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RUSH: Lebanon, Ohio. This is Dave. Thank you, sir. Great to have you with us on the EIB Network.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush, it\u2019s a real pleasure to talk to you. I\u2019ve been listening to you since the days the Magic Johnson stuff was going on. I heard you on the radio. So I\u2019m self-employed. I\u2019m 52 years old. I\u2019ve had a wife pass away. I do a little ministry. I\u2019m a builder, remodeler, and I have a master\u2019s in music. I\u2019m not the dumbest guy in the world, maybe not the sharpest, either, but I was amazed when all this Obamacare stuff was going on. I listened to you a lot, other people, I did some reading on it. It was just kind of funny to me, I couldn\u2019t figure out what the heck Obamacare was. I have chosen not to carry insurance for various reasons, personal and spiritual and so forth, and that\u2019s fine, I don\u2019t ask anybody else to do it and that\u2019s what I\u2019ve chosen, so I thought —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me interrupt you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

<\/a>RUSH: As a self-made and acknowledged sharp knife in the drawer, do you now what Obamacare is?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, I could not comprehend that much government control, I think is what it was. So as I was —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait, wait, wait, hold it a minute.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That statement needs clarification. You couldn\u2019t imagine somebody trying for that much government control, or you couldn\u2019t comprehend it working.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, I could comprehend them going for it. I look back at the Judge Roberts thing, I still look at that and I go, “I would love to find out someday what really happened there.” There\u2019s too many stops in the way. There\u2019s too many things that people are gonna see, and something\u2019s gotta reverse it. There\u2019s no way this could happen, and so —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yet it did. It did, and it is. And as you and I speak, the Regime is saying everything\u2019s fine, it\u2019s now been fixed and it\u2019s working —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — just fine. They are lying through their teeth about it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. That\u2019s exactly it. I looked at it, I guess, I didn\u2019t realize until it rolled out, the bronze, silver, gold, whatever, I thought, well, I have chosen not to go that route so it\u2019s really not gonna impact me —<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m gonna have to ask you another serious question. I mean this one now. I\u2019m not trying to be provocative. I\u2019m not being critical. Do not misread the tone of my voice. I\u2019m really serious about this.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You said you\u2019ve been listening to me since the beginning.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I told you what this was about. If you listen here, I\u2019m serious, you knew what an abomination, what an impossibility, you knew what this really was. So I need to learn, you\u2019re a member of the audience, and yet even after I explained it, you were stunned at what you saw, which tells me you really didn\u2019t believe what I was saying.<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, no, no, no. I believed everything you were saying. What I\u2019m saying is I couldn\u2019t comprehend the fact of what exactly was Obamacare. In other words, once it rolled out, I go, “Oh, you have to go to a website, and you have to sign up for something.”<\/p>\n

RUSH: But that\u2019s just it, I told you what it was, it\u2019s not about health care. It\u2019s about —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — taking over one-sixth of the economy and controlling everybody\u2019s life. What you eat, what you drive, because everything you do has health care cost ramifications, which they now are in charge of. Everything you do is now subject to government control because they are the health care provider. That\u2019s what this is about.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. And I agree with that a hundred percent. Rush, I\u2019m self-employed. I try to live my life and I try to teach people around me and my kids, about what freedom means and the tremendous responsibility that goes along with it. In my business I\u2019ve been up and down, and every time I\u2019ve gotten down and felt like a failure I said, “Well, I can either sit here and feel sorry for myself or I can get up and take responsibility and move on.”<\/p>\n

RUSH: What you need to know is, as a small businessman, the Democrat Party has succeeded in making a lot of people think that you\u2019re rich, always rich, you never lose money.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You\u2019ve got a stash of money that you don\u2019t want to spend on your employees or in their health care. You want to keep it for yourself because you\u2019re selfishly and greedy —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — and you are part of the golden goose that will never go away.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. Oh, I see that a hundred percent. I guess maybe I\u2019m not communicating as clearly, either. I would talk to very intelligent people and none of us really comprehended what Obamacare was going to look like. We knew what it was about. We knew it was about government control. We knew it was about socialism, communism, whatever you want to call it, whatever depth you go to there, but we couldn\u2019t grasp the facts of it, what is it really going to look like —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, that make sense. They hid them from you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, the facts.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That makes sense. They didn\u2019t detail for you at all what you\u2019re talking about. You wanted to know, okay, Obamacare hits, what are the steps?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s what you didn\u2019t know.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. And so now one of my reasons for calling is, okay, if I missed it there, what are the next five, 10 years do you think — because I just assumed it was gonna be overturned. I don\u2019t think there\u2019s any more chances for that, but what do you expect in the next five or 10 years? And I\u2019ve heard you talk a lot about that, but specifically I\u2019m thinking, what of people like us who don\u2019t want to be dependent on the government, is there hope for us, any option for us in this —<\/p>\n

RUSH: If I have enough money, yes. If you have enough money, yes. People with the means, ability, and the desire are gonna find ways around this, and doctors are gonna find a way to have patients that aren\u2019t using it, that will pay \u2019em directly. There will be ways around it, but not for everybody. If it\u2019s not repealed it\u2019s gonna be like the British system. There are models that you can look at. It\u2019s gonna be like Great Britain\u2019s, gonna be like Canada\u2019s. There\u2019s a model for what it\u2019s gonna be. It\u2019s gonna be broke constantly. It isn\u2019t gonna work, gonna be long lines. It\u2019s gonna be an abject disaster.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me give you very quickly, let me run through some things here, put something in perspective for you. Three and a half years of World War II, starting with the Japanese bombing Pearl Harbor December \u201941, ending in \u201945, in that three and a half year period, this country built 22 aircraft carriers, eight battleships, 48 cruisers, 349 destroyers, 420 destroyer escorts, 203 submarines, 34 million tons of merchant ships, 100,000 fighter aircraft, 98,000 bombers, 24,000 transport aircraft.<\/p>\n

On and on, 93,000 tanks, 257,000 artillery pieces, 105,000 mortars. Three million machine guns, 2,500,000 military trucks. We put 16 million men in uniform, various Armed Services, all over the world, Africa, Sicily, Italy. We won the battle for the Atlantic. We won in the Pacific. Three and a half years we did all that. In the same period of time the Obama administration could not even build a website.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: So what\u2019s Obamacare gonna be like in three to five years? It\u2019s easy. It\u2019s gonna be expensive. It\u2019s gonna be hard to come by. It\u2019s gonna be leveled with bureaucracy. Getting treated is going to be an absolute challenge. There are going to be long lines. There are going to be disputes and arguments with your insurance company and doctor that\u2019ll have to be settled by the government after three months of reviews. The evidence is clear. How is it with the DMV, folks, or any government bureaucracy? Name one that you like working with.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I got a better example for you. This guy that I quoted a moment ago wanted to know what Obamacare\u2019s gonna be like three to five years down the road. I said, “Pick your government bureaucracy. Pick one. Is there any that you enjoy dealing with?” I cited the DMV, which is everybody\u2019s default.<\/p>\n

But actually if you want to be more accurate, dealing with the government on Obamacare is gonna be more like dealing with the IRS than with DMV, \u2019cause they are the ones who enforce it. They are the enforcement arm of Obamacare. They\u2019re the ones gonna be assessing the fines. They\u2019re gonna be the ones to whom you have to prove you\u2019re following the law.<\/p>\n

Your tax return is gonna become even more important and that\u2019s where you\u2019re either going to be given a stamp of approval or a penalty for not following the law on Obamacare. So the IRS is gonna end up playing an ever larger role in everybody\u2019s life. Three to five years down the road if something isn\u2019t done about this, it\u2019s gonna be something you\u2019re not gonna want to put up with. Your health care isn\u2019t gonna be any better. Medicine isn\u2019t gonna be any better. It\u2019s not gonna be any more efficient. It isn\u2019t going to be cheaper. None of the things that Obama promised you are going to come true.<\/p>\n

Your premiums aren\u2019t gonna go down. Your deductible isn\u2019t gonna go down. You\u2019re not gonna be able to keep your doctor, you already know this. You can\u2019t keep your plan, you already know this. The bottom line is, what is going to happen in the next three to five years with Obamacare is nothing any citizen would ask for. Simplest way I could explain it. If you could devise health care for you and your family, just write whatever you want your health care life to be. Whether you want to have insurance or not, just write it down. Whatever you want, whatever would work best for you is not even going to be available for the vast, vast majority of Americans, because you\u2019re not going to have any control over your health care, which is the bottom line, none.<\/p>\n

In three to five years, if nothing changes, the only place you\u2019re going to be able to go for health insurance and medical treatment will be the United States government, and specifically the IRS and the Department of Health and Human Services. That\u2019s gonna be your option unless you have a lot of money and can set up a health care system for yourself, a network of your own, which is not in any way a part of the nation\u2019s system. And that will exist. It does exist in Great Britain. Do you think the queen, the royal family messes around with the National Health Service? They don\u2019t. Wealthy people in Great Britain have their own hospitals. They\u2019ve got their own doctors.<\/p>\n

Now, the British government is not happy about it and they constantly target those people. Same thing is gonna happen here. But it\u2019s gonna require a lot of wealth, thereby exempting the vast majority of people. It isn\u2019t going to be good. They call it whatever they want, single payer. That disguises what it actually is. But what the Regime is hoping for is that in three to five years that you will have all forgotten that you ever had anything different, that you ever had anything better. That\u2019s the objective. Just three to five years, just wipe out your memory that there was ever anything better, that there was ever anything more efficient. In three to five years they want most people to think this is what it is, it\u2019s the best it\u2019s ever been, brought to you by Barack Obama and the Democrat Party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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