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RUSH: This is really outrageous on so many levels, buts let\u2019s take it at a base level. The thrust of the story is that there are a lot of poor blacks and single mothers in the South who are black, two-thirds of \u2019em aren\u2019t gonna have any health care or insurance and it\u2019s because of Republicans. Yes, Republican governors, yes, you see the Republican governors are denying two-thirds of their poor black and single-mother populations health care. That\u2019s what the New York Times says<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Here is the lead sentence, and it prompts an obvious question. Here\u2019s the lead sentence. “A sweeping national effort to extend health coverage to millions of Americans will leave out two-thirds of the poor blacks and single mothers and more than half of the low-wage workers who do not have insurance.”<\/p>\n

Well, uh, excuse me, but, uh, what is Obamacare for? How is this in any way the fault of the Republicans? Why did we do Obamacare? Why do we have Medicaid? How can it be a sweeping national effort, the purpose of which was to cover the uninsured? Remember, that\u2019s the primary selling point of Obamacare, plus it\u2019s either gonna be free or a lot cheaper for you. “A sweeping national effort to extend health coverage to millions of Americans will leave out two-thirds of the poor blacks and single mothers.” Yeah? Okay. So why do we have Medicaid? What is Obamacare for? Why are we doing it? <\/p>\n

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You see, nothing ever seems to get better no matter what we do. I mean, we\u2019ve had poverty program on top of poverty program. We\u2019ve had programs to insure the uninsured. We have treatment guaranteed at emergency rooms. We\u2019ve had the War on Poverty. We\u2019ve had the Great Society. We have transferred trillions of dollars from producers to nonproducers. And nothing ever gets better. <\/p>\n

Where does this story come from? How in the world can that be after this wonderful thing called Obamacare? Nothing ever seems to get better. And you know what this really is? In reality, this is probably just part of the regime\u2019s effort to push for single payer. Now that they have Obamacare, guess what? It still is insufficient. Who knew? Despite the biggest hearts in the world, the Democrats, despite all of the compassion in the world, the Democrats, despite all of the caring and all the feeling and despite all the love in the world, the Democrats, nothing is getting better. <\/p>\n

We still have poverty. We still have unemployment. We still have all of these economic problems, and we still have two-thirds of black people uninsured. We\u2019ve gotta do more. We have to do more. It\u2019s just not enough. (interruption) Well, what do you mean, go to the exchanges? Well, now, wait a minute. See, this is where you Republicans — see, I\u2019ve got Republicans here on my staff and they\u2019re shouting in my ear, “Well, what about the exchange? What about the exchange?” Typical Republican answer. Heartless, no compassion. <\/line><\/p>\n

What do you mean, go to the exchange? (interruption) Yes, they can. If they don\u2019t have to a proper ID — and they don\u2019t — how are they gonna get covered at the exchange? You see, the Democrats have made sure they don\u2019t have proper IDs so that they can\u2019t be cheated on when they vote. That\u2019s just one thing. Now, 26 states don\u2019t have any exchanges. Don\u2019t forget that. By virtue of the law, the federal government cannot run an exchange, although Obama cherry-picked that and threw that out, since not every state established an exchange. <\/p>\n

But the New York Times headline is: “Millions of Poor Are Left Uncovered by Health Law.” Well, what about Medicaid? It would seem to me that Medicaid\u2019s leaving them out long before Obamacare did if they\u2019re not covered, right? See, the story points out that the Republican governors, because they\u2019re racist pigs, didn\u2019t expand Medicaid, and so these people don\u2019t have access to it. Republicans don\u2019t want anybody to have health care, because the truth is Republicans don\u2019t want anybody to get well. Because the further truth is, Republicans want everybody to die. Because the truth is, Republicans don\u2019t like anybody. And the truth is, if you don\u2019t die on your own, they will figure out a way that somebody else can make you die, because the Republicans hate you. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s the message of the past three days and the New York Times has that message on the front page of their paper today. You boil it all down, that\u2019s the message. (interruption) What costs too much? Now, wait, let\u2019s go back to Obamacare 101, \u2019cause Snerdley is shouting at me. “Wait a minute, you can\u2019t blame the Republicans! The states don\u2019t have enough money and they can\u2019t print their own.” That\u2019s all true. But it never stopped the Democrats, did it? As far as low-information voters are concerned, not having the money never stopped the Democrats, did it? Right. (interruption) Well, yeah, we got Detroit, but what of it? So? It\u2019s still there. They got the Lions, they got the Tigers. What of it? Detroit\u2019s still there. <\/p>\n

The Democrats never run outta money. The Democrats never run out of phones. The Democrats never run out of food stamps. Only the Republicans do, see? What do you mean, we don\u2019t have the money for it? That\u2019s no excuse. The Democrats never run out of money. The states can\u2019t print money, I know, but Democrat governors find the money. Democrat governors are willing to go into debt because debt doesn\u2019t really matter. Look at California. They\u2019re in debt. Record debt. But everybody there\u2019s got health care. But Republican governors are just not gonna spend the money, even if they don\u2019t have it, even if they do have it. <\/p>\n

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I\u2019m being facetious here, folks. This is the message that has been sent and the attitude I just shared with you is the reaction of many voters. “Well, Democrats ever never run out of money. I never hear that excuse from Democrats. They\u2019re always willing to give me health care. Why, they never tell me they\u2019re out of money. And really the only time we\u2019re outta money is when the Republicans won\u2019t let anybody spend it.” <\/p>\n

Now, if you go back to the very beginning of Obamacare, one of the problems with it, and that\u2019s what this New York Times story is all about, one of the problems is that the Feds don\u2019t have the money, either, and one of the ways that Obamacare, remember, now, was brought in under that magic number of a trillion dollars. I\u2019m not gonna bother re-explaining why that was the magic number, but it was. In order to sell this, it had to be scored by the CBO as costing less than a trillion dollars, basic same cost as the Iraq war. One of the ways they did that was off-load Medicaid spending to the states. And from the get-go, the states said, “We don\u2019t have this money. We don\u2019t have it until you appropriate it to us.” <\/p>\n

And Obamacare said, “We\u2019re not gonna appropriate it to you. You have to come up with the money for Medicaid.” Well, there isn\u2019t any money, folks. And there hasn\u2019t been any money, really, for a long time, and the states cannot print money and so they\u2019re faced with a federal requirement that they handle all Medicaid cases, but they don\u2019t have the money. So the New York Times story today is all about how Republican governors don\u2019t want to spend the money \u2019cause there\u2019s racist pigs. It\u2019s not the fault of Obamacare. It\u2019s not the fault of Medicaid. It\u2019s the fault of Republicans who refuse to spend the money because they don\u2019t believe in the entitlements. They don\u2019t believe in welfare. They don\u2019t believe in helping the underprivileged. They don\u2019t have any compassion. You know the drill. That\u2019s been the message in the media of the Republican Party for I don\u2019t know how long. And the New York Times has it on their front page.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: The current Medicaid program, just so you know, missed 14 million people. I don\u2019t know how that\u2019s possible. Medicaid\u2019s to cover the poor. This is before Obamacare. <\/p>\n

All this points out is, folks, Dingy Harry, with that really mean answer to Dana Bash, that answer of his was all the evidence you need that we ought not be giving this kind of power to people in government, number one. Number two, it is true to say nothing ever works, nothing\u2019s ever enough. No matter what we spend on welfare, the New York Times is never satisfied. No matter what program. Obamacare, for all intents and purposes, socialized medicine, front page New York Times today: It\u2019s not enough. And what it all means is they are incompetent. Their ideas do not work. Their compassion is meaningless. It doesn\u2019t translate into relief. The people depending on liberals are still living miserable lives. Nothing changes. And no matter what they get and no matter what they do, it still isn\u2019t enough, because it never works. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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