{"id":10948,"date":"2013-11-05T19:39:49","date_gmt":"2013-11-05T19:39:49","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-11-05T19:39:49","modified_gmt":"2013-11-05T19:39:49","slug":"president_to_fighting_cancer_patient_take_the_painkiller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/11\/05\/president_to_fighting_cancer_patient_take_the_painkiller\/","title":{"rendered":"President to Fighting Cancer Patient: Take the Painkiller"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: Now, let\u2019s hit the audio sound bites. We shared with you yesterday excerpts of a column in the Wall Street Journal <\/a>by Edie Littlefield Sundby, who has stage-4 gallbladder cancer, and it was all about how she\u2019s not political, she doesn\u2019t care about any of that. She\u2019s losing her health care, losing her doctor, losing her great team of oncologists. She doesn\u2019t like it.<\/p>\n

And Erin Burnett, CNN, got hold of her and asked her about it. She said, “When we\u2019re talking about whether Obamacare\u2019s the problem here, you\u2019re saying you\u2019ve gone through the whole market. The exchanges with Obamacare, the plans available outside of Obamacare, you\u2019re saying categorically you can\u2019t find the plan that you have now, or anything similar for the same cost.” And this goes right to my crux in the first hour. Everybody apparently liked their plans, so why the hell do we have to do this in the first place? <\/p>\n

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That\u2019s right. Because there were 30 million Americans without insurance. And the 30 million didn\u2019t have insurance because you liked your plan. It just wasn\u2019t fair, \u2019cause 30 million people, greatest country in the world, and 30 million uninsured. So they had to throw everything upside down. But the bottom line is — this is what we\u2019ve now learned in the aftermath — everybody apparently, or the vast majority of people liked their plans, compared to what they now have available. So here is Edie Littlefield Sundby answering that question from Erin Burnett.<\/p>\n

SUNDBY: I know that for a fact. Just like when I was hit with a curveball called terminal cancer, stage-4 cancer, I had to be quick, I had to be thorough, and I had to act. And so when my policy\u2019s canceled, I have to be the very same. I have to be attentive, pay attention, and really, really get down to the nuts and bolts of it to make sure, because I am alive for just a couple of reasons. I\u2019m alive because I\u2019m really, really lucky, and I\u2019m blessed, and part of that luck and that blessing has been my doctors and my health care policy. And I am alive by a very large extent because I could control who I chose to provide medical coverage and where that medical coverage was coming from. And control is life.<\/p>\n

RUSH: She wasn\u2019t through. She kept going.<\/p>\n

SUNDBY: I have a very vicious disease called gallbladder cancer, and less than .8% of us are alive in eight years. Well, I\u2019m almost at eight years, I will be in another year, and God willing, I will still be alive. But I will only be alive if I can, when it hits again, when I can respond quickly, and I don\u2019t know where I\u2019m going to need to go. I may need to go back to M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. I definitely will be at Stanford Cancer Center because they have worked this wonderful miracle with my life or I may have to go someplace else. I need a policy that gives me what United Health Care gave me for the last seven years.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s the point, she can\u2019t find it. She can\u2019t find it. With Obamacare, she can\u2019t find it outside of Obamacare. Now, why is that? She had it. She had a policy. She was paying. She liked it. Everybody was comfortable with it. Obamacare comes along and it vanishes? She can\u2019t get it as part of Obamacare. She can\u2019t get it outside of Obamacare, which is not even legal, she can\u2019t find it. She\u2019s scared to death she\u2019s gonna have a recurrence, and then what does she do? What does she do? Can we go back to June 24th, 2009? ‘Cause here\u2019s what she\u2019s gonna do now. There was a woman on an ABC special that asked the president of the United States about her mother. <\/p>\n

“My mother is now over 105, but at 100 the doctor said to her ‘I can\u2019t do anything more unless you have a pacemaker,\u2019 and I said go for it. She said go for it. But the specialist said, ‘No, she\u2019s too old.\u2019 When the other specialist saw her, saw her joy of life, so on, he said, ‘I\u2019m gonna go for it.\u2019 That was over five years ago. My question to you, Mr. President, outside the medical criteria for prolonging life for somebody who\u2019s elderly, is there any consideration that can be given –” I still can\u2019t believe this question was asked in the United States of America, a citizen in the White House asking the president, “Well, can we consider my mother\u2019s spirit, her will to live, when she\u2019s 105 for medical treatment?” <\/p>\n

Why is this Obama\u2019s business? Why does he get to say, “No, your mother is not worth keeping alive.” Why does he get to say that? What the hell have we become? So you just heard Edie Littlefield Sundby say, “I don\u2019t know where I\u2019m gonna go if this cancer comes back. I\u2019m already at the life expectancy with this disease. I need to go back to M.D. Anderson, Stanford Cancer Center, whatever, I can\u2019t find a policy, I don\u2019t know what I\u2019m gonna do.” This woman asked Obama, “What about my mom, she wants to live, 105, can we accommodate her will to live or her spirit?”<\/p>\n

OBAMA: I don\u2019t think that we can make judgments based on people\u2019s spirit. That\u2019d be a pretty subjective decision to be making. I think we have to have rules that say that we are gonna provide good quality care for all people. End-of-life care is one of the most difficult sets of decisions that we\u2019re gonna have to make. But understand that those decisions are already being made in one way or another. If they\u2019re not being made under Medicare and Medicaid, they\u2019re being made by private insurers. At least we can let doctors know and your mom know that, you know what, maybe this isn\u2019t gonna help. Maybe you\u2019re better off not having the surgery, but taking the painkiller.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Maybe we just have to tell your mom that, you know, maybe you\u2019re better off not having the surgery. Just, you know, take the painkiller. The president of the United States actually said that to a citizen in telling her, “No, somebody\u2019s will to live or their spirit, no, we can\u2019t start factoring that in.” It\u2019s just gotta be a money thing. It\u2019s, do we have the money to spend on your 105-year-old mother? Is it better spent on somebody in their thirties who\u2019s gonna live a long time after we offer the treatment? That\u2019s what he was saying. So in the case your mother, it\u2019s pain pill city. We\u2019ll do the best we can, the time she\u2019s got left. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s what Edie Littlefield Sundby is facing. She can\u2019t find a policy. She can\u2019t find treatment. She can\u2019t find anything like she had that has kept her alive. So the president\u2019s already answered what happens in that situation. Make \u2019em comfortable as we can and assure them we love them and there\u2019s really nothing we can do. Here\u2019s the painkiller.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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