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RUSH: I got Fox on now and I\u2019m seeing Geraldo Rivera, so I\u2019m thinking somebody died \u2019cause that\u2019s when they trot him out from the formaldehyde, is when somebody\u2019s died. He\u2019s the Grim Reaper. But it\u2019s not. Geraldo\u2019s talking about some top Senate Democrat. I don\u2019t know the name, doesn\u2019t matter. There\u2019s 12 of \u2019em, now joining the push to let Americans keep their health plans. Folks, you can\u2019t. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m gonna get blue in the face here. They can\u2019t reinstitute that. We had yesterday, there was a story in The Politico, and one of the architects, a man named Jonathan Gruber, made the point. It was a huge El Rushbo See, I Told You So. You can\u2019t roll back and give people the plans that they had \u2019cause those plans are gone. The insurance companies had to get rid of them because they didn\u2019t comply with Obamacare.<\/line><\/p>\n

Just one example is all this contraception, like in the ad we\u2019re talking about. Every policy now provides for that kind of thing, that most people aren\u2019t gonna use or don\u2019t care to have insurance cover because they\u2019ll buy it themselves. Obama, in order to get the young Millennial female vote, mandates that every policy cover contraception for everybody — birth control pills, you name it. That constitutes change in the policy, and this guy Gruber said it.<\/p>\n

You cannot have Obamacare and your old policy at the same time. If you keep your old policy, there\u2019s no Obamacare. They\u2019d have to roll back Obamacare. They\u2019d have to cancel Obamacare to give you your old plan, if we\u2019re gonna follow the law here. I guess with this bunch, that\u2019s not a given. But if the law counts for anything, you cannot have Obamacare and your insurance policy used to have at the same time because the Obamacare law doesn\u2019t permit it. <\/p>\n

Obamacare requires a bunch of things in every policy now.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re trying to blame the insurance companies for changing everybody\u2019s policies, and the insurance companies are simply complying with the new law. The insurance companies have to cover contraception, and that means that everybody has it in their policy. You\u2019ve got to pay for it for the people that are using it so that they don\u2019t have to pay for it in their minds. All these Democrats are running around saying, “We just find a way to let people keep their plans.”<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t fall for it, folks. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s another typical Democrat trick. <\/p>\n

You can\u2019t get your old plan back. It\u2019s gone. You got a cancellation notice. They would have to delay, defund, or repeal Obamacare — and then the insurance companies would have to agree to go back and re-create the policies that you had that you liked. They don\u2019t exist. One more time: The architect of Obamacare, Mr. Gruber, made the point that you cannot have both. If everybody gets their old policies back that they liked, you don\u2019t have Obamacare. <\/p>\n

By the way, the reason is that the insurance companies will not make money on your old plan with Obamacare in effect. He said it, not me. But as a matter of law, you can\u2019t have both plans at the same time. By the way, you know, the White House website right now? At the White House website right now, there\u2019s a question: “Will my coverage at work change?” Answer: “No. If you like the health plan you have at work you\u2019ll be able to keep it.” They\u2019re still lying about it. You won\u2019t keep it once January 1st comes. <\/p>\n

It goes away like everybody else\u2019s now.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Erick Erickson, head honcho at RedState.com, used to be a commentator at CNN, then wised up and went to Fox, just posted the following. He\u2019s also on our blowtorch affiliate in Atlanta, WSB. “Republicans are walking into a trap and they don\u00c2\u2019t even realize it. They are about to consider, in the House of Representatives, legislation by Congressman Upton that would allow people to keep their insurance plans.”<\/line><\/p>\n

This is what happens. I\u2019m editorializing here. I\u2019ll get back to Erick in a minute. First of all, Fred Upton is the Republican who was all for getting rid of the incandescent lightbulb and moving to the compact fluorescent because of environmental, climate change issues. Fred Upton. He\u2019s in tight with the House leadership. And, of course, this is so typical, because everybody now is getting their plans canceled. (Crying) “I don\u2019t want my plan canceled! I like my plan.” And the Republicans, “Well, hey, you know what, we think you should keep your plan.” This is the way the Republicans think. They\u2019ll come up with a piece of legislation with the proper message that they think will convince people that they\u2019re not mean and that they hear them and so forth. <\/p>\n

So Upton\u2019s got this plan, an actual piece of legislation that would allow people to keep their insurance plans. <\/p>\n

“There\u00c2\u2019s a problem though. It is widely acknowledged that Congressman Upton\u00c2\u2019s legislation is more messaging than substance.” He\u2019s just trying to relate to people. He\u2019s just trying to send the message from the Republicans to the people in the country, “We hear you. We also think you\u2019ve been treated wrong. We\u2019re good people, too. Please like us.” But he doesn\u2019t really mean for this to have any substance to it, according to Erick. “His legislation does not have anything in it that can force insurance companies, in the topsy-turvy world of Obamacare, to keep insurance plans going.”<\/p>\n

It\u2019s just a piece of legislation that supports the notion of you keeping your plan. The problem is and the trap is that there is a plan that does this over in the Senate. “Senator Mary Landrieu has written legislation in the United States Senate that the Democrats love. It mandates insurance companies have to keep people on their present insurance.”<\/line>Now, I must pause here because the insurance companies are in a no-win on this. If the mandate passes they have to lose money doing it. Snerdley\u2019s right, \u2019cause the key of this is Dingy Harry. <\/line><\/p>\n

Okay, so here\u2019s Mary Landrieu. Let me stay on point. Mary Landrieu has legislation in the Senate that the Democrats love. It mandates that these evil, man, rotten insurance companies continue to offer you your plan. And it creates this impression that it\u2019s the insurance companies that did this, not Obamacare, because she\u2019s trying to inoculate the Democrats from any negative fallout here. And the Republicans are gonna fall right into this, and here\u2019s how. Now, the Republicans supposedly oppose mandates, right? We don\u2019t like government mandates. We like freedom. <\/line><\/p>\n

We Republicans are against the government forcing private businesses and individuals into contracts they don\u2019t want. That\u2019s why we opposed Obamacare. We don\u2019t like the idea that you can be told that you have to buy something. Fred Upton has proposed this thing with no teeth in it, but if it passes here\u2019s what\u2019s gonna happen. The House, because a lot of Democrats will support Fred Upton\u2019s meaningless provision, Democrats will see to it that this bill passes, and it\u2019ll go to the Senate. And there won\u2019t be a conference committee. Harry Reid will simply throw out Upton\u2019s plan and substitute Landrieu\u2019s plan for it and send it back to the House where you\u2019re saying, “Well, Rush, the Republicans will vote it down.” No, they — (interruption) Well, yeah, but what new one coming back? <\/p>\n

No, here\u2019s the way it works. Upton\u2019s legislation has no teeth in it, it\u2019s just a PR message but the Democrats will see to it that it passes and it gets to the Senate, where it\u2019s real. Dingy Harry says this bill doesn\u2019t have any teeth in it, throws it out and substitutes the Landrieu plan. The Landrieu plan, with mandates in it that supposedly Republicans hate will be sent back to Republicans, and this is the trap, this is the trick. The House Republicans will be forced to either vote for it or be characterized as siding with the insurance companies against the people. That is the trick, Fred Upton trying to send a message of solidarity to the people being screwed by Obamacare is gonna have his meaningless, toothless bill thrown out by Harry Reid. <\/p>\n

Landrieu\u2019s bill, which mandates it, will then be sent back to the House, and the Republicans will be forced with either voting for it or opposing it, and if they oppose it, here comes the media, and here come the Democrats talking about how the Republicans continue to side with Big Insurance over the people. And the Republicans won\u2019t want that said about them, and so they will pass it. Then the Democrats and Obama, via Mary Landrieu and Harry Reid and Fred Upton, will get their bill mandating that you get to keep your policy, and as far as you are concerned, Obama and the Democrats are heroes, because they have seen to it that those evil Republicans and insurance companies have once again been shafted, as they tried to shaft you. <\/p>\n

So in one fell swoop, the Democrats will have the Republicans on record saving Landrieu\u2019s reelection in Louisiana by casting her as the one who saved Americans\u2019 health care plans, and also getting on record as really being in favor of fixing Obamacare with the use of mandates. That\u2019s what the trap is, all because the Republicans are defensive and have no confidence. They ought to be nowhere near trying to fix this. This is why I said the other day — I\u2019m sorry to say it again — that this thing is starting to implode now. These very Republicans were the ones who said, “Don\u2019t oppose it, Mr. Cruz. Don\u2019t defund it, Mr. Cruz. Don\u2019t delay it, Mr. Cruz. Let it implode and let it collapse, and let it be the end of liberalism.” And here come the Republicans being tricked into saving it. They ought to be doing nothing that helps the Democrats here. <\/p>\n

“But Mr. Limbaugh, then they\u2019re going to be castigated as enjoying people\u2019s pain.” The Democrats are causing people\u2019s pain! Obama is causing people\u2019s pain, not the Republicans. But the Republicans are gonna unwittingly maneuver themselves into a position where they are acknowledging that they\u2019re the cause of the pain, and they want to be the solution by agreeing with the notion that the insurance companies are the problem, not Obama, and the insurance companies should be mandated to reinstating your policy that you\u2019re losing. And then what if Obama, on top of that, decides to give people some money and call it a subsidy, for their pain and suffering during all this? <\/p>\n

I knew I was gonna kill you with this. I knew I was gonna kill you. We snatch defeat from the jaws of victory every time, and it\u2019s all because of a lack of confidence and a defensive posture. We sit up there, we think we\u2019re hated, we\u2019re think we\u2019re despised and we\u2019ll take any opportunity we have to tell people, “No, you\u2019re wrong about us. We do agree. We think it\u2019s a horrible thing that you\u2019re losing your policy, and we\u2019re gonna go on record saying so.” In doing that they\u2019re gonna end up stepping into a trap. So that\u2019s, again, a post at RedState.com by Erick Erickson. I mean, folks, I wish it weren\u2019t the case. <\/line><\/p>\n

Yes. There\u2019s polling data out there. It\u2019s in the Stack here. Obama\u2019s approval numbers now everywhere in the thirties, everywhere. The Republicans ought to be nowhere near trying to help Obama save his bacon. But they don\u2019t think that\u2019s what they\u2019re doing, I\u2019m convinced. If they do this, I mean, you talk about trauma and the need for therapy, I really think that the Republicans have been genuinely psychologically traumatized by decades of media criticism that they\u2019re racist, sexist, they care only about the rich, they hate women, and I think they\u2019re just obsessed with taking every opportunity that comes their way to try to prove to people they\u2019re not what the Democrats say. <\/p>\n

Now, there may even be, in addition to that, which I wholeheartedly believe, by the way, but there may also be some establishment — look, folks, I hate to say this, but when Ted Cruz and the boys were doing everything they can to oppose this and stop it and prevent this, there\u2019s all kinds of Republicans that campaigned on their promise to repeal it and never lifted a finger to actually do it. There\u2019s a lot of establishment Republicans who, they\u2019re envisioning being in power someday with this bill in place and in charge of the money. I don\u2019t know, it may well be that they\u2019re not falling into a trap. This may be a strategy to save Obamacare, who the hell knows. But this is the ruling class inside-the-Beltway establishment, both parties. In this case, I\u2019d have to come down on the fact that the Republicans are unwittingly preparing to save Obamacare. <\/p>\n

I really can\u2019t bring myself to believe that they actually want to. But reality is reality. You know, it is what it is. And what is is that the Republicans appear to want to salvage this somehow, if they can make people like them in the process. Sorry to hit you with this, but it\u2019s brewing out there. So what\u2019s the solution? Well, if somebody could get to Fred Upton in the leadership: “Just stand up. Don\u2019t propose this. You don\u2019t need to. Table the damn bill and don\u2019t send anything to the Senate and leave Landrieu and Harry Reid hanging by themselves. Do not send them anything that they can toss out and substitute their own bill. You know, call a press conference, Congressman Upton, and go tell people what you think, but don\u2019t propose some kind of meaningless legislation that could be tossed out.” <\/p>\n

I know. I know. There are 18 Democrat Senate seats on the hook. Obama\u2019s on the hook. But it doesn\u2019t matter. These 12 to 14 Democrats, who, it is said, are prepared if something\u2019s not done by Friday, to join Republican fixes for this. Why would you throw that out? I can\u2019t answer the question. You\u2019re asking me again, for 25 years, you\u2019ve been asking me, “Why do the Republicans do X?” I do not know. That\u2019s all I can tell you. I don\u2019t know. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: The Republicans need to adopt Harry Reid\u2019s attitude of two or three weeks ago. Remember when Harry Reid said, “Why would I want to do that?” when asked about making sure that places that treat kids with cancer stay open. “Why would I want to do that?” The Republicans need to say, “Why would I want to do that? Why would I want to preserve Obamacare?” I don\u2019t know why the Republicans want to make Obamacare work. I don\u2019t know. Unless they so hate the Tea Party, unless they just despise the Tea Party, that they do something like this out of spite. I do not have an explanation.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s Arnie, Sterling Heights, Michigan. Hi, Arnie, I\u2019m glad you waited.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, thank you, Rush. A pleasure to talk to you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you, sir.<\/line>\"original\"<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m a physician, and first quick comment is it\u2019s a shame that they\u2019re playing politics with our health care. Going forward, the point that I was calling you about is, okay, let\u2019s say they suspend the individual mandate, okay? How do they reconcile the preexisting clause, okay? For example, you had a health care policy that went away, but while that policy was enforced, let\u2019s say you developed diabetes, hypertension, whatever the case may be, okay —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right, everything I\u2019m supposed to have.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — your policy goes away. The policy, according to their simplistic thinking, okay, we\u2019ll just reinstate. Well, now you have a preexisting condition that they have to compensate for in terms of premiums, costs, so on and so forth. That would necessarily have to void out a major keystone of the Obamacare construct.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m not sure that I\u2019m following here. What\u2019s confusing me is the preexisting condition clause that you\u2019re talking about. Because hasn\u2019t that been funneled off into a separate high-risk pool?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Naturally, but previously — okay, let\u2019s say you applied for health insurance, and you had a history of hypertension. You would be rated or you might have a condition, for example, that your preexisting condition may not be covered for a period of six to 12 months.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And now, because of all the formulaic permutations that this stupid plan has, you would now have to cover this, your new premium would have to naturally absorb the cost. Okay?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Where I\u2019m losing you is in an existing policy that\u2019s been canceled, why isn\u2019t the preexisting coverage just automatically reinstated, speaking theoretically here, why isn\u2019t the preexisting coverage automatically reinstated if that was part of your policy that was canceled?<\/p>\n

CALLER: The problem is, it wasn\u2019t preexisting when you originally had the policy. This was a problem that developed.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh.<\/p>\n

CALLER: You got older, you developed a condition that —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, yeah —<\/p>\n

CALLER: — when you originally signed your policy you did not have.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And they gotta go through the waiting period all over again, right? <\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly. Okay. And that cost necessarily has to be passed through. So it\u2019s not like we can just blink our eyes and we can reinstitute what we had before.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, the Democrats are trying to make people think that\u2019s all we gotta do. And, by the way, Fred Upton, I just read, has said he likes the Mary Landrieu plan, by the way.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, but last I checked, insurance companies aren\u2019t in the business of losing money or going out of business.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, they are now, whether they know it or not.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, they know it, and they\u2019re obviously making their adjustments accordingly. That\u2019s why you\u2019re getting these 40, 50% increases in your coverage policies, you know, zero deductible going to $10,000 deductible and so on and so forth. So suffice it to say, you know, as the simplistic thinkers only want to look at the first layer of the onion, the meat is actually in the depth of the onion.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So the point that you\u2019re making, Arnie, if I understand is, that they can\u2019t automatically reinstate a preexisting coverage aspect of your policy even if you had it when it was canceled?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I can\u2019t see how they would do that, or I can\u2019t see why they would want it —<\/p>\n

RUSH: What if they just mandate? What if Obama just tells the insurance companies that\u2019s what you\u2019ve gotta do?<\/p>\n

CALLER: It\u2019s the financials.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Who cares about the financials? One thing this Regime doesn\u2019t care about is the financials of anything.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, as long as they keep earning money, yeah, everything\u2019s wonderful so —<\/p>\n

RUSH: They don\u2019t even care about the law, in many respects. It\u2019s a Washington Examiner story that says Upton is open to the idea of supporting the Landrieu plan. It\u2019s unbelievable. Literally unbelievable. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes siree, Bob. We\u2019re be back. It\u2019s the DC Examiner that has the story, Fred Upton is open to supporting the Landrieu plan. Now, the Landrieu plan… I\u2019m getting… This ticks me off like I cannot tell you. The Landrieu plan is command-and-control. It\u2019s Central Planning for the government. It mandates how insurance companies do business. It tells them what they can and can\u2019t do. This is not what the GOP does!<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll give you an example. Remember when Reagan was gonna go to the cemetery in Germany where some SS soldiers were buried, and Elie Wiesel made an appeal to Reagan. He said, “Mr. President, this is not your place.” Reagan ended up going, for other reasons. He said, “This is not your place.” This is not what the GOP should be doing, not endorsing command and Central Planning control over the private sector. <\/p>\n

But I guess the tug and the pull to be seen as on the side of the little guy by the Republicans is so strong. Folks, there\u2019s just no explaining it. I\u2019m telling you, it\u2019s Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. It\u2019s some kind of psychosis that\u2019s causing these guys to think the way they do — or worse, they hate the Tea Party, and they\u2019ll do anything to cause the Tea Party to abandon \u2019em. <\/p>\n

They\u2019ll do anything to tick off their base. It could well be that, too. Upton, I\u2019m sure, doesn\u2019t like the base anyway \u2019cause they gave him all kind of trouble over the lightbulb business. It was Boehner that saved his bacon, \u2019cause there were massive calls to remove Upton or not give Upton a chairmanship he was in line for because of that lightbulb fiasco. <\/line>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Why is Fred Upton doing what he\u2019s doing? Folks, try this. Maybe the Republican leadership, at the end of the day, doesn\u2019t really oppose Obamacare. Maybe they just don\u2019t oppose it. Who knows?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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