{"id":10342,"date":"2014-01-23T19:30:09","date_gmt":"2014-01-23T19:30:09","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-01-23T19:30:09","modified_gmt":"2014-01-23T19:30:09","slug":"bending_the_cost_curve_and_other_obama_bs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2014\/01\/23\/bending_the_cost_curve_and_other_obama_bs\/","title":{"rendered":"“Bending the Cost Curve” and Other Obama BS"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: Jim in central Illinois, and I really apologize. I took your call when I didn\u2019t have enough time. I\u2019m sorry about that. I\u2019m glad you were able to hold on.<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s fine. I\u2019m still here.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right. Well, why don\u2019t you start all over.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay, I will. I wanted to ask you a question, but first, I think it\u2019s probably obvious to a lot of people that have worked in industry or just had life experiences that they garner the truth. Obamacare was set up to fail. It was set up that way, and there\u2019s a lot of ways you can know that it was set up. First of all, I use the term “cost driver.” There may be other terms. You may have used terms like that. I\u2019ve never heard you use it, but perhaps you did. What makes something cost what it costs? Does insurance drive the cost of medical benefits, or do medical benefits drive the cost of insurance? It\u2019s pretty obvious. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: No, it\u2019s not. No, no. Wait, Jim, it\u2019s not obvious to most people. What is the cost driver there?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, the cost driver is the medical benefits. Medical care for people came into existence prior to insurance being available. Medical bills have always been around since the medical industry, or the industry grew. Now, all of a sudden people said, “I can offer you a plan to pay for your medical benefits, and I gotta have a lot of people so that I can get the cost down as low as I can get it.” But it was always the medical industry that drove the cost. And when Obama\u2019s people say, “We\u2019re gonna bend the cost curve,” it was obvious they can\u2019t bend that cost curve without taking over the medical industry.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Exactly. Bingo.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It\u2019s pretty obvious to a lot of people, I\u2019m sure. Now, why more people haven\u2019t said that, I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It hasn\u2019t occurred to them. Jim, seriously. I guarantee you, and God bless people, but bending the cost curve down is language that they think is inside baseball specific to an industry. Now, it makes perfect sense if you stop and think about it, “We\u2019re gonna bend the cost curve down.” But people don\u2019t know where they are on the cost curve. What cost curve are you talking about? All they care about is what their bill is.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, well, I understand. I\u2019ve worked with a product in the business that I was in. I mean, I work for a large company, but I had to do a lot of this kind of stuff. I\u2019ve done cost reduction efforts on stuff and —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, well, let\u2019s stay focused on your theory that it was designed to fail.<\/a><\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay, here\u2019s another one. There\u2019s no way that they could bend the cost curve down, there was no way because of what the driver is. But also, in order to get the medical — well, Obamacare has nothing to do with medical, either procedures or costs or anything else. In order to control that, they truly have to have control of physicians, hospitals, anything else. And they don\u2019t touch it.<\/p>\n

<\/a>RUSH: Wait a minute. Now. A lot of people think they\u2019re trying.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, they are trying, and I know they\u2019re putting pressure on some people. I\u2019ve had my personal physician, I just changed.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You\u2019re darn right. They\u2019re pressuring doctors. They\u2019re pressuring hospitals, hospital associations. They\u2019re doing everything they can to get themselves involved in who gets treated and who doesn\u2019t and what it\u2019s gonna cost.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Of course they do, and it\u2019s illegal for them to do that, and some of the doctors and whatnot will bend to that pressure and some of them won\u2019t.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, but wait a minute.<\/p>\n

CALLER: The guy that I\u2019ve got —<\/p>\n

RUSH: For the low-information voter, though, it\u2019s not illegal. They think Obama\u2019s rescuing them. They think that doctors and hospitals are ripping them off and so here comes Obama and he\u2019s promising $2500 premium reductions. He says you can keep your doctor and your plan if you like them, and we\u2019re gonna get even with these people, and we\u2019re gonna make sure you can afford this. We\u2019re gonna have “affordable” care like “affordable” housing. What the hell is…? Do you ever stop to ask: What is affordable housing?<\/p>\n

CALLER: (laughing) It\u2019s what you can afford, as far as I\u2019m concerned.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No. It\u2019s housing that you can\u2019t afford, by definition. That\u2019s the point of it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, okay. The way they use it, yes. I agree.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, but what they mean is they\u2019re gonna make it affordable for you. By definition, affordable housing is something you can\u2019t afford, but they\u2019re still gonna let you have. It\u2019s all a game with them, a semantic game.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It\u2019s pretty sick and demented, actually.<\/p>\n

RUSH: But, now, I want you to stay focused on what they\u2019re doing that\u2019s designed to fail.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, the whole idea, in order for them to have any effect on giving people medical insurance, meant that they had to have control of the industry, whether they have lowered the costs or not. They don\u2019t have insurance companies in the government, nor should they. So they had to come up with enough of these insurance companies to go along, bend over and say, “Okay, we\u2019ll do this.” That\u2019s free enterprise, and they broke the rule right there, and there\u2019s no possible way that they could do any of this, and that\u2019s how you know it was meant to fail.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, not only that but the failure… You say that they don\u2019t want to control, that they can\u2019t take over the insurance industry. They can eliminate it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, they can take it over just like they did GM.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right, they could take it over, they could eliminate it, they could replace it with themselves, which is what single payer is.<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s what they\u2019re gonna do.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Which is why there\u2019s no back end that works on this stupid website. If you want evidence that it\u2019s meant to fail, nobody — nobody — builds a website where the back end doesn\u2019t work, and these people spent three years on a website, and the back end doesn\u2019t work? Now, again, folks, what that means: Imagine going to Amazon and you fill out stuff in your shopping cart, and you click “buy” or whatever, “complete order,” and nothing happens. <\/p>\n

The back end. What\u2019s in your shopping cart, what you want to buy, never gets to fulfillment. So you never have it sent to you, and you\u2019re not even charged for it because it never your shopping cart. That\u2019s what\u2019s happened here. The back end isn\u2019t finished. And now they\u2019re running around, people, saying, “You know, this is gonna be the end of this. Oh, this is a debacle. They\u2019ve got until March to get the back end fixed!” <\/p>\n

I mean, they took three years to build a website, and they don\u2019t finish the website on the back end. Another way of visualizing this, for the low-information voter: Iimagine you go into McDonald\u2019s, and you order Chicken McNuggets, and they tell you, “Okay,” and two hours later you\u2019re still standing there, and you don\u2019t have Chicken McNuggets, because whoever took your order never turned it in because there wasn\u2019t anybody to turn it in to. There wasn\u2019t anybody in the kitchen or they didn\u2019t have McNugget — and your only recourse, then, is to call 911.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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