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RUSH: Pretty much every insurance company is gonna have to cancel their current plans, folks, because none of the current plans out there will be able to provide coverage at the same price that they\u2019re offering today when all of the new Obamacare mandates kick in. And that begins in January. So it\u2019s happening, the insurance companies are simply getting a head start. I mean, they\u2019re revving up. They know what\u2019s coming in January and they\u2019re not gonna be able to provide. That\u2019s why you\u2019re getting either cancellation notices and new price quotes. <\/p>\n

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Your premium is more than likely doubling and your deductible is tripling. And that\u2019s the best they\u2019re going to be able to do. That means that you head to HealthCare.gov or some other exchange and try to qualify for a subsidy, which is your neighbors paying part of your costs. This week, what is it, 76,000 people in the Virginia-Maryland-DC area are having their Blue Cross\/Blue Shield plans canceled because of Obamacare, and it\u2019s beginning to happen in Florida. I\u2019m sure most of you know that it happened to Kirsten Powers of Fox News. She was on Megyn Kelly last night. I don\u2019t have the audio of that, but it doesn\u2019t matter. I don\u2019t need it. I can tell you what happened. <\/p>\n

She got on to HealthCare.gov. She\u2019d been an early and long advocate of Obamacare. And we like Kirsten here, by the way. I need to stress that in matters where I have been involved she has been over-the-top fair, which is unusual and unique. She\u2019s been a longtime advocate of Obamacare, nevertheless, and she admitted last night to Megyn Kelly that her policy doesn\u2019t survive, that her premium is gonna go way up and that her deductible is gonna go way up and that she was surprised. She said that she wouldn\u2019t mind paying a little more if it would help others, but that ought to be her decision in a private charitable matter, not something forced on her or everybody else by the government. But the impetus of the story is that she was a true believer, and even she was surprised. <\/p>\n

I think there\u2019s all kinds of shock waiting to hit people. There are still true believers that believe this is gonna be the greatest. People believe Obama. They believe him when he said that it\u2019s gonna cost $2,500 a year less. They believe him when he told \u2019em they could keep their doctor and keep their plan if they like it. Nobody\u2019s gonna be able to do that unless they\u2019re willing to pay almost double for it, which is not really keeping your plan, is it? So as this continues to roll out and all kinds of people, low-information voters, others that are highly attuned, liberal Democrat partisans, the whole mix are gonna find what\u2019s happening here, and it\u2019s gonna be interesting to gauge the reaction. <\/p>\n

CBS, Norah O\u2019Donnell reported that this Obamacare rollout is not happening the way Obama explained it. Insurers are canceling coverage for hundreds of thousands of Americans because of Obamacare, forcing them to buy new policies despite Obama\u2019s promises to the contrary. This was a report this morning on CBS. Let\u2019s go to audio sound bite number four. Jan Crawford did the report.<\/p>\n

CRAWFORD: A CBS analysis shows that in many of those 15 states that have their own health insurance exchanges more people are enrolling in Medicaid than are actually buying private health insurance. And there is concern that, if that trend continues, there won\u2019t be enough healthy people buying insurance for the system to work. Medicaid experts say they\u2019re not sure why they\u2019re seeing those lopsided enrollment numbers. Industry sources say that if we don\u2019t see some real turnaround soon there could be big problems for the entire system.<\/p>\n

RUSH: They don\u2019t know why people are going to Medicaid? Do they really not know why people are going to Medicaid? Do they really not know that? “There\u2019s the concern that if this trend continues, there won\u2019t be enough healthy people buy insurance for the system to work.” We\u2019re not even close. The number, seven million, minimum, healthy people buying insurance and not needing it. Minimum seven million is what it is said to require for this the work. I don\u2019t even know how that\u2019s possible. The objective of this thing is to get everybody to sign up. Seven million? <\/p>\n

Anyway, even if that\u2019s the bottom line number, they\u2019re nowhere near it. Many states have zero enrollees, absolutely zero. Now, the thing that amuses me — and it really does. I was talking about this to Mr. Snerdley before the program began. One of the things — and you\u2019ve noticed it, I\u2019m sure, too — is slowly but surely journalists are figuring this out. There\u2019s Jan Crawford at CBS. Her chops are Supreme Court reporting. She is a Supreme Court expert. You cannot be dumb and do that. Norah O\u2019Donnell. She said, in a revelatory report, it\u2019s not happening the way Obama explained it. <\/p>\n

“One California citizen, Natalie Willes, said her insurance had gotten worse and more expensive. ‘Before, I had a plan where I had a $1,500 deductible,\u2019 she said. ‘I paid $199 a month. The most similar plan that I would have available to me would be $278 per month, my deductible would be $6,500 and all of my care after that point would only be covered 70 percent.'”<\/p>\n

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Now, the thing that amazes me is that it is journalists who are the last to figure all of this out. It is journalists who should have been the first to warn everybody that this day was coming, because we knew that it was. It\u2019s been on track, this is exactly what Obamacare is. All anyone had to do was read just some of what the law changed. All anyone had to do was then add whatever real-life experience you have to the government coming in and running something. What happens? Wild spending with no accountability takes place, drastic deficits occur, and great inefficiency. There\u2019s nothing new about that. That is the standard, day-to-day operation of a government-run entity, or any bureaucratic entity. <\/p>\n

These journalists should have been the first to tell people what Obamacare would mean to them. They are now the last to figure all of this out. Why don\u2019t they ask why so many young and healthy people are going to Medicaid? Which is for the poor. Why are people doing that? They just sit here and they wring their hands over it. “Oh, no. So many people are going to Medicaid.” They can\u2019t figure out, they do not understand the dynamics of life, apparently. You put a brick wall in front of somebody in an effort to stop their forward progress, and the left thinks that most people will just stop, whereas most people will find a way to climb the wall or get around it. And when that happens, they act surprised. <\/p>\n

Well, there\u2019s a reason people are not going to Obamacare. They find out what it\u2019s gonna cost \u2019em and they go somewhere else. And in the process, they\u2019re undermining the very foundation of Obamacare, all of which was predictable. But our journalist community appears to be the last to be learning this.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

One little side note about this story from CBS, Jan Crawford, they\u2019re just shocked that young and healthy people are going to Medicaid rather than Obamacare. They\u2019re shocked. Here\u2019s the interesting little side note about this. The regime and the states are adding these Medicaid enrollees to the numbers of people signing up for the Obamacare exchanges, and they\u2019re two different things. They\u2019re adding those numbers together to make the overall enrollment in Obamacare look better than it is. So when you hear an enrollment number that the regime offers about Obamacare, it isn\u2019t that high, because a lot of those enrollees, they\u2019re including people signing up for Medicaid. <\/p>\n