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RUSH: Paul Krugman is an Obamaite, he\u2019s an economist, he\u2019s a Nobel Prize-winning economist, folks, which tells you everything you need to know about the Nobel Prize. The New York Times columnist, economist, took a few questions at a lecture that he gave last week, took a few questions from the audience. And one question was on America\u2019s massive and rising national debt. And Krugman admitted that the debt will pose a problem, eventually, not yet. Not until we get the next Republican president will the debt be a problem. And he said he admitted it\u2019s gonna be tough to pay for entitlement programs with an aging population and increasing health care costs. <\/p>\n

Now, please pay attention. Look at me here, because Krugman is considered a near godlike figure on the left. Krugman is an Obamaite. When Krugman speaks, it may as well be the Democrat Party, the regime, and he has acolytes. So he admits it\u2019s gonna be tough to pay for entitlement programs because the population is getting older and health care costs are rising. Krugman told this audience that we\u2019re going to need more revenue in order to handle these problems. He then took a stab at explaining where we\u2019re going to get the revenue, and the first thing he said was we\u2019re going to have to raise taxes on the middle class. <\/p>\n

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Now, if Paul Krugman is saying it, bank on the fact that it\u2019s already in the works on the Democrat side. It is going to happen. The middle class is already paying higher taxes, by the way, which is in an e-mail that I read to you at the beginning of the program. Krugman also said that we\u2019re gonna have to make tough decisions about health care. Specifically, Paul Krugman said, paying for care that has no demonstrated medical benefit is going to have to stop, meaning treatment for old people who are gonna die anyway, has to stop. That\u2019s what this means. The solution, Krugman says, is death panels and sales taxes. In quotes, that\u2019s what he said. Death panels and sale taxes is how we handle rising debt and rising health care costs. <\/p>\n

Now, do you remember Obama and every other liberal going nuts over the accusation by Sarah Palin that there would be death panels? Everybody in the media, the Democrats went nuts and said there\u2019s no such thing, and Palin was lying, and how dare she say this kind of thing? Remember there were promises under Obamacare that you\u2019d be able to keep your doctor? If you like your plan, you get to keep your plan and your premium\u2019s gonna go down by $2,000, $2,500. Do you remember all that? Because I do. And I\u2019m sure you do, too. You keep your doctor if you like it. That isn\u2019t gonna change. You keep your health plan if you like it. That isn\u2019t gonna change. It already is. And your premiums are gonna drop by $2,500 a year. <\/line><\/p>\n

Obamacare, they said, was gonna bend the cost curve downward, and it\u2019s not gonna raise taxes, and it was gonna reduce the deficit. This is what everybody was told. In the run up to the vote on Obamacare, this is what every American was told in their effort to sell this, and everything you were told is untrue. Everything you were told turns out to be wrong. Everything we were told turns out to be incorrect. Health care costs are exploding, you can\u2019t keep your own doctor, your premiums are skyrocketing, the cheapest plan is gonna be $4,000 a person, family of four, 16 to 20 grand. And we\u2019re gonna need new revenue on top of the massive tax increases already in Obamacare. And now Paul Krugman admits, “Yep, we\u2019re gonna need death panels.” <\/p>\n

And, by the way, he\u2019s not the only one. Steven Rattner, who was Obama\u2019s first car czar, in a New York Times column, same place Krugman works, also admitted we\u2019re gonna need death panels<\/a>. Yet Sarah Palin was made to pay a political price for this. Sarah Palin, the first to title this panel “the death panel.” Here now they\u2019re starting to admit it. And, of course, folks, it\u2019s true. It\u2019s the only way they know to deal with this, versus health savings accounts, versus you being in charge. Imagine you having control over your insurance cost. Imagine you being able to choose whatever doctor you want to go to, for whatever malady. Imagine you being able to choose your doctor or your provider based on the best price you can get. Imagine there not being a death panel denying you treatment because of your age. <\/p>\n

Imagine that all being up to you. It\u2019s the way it used to be. Not to sound like an old fuddy-duddy. You know, parents would tell their kids they walked 18,000 miles with no shoes in the snow to get to school every day, not doing that. But when I was growing up this is exactly how it was. We went to the doctor, we went to the dentist, when needed, and we got a bill. Now, admittedly it was a small town. Occasionally the doctor even came to the house if my brother or me were too sick and we couldn\u2019t get to his office. But we got a bill. There wasn\u2019t an insurance company. There wasn\u2019t a copay. There wasn\u2019t any of this stuff. And that\u2019s just in the fifties. Anyway, okay, I appreciate your patience in indulging me. But, folks, I\u2019m really focused on what we can all do here. I\u2019m really focused on what can be. I\u2019m focused on what damn well ought to be, as the future unfolds.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: John in Philadelphia. Great to have you, sir. Thank you for waiting, and hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello, Rush. Mega dittos from the City of Brotherly Love. I wanted to ask you, as this Obamacare –which, as you\u2019re saying, is now the law of the land — as this unfolds over the next several years, do you foresee us as citizens, as we get older and thicker, going before boards and trying to defend or justify our right to continue living? Or do you think that maybe we\u2019ll kind of rise up and say, “Enough is enough!” and collapse this health care system?<\/p>\n

RUSH: That remains to be seen. To answer your first question, one doesn\u2019t preclude the other. You could have people rising up and say, “You know, I\u2019m not gonna do this anymore,” while at the same time having the thing that causes that: People having to go before a panel and beg to live. That will happen. People or their representatives are going to lobby this panel of people, and a case will be made why this person deserves to be treated. It\u2019s either gonna be that or there\u2019s gonna be a manual with guidelines that are impersonal, that are based purely on statistics, and the doctors or the panel will go down here and see how many of the bullet points are met.<\/p>\n