{"id":12334,"date":"2013-05-23T17:44:31","date_gmt":"2013-05-23T17:44:31","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-05-23T17:44:31","modified_gmt":"2013-05-23T17:44:31","slug":"obamacare_produces_pain_and_chaos_by_design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/05\/23\/obamacare_produces_pain_and_chaos_by_design\/","title":{"rendered":"Obamacare Produces Pain and Chaos by Design"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: Here\u2019s Denise in Trenton, Michigan, as we head back to the phones. Welcome to the Rush Limbaugh program. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush. My question is pretty simple, but I also want to ask, you talked to somebody on Tuesday, it was a guy, I know you\u2019ll remember him<\/a>, he worked two part-time jobs and he had a one-year-old and he talked about how he can\u2019t get benefits. And you had told him that you had hope to give him, and you talked about a time where there were people in like their fifties and stuff, and they had to go back and they basically lost their jobs, and they did what they really wanted to do.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n

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CALLER: And I just hope he\u2019s listening today, \u2019cause I was on the phone with you on hold saying, “Please take my call so I can tell him.” It was true then, and it\u2019s true now. That\u2019s what we\u2019re doing. That\u2019s what our family is doing, \u2019cause of course thanks to Obama and his infinite wisdom, I went through the same thing and lost two of my jobs, and I\u2019m back in school and I\u2019m gonna do what I want to do. And I just want your guy — I hope he hears this because anybody can do it, and you are who you are not because of who they let you be, but because of you. He has to do what you said and follow his passion, because —<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s a good point. It really is. Just to recap<\/a>, I remember the guy. He was working two jobs because he had been downsized because of Obamacare. He\u2019d been reduced in both jobs to part-time status, so he\u2019d lost his benefits. Even though with two jobs he had the equivalent of a full-time job, he didn\u2019t have any benefits, and health care, particularly, was gone. He didn\u2019t know what he was gonna do. He was from Asheville, North Carolina, and I told him, “You know, even true today, most of the limitations that people face are self-imposed.” And I asked him, “Are you willing to move to pursue your dream?” He said, “Yeah.” <\/p>\n

Okay, well, that\u2019s the big one. Once you\u2019re willing to move you\u2019re really over a hump, but if you\u2019re not gonna leave Asheville, then you have to realize your potential is dictated by what Asheville has, what there is to do there job-wise, career-wise, or what have you. But the point that I made that you recounted here that\u2019s really worth it, all these guys in the nineties laid off in their middle ages, fifties, white-collar guys, could not get rehired at the salaries that they were earning. So what they did late in life was start businesses with the things they really loved and always wanted to do but had never done.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, one thing from our last caller. The caller she was talking about was Andy from Asheville, North Carolina. This is worth repeating. He was downsized in two jobs, so he had a full-time workweek with two jobs. So he was part time in two jobs, did not have any benefits as a result. He was been downsized in both jobs because of health care. The companies where he worked converted him to part-time status so that they would not have to provide him health care coverage, and that\u2019s common and it\u2019s happening with greater frequency and will increase its occurrences as more companies realize what they have to do to be complicit with Obamacare. <\/p>\n

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If they want to stay in business they\u2019re gonna have to let people go. If they want to stay in business they\u2019re gonna have to convert people to part time. They\u2019re gonna have to reduce their hours and they\u2019re gonna have to reduce their benefits. No, that\u2019s not the spirit of Obamacare at all. In fact, Obamacare officials are shocked and stunned that this is happening. Actual people in the government can\u2019t believe this. They thought that the health care experience in America would be, as they said, enriched because of Obamacare. They\u2019re just a bunch of political lug heads who accept the flawed premise and promises of liberalism. And because they\u2019re good people and because they\u2019ve put the program together, it\u2019s magically gonna work. Never does.<\/p>\n

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I was just asked if they just discount all the articles that point out how it\u2019s not being implemented as it was designed. ‘Cause it isn\u2019t a surprise. It isn\u2019t a surprise that business is doing this. Everybody that paid any attention, had any smarts at all, knew exactly what businesses were gonna have to do in order to stay in business once this thing started to be implemented. And so the question is, don\u2019t these guys in government — how do they not know this? Don\u2019t they read these stories? I don\u2019t know. Maybe they don\u2019t read them. But more likely they do and just discount what they\u2019re reading. They do. They think it\u2019s all right-wing propaganda, no matter where it runs.<\/p>\n

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All of these forecasts, Obamacare not working, all of these stories of companies downsizing, they just think that\u2019s evil business profit-taking. These people in the government who really thought that Obamacare and even do still think Obamacare is gonna lower costs and expand coverage, and when it doesn\u2019t happen, what do they think? They think that evil CEOs are being greedy and they\u2019re just laying people off using the excuse of Obamacare, but all they\u2019re doing is hoarding money and building bigger houses for themselves and buying nicer cars while they\u2019re firing or laying people off. That\u2019s what they think. They think that all of this is right wing conspiratorial activity designed to harm Obama. When they read these stories — look, try this one. This is from the Washington Examiner but this is just a repeat of an LA Times story. <\/p>\n

“UnitedHealth, the nation\u00c2\u2019s largest private insurer, will not participate in California\u00c2\u2019s Obamacare health exchange, the Los Angeles Times reported Thursday. Health insurance giants Aetna and Cigna will also opt out of Covered California, the state agency charged with implementing Obamacare. All three insurers will still provide health insurance through large employers in the state,” but they\u2019re not going to participate in the Obamacare exchanges. <\/p>\n

“Kaiser Permanente, the largest health insurer in California, will work with Covered California, as will Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield of California. Together, these two companies already control 87 percent of the state\u00c2\u2019s individual health insurance market. That number will only go up as UnitedHealth, Aetna and Cigna drop out of the individual market entirely. Market consolidation and decreased consumer choice is exactly what some supporters of Obamcare hoped would happen all along.”<\/p>\n

This is my point. As UnitedHealth pulls out, as Cigna pulls out, as Aetna pull out, what does that mean? It means consumers have fewer choices. That\u2019s the design. The people that really thought about this at the government, the Obamacare people, the people that really put this together with their ultimate aim in mind, intended all of this. They intended for it to be too big, too unworkable, and too expensive. They intended for all of these companies, be they businesses or insurance companies, to pull out, to not insure people, they intended this. That\u2019s why the fines for not having insurance in the first couple years are very cheap. <\/p>\n

The fines for not having a policy cost much less than having a policy. They want people to not have the policy. They want people to pay the fine. They want to upset the market and create a mess — and, then to clean up the mess, they want everybody just to finally say, “You know what? You know what would fix this? Single payer! Just have the government do it. To hell with Aetna, to hell with Cigna, to hell with United Health, to hell with private insurance. Just have the government do it.”<\/p>\n

That will be the solution.<\/p>\n