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RUSH: From the Daily Caller<\/a>. They say that they have learned the Republicans\u2019 new plan to repeal and replace Obamacare. This, by the way, is from the Republican leadership<\/a>. This is not Mike Lee and Ted Cruz. This is the leadership. These are the people that we have thought did not want to do anything to oppose Obama. We\u2019ve been thinking that the leadership\u2019s problem was with Cruz and Mike Lee<\/a> over in the Senate and whatever friends they have in the House. <\/p>\n

It turns out that the Republicans have an alternative to Obamacare. “The 200-page budget-neutral bill would provide $20,000 in tax deductions to families and a $7,500 deduction to individuals, so they can buy insurance from vendors in any state.” It\u2019s sort of like medical savings accounts. “It also would allow Americans to keep the money they save by picking lower-cost providers.” Now, they\u2019d better try to advertise this. <\/p>\n

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Now, you and I are saying, “Why don\u2019t they just vote to defund it? Why do they always have to come up with an alternative? Why can\u2019t they just say ‘no\u2019?” The theory in this case is, “Well, they did say ‘no\u2019 but it still passed and has become law,” and, folks, the Republican leadership, I know, they don\u2019t want to defund it or delay it. There\u2019s two mechanisms. One is the fight over the continuing resolution. The other opportunity is the fight over the debt limit. <\/p>\n

Those are two separate things, and the Republican leadership — in conservative intelligentsia, in the elite and scholarly sectors of conservatism, some of the think tanks, some of the, quote\/unquote “real brains,” have decided that it would make more sense to make the stand in the fight over raising the debt limit instead of the continuing resolution, which is the end of this month, on the theory that most people don\u2019t have any idea what a continuing resolution is. <\/p>\n

But they do know what raising the debt limit is. But the debt is one of the primary reasons the Tea Party came into existence. So there two competing views here on where best to try to actually defund or delay Obamacare, and it looks like, if I\u2019ve got this right (and I may have these things reversed, and if I do, I will fix it) the thing that they\u2019re thinking of doing is making the move on defunding or delaying Obamacare during the debt limit fight, \u2019cause everybody understands that, rather than the continuing resolution, which nobody knows what it is. <\/p>\n

I think I\u2019ve got that delineation right. I don\u2019t know how fervently committed to it they are. This is not the House leadership. This is the Republican\/conservative intelligentsia, which is trying to influence the House leadership on this. “In an effort to contend with one of the more popular aspects of Obamacare, the Republican bill — which was drafted by a committee subgroup headed by Rep. Phil Roe, a doctor — would also create a 10-year, $25 billion fund to lower costs for Americans afflicted with pre-existing conditions such as cancer.”<\/p>\n

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So what this means is that there certain aspects of Obamacare the Republicans don\u2019t want to defund. There are certain aspects of Obamacare they don\u2019t want to end, they don\u2019t want to repeal, and one of them is insurance for preexisting conditions. Those are called high-risk pools, in the language of the bill, and it\u2019s been remarkable how few people have signed up for high-risk pool insurance. You know, this is one of those things everybody believed, and the Republicans still believe it.<\/p>\n

Everybody believed that one of the most attractive aspects of Obamacare was insurance for preexisting conditions, and why did they think that? ‘Cause the media made a big hullabaloo out of it all the time, and the media created this impression that the only thing Americans care about is being able to get insurance for a preexisting condition, because then the theory further goes that everybody has one, and the insurance companies are really unfair \u2019cause they deny them.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re not even talking about insurance. If you can go get homeowners fire insurance after your house catches fire, we\u2019re not talking insurance; we\u2019re talking welfare. Anyway, the Republicans don\u2019t want to do anything about that. They don\u2019t want to repeal preexisting coverage. They want their own version of it. They want credit for that feature of Obamacare hanging on. <\/line>“Additionally, [the Republican bill] would let people carry their insurance with them from job to job,” not lose it if they lost the job or if they quit the job, “and cut wasteful legal costs by reforming medical lawsuits,” with tort reform. We\u2019ve heard all of this before. There\u2019s nothing new here, philosophically. It\u2019s been assembled here as a Republican alternative to Obamacare. It\u2019s actually an alternative to defunding it. <\/line><\/p>\n

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The Republican proposal “transfers authority from Obamacare\u00c2\u2019s regulators to citizens because,” it says here, “‘we think people are smart enough and will find the best plan for their family;'” we don\u2019t have to have the government in charge of that. “Via a reformed national health insurance market, Americans will be able to buy many of the provisions in Obamacare that are lauded by the White House, such as coverage for adult children up to age 26, he said.”<\/p>\n

So, you see, in crafting an alternative, we find that there are two or three things about Obamacare the Republicans like: preexisting conditions, insurance for that, and being able to keep your kid on your policy until your kid is 26. So it seems here that it is Republicans that have an alternative. It is not a plan to repeal it. It is a plan to replace it. Now, I\u2019m going to make a wild guess that most of you don\u2019t want any of this replace business. What you want is, “Let\u2019s repeal this and then start from scratch.” That\u2019s just a wild guess on my part. I could be wrong about it.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Daniel in San Antonio. Great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Texas size dittos from a Millennial.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you very much, sir. I appreciate that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: So just yesterday, actually, my wife went to a hospital, and the doctor asked her those questions that you did with Bill Clinton.<\/p>\n

RUSH: The sex questions?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Sex-life questions?<\/a><\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. I didn\u2019t know that was part of a Obamacare because while my wife told me yesterday she got all those questions, she thought it was kind of funny, and I thought it was odd — and then I find out part of the Obamacare crap, now I\u2019m just pissed off.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, congratulations. You should be.<\/p>\n

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CALLER: Yeah. I thought it was because my wife is expecting. She found out like a month ago that she\u2019s gonna… She\u2019s pregnant.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So how did she answer the multiple sex partners question?<\/p>\n

CALLER: She laughed and is like, uh, definitely not.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I just thought I\u2019d ask.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing)<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You\u2019re having a party there. I can tell every time you say something you\u2019re leaning over to your buds and you\u2019re laughing. You\u2019re having a good time out there.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You don\u2019t sound old enough to be married. Now, that\u2019s just me and hearing voices on the phone. You don\u2019t sound old enough to be married.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m 26.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Twenty-six. Well, you\u2019re not, but you are anyway. See, they\u2019re laughing again. You know, people are huddled around the phone there, and they\u2019re always having the best time. You know what they did. “Let\u2019s call Rush and let\u2019s see what we can make him believe.” They\u2019re out there just having the grandest time. Anyway, it\u2019s great to hear from you, Daniel. I\u2019m glad to know that you got ticked off about it. There\u2019s even more coming that you don\u2019t know about it that\u2019s gonna enrage you if that made you mad.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: This is Todd in Hope, Arkansas, Clinton country. Hello, Todd. Great to have you here, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush, thank you for taking my call. I\u2019ve been listening for many years and tried to call in, and this is my first time getting through. Thank you so much.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You bet, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It seems like Obamacare will make it illegal for me to pay cash to my medical providers like I am now, and it also seems like any time the government makes anything illegal, there is a group of people who will step in to facilitate that whatever\u2019s been made illegal continuing.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait, wait, wait, wait. Who would they be?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, I don\u2019t know. Somebody from northern New Jersey or Las Vegas or, you know.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You\u2019re talking about?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Organized crime.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Organized crime. Let me tell you something. From my standpoint, organized crime is already running it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (laughing) Good point. Do you think they\u2019ll take it more private though and be a growth opportunity for illegal medical care?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, any time you go all cash, yeah, you have a point. You have a point. You really do. Any time you go all cash, you also become a target — hee-hee-hee — of the Regime. Yeah, if you get a death panel verdict that you don\u2019t like, and you want to live, and you\u2019ve got the money, can you imagine making the Regime mad at you? “You\u2019re supposed to be dead, damn it, and we\u2019re gonna see to it that you die! We can\u2019t have our death panels being undermined like this.” <\/p>\n

Anyway, Todd, it\u2019s a good point. It\u2019s a good point, because there are going to be people that are gonna try to beat this. There always are. We\u2019re made up of a nation of creative entrepreneurs. People are just not gonna be controlled. This thing is gonna be such a mess. I\u2019m not sure Obamacare outlaws cash payments yet \u2019cause they\u2019re too dumb to figure out that\u2019s where it\u2019s gonna go, but once they figure it out then, they\u2019re gonna make their move. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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