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RUSH: UK Daily Mail<\/a>. It\u2019s an amazing story. “Hospital staff in Northern Virginia are turning away sick people on a frigid Thursday morning because they can\u2019t determine whether their Obamacare insurance plans are in effect. Patients in a close-in DC suburb who think they\u2019ve signed up for new insurance plans are struggling to show their December enrollments are in force, and health care administrators aren\u2019t taking their word for it.” They\u2019ve got no proof. <\/p>\n

<\/a>So people thought they were signing up for Obamacare, but somehow there\u2019s not an enrollment card or an ID card or a membership card or any kind of evidentiary proof that you are enrolled. But people went to the hospital anyway. Maybe there are some scammers in here, probably are, but still some people who thought they signed up for Obamacare are now showing up at the hospital at the ER and they\u2019re being turned away.<\/p>\n

“In place of quick service and painless billing, these Virginians are now facing the threat of sticker-shock that comes with bills they can\u2019t afford. ‘They had no idea if my insurance was active or not!\u2019 a coughing Maria Galvez told MailOnline outside the Inova Healthplex facility in the town of Springfield. She was leaving the building without getting a needed chest x-ray. ‘The people in there told me that since I didn\u2019t have an insurance card, I would be billed for the whole cost of the x-ray,\u2019 Galvez said, her young daughter in tow. ‘It\u2019s not fair — you know, I signed up last week like I was supposed to,'” and they\u2019re not treating her, and she\u2019s got no proof. <\/p>\n

What a mess. <\/p>\n

What an absolute, total mess.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: We gonna go to Sullivan, Wisconsin, because this is a transition to where I was headed anyway. Ken, great to have you on Open Line Friday. Hello, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush, it\u2019s been many years. We appreciate you out here.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What do you mean, it\u2019s been many years? Many years of the program, many years since you last called, many years…? What do you mean, many years?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I\u2019ve been listening forever, and I\u2019m usually busy during the day. I\u2019m off today. It\u2019s the first time I ever called and I got through. I can\u2019t believe it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. So it\u2019s been many years that you have been trying and wanting to appear on the program, and here it is, you\u2019ve made it?<\/p>\n

CALLER: On my first call, and again we appreciate you out here.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you very much. I appreciate. I really do.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, my first thought as I sat here today was here with everything going south as far as Obamacare and with the country in supposedly a slow recovery, which we all know is no recovery at all, our president is in Hawaii, and they\u2019re doing photo shoots of him getting lattes and hitting golf balls. If George W. Bush had put his signature — something he actually put his name on and then disappeared at the beginning of its inception and was having a vacation while all the sites were crashing, can you imagine? Can you imagine what people would be saying in the media right now? Did you hear anything about Obama, though?<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, I totally understand it. But I want to focus on just one half of that. I don\u2019t care what the media would be saying about what Bush is doing. What matters more to me is what Obama is actually doing. His “signature program” is a total lie. His signature program, he lied to people. “You can keep your plan, you can keep your doctor if you like it.” People can\u2019t even now get insurance. People who thought that they were insured aren\u2019t and can\u2019t get treated. <\/p>\n

They are going untreated, going into hospitals and they don\u2019t have insurance; they think they\u2019ve signed up. It is an absolute disaster, and he\u2019s snorkeling in Hawaii. Forget what the media is saying about it, which is nothing. We all know that if it were George W. Bush the media would be taking the occasion to drum up hatred, downward approval numbers and everything else on Bush to run him out of office. But my point is, let\u2019s just forget the media for a second, folks, and let\u2019s just look at the man, Barack Obama. <\/p>\n

Ken\u2019s exactly right. This program has his name on it. He lied to people for three years about this program. People trusted him. People believed what he told them. They believed that he was going to improve the health care system in this country. They believed it was going to get cheaper. They believed it was going to get more affordable. They believed it was going to become more plentiful. They believed that everybody was going to have insurance. They believed Obama. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s why he was elected. They believed he was a different politician. They believed he was messianic. They bought into that. They believed Obama and the Democrat Party and everybody in it when they made these promises about a new panacea and utopia in health care. This is an absolute national disaster, and the man who gave this program to people is snorkeling in Hawaii. He\u2019s out there for 17 days. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m reading about the burdens of the office, traveling with the president wherever he goes. “The burdens of the office are such the president is never on vacation.” This man is. This man is on vacation even when he\u2019s in Washington. This is outrageous. In addition to people going to the hospital and being turned away — by the way, that story is in the British media. You don\u2019t find that in domestic US media. <\/line><\/p>\n

The UK Mail online “spoke with patients who were told they would have to pay their bills in full if they couldn\u2019t prove they had insurance.” That\u2019s not what Obama told them was gonna happen. Obama told \u2019em they were gonna get cheaper premiums, cheaper deductibles, cheaper co-pays, and that if they liked what they had they could keep it. So people, the ones who did sign up now may not have actually signed up because after three years this bunch can\u2019t even do a simple log-in registration website. <\/p>\n

The man who gave us this doesn\u2019t appear to care. He doesn\u2019t care enough to even come back and use the power of his office as boss over every in charge of this and insist that it get done right. Instead, he\u2019s at Nobu on Waikiki beach at night. Instead, he\u2019s snorkeling. Instead, he\u2019s out hitting golf balls. Instead, he\u2019s reading books on the beach or whatever he\u2019s doing. Yeah, it\u2019s true, the media would be hammering George W. Bush. But we know the media isn\u2019t gonna hammer Barack Obama no matter what. <\/p>\n

They are Barack Obama. The more important thing here is just what kind of man would do this? What kind of man could appear so cavalier? He knew that January 2nd was D-Day for this plan to go into effect. He knew that. And where is he? He\u2019s as far away from Washington as you can be and still be in the country, with absolutely not a care in the world — and yet, he is a Democrat. I\u2019ve heard all my life, “They\u2019re the ones who really care about people. <\/p>\n

“They\u2019re the ones who really have compassion. They\u2019re the ones who really care about the little guy.” Why is it the little guy keeps getting the shaft when these people are in charge? Why is it the very people who believe Obama, the very people who elected him get the shaft? “One was faced with a $3,000 hospital room charge and opted to leave the hospital after experiencing chest pains,” because she couldn\u2019t pay the three grand. <\/line><\/p>\n

Well, who could? They thought they were insured. They signed up at HealthCare.gov. “Another, coughing in the cold, walked out without receiving a needed chest x-ray. Consumers face sticker-shock from medical costs under the new Obamacare system, made worse if they can\u2019t prove they\u2019re insured.” How? You show up at HealthCare.gov, you give \u2019em all your data, you sign up, you follow the law, and they don\u2019t know you\u2019ve been there? <\/p>\n

Even if you have signed up and for some reason can\u2019t prove it, there ought to be some record of you having signed up in their database. Why isn\u2019t there? And if there is, why can\u2019t anybody find it? This is a disgrace, folks. These are real people. These are human beings who probably don\u2019t have a lot and have been talked into depending on the government for this kind of thing. They\u2019ve been talked into depending on other people. <\/p>\n

They\u2019ve been talked into believing that powerful forces are arrayed against them and are ready to screw \u2019em at each and every turn. “Let us handle it for you,” the Democrats say, and where are they? “As many as one-third of new enrollees\u2019 applications have seen problems when the government transmits them to insurance companies.” Here\u2019s a companion story. This is from AP, out of Chicago. “The new year brought relief to some Illinois patients newly insured under [Obamacare].<\/p>\n

“Others still weren\u2019t sure whether they were covered, despite their best efforts to navigate the often-balky new system. The major benefits of President Barack Obama\u2019s health care overhaul took effect Wednesday, the first day of 2014. By Thursday, the first business day of the new insurance system, it became clear that snags in the rollout of [Obamacare] still remained.” Where this story is ultimately headed is a story about a doctor\u2019s office spending two hours on hold with a health insurer for a patient\u2019s surgery authorization and finally hanging up in frustration after not getting it.”<\/line><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the way the AP details that: “[E]arly problems with the federal HealthCare.gov website led many people to wait until last week to sign up… Paperwork problems almost delayed suburban Chicago resident Sheri Zajcew\u2019s scheduled surgery Thursday, but Dr. John Venetos decided to operate without a routine go-ahead from the insurance company. That was after Venetos\u2019 office manager spent two hours on hold with the insurer Thursday, trying to get an answer about whether the patient needed prior authorization for the surgery.<\/p>\n

“The office manager finally gave up. ‘I\u2019m not a happy camper,\u2019 said Nate Zajcew, the patient\u2019s husband. The couple signed up for a Blue Cross Blue Shield bronze plan through the federal HealthCare.gov site on Dec. 16. ‘I understand it\u2019s just a matter of paperwork and yesterday was a holiday. I can be an SOB, too, at times, but since they\u2019re going on with the procedure, it\u2019s OK.'” Now, it wasn\u2019t that long ago where this patient can go to the doctor and the doctor woul dsay, “You know what? You need surgery.”<\/p>\n

They\u2019d schedule it, do the surgery, and whatever happens, happens. It wasn\u2019t that long ago. You didn\u2019t have to call three or four people for authorization, for permission, for documentation to make sure papers were in order. Because the doctor in this case happened to be a decent human being, he went had and did what was medically necessary despite there being no authorization from “the authorities.” <\/p>\n

He will be dealt with later, make no mistake about this, because this is making Obamacare look bad. He will be dealt with later, but he did his job. The doctor in this case is the one who had compassion. The doctor is the one who did what he would have normally done anyway, but almost didn\u2019t do because of the involvement of two third parties: An insurance company and the Obama administration. If the first day…<\/line><\/p>\n

They\u2019ve had three years to gear up, three years ago to get this going, three years to get this ready. So what are we learning here on January 3rd? People are being turned away. People are not being treated in emergency rooms. People who\u2019ve signed up have no evidence of it and are being turned away because there is no evidence they\u2019ve signed up, but they maintain they have — and people may not get needed surgery because the authorities on the other end of the phone wherever they are in the Regime aren\u2019t picking up. <\/p>\n

Yeah. It\u2019s entirely possible this doctor who performed this surgery may pay for it himself. It\u2019s entirely possible he won\u2019t be paid, if the Regime, the Obama official or the insurance company denies permission after the fact. If they say, “Well, you know, you shouldn\u2019t have done the surgery because we weren\u2019t gonna authorize that,” and doctor says, “I have no choice. I have a patient here who needs this surgery,” the Regime will say, “Well, that\u2019s fine and dandy, but you\u2019re not being reimbursed.” <\/p>\n

This is why doctors are leaving Medicare\/Medicaid. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s an absolute disaster, and I don\u2019t care what the media is saying about it. What matters is that we\u2019ve got a chief executive who doesn\u2019t care. This business about the burdens of the office follow the president everywhere? This president is disproving that daily.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I have somebody who wants to react to the doctor story in Chicago. This is Jay in Orlando. Jay, it\u2019s great to have you on Open Line Friday. Hello, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It\u2019s an honor to talk to you, sir. I\u2019ve been listening since they had Rush Rooms in 1989 here in Orlando.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hey. Yes, yes. I remember those.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I wanted to expand on what you were talking about because it touches a point that people aren\u2019t realizing. It used to be with an insurance company if you had a problem with them, you could call the state commission, the government, and ask them to arbitrate, ask them to try to correct the situation. Now with Obamacare, you don\u2019t have anyone above them. Their ruling is final. There\u2019s no arbitrator. There\u2019s no person to go to to challenge a ruling. <\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: There wasn\u2019t even a ruling here, though. There wasn\u2019t even a ruling here. They couldn\u2019t even get the ruling.<\/p>\n

CALLER: In the past, though, you could call the state commission and say, “We can\u2019t get through. These people aren\u2019t responding,” and the state commission would fine the insurance companies.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, yeah, yeah. Well, there\u2019s nowhere else you can go other than Obama. That\u2019s true.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly. You have taken the police and turned them into the business that you have to deal with, and there\u2019s no police above them. So I hope people realize they\u2019ve lost the ability now to challenge insurance rulings to try to get better or fairer treatment, and that\u2019s gone now. That\u2019s gone.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I actually think… I don\u2019t know this. There is no empirical data on this, but people who are experiencing this, whatever these problems are — either being turned away at the ER, at the hospital, or being delayed surgical procedures or what have you, or people have signed up and nobody can prove it, there\u2019s no evidence of it — at some point… The polling data has always shown that the majority of people never wanted Obamacare, and I think there\u2019s a greater bubbling up or effervescence of anger out there over this than people realize because that\u2019s not being reported, either. <\/p>\n

I mean the stories are being reported in almost a sterile way, as though these aren\u2019t real people. “Ah, some people showed up with chest pains. They might not be treated. They\u2019ll get sent away,” and then there\u2019s some reference to Obamacare, and how these are natural snafus to unveil a program or what have you. But health care matters most to a lot of people. It\u2019s the most important thing. The Democrat Party has seen to that. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s now being dealt with in this cavalier, laissez-faire manner that I think people are becoming very outraged and angered by, particularly these early adopters who apparently were all-in for this and thought this was an improvement. They believed what they were told. But it\u2019s just a disaster, just in a straight human sense. It is an absolute disaster. These things are being reported as anecdotes, little single items, but they\u2019re not anecdotes. These are things happening. Real people are being hurt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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