big push to get them back.
And this is how.
It's a plea for people on Twitter to get in gear and bring the girls back.
It's hashtag bring back our girls.
Apparently there's a Twitter, what do you call them?
Handle.
It's uh the number sign bring back our girls.
It's a hashtag.
Okay.
Anyway, it is Mrs. Obama looking sad and grim.
And the sad thing here is that the low information crowd that's puddling around out there on Twitter is going to think we're actually doing something about it.
Yeah, they say exactly at least she's trying, Mr. Limbaugh.
What are you doing?
At least Mrs. Obama cares.
At least they're trying to get them back.
Here it is again.
Let me get them closer.
See it.
Is that not pathetic?
What the what the hell message does that say?
Imagine if bin Laden were still alive.
Aimon Al Zawahiri.
Can you imagine they're laughing at this over in the huts and so forth wherever they are.
It is just unbelievable.
Bring back our girl.
They're Nigerian.
Unless there's something that we don't know.
But are we really this powerless?
But the correct way to look at this is the audience that will see it, the Twitter low information universe.
Oh, Miss Obama, at least they care.
At least they're trying to do something.
This is how if somebody sadly, unfortunately, had a family member kidnapped, this is might be what they would do, right?
Go to Twitter, bring back my daughter.
I find it just this is pathetic.
The message this sends to uh people around the world.
The Taliban, the Taliban has been doing a lot worse to screw girls than Boko Haram has.
And Obama's negotiating with them in um in Afghanistan.
Okay, now, Snergley, here's this.
Here's the headline.
A lot more people are about to learn they can't keep their plans if they like them.
I was intrigued.
I was really intrigued by that headline.
A lot more people are about to learn they can't keep their plans if they like them.
Let's get started here.
It's almost time for stage two of the great Obamacare dump.
As the truly breathtaking depths of Barack Obama's big lie are exposed, and America is shoved closer to the howling abyss of single-payer health care, the transformation nobody voted for.
Fine so far.
Kaiser Health News explains something that Obamacare critics predicted with typical accuracy years ago, and that is that employers have strong incentives to chuck their employees into those hideous Obamacare exchanges rather than continuing to provide health insurance that everybody's accustomed to.
For the cost of a modest penalty, the corporate world can wash its hands of health insurance entirely.
Now, not news.
If you listen to this program regularly, you already know this.
You might need to be reminded of it, but you already know this.
That part and parcel of Obamacare is getting rid of employer-provided insurance.
And the way Obamacare does that is incentivize businesses to do just that.
It's expensive to provide health care benefits for people.
And if you, as a business, can legally offload your health care plan to the Obamacare Exchange and pay just a small penalty for two or three years, you're going to do it.
Everybody's known this.
Everybody's known it's going to happen.
The thing is, it was supposed to already have been implemented, but it has been delayed until after the 2014 elections.
Now, what is confusing to me about the story is I'm not sure after reading this if some employers have already started doing it.
Anyway, or not.
That's why I can't make hiding her tails up here.
To me, that would be the news.
If businesses are already starting, even though they they they uh they they can't I think they actually can't.
The opportunity to do that has been delayed.
Can corporations shift workers with high medical cost from the company health plan onto online exchanges created by Obamacare.
Some employers are considering uh considering it, say benefits consultants.
It's all over the marketplace, said Todd Yates, managing partner at Hill Chesson and Woody, a North Carolina benefits consulting firm.
Employers are inquiring about it, and brokers and consultants are advocating for it.
Patients with pre-existing medical conditions like diabetes drive health care spending, but those who undergo expensive procedures like organ transplants are a burden to the company as well.
Since most big corporations are self-insured, and we have defined that as well.
Shifting even one high cost member out of the company plan can save the employer hundreds of thousands of dollars a year while increasing the cost of claims absorbed by the marketplace policy by a similar amount, meaning taxpayers.
So the health law might not prohibit it opening a door to potential erosion of employer-based.
There's no potential here.
This is going to happen.
It hasn't happened yet.
That's what the more I read this, the more confusing I get, confused again about why is this a story now since it isn't happening.
And everybody knows that it's going to happen.
It does serve as sort of a canary in the coal mine reminder for you that the only group right now that has really lost their insurance policies of the self-insured.
Those who get their insurance at work as a benefit, they haven't got their cancellation notices yet, but you're coming.
And it was supposed to be this January that those notices were to go out.
And the regime quickly figured out that would not go well with an election this year.
So there was a delay in implementing that aspect.
But it's going to happen.
It's dollars and cents, it's going to happen.
Obama wants it to happen.
They want private business out of this.
They want single payer.
They want everybody ultimately having to go to the government to get insurance and health care itself.
Let me resume now with the story.
No, let me not.
Let me take a break here so I have a little bit of uh of substantive time on the other side.
Uh so, yeah, that makes sense.
Do that.
We'll be back.
Hold on, don't go anywhere, folks.
As you can tell, just getting revved up.
This is why, this is why I'm doing what I was born to do.
I finally figured this out.
I finally figured out why what happened was the original source for this story is actually Kaiser Health News.
And a news website, and I don't know, I'm not here.
This is not to be critical of any of it.
I'm just explaining why I got confused.
Somebody decided to rewrite the Kaiser Health News release as a news story.
And tried to make it look like the website came up with it, and then that Kaiser's incidentally being quoted here and there.
So what I did threw that out, and I went straight to the belly of the beast, so to speak, which is the Kaiser Health News.
Because that's the story.
And what is noteworthy about that, and you might even say truly sickening, is that Kaiser Health News, Kaiser has been one of the foremost champions of Obamacare.
They're one of the many health-related organizations and hospital groups that got in bed with Obama early on.
The time we couldn't figure it out because we were looking at it the wrong way, stupidly looking at it the wrong way.
Rather than following the money, we actually were.
I was thinking that people would understand that what's going on was not in their in their best interests and would on principle oppose something like this.
If you are in the private health business And you got a president who wants to take over.
My natural inclination is that you would stand up and oppose it.
But no, that's where I was wrong.
Nobody is standing up opposing this guy on anything because they're scared to death of whatever.
They're scared to death of being called racists.
They're scared to death of what this guy might do to them, Obama if they oppose.
And by the way, there's evidence for that.
I mean, look at these people can see what happened to Brendan Ike.
They can see what happened to Vandersloot.
Frank Vandersloot, the donor to the Romney campaign that was audited four or five times, can see what happened to anybody having to do with a Tea Party.
IRS was sick dust.
See what happened to Condoleezza Rice and Rutgers.
There are not a whole lot of bravery out there, folks.
A lot of people scared to death of this guy, literally scared to death of their government.
And they've made the decision, it's just easier in the short term.
Survivability is the key.
It's just easier to suck it up and go along and try to manage your demise as best you can rather than die trying.
And of course, since that is so foreign to my attitude and mindset that I have difficulty in seeing it in people who I think are big, tough, strong, and courageous.
That's been one of the biggest shocks to me.
Is all the people who I just assumed, because of the nature of their lives and the success track that they've been on, where big tough people are going to stand up to this kind of takeover of their business or mischaracterization of the instead, I've seen just the exact opposite.
It's been dispiriting and it's been curious.
So anyway, the sun totally is it.
Kaiser, an early supporter of Obamacare, is now surprised at what is about to happen to them.
That's the story back in just a second.
Ha.
Welcome back.
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All right, here's the nub of this.
Kaiser Health News has a piece today.
Actually, it was uh yesterday.
This is the eighth, right?
So that was yesterday.
Hold on to your health care.
Big company.
This is what's confusing.
They actually think this is news.
Now look, I'm sorry, I don't mean to sound braggadocious, folks.
I remember telling everybody about this for four years when Obamacare was in the pro before it even voted on.
All of this has been known, and these people were among the big supporters of Obamacare.
I'm sure they thought that's the safest route to take rather than stand up and oppose it.
I talked to somebody the other day, a friend of mine.
I you'd you'd know his name.
I'm going to mention his name.
You'd know he's very, very well.
He said, I've never seen democracy fall so fast.
I never thought it possible.
And a lot of people think that way.
And this guy is in a position to do something about it and feels powerless.
And is doing it.
He's involved in work, involved educating people and so forth to the right way.
Never seen democracy fall so fast.
And this whole Obamacare episode is sort of a sort of has it in a nutshell, a little microcosm of how it's happening.
Here you have the President of the United States under the guise of insuring the uninsured and lowering people's insurance costs, lying through his teeth about it.
Over and over and over again.
The truth was easily ascertainable.
It was right there in the Obamacare legislation.
Anybody who took the time to read it or took the time to read others who had read it was easy to understand the president was lying.
And in this objective was to totally take over one-sixth of the U.S. economy.
Now, I always believe that the people in a segment of the economy targeted for takeover, particularly by the government, would stand up and oppose it.
And it didn't happen.
Not universally.
The people that you would think would be most outraged at an effort like this would be at the forefront of standing up trying to stop it to protect their businesses, to protect their life's investments, everything that they've worked for.
But no, there was there was acquiescence here from insurance companies, acquiescence with Kaiser Health News, some hospital groups, even the doctors in the white coats in the Rose Garden, or the fake doctors in the fake white coats in the Rose Garden.
And it's been a head scratcher.
So the headline of their piece is hold on to your health care.
Big companies are flirting with dumping high cost employees off their private health plans onto Obamacare legally.
Insurance experts to the rescue.
I I I'm at a loss.
How many times?
Those of you in this audience ask yourselves, how many times have you heard eventually your employer is going to dump your plan onto the exchange?
He's going to get rid of it.
He's going to be allowed to, it's going to be legal, and it's going to be much cheaper, and most employers don't want to mess with it anyway.
Remember the GM of General Motors, the CEO GF said, I didn't know when I took this job I was actually CEO of health care.
I thought I was coming into the car business.
I think that was Rick Smith.
So it's not a big mystery that this was going to happen, and it was right there in the bill.
So let's just no need to read this whole thing to you.
Big companies flirting with dumping high-cost employees off their private health plans onto Obamacare legally.
Can corporations shift workers with high medical costs from the company health plan into online exchanges created by Obamacare.
Some employers are considering it, say benefits consultants.
This thing is this well, I gotta be careful in in describing what this is.
I can't believe that they, you know, it sounds to me like what Kaisers do.
They signed up for it, they eagerly supported, now they're trying to make people think they're coming to the rescue.
So here's the bottom line of this, folks.
The bottom line is that the Obamacare legislation empowers, it enables legally employers to dump their health care plans.
I went back, I looked at my archives, June 28th of 2012.
You could go to the Rush Limbaugh.com and search it.
Why employers will dump health insurance.
We're coming up two years ago.
We first discussed it on this program.
And it really wasn't a prediction.
It was, it was, it was simply a warning that it was coming because it's in Obamacare.
It was already supposed to have started happening.
January of this year is when the people covered at work were supposed to start getting their cancellation notices.
The regime, wisely, for their own benefit, delayed that until next January or maybe later this year, but certainly after the November elections.
And we did it again in 2009.
An employer explains how you will be forced into the public option.
October 8th, 2009.
And if it's on the website, it means we discussed it here in great detail.
So the story that I was originally confused by took the Kaiser piece and wrote about it as though it was something nobody'd ever heard of is a great discovery, and insurance companies, businesses are thinking about doing this.
They've been thinking about doing it ever since they heard they're gonna have the chance.
So that the the sum total of this is you get your health insurance at work, your company can dump you into the exchange, and more than likely will.
Should have started in January.
It's been delayed.
They can't do it yet, but they're really thinking about it.
And now Kaiser Health News is writing about it, trying to make their subscribers think they're going to come to the rescue and find a way out of this.
You thought you were safe and you aren't.
Unless.
So that's that's the manipulation here that is taking place.
Chuck Barkley's in trouble.
Well is trouble.
Well, yeah, he said something.
He basically assaulted the women of San Antonio.
Call them fat.
And uh obesity and did you say are they?
Are they women of San Antonio Fat?
I've been to San Antonio a bunch of times.
I never particularly noticed.
Uh the women there are fat.
I saw a couple.
Uh but in terms of the the whole female population being fat and obese, no, I never got that impression.
Chuck did.
Chuck Barkley went to town like usual when breaking down the overweight women of San Antonio during inside the NBA on TNT Tuesday.
His comments came before game one of the Spurs series with the Portland Trailblazers.
A series in which Chuck picked the Blazers to win because he doesn't believe in San Antonio's old guys.
After Chuck gave his pick, one of the guys on the set wound him up by asking him for his opinion on San Antonio women.
Believe me, this happened in the production meeting.
If that question was asked during an NBA pregame show, they talked about it in the production meeting, so Chuck was ready for it.
And asked Chuck Barkley's opinion of San Antonio women.
That question just opened a floodgates for jokes that Chuck has used over the years, and he brought them all back up.
And now Chuck is facing the music.
It says here, the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance.
You ever heard of that group?
Don't you have?
of Oh, come on.
I've got two people claiming they've heard of the group.
The National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance wants Chuck to apologize for his comments, which included saying there are some quote big old women in San Antonio, and that it's a quote gold mine for Weight Watchers.
Unquote, for whom Chuck is a spokesperson.
Making slurs about body size is just as offensive as making comments about body color.
Said spokesperson Peggy Howell to TMZ Sports.
One would think being a black man, he'd be more sensitive to having his physical body criticized.
Totally, totally out of line.
Chuck should absolutely apologize.
In addition to the fat acceptance group, the president of the obesity action coalition issued a statement saying they were disappointed with Chuck.
Yes, as a former NBA player and a sports entertainment figure, Mr. Barkley should encourage equality and respect among society and not look to shame or segment one population because of their size.
Obesity is a serious medical condition, not a joking matter.
Well, you know, Chuck Chuck's no Mr. Svelte himself as anybody anybody has uh has noticed.
But the headline here says obesity and fat groups, as though there's a difference.
I just don't know that Chuck is gonna apologize.
People like Chuck don't have to apologize.
People like Chuck are celebrated when they stuff stuff like this.
Courageous, bold, you tell him, Chuck, oh, he was just making a joke.
Come on, folks, everybody knows Chuck.
He didn't really mean anything, but we're back to the old intentions thing, which takes us back to Monica Lewinsky when we get there, but I want to get some phone calls in because if people want to talk about this uh health insurance business, we'll take a brief time out.
We'll be back and roll right on right after this.
Yes, sir, Bob, back we are.
Rushland bought talent on loan from God.
Rab sound by number 24.
This is Chuck actually saying, and I just got an email from a friend.
Will Chuck be banned?
Will Chuck be uh temporarily suspended?
Will Chuck be sent to reeducation camp?
Will Chuck be told he needs to be more sensitive to women's body images?
Hell no, there's no way, folks.
Just like I told you, and I'm gonna get to this in Duke.
I I predicted to you is back February 18th this year when Monica first, for some reason, service, I said the young, the millennials are gonna think all of that is very cool and and and they're gonna they're gonna be the whole thing.
Lewinsky with Clinton and the overlaw is gonna be seen as cool.
It isn't going to be seen as anything negative to a bunch of people.
And you are going to hear how right I was about that.
Here's Buckley, the uh Barkley on TNT Tuesday night inside the NBA, uh Chuck Barkley and analyst Kenny Smith talking about the women in San Antonio.
And I want to tell you again, for Chuck to even be asked this question, one of two things had to happen.
Either Chuck was running around cracking jokes about the women of San Antonio before the show, and somebody, you know what, Chuck should ask you about that.
Or they decided to do it in a production meeting.
Because I don't know what fat women has to do with the NBA.
Especially now.
Vestiviano is not fat.
Sterling, well, he is, but he's not a woman.
We don't think.
So this thing had to be.
They they want my point, they wanted this to happen, is the point.
That's what I mean by having it discussed the production meeting.
It just goes by, it takes eleven seconds, is all it is.
Big old woman down there.
Well, I would just say that.
That's a gold mile for weight watch.
And Victoria Dentwell secrets.
Oh, man.
They can't wear no Victoria's Secret down there.
Yeah, see, so it's Chuck Doodney's stand-up act.
Victoria's secret down there, definitely can't wear no Victoria's Secret down there, damn big.
Damn big.
Victoria definitely is.
I can't believe anybody seriously outraged.
Oh, yeah, I can.
Yeah.
Take it back.
People living out there to be offended.
But nothing's gonna happen to Chuck.
Nothing at all.
Other than Chuck's gonna end up more in demand.
He's gonna be thought to be even funnier, clever.
And uh even more shows are gonna want Chuck on to find out what he thinks about whatever.
Bill, New Market New Hampshire.
Welcome, sir, to the EIB network.
Great to have you.
Um hi, Rush.
Uh Mayflower descendant Ditto's.
Thank you very much.
Yeah, um, you were discussing about uh companies dropping health care.
Um something people don't realize is a lot of these companies that are public traded, they're investment groups that hold their stocks.
And the company's first obligation is to maximize the return on the investment of the stockholders.
These groups are gonna either demand or ask for the, you know, why should they be paying six, seven thousand dollars per employee when they could be paying three hundred and the money given back to stockholders?
Right.
Meaning the penalty is gonna be far, far less.
Right.
And this could be action court actions, like, well, they're not gonna do it, so we're gonna take them to court.
We're the investors.
We hold you know, that could cost some CEOs their jobs and all, because some of these investment groups hold a considerable amount of percentage of the uh Wait, wait, wait, hold on a minute.
You're looking what what could cost CEOs their jobs?
Well, you've got a lot of these investment groups that hold six to fifteen up to 15% of a company's stock.
That's a lot of uh weight at the table, so to say.
When they want something, they're gonna say, hey, you know, we want the uh we don't want you to pay for your employees' health care.
We don't care.
We just want the money.
And the COVID.
Oh, oh, right, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Right.
Okay.
So that's what I thought you said.
I just wasn't sure.
Sure, there's gonna be all kinds of pressure on the legal pressure.
But my point is it's not gonna take pressure.
Right.
All you have to go talk to your average CEO.
The health care plans that they have to offer are some of the the human resources department is some of the most biggest distractions they have.
I mean, if if like the the General Motors guy, he wants to build and design cars.
He wants to get the company back in business, and 90% of his day is spent with health care and that stuff.
Believe me, they're not gonna need any pressure to offload it.
They're gonna do it the first chance they get.
And they're gonna have as backup, it makes perfect fiscal sense to do it.
If you've got the law of the land is that you can get rid of your um your employer, employee health care plan, and there's no big outcry, there's no problem because they're just going to send them to the exchanges.
I mean, you're gonna, you're not, you're not canceling their insurance.
You're not setting them out in the cold, theoretically.
You're just offloading them from your responsibility and shifting it to somebody else who wants it, i.e., Obama and the government.
In other fact, I think what old Bill here is saying, folks, get right down to brass tacks.
What old Bill here is saying is that not dropping the health coverage could cost some CEOs their jobs.
You get these big investor groups, they want share price up.
And if a company can lower its cost, and believe me, labor costs are the highest cost any business has, and of those labor costs, health care insurance is ranking right up there near the top.
They can offload that legally.
You don't think twice about it.
And if CEO doesn't do it, because he's compassionate and understanding and all that, then these investor groups are gonna call for his uh head.
That was Bill's point here.
But the see Obamacare gives them cover because Obamacare allows them to say, we're not canceling your insurance.
We're just transferring you out of our coverage to Obamacare.
That's it.
And then that's when that's when the ceiling falls in on you.
A brief timeout here at the top of the hour, another obscene profit break, ladies and gentlemen.
Get our ducks in a row and line everything up to get going in the second hour.
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