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RUSH: Among the things that the president has announced today<\/a> — well, he didn\u2019t announce them all, but I have them. I have a summary, and I have the full list, 23 Gun Violence Reduction Executive Actions, 23 of them. One of them is involving doctors. Obama asks doctors to help deal with guns, and here is the key language in this. “Preserve the rights of health care providers –” i.e., doctors “– to protect their patients and communities from gun violence. We should never ask doctors and other health care providers to turn a blind eye to the risks posed by guns in the wrong hands. Doctors and other mental health professionals play an important role in protecting the safety of their patients and the broader community by reporting direct and credible threats of violence to the authorities.” <\/p>\n

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So your doctor has essentially been deputized now with an Obama executive action. Your doctor — and this is what Andrew “The Pious” did in New York yesterday. Mental health professionals, therapists, if they detect that you might leave the office and go grab a gun and do something, they have to call and report you. And now doctors must do the same thing. “Doctors and other mental health professionals play an important role in protecting the safety of their patients and the broader community by reporting direct and credible threats of violence to the authorities. <\/p>\n

“But there is public confusion about whether federal law prohibits such reports about threats of violence. The Department of Health and Human Services is issuing a letter,” to doctors clarifying that no federal law prohibits them from reporting on potential dangerous behavior by their patients. The executive action also protects the rights of health care providers to talk to their patients about gun safety. “Doctors and other health care providers also need to be able to ask about firearms in their patients\u00c2\u2019 homes and safe storage of those firearms, especially if their patients show signs of certain mental illnesses or if they have a young child or mentally ill family member at home.”<\/p>\n

So now doctors are being ordered, instructed to talk to patients and get information from them about gun ownership, where they are in their house, who has access to them, where the ammunition is kept. Doctors are now, quote, unquote, “permitted,” unquote, to do this. It makes \u2019em deputies, agents of the state. And if they don\u2019t do it — let\u2019s look at this the other way around. Let\u2019s say patient X goes to a doctor. The patient\u2019s got a sore throat, runny nose. The doctor does not ask the patient anything to do with the patient\u2019s guns. The patient then goes out and uses the guns sometime later and then the regime learns that the doctor didn\u2019t report that this patient indicated that he might be dangerous. <\/p>\n

Look at the position this puts the doctors in. The doctors are now under the thumb of Obamacare. They had better comply. This is not a choice. Can you say hello to rapidly increasing, even higher and faster, malpractice insurance? They\u2019d better comply. They\u2019d better do as they\u2019re told. Now, this release from the White House also says, “Some have incorrectly claimed that language in the Affordable Care Act prohibits doctors from asking their patients about guns and gun safety.”<\/p>\n

But that\u2019s not true. Obamacare does not prevent them. In fact, the executive action today is almost essentially requiring it. “Medical groups also continue to fight against state laws attempting to ban doctors from asking these questions. ‘The Administration will issue guidance clarifying that the Affordable Care Act does not prohibit or otherwise regulate communication between doctors and patients, including about firearms.\u2019<\/p>\n

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“Medical groups also continue to fight against state laws attempting to ban doctors from asking these questions. ‘The Administration will issue guidance clarifying that the Affordable Care Act does not prohibit or otherwise regulate communication between doctors and patients, including about firearms.'”<\/p>\n

Again, folks, this is pushing people\u2019s buttons on purpose. This is gonna cause some people to snap. It might. This is going after the very reasonableness and sanity of people. It seems like the goal here is to get everybody on some kind of list and to have all kinds of people that we interact with end up reporting on what we do or say to hear to the government, to the, quote, unquote, the authorities. The authorities. That\u2019s a totalitarian word, “the authorities.” <\/p>\n

Why is Obama doing this? Why is he deliberately making people so upset? What\u2019s driving him? Don\u2019t ask me where the ACLU is. I mean, anything to get rid of guns, the ACLU\u2019s right there. Leftists are leftists, and that comes first with them. The ACLU as a civil rights organization is a bit of a laugher. They\u2019re just another branch of liberalism.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: We start Oklahoma City. This is Tom. I\u2019m glad you called, sir. Welcome.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, this is quite an honor, Dr. Limbaugh. The last time I made it past your screener, Tony Snow was guest hosting your show.<\/p>\n

RUSH: The late, great Tony Snow.<\/p>\n

CALLER: He was quite a man.<\/p>\n

RUSH: He was a great guy. He really was. Well, I\u2019m glad you got back through when I\u2019m here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (chuckles) Well, as I said, it\u2019s an honor, sir. What I wanted to alert your listeners to is the whole thing of gun violence and doctors screening who\u2019s got guns.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: That started in the military. I retired from the Air Force a year ago. As part of our annual — what did they call it? — “fitness and wellness assessment” that we had to do online, they specifically asked: “Do you own guns? How many? How do you store them?”<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, yeah. In fact, it\u2019s not a new thing. I may not\u2019a communicated this well, and that\u2019s very odd. I think most people probably misunderstood me because I\u2019m a brilliant communicator.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (chuckles) Yes.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: What\u2019s happening here is this. For the longest time doctors have been required to ask parents and kids about this. I remember when this started, doctors were instructed to ask kids to rat out their parents on guns they had. That\u2019s some years ago. Opposition has built up to this. In Florida, they tried to pass a law to stop it. What this is about today is ensuring that it doesn\u2019t stop.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: They\u2019re trying to bring a screeching halt to the effort to stop the instances of doctor-patient relationship where the doctor gains the information and passes it on. That\u2019s why the reference to Obamacare. If you go back and read Obamacare, despite what the president said in his little release today Obamacare does limit the government when it comes to gun in terms of doctors and what they can collect. They\u2019re now trying to reverse that. That\u2019s what this is about today. They\u2019re trying to stop any effort that would change what\u2019s already in place, which is doctors reporting on citizens via patient conferences.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, the military has always been kind of a social experiment for what they can do in a hierarchical structure and then introduce it to the general public. Since I was retiring, it\u2019s kind of a sense of freedom that you finally have, and I told the doctor it was none of her business. (chuckles) That was just what I did, and I could get away with it, but every troop is getting asked these days.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yep, and people are getting upset with it. They never have liked it. This section in Obamacare, it\u2019s too much legalese to read to you. But the summary of it is it does in fact limit what data the authorities can collect from patients, what information the doctors can collect from patients and report to the authorities. That section in Obamacare was put in by the NRA. It was a sop given to the NRA. What the regime is doing today is, A, saying, “No, it\u2019s not really there; Obamacare does not prevent this,” when it does, and, “It doesn\u2019t matter anyway because we\u2019re now gonna require it even more than we already have.” <\/p>\n

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RUSH: On this doctors reporting your gun life to, quote, unquote, “the authorities.” Yeah, it\u2019s been underway for a while. It got started, by the way, with pediatricians asking young children about guns in their houses. Do you remember that now when I bring it up? Remember the outrage over this? I think goes back to the nineties, but it was insidious. It was brown-shirt kind of stuff. It was doctors talking Little Johnny. Little seven- or eight-year-old Johnny doesn\u2019t know what\u2019s going on.<\/p>\n

“Hi, Johnny. Have you ever seen your father, while drinking Jack Daniels, go grab a gun and perhaps clean it or load it?”<\/p>\n

(kid impression) “Yeah, my dad loves his gun. He\u2019s got a gun over there and guns under the bed.”<\/p>\n

The doctor\u2019s writing this all down. “Have you ever seen your dad fire his gun?”<\/p>\n

“Oh, my dad goes out on the back porch and he shoots cans, Doctor! Yeah, he tries to practice shooting.”<\/p>\n

The doctor writes it all down. “Do you ever feel frightened, Little Johnny?”<\/p>\n

“Oh, no! My dad\u2019s teaching me how to use it.”<\/p>\n

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The doctor stops everything, gets on the phone, says, “To heck with writing this down!” and he calls it in.<\/p>\n

So there have been efforts made as a result of this to stop it.<\/p>\n

People don\u2019t like this. They undercut this. The NRA somehow succeeded in getting limits on the things that doctors can ask and report to the authorities in Obamacare. It\u2019s in there. There are limits. But there\u2019s a Washington Post story that was published back on December 30th. Let me read you a bit of an excerpt: “Some public health advocates, worried that the measure will hinder research and medical care, are calling on the White House to amend the language [that I just told you about] as it prepares to launch a gun-control initiative in January.<\/p>\n

That means what happened today. So back on December 30th, the Washington Post runs a story suggesting that “public health advocates” are worried that there is now gonna be limits on what doctors can report. They called on the White House to amend the language in Obamacare to coincide with this new effort on gun control. The Washington Post back on November 30th called what happened today gun control.<\/p>\n

It no longer is “gun control.”<\/p>\n

Now it\u2019s “gun violence.”<\/p>\n

Now it\u2019s “stopping gun violence,” just like “global warming” used to be “global warming,” but now it\u2019s “climate change” because there wasn\u2019t any warming. So they changed it to “climate change” to handle any weird occurrence in the climate and be able to blame it on you. Well, gun control, it\u2019s not working. But gun violence? Nobody\u2019s in favor of gun violence. There\u2019s not a person in the world who wants more of it.<\/p>\n

So here comes the regime with 23 executive actions to reduce gun violence. Yaaay! And you got a bunch of little kids up there who are offered up as insurance policies. “Who could deny the children?” Obama and the Democrats are using them as human shields. By the way, I\u2019m told that MSNBC practically went insane over my categorization of the children today at the White House as “human shields.”<\/p>\n

What did they say? I was tone deaf, insensitive. This is exactly what I was talking about yesterday, just as an example. The people at MSNBC didn\u2019t deal with the substance of what I said at all. All they did was launch into character assassination. So, as far as the people watching that network, I\u2019m tone deaf, insensitive, mean-spirited, heartless, cold, cruel, whatever. I\u2019m despicable, disrespectful to the children.<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, what was happening on this program?<\/p>\n

While they were doing that, what was happening is that I was defending everybody else\u2019s kids against charges made by people on the left today that your kids aren\u2019t as important as Obama\u2019s. It was I speaking up for your kids, while over on MSNBC they\u2019re trying to categorize me as some… This what they do. The bottom line is, we don\u2019t have to worry about this because Obama has done better than what the Washington Post asked back on December 30th.<\/p>\n

The Washington Post on December 30th asked for language in Obamacare to amend it so that doctors would not have these eliminations on what they could ask patients, but Obama went even better. He just said the language doesn\u2019t say what it says, so there\u2019s no problem. I\u2019ve got it right here! The story that came out: “Obama Asks Doctors to Help Deal with Guns.”<\/p>\n

Right here it says, “Doctors and other health care providers also need to be able to ask about firearms in their patients\u00c2\u2019 homes and safe storage of those firearms… Some have incorrectly claimed that language in the Affordable Care Act prohibits doctors from asking their patients about guns and gun safety.” It doesn\u2019t? It does! But Obama just said today it doesn\u2019t say that. Folks, this is the kind of stuff that is…<\/p>\n

Well, it\u2019s what I was talking about in the first hour, asking these questions. He\u2019s pushing people to snap. Obamacare says what it says, but he just said today it doesn\u2019t say that, and he put out a release today to go along with his 23 executive actions. (paraphrased) “Some are worried that the Affordable Care Act limits what doctors can say. It doesn\u2019t.” Well, read it. It does, and they haven\u2019t amended it.<\/p>\n

But, of course, whatever Obama says is the end of the story, and there is no problem.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: This is Matthew in Idaho Falls, Idaho. Nice to have you, sir. Thank you for calling.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush. Great to talk to you. I\u2019m really disappointed to hear about the baby mama show.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, it is. We were all looking forward to it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. Sorry to hear it\u2019s not gonna be on.<\/p>\n

RUSH: We were gonna learn a lot. I think the real thing here is that somebody decided that we really don\u2019t want this seen, because we don\u2019t want any opposition to what\u2019s going on here. I think that\u2019s really what\u2019s behind this. Let me tell you something, more people have signed the petition to deport Piers Morgan than signed the petition to get rid of this show, and Piers Morgan is still here, so it\u2019s not about that. Don\u2019t doubt me.<\/p>\n

CALLER: By the way, did you know, Piers Morgan had Alex Jones on there the other night, and it turned out Alex Jones had the Obama phone lady on his show. He changed her mind about voting for Obama, so maybe you ought to ask him about getting to the low-information voters.<\/p>\n