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RUSH: Here is Marianne, Vista, California. Welcome to the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you so much, Rush. What a pleasure to talk to you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Anyway, this is about my daughter and Obamacare <\/a>for her started in November. Her insurance doubled and she works at the Goodwill of California making $11 an hour, okay? Her husband is a truck driver and he has his own policy through the trucking company, and he pays $97 a week just for his own medical, dental, and prescription. He went to the doctor on Monday with a sinus infectious and was charged $75 for the prescription and $25 for the office visit. My daughter was told two days ago she\u2019s no longer eligible for a yearly Pap smear. It will now be once every three years. So I don\u2019t know where this money is going, $97 a week for him and hers doubling, what\u2019s it going for? I just don\u2019t get it.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Let me see if I can help you understand this. Let me start off by telling you the following: We are, as a nation, $16 trillion in debt, and we as a nation spend over a trillion dollars a year that we don\u2019t have. The largest percentage of the deficit is health care spending. Barack Obama and the Democrats have wanted to gain control of health care and insurance. Democrats, liberals have wanted this for decades because it allows them to totally control all aspects of life. Because they can relate every behavior to health, and they could either deny you coverage, deny you treatment by virtue of the fact you haven\u2019t lived right. It is actually an opportunity to deny people treatment, deny people insurance, deny people coverage while selling it as the exact opposite. It is an opportunity to make a serious dent in some deficit spending. <\/p>\n

But everything you\u2019ve heard in selling Obamacare — well, most everything that you\u2019ve heard in selling Obamacare, has been misleading. It\u2019s not going to be cheaper. It\u2019s not going to be more plentiful. You\u2019re not gonna be able to keep your doctor. Everything is not going to be covered. Every malady that you have will not necessarily be guaranteed to be treated, because there isn\u2019t the money for it. And now in a few years there will be a penalty if you have your own money and can pay for it and decide not to insure yourself or not to get insurance, you\u2019re going to pay a penalty for not doing that and join the whole government control system. <\/p>\n

So health care benefits, Marianne, what\u2019s happening is, your daughter, husband, son-in-law, whatever, benefits are being spread around now. There are limited resources being spread around under the guise of fairness. And what that means is, it\u2019s just like people that live off government now; they\u2019re not prosperous. They get by, but they are not becoming wealthy. And it\u2019s gonna be the same with health care. Your health care is not gonna become more plentiful, just like your income doesn\u2019t, if you depend on government.<\/p>\n

CALLER: True.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Nothing is. It\u2019s not gonna become more plentiful. It\u2019s not gonna become better.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Do you think, Rush, that I should wait for my granny pills in the mail, or what?<\/p>\n

RUSH: They\u2019re not gonna mail it to you. They\u2019re gonna make you drive to pick it up.<\/p>\n

CALLER: My granny pills — (laughing) — okay —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Mail you your granny pill?. You\u2019re talking about when Obama told the woman, just tell your mother to take a pill, it will be cheaper?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly. Yes. And since I\u2019m 70 but not senile and I live in California, maybe I should be really worried about my granny pill.<\/p>\n