{"id":11377,"date":"2013-09-13T16:56:41","date_gmt":"2013-09-13T16:56:41","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-09-13T16:56:41","modified_gmt":"2013-09-13T16:56:41","slug":"obama_lied_your_health_insurance_died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/09\/13\/obama_lied_your_health_insurance_died\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Lied, Your Health Insurance Died"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: Livonia, Michigan, our next stop as we stick with the phones on Open Line Friday. Hello, Ken. Welcome to the program, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello, Rush, and thanks for taking my call.<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: Yeah, I wanted to bring up Obamacare, and I wanted to show you more evidence that not only is Obamacare harmful to the nation, but it\u2019s also unaffordable health insurance. Now, currently I pay out of pocket. I buy my own health insurance through a major national insurance company.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait, wait, wait, wait. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. You buy your own health insurance, not through your employer, but just as if you were going to go buy auto insurance, you buy your health insurance as a single individual?<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Now, the insurance I have happens to be a cheap policy, happens to be the lowest policy they have. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Why? Why did you do that?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Because that\u2019s all I can afford.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What do you get for it?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay, for $180 a month, my current policy has a $1,000 deductible.<\/p>\n

RUSH: For crying out loud, you got $1,000 deductible and you\u2019re paying 180 a month?<\/p>\n

CALLER: It\u2019s the best I can afford, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, no, no, no, no. I wasn\u2019t passing judgment on it. I\u2019m not doing that. I\u2019m calculating in my head here. At $180 a month, it\u2019s $1800 plus $360 for twelve months. You\u2019re spending over $2,000 a year for a $1,000 deductible.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I know. Isn\u2019t that insane?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Here\u2019s what I want to show you, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right, okay.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, because of Obamacare, my plan — and the insurance company told me they have no choice, it\u2019s because of the new laws, new regulations — is being discontinued. If I want to continue to have a similar deductible, a similar plan because of Obamacare, my premiums have been doubled plan.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait. No. Obama said if you like your plan, you get to keep it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, Obama lied, Rush. Am I shocked? No. Obama said I could keep my plan. He lied. He said I could keep my doctors. Well, we know that\u2019s not true be with either.<\/p>\n

RUSH: He said that your premium was gonna go down $2500 a year.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, he lied on that, too, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wow. Who knew?<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

CALLER: Who knew. And, Rush, a lot of people are getting notified right now, and over the next few weeks I think more and more people are gonna see the truth that Obamacare is not affordable.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me ask you this, though, seriously. Seriously, Ken. How many people will know that? You know enough to know that Obamacare is responsible for this, and your insurance company is telling you, right?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Correct.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, how many people — the ignorant that Richard Stengel was praising for voting for Obama, how many of them — might be told the same thing and are gonna claim, Yeah, the insurance company is lying to us! They\u2019re blaming it on Obama but we know it\u2019s not him because he really cares about us. Obama said my premium wasn\u2019t gonna go up.” How many of them are gonna actually end up blaming the insurance company, do you think?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I think the insurance companies are doing the right thing and when questioned — because I did call my insurance company — they told me point-blank that it\u2019s because of national health care. So anybody that questions the insurance companies, Rush, will find out the truth.<\/p>\n

RUSH: They\u2019ll find out the truth. Whether they will believe it is another thing, and I\u2019m not trying to be negative here. But it\u2019s much easier to hate an evil corporation. The Democrat Party\u2019s been working on people for a hundred years to do that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: You\u2019re right about that, Rush. The Democrat Party has been brainwashing the American people to hate the rich, to hate corporations.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Exactly. So when the insurance company comes along and says, “Well, I\u2019m sorry. Your premium\u2019s going up because of Obamacare,” they\u2019re gonna say, “Well, no! Obamacare is supposed to be cheaper. It\u2019s free, he told us. You\u2019re screwing us!” Don\u2019t be surprised if not as many people as you think blame Obama for this. That\u2019s all I\u2019m saying.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I want to go back to our last caller, Ken from Livonia, Michigan. He buys his own insurance. He\u2019s not part of a company policy. He actually went to a health insurance company, said, “I want health insurance.” Now, I don\u2019t know if they pooled him with a group of other like-minded people or not, but it was not part of a group, as far as he knew. He wasn\u2019t part of employee group or any of that, and he bought what he could afford, $180 a month with a $1,000 deductible.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know how extensive his insurance is. <\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t get into that with him. <\/p>\n

The point is that his company told him his prices are skyrocketing, at least gonna double, and it\u2019s because of Obamacare, because of the requirements being brought to bear, the pressures being brought to bear on private insurance companies. The objective of Obamacare is to slowly force them out of business, and the way you do that is zap \u2019em with a bunch of rules and regulations that up their prices beyond what their customers can afford. If the customer can\u2019t afford it, and there\u2019s no subsidy, you\u2019re gone. They\u2019re out of business, and that\u2019s the objective, to shrink the private sector insurance market and thereby force people into the state-run exchanges or the federal exchanges. <\/p>\n

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Now, there technically is not a federal exchange as per the law, but they\u2019re gonna have to do something because not all states have agreed to set up an exchange. It\u2019s a mess. So he was calling just to warn people that are in the same situation he\u2019s in about what\u2019s coming, and he also opined that when this starts happening to people, that finally people are going to see what Obama is causing and they\u2019re going to be mad at him. I reminded him, “Don\u2019t think that. Don\u2019t be so quick to make that conclusion.” <\/p>\n

If we can have record high unemployment, record job loss, and just an absolutely anemic economic recovery because of Obama\u2019s policies, and he\u2019s not blamed for it, what makes anybody think he\u2019s gonna get blamed when an insurance company starts doubling their premiums? People are gonna blame the insurance company. They\u2019re not gonna blame Obama. They\u2019re not blaming Obama for anything else. Although actually, Obama\u2019s approval numbers are down.<\/p>\n

You\u2019re not seeing this reported widely, but his approval numbers are falling, and in some places, dramatically. In one poll, support for Obamacare is under 40% now. In the same pol. I forget what it was. Obama\u2019s performance, job performance approval rate is just over 40. He\u2019s not at 50% approval in any poll. That\u2019s why they\u2019ve stopped reporting it, by the way. When\u2019s the last time you saw a presidential approval poll? Off the top of your head. You can\u2019t remember, right? <\/p>\n

Because it\u2019s not worth reporting. <\/p>\n

They\u2019re covering it up. <\/p>\n

Obama\u2019s job performance is plummeting. So, it\u2019s the same old argument. If a tree falls in the forest, and nobody\u2019s there, does it make a noise? Well, if Obama\u2019s job approval is plummeting but nobody knows it, are they going to realize it? And the answer is no. By the same token, the Democrat Party has an enemies list, and it\u2019s anything that has to do with capitalism. So any big corporation or industry — Big Oil, Big Plastics, Big Tree, Big You Name It, have been targeted and have been enemies for years.<\/p>\n

Big Insurance? Everybody hates the insurance companies. They despise \u2019em. So Ken thinks that people gonna walk in and find their premiums doubled, people in his shoes, and then they\u2019re gonna finally blame Obama, and then people are gonna get mad, and that\u2019s gonna be the tipping point, and I\u2019m not so assure people are gonna blame Obama. Think Obama\u2019s trying to help. They think Obama is great.<\/p>\n

I mean, Obama said their premiums are gonna come down. The way he set this up, he promised people they can keep their doctor, promised if people they like their policy, they get to keep it. He promised people their premiums are gonna come down. When none of that happens, why would they blame him? They\u2019re gonna blame the insurance companies for savaging the first black president.<\/p>\n

The insurance companies are gonna be called racist or Republican, mean because they\u2019re trying to harm Obama when all he\u2019s doing is help people. I\u2019m just warning you, don\u2019t be surprised. Some people blame Obama, it\u2019s gonna increase, but it isn\u2019t gonna be this blanket tipping point that people think. Now, Ken\u2019s problem, people in Ken\u2019s situation. The Wall Street Journal has a piece<\/a> about this today, about the self-insured. Thanks to Obamacare, more and more companies are going to just stop offering insurance to individuals. <\/p>\n

So there\u2019s gonna be even less competition, on top of the increase in premiums because of all of the Obamacare mandates. Those are what\u2019s driving prices up. Just about every week we see some insurance company announce that it\u2019s going to stop selling individual plans in some state or another, and there just aren\u2019t that many health insurance companies to begin with. If they drop out, then the universe of options that people have shrinks — and competition, obviously, is lessened, which means prices rise. <\/p>\n

Now, the skyrocketing of these premiums is going to be somewhat disguised by the taxpayer subsidies that are available over at the exchanges. Another reason Obama\u2019s gonna get praise. The evil insurance company is gonna tell you if you\u2019re a self-insured person, that your premiums are doubling. Then you go over to the exchange, and you find out, “Oh, wow. It\u2019s not gonna cost that much?”<\/p>\n

“No, Obamacare has set in!” <\/p>\n

“Oh, really? Obamacare is saving my bacon,” is how some people are going to look at this. This is how it has been structured. Now, most self-employed people do not qualify, won\u2019t qualify for taxpayer subsidies. It\u2019s really is an assault. You would think that the self-employed, that the entrepreneur, they\u2019d be the ones getting the break, but they don\u2019t. They are not gonna be able to access subsidies like employees will be. <\/p>\n

But it\u2019s the taxpayers that are gonna have to pay for the higher premiums. We\u2019re all gonna be paying through the roof here one way or the other. Everybody is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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