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RUSH: Bob in Charlotte, North Carolina. I\u2019m gonna grab a quick phone call here so that I can say that I took a call the first hour. Bob in Charlotte. Great to have you, sir. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, sir. Good to talk to you. Listen, you talked earlier about the invincibles. They\u2019re not the only ones looking at not buying insurance, but also seniors who are in good health and within a year of getting Medicare.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

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CALLER: Some of us have gotten bills that are increasing by almost a thousand dollars a month. And if you\u2019re reasonably health and you can go online and get your prescriptions, go to your doctor now while you\u2019re still on a plan, you can get your prescriptions written to cover you up until that time that you get on Medicare. And in our case, it could save you $12,000.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You mean your costs are going up out there?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. All over North Carolina. We\u2019ve got 160,000 people who\u2019ve gotten these letters.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, I know. At least you haven\u2019t been canceled yet.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, not me, it\u2019s her, my wife. I\u2019m on Medicare.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh. <\/p>\n

CALLER: If anybody wanted to see something, they\u2019re posting people\u2019s articles and copies of the letters from the insurance companies for those people who don\u2019t believe this is happening.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, I\u2019ve got one. I\u2019ve got a copy of a letter that a female insurance agent wrote, one of the things you\u2019re talking about. She takes the Republicans to task for not standing up and fighting this thing, it is such a disaster, and she wants to know where the hell the Republican Party has been in not trying to stop this and oppose this. It\u2019s really good. Okay, Bob, I appreciate it.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I want to make a point here that I made in the last 20 seconds of the last hour, just spend a little bit more time on it. We had the guy call from North Carolina who talked about all the problems, the glitches there. Now, folks, I mentioned it before, New York\u2019s got its own website that\u2019s not part of Obamacare\u2019s HealthCare.gov. A lot of states do. Thirty some odd states did not sign up for Obamacare or for exchanges and so forth. <\/p>\n

There are states out there that are not having any troubles whatsoever on their websites for people to get health insurance. The thing remarkable about those states is nobody\u2019s signing up. New York state, nobody has gone to that website to sign up. I guess we don\u2019t even know if that website works, technically. So my point is whatever you hear reports of glitches in the media, outside of HealthCare.gov, I think there\u2019s a massive effort going on to mask or to obscure the fact that people aren\u2019t enrolling in this. They\u2019re not enrolling in government-run health care one degree or another, they\u2019re just not doing it. And the point is, even when websites work, people aren\u2019t going. They\u2019re not interested. <\/p>\n

Now, I\u2019ve heard the number that Obamacare needs seven million enrollees in order for it to work financially. That makes no sense to me, but I\u2019ll just go with what they say. They say they need seven million young, healthy people signing up who are not going to be using their health insurance because they\u2019re healthy. They need those people signing up and paying the freight in order to cover the costs for the elderly and the poor and you know whoever else. <\/p>\n

They\u2019re not signing up, no matter where. At HealthCare.gov they can\u2019t sign up \u2019cause the website\u2019s a disaster. In other states they\u2019re just not signing up. In fact, the regime, the Obama regime is telling Blue Cross and others not to tell the public how many people have signed up for Obamacare. They have issued strong requests, i.e., demands to clam up about the number of enrollees. That\u2019s why Sebelius is not forthcoming with the number. They\u2019re not telling you because nobody is signing up. This is a failure and a disaster no matter how you slice it. <\/p>\n

After five years of Obama portraying this as utopia and panacea, I\u2019m sure that they expected a stampede of eager — I know how these people think. They were expecting a stampede of eager Americans, “All right, health care, $2,500 cheaper. I get to keep my doctor, get to keep my plan, health care free!” They thought there was gonna be a stampede to sign up. And even with that they didn\u2019t design a website that could handle even a hundred people at a time. But beyond that, they have no real connection with the American people. <\/p>\n

I am convinced that despite what you think of Obama, I don\u2019t think Obama has a person-to-person connection with people. I think people love him because of his race and feel sorry for him, object of sympathy. I think people feel he\u2019s a victim, he portrays himself as a victim of America, he gets sympathy that way. I think he gets plenty of loyalty from Democrat to Democrat, liberal to liberal, people loyal to the cause. I don\u2019t think — and I\u2019m probably a lone actor here — I don\u2019t think that Obama really has a personal connection to people that voted for him.<\/p>\n

He goes out to these public appearances of his, they have to assemble groups of people. They have to assemble the people standing behind him. I don\u2019t think that when it\u2019s announced Obama\u2019s going anywhere, that these places are overwhelmed with more people than the room can hold and they want to get close and they want to touch and they want get autographs. I think we\u2019re being fed so many myths about Obama\u2019s popularity. We know the approval rating is well below 50%. The way I describe it sounds like I\u2019m bragging so I won\u2019t do it. So I hope you know what I mean. It\u2019s like a television anchor. I\u2019ll do it this way. I was on the same plane with Ed Bradley and Peter Jennings in Houston coming back to New York from the Republican convention. <\/p>\n

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Baggage claim, we\u2019re all there, and everybody recognized Jennings and Ed Bradley. Nobody went up and talked to \u2019em. They knew who they were. Might have liked them, respected them. Those guys, they didn\u2019t really have a connection with the audience. They were faces that were recognizable, and they might have been trusted. But nobody felt like going up to Peter Jennings saying, “Hi, how are you? I care.” ‘Cause Peter Jennings never gave anything of himself in the newscast. He\u2019s reading the news. Ed Bradley, ditto. The same with Obama. There\u2019s really not a connection. I don\u2019t know how else to describe this. And that\u2019s what I mean, they expected because of that there\u2019d be this massive stampede of loyalty and devotion to not only Obama, but health care and making it work for Obama, and there isn\u2019t any of that. <\/p>\n

The real point here is that even in states where there aren\u2019t any website problems, there aren\u2019t any enrollees. In New York state, zero. And that is big because if nobody signs up, then it doesn\u2019t exist anyway. If the supposed brilliance and goodness and attractiveness of the law is not gonna attract people, then they\u2019re gonna have to be forced, coerced into signing up and going. Look, even HealthCare.gov, there are not swarms of people trying. It didn\u2019t take very many people to expose this website as an absolute bomb. <\/p>\n

So I guess what I\u2019m saying is, don\u2019t fall for the notion that we\u2019re dealing with this universally popular, personally popular guy to whom people are devoted as in a pied piper. It isn\u2019t that way. And this is demonstrating it. I\u2019ll tell you, this whole Obamacare thing, that\u2019s all on him, it\u2019s all on government. This is a Democrat, liberal nightmare that\u2019s happening right in front of everybody\u2019s face and they\u2019re trying to cover that up as many ways as they can, blaming contractors, blaming Republicans, blaming the shutdown. But they\u2019re the ones who sold it. They\u2019re the ones that touted it. They\u2019re the ones who said that it was the greatest thing ever. <\/p>\n

They called it revolutionary. They called it advanced. They called it whatever superlatives they used, and it\u2019s none of those. They own this, much as they would like to pawn it off. That\u2019s my point in the first hour. You know, Obama, they design a system that\u2019s supposed to fail so they get to single payer, but in designing the failure <\/a>you have to design it so that the reason it fails is everybody but you.<\/p>\n

The government can\u2019t be seen as the reason it failed. You gotta blame insurance companies. You gotta blame the Republicans. You gotta see to it that the doctors and hospitals, the pharmacists get blamed, insurance companies. But, guess what? Government, everybody is asking, “Maybe this is too big to the government to do?” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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