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Oct. 29, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 29, 2014, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Greetings, my friends, and welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh, America's real anchor man.
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There's other news out there.
214,000 doctors will not participate in the new plans under Obamacare.
This according to an analysis of a new survey by Medical Group Management Association.
The number of 214,052 doctors estimated by American Action Forum is through May of this year.
But that number appears to be growing due to plans that force doctors to take on burdensome costs.
It's also about uh 25% of the total number of 893,000 active professional doctors reported by the Kaiser Family Foundation.
And there's a little pull quote from this story.
Obamacare is asking doctors to take on sicker patients for less money with the risk of not getting paid at all.
Now, this is a kind of news story, if if it were at any other moment in time would be huge.
214,000 doctors have opted out of the Obamacare exchanges.
They've opted out of Obamacare, and the number is growing.
And one of the reasons why is that the regime is asking doctors to take on sicker patients for less money, and they're simply refusing to do it.
And so the real world result of this, you're going out and buying insurance plans and so forth, you're paying through the nose for it, your out of pocket is higher, your premiums are higher, the deductible is higher.
And then by the time you do all that, you may not have a doctor in your network.
Now, all of this was predicted.
All of this is known, this was going to happen.
But now we've reached this moment in time where it is starting to happen.
It's not just a prediction now, and it's not just theoretical.
It is starting to happen.
It's just, it's a tragedy.
What is what is in the process of happening to the greatest health care system in the world.
Here's another one from the Washington Times.
Obamacare sends health premiums skyrocketing by as much as 78%.
We all remember Obamacare was going to make health care more affordable.
It was going to ensure the uninsured.
Your premiums are going to come down $2,500 on average a year.
You're going to be able to keep your doctor and your plan.
That's all out the window.
A newly released study of insurance policies before and after Obamacare shows that average premiums have skyrocketed.
And for some groups of people, by as much as 78%.
That's just nobody can afford those kinds of increases in anything.
Gasoline, milk, food, you name it.
But especially health care.
Where the going price was already out of most people's reach.
And then you had a 78% skyrocket increase on top of that.
And it's all by design.
That's the sad thing.
It's all by design.
heaven.
So that eventually we'll all have only one place to turn to.gov.
Average insurance premiums in the sought-after 23-year-old demographic rose most dramatically.
Men in that age group, 23-year-old men.
Now, it makes sense in a way that their Prices would go up because they're not going to be using it, see.
This was the idea.
The idea behind Obamacare was to soak the young.
Get them to pay, subsidize them if you have to, but get them to pay, sign up.
They then will subsidize other people's treatment because at age 23, the actuarial tables tell everybody they're not going to get sick.
They're not going to have catastrophic illness for sure.
And so it's very rare.
And so the cost benefit analysis is such will soak them, will use the money in premiums they are forced to pay by law to treat older people.
But it isn't working because people can't afford it.
Twenty-three-year-old men average 78% increase before factoring in government subsidies.
Women having their premiums rise 45%, according to a report by Health Pocket scheduled for release today.
And these are taxpayer subsidies.
Okay, back to the audio sound bites.
Uh, ladies and gentlemen, Jocelyn Elders.
Remember Jocelyn Elders, the former attorney general.
The former Surgeon General for Bill Clinton.
Last night she was on the lead on CNN, and it is indeed Jacob Tapper show.
And by the way, if you're if you're new to the program or of a certain young age, Jocelyn Elders may mean nothing to you.
You may not know who she is.
And that's what we're gonna do.
We're gonna show you who she was.
She was a riot.
She just loved Eric Klappner.
Eric Klappner was one of her favorite guitarists.
She loved Eric Klappner.
She went to see an Eric Klappner show at Lincoln Center, and that's how we found out that she liked him.
The lead cream, Eric Klappner.
Remember him.
Jocelyn Elders was on CNN last night.
Jake Tapper said, Dr. Elders, are you suggesting that Governor Malloy at Connecticut, Governor Cuomo New York, Governor Christie in New Jersey are acting because they have an absence of knowledge?
And that their actions on these quarantines are not based on science.
I would say that their actions are based on what they their knowledge as they see it today.
But it's not based on scientific evidence as put out by the scientists of the world.
And I think that that as they gain more knowledge, they may continue to do the same exact same thing.
As we gain more knowledge, we all might want to do exactly what they're doing.
But we also may not want to do that.
This is the great font of knowledge that was once the Surgeon General of the United States as chosen by Slick Willie, talking about what we know and what we don't know and what we might know about Ebola and how we just have to trust the scientists of the world.
And then as these governors gain more knowledge, they may continue to do the same exact thing that they shouldn't be doing right now because they don't have the knowledge.
But when they get the knowledge, it turns out they might be right, in which case they should continue doing what they're doing after they get the knowledge.
And as they gain more knowledge, they then should continue to keep doing the same thing that they were doing, but they shouldn't have done when they didn't have the knowledge.
And as we gain even more knowledge beyond that, we all might want to do exactly what they're doing, but we might not.
And Jake Tapper pretended that he understood that.
And.
And kept talking.
But before we get to the next bite, let's go back to the groove yard of forgotten favorites and some Jocelyn Elders' greatest hits.
Between 1994 and 1999, the wit and wisdom of Dr. Joycelin Elders.
This happened to be at the United Nations World AIDS Day conference after she left office.
This was on Fox News Sunday, talking about sex and sexuality.
If we want to talk about teaching children sexuality education, it starts at birth.
And regard to masturbation, I think that that is something that it's a part of human sexuality, and it is a part of something that perhaps should be taught.
We have a sexually unhealthy society.
Ignorance is not bliss.
So much more sex goes on above the net than it does below the waist.
We shouldn't engage in high risk sexual behaviors.
You know, people tell me, Dr. Elders, you know, condoms will break.
That's right.
Condoms will break.
But the bows of abstinence break far more easily than does latex condoms.
My friends, how did we ever?
How have we survived since she left office as an attorney general?
You remember these days?
And remember now, Bill Clinton, the guy that picked her, stood by her, chose her.
He's a rock star.
He's smarter than anybody else in the world.
If we want to talk about teaching children sex education, in regard to masturbation, I think that's something uh that we we should teach.
She advocated teaching masturbation.
She really did.
For those of you that were not here too young or weren't paying attention, but she did.
And it under the guise that it was safe sex.
And we should teach it the right way.
Whatever the right way is.
But you heard right in regard to masturbation.
I think that that is something that, well, it's uh part of human sexuality.
It's a part of something that perhaps should be taught.
We have a sexually unhealthy society.
Ignorance is not bliss.
So much more sex goes on above the neck than it does below the waist.
Well, yeah, in the Oval Office, that's for damn sure.
But above the neck, it's not sex anymore.
At least that's what they told us.
You know, people tell me, Dr. Elder's, people tell me that uh condoms break.
She says, that's right, condoms break.
Uh Jake, Jake Tapper, there's one more question he asked her.
Can you see why state leaders might feel a need to take things a step further and make a quarantine mandatory?
State leaders are trying to protect the people in their state.
They do not want this to spread.
But by the same token, I think we must make our decisions based on scientific evidence, as opposed to our reaction.
Right.
And you know, when we do not have the knowledge, sometimes we overreact and we will it may overprotect.
That's right.
And we don't want to overreact.
And we don't want to overprotect.
Did you guys hear about this rocket that was launched taking supplies up to the International Space Station?
It was a um NASA supervised private company launch from an island off uh state of Virginia, and I think blew up right after it was it it was launched.
Fiery explosion, it was great video.
But there was something in the story that really intrigued me.
It said the supplies are not urgently needed.
And I said, now wait a minute.
These launches cost gazillions of dollars.
You don't just haphazardly launch to the space station.
If the supplies were not urgently needed, then why was it something about that's not right?
And I think obviously we just trying to, hey, no big deal here, just another rocket explosion, no nothing to see here.
But I mean, you don't these these are not like getting in a car and driving down a quick shop and pick up a carton of milk.
Well, no, our astronauts get to the space station with Russia, but this was just supplies.
Well, oh, Russia did.
Russia after oh, I didn't know that.
After our rocket blew up, the communists launched a rocket for the space station.
Also, so that's Putin kind of goosing us, huh?
Oh, I see, I didn't know that.
I've been so busy.
That must have happened after the Program started.
But anyway, there's now uh the uh CNN's running a story that this explosion destroyed the project of some students.
The students had a project on this thing and it blew up and it's just a it's a and it is a very sad thing.
But I didn't understand this business that hey, no big deal.
Uh we're just gonna resupply the space station, and this stuff wasn't urgently needed.
BS, they wouldn't have launched it if it wasn't needed.
Anyway, minor point.
Let's go back the phones to uh Clifffield, Utah.
This is Nelda.
Nelda, great to have you on the program, and I'm glad you waited.
Hello.
Thank you, Rush.
I'm really happy to talk to you today.
Thank you very much.
Um I I got through yesterday and then had a problem that couldn't hold on that I turned 70 yesterday.
Well, happy birthday.
Happy birthday to you.
Yeah, well, I wasn't too happy about that.
Seven zero.
And I was uh I've always ignored birthdays and just gone on with life because I have a really large family and lots of things to do and work and you know, go up to my mountain and do the trail and all those things.
But yesterday I was kind of looking for something to celebrate.
And I listen to you every day.
In fact, I listen to talk radio pretty much all the day.
And when you said your new book's been released, I thought, now there's something to celebrate.
Because our children are so brainwashed.
Our children and great grandchildren, great grandchildren in our case, are so brainwashed in the school and in society today that it is really with gratitude that I make this call and thank you for all the things you helped us with over the years,
and I I thought it was kind of silly different times when I've heard people say, Oh, thank you, Rush, you know, for what you do, and I just I asked my husband of almost forty-eight years.
Do you think our kids would be as conservative as they are?
And they vary, but basically conservative.
Some very conservative, if we hadn't started listening listening to Rush in the beginning, and we decided no.
They probably wouldn't because of all the good information that you've given us over the years.
And now we have nine children and with greats and grands, we have just about fifty.
Fifty, did you say?
Five zero.
Five zero.
Yes, in five zero.
So and I thought I have some bad news.
You know, how when you call you want to say all these things, but I thought some of the main things that I'd like to say quickly is I had bad news for the feminists.
There are powerful women.
There are intelligent women out here who love life and who love families, and who are conservative and don't go for all the nonsense.
They're peddling.
Well, that's and there are let me I have to I have to stop you there, Nelda, because I'm just I'm out of time, but I don't know how to thank you.
I I that is a profound compliment that I appreciate greatly what you said.
Thank you.
So look, I want to thank Nelda from uh Utah and Clearfield, Utah, and folks, we we got her contact information, and we are going to be sending she got fifty.
Grant fifty grandkids, fifty great grandkids, fifty grandkids and great grandkids combined.
And we are going to uh send her some uh rush revere gear, some books and so forth.
Uh I had one of those hard breaks at the bottom of the hour that the time does not move for, they're inflexible.
And I know that sounded rude, and I didn't mean to be rude.
You all know I'm not rude.
I also got an email from a guy.
Now, this is interesting to me.
Rush, that was really heartfelt what you said at the top of your second hour, thanking the audience.
But when you you talk about how well your book is done, don't you think you're hurting sales?
Because I mean, why but you're telling people how well it's going.
Maybe they don't think they have to go out and buy it.
I said, No, I don't think that at all.
Just the exact opposite.
But I'm not gonna worry about that.
The the point is I don't know.
I don't want to be too repetitive here.
I just don't know how to express my appreciation.
Uh you you you've made this is the third Rush Review book in the series.
And not only did it show number one after the first day of the release, but the first two books are still going gangbusters as well.
Because people are finding them in in the process.
No, we want as many people as possible.
That's why these books are priced that I don't want to say they're affordable.
They're not 20 bucks like most uh hardcover books can be.
They're reasonably priced.
The uh the mission is is to get this Message, the message of the founding of the country into as many hands and thus minds as possible.
So no, I'm not afraid thanking you all for what you've done is gonna stymie the sales effort, quite the opposite, in fact.
So I just I just I don't know, folks.
I don't know how to say thanks any more than I can.
It's just it's humbling is what it really is.
By the way, I've got some news out of Wisconsin on the governor's race.
There's a new poll.
Two weeks ago, among likely voters, the widely respected Marquette Law School poll showed the gubernatorial race in Wisconsin tied at 47% among likely voters between Mary Burke, the Democrat, and the incumbent Republican governor Scott Walker.
Same poll released today.
The last poll before the election Tuesday shows Scott Walker surging to a seven-point lead.
50 to 43 percent.
And as you all know if you study polls, that that 50 percent mark for an incumbent in a poll is a big deal.
It's it's not just a Republican in a blue state, but a Republican in a leading blue state.
Scott Walker, I I think Scott Walker is the poster boy for the Republican Party.
Here is a guy who has reformed a blue state in every which way he set out to, despite some of the most vile cutthroat efforts to destroy him that modern politics has witnessed.
And he's persevered and he's triumphed over it.
There were, I don't know how many recall efforts and elections that he had to win.
And the polling data, you know, this is another classic example.
This race has polled very scary for Republicans.
It's shown Mary Burke up now and then, it showed the race tied, it showed Walker down three to four five points on occasion.
And nobody can figure this out.
How does somebody who gets elected all of these times, who's done such wonderful great things for the state, how all of a sudden is he down five points in a poll?
And that's where I chime in with, well, I'm not sure he ever really was.
And I'm not trying to insult the pollsters here, but I'm telling you, I know we've seen it happen that a lot of polling units use their data to shape public opinion.
But the polls that you see very near the election are the ones that you really should pay attention to because they are the polls on which hinges the credibility of the polling unit.
I mean, at the end of the day, when all is said and done, these people want to have credibility for future polls.
And if they have a poll out that shows Walker winning by seven and he loses by three, that's not going to look good for them.
It may be the end result they want privately, but it's not going to look good for their business.
So I'm, you know, in in a in a scenario in which we live where there is massive discontent with the Democrat Party.
There is raging discontent with the Democrat Party.
The Democrat candidates, incumbents running, don't even want Obama anywhere near them, and yet poll after poll shows the Democrat candidates tied.
Something doesn't jibe.
But yet, you tell yourself you've got to go with the polls because more often than not they're right, at least the polls taken very near, very close To the election.
So Walker's gone from a dead heat to up seven in the final poll, Marquette Law School poll for the race for governor in Wisconsin.
Now I had another, let's see, where did I I've got a story of a stack here?
I've just put at the bottom thinking I wasn't going to get to it today.
And now this story hit, and I'm trying to find it wherever I put it.
It's a story about Mary Burke, the Democrat candidate there, and how she was fired from the family business for incompetence.
Whatever the family business is, she was fired from it.
She's seeking the governorship in Wisconsin.
And the point is if if her own family had to discharge her from the family business because of how much she gunked it up, then what business does she have being elected governor?
There's something else also out there that I intended to mention before the program ended.
Are you aware that somebody in the regime called the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu?
Well, they insulted him.
They called him a chicken excrement.
And it was in relationship to the battles with the Palestinians and so forth.
Somebody in the administration referred to Netanyahu as a chicken as a coward.
Yeah, now it was it was an Atlantic magazine, and it was an unnamed member of the regime that referred to him as a coward, basically, but they used the term chicken excrement.
Chicken crap.
You fill in the blank.
Now, if there's one thing Benjamin Netanyahu is not, is a coward.
He is a man's man.
And for some pajama boy, some metrosexual pajama boy in this regime to run around calling Netanyahu a coward.
Well, let's just say that nothing could be further from the truth, and it tells us much more about the administration, the regime than it does Netanyahu.
At any rate, the White House is now in urgent damage control.
After an anonymous regime official was quoted in the Atlantic calling Netanyahu a coward.
A second administration official told the magazine that the Israeli leader was a coward when it comes to Iran and the nuclear situation.
No reason to be afraid of Iran, he's just a coward.
Certainly the comments in the article do not represent the administration's view, and we think such comments are inappropriate and counterproductive, said Alistair Baski, a spokesperson for the White House National Security Council in a statement.
Apparently, White House staffers are storming Capitol Hill to disown this.
Apparently, people at work in the White House are calling Capitol saying it wasn't me, it wasn't me, I didn't say it.
Here's a poll quote from the story in a sign of how urgent the regime has been to put out this fire.
Congressional aides and White House officials didn't even wait for a response from the Hill before trying to do preemptive damage control.
Sometimes there are conflicts, and we have to reach out to them.
They're reaching out to us on this to totally disown it, said the congressional aide.
They're trying to control the narrative on this.
Washington Post, uh Netanyahu is firing back at reports that a senior regime official called him a coward, only concerned about his own political survival.
I mean, that is the nature of the comment that Netanyahu is a coward, only cares about his own political survivor, and I'm telling you, that describes Obama to a T. Not the chicken business, but all that's business about political survival and everything being looked at through the prism of politics.
Yesterday, this U.S. magazine The Atlantic quoted the anonymous official as saying the thing about Bibi is he's a chicken.
Whatever.
The insult comes uh after a month of heated exchanges between uh the Netanyahu government and Washington over settlement building in the Israeli annexed East Jerusalem, according to uh Reuters.
So whoever said this, I don't know that we'll ever find out.
But whoever said it, I guarantee you is not alone in thinking it.
I think this regime holds genuine animus for Israel.
And by extension, Netanyahu personally.
I don't have any doubt about that, and I think he frustrates them because he doesn't kowtow to their demands.
He stands up for his nation, and he refuses to bow to political correctness or the conventional wisdom or the zeitgeist of the day.
And he always does what he thinks is right for his country, for his nation.
And I guarantee you they're all flabbergasted about the Allied status that exists right now between the United States and Israel.
And so this lone regime official has voiced what probably is the opinion of a lot of people in the regime.
And it isn't working.
It didn't fly because the one thing, I mean, you might disagree with Netanyahu on political matters or the peace process or whatever.
But one thing everybody knows about Netanyahu is he is not a coward.
He's not afraid of anybody, and especially he's not afraid of Obama.
I gotta take a brief time.
I just noticed the time.
I'm a little long here.
Sit tight, my friends.
We got much more straight ahead right after this.
Don't go away.
Well, I'm not mistaken.
I think Scott Walker was even in the polling data losing these recalled elections that he ended up winning.
I think the polls all had him losing those too, and he ended up winning.
In fact, I think some of them were stark.
Some of them had him losing.
I mean, I remember those recall polls.
There was such hatred for Scott Walker.
It was such a rigged game that the uh Democrats were playing up there.
Anyway, Martha Burke, not Martha Burke, that's the feminine Mary Burke, yeah.
The story on this uh is, let's see, uh it's apparently she was fired by her own family following steep overseas financial losses and plummeting morale among Burke's European sales staff.
Multiple former, damn it, I can't well.
Uh anyway, uh it's a bicycle company.
They own trek bicycles.
Apparently Bush rides them, they're they're very popular, but she was mangling that business.
The family kicked her out of the family business, and now she's seeking to be governor.
And that has become news.
I don't know if it's big in Wisconsin, but I wanted to uh pass that on.
Okay, folks, that's it.
We are sadly out of time for today, but we do have game seven of the World Series tonight, and it's the first time in 20 years I've cared.
Well, not cared, but I mean I'm into it.
I used to work there.
No prediction, don't know enough, but I got high hopes.
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