{"id":15266,"date":"2012-06-28T16:43:08","date_gmt":"2012-06-28T16:43:08","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-06-28T16:43:08","modified_gmt":"2012-06-28T16:43:08","slug":"freedom_of_choice_meets_its_death_panel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/06\/28\/freedom_of_choice_meets_its_death_panel\/","title":{"rendered":"Freedom of Choice Meets Its Death Panel"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: President Kardashian is on television as we speak. I decided not to JIP President Kardashian. I figure you\u2019re angry and depressed enough as it is. He\u2019s basically rehashing all of the lies he told about what health care is: how it\u2019s not gonna cost you any more, how you get to keep your doctor, how all these people are gonna end up being insured that weren\u2019t insured. About that, you know, people are still digging through this thing. The ruling is close to 200 pages. The law itself is 2,700 pages. Yes, he\u2019s spiking the football. Of course he was gonna spike the football. We were the only ones who weren\u2019t gonna spike the football. Of course he\u2019s spiking the football. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m really concerned here, the amount of power this guy is now going to think that he\u2019s got. And it\u2019s payback time now, by the way. Ask Arizona about that<\/a>. This is payback time. But they\u2019re gonna have to readjust their campaign strategery, \u2019cause I know Obama was gonna run against, you know, four white guys and an Uncle Tom. He can\u2019t run against the Supreme Court now. He\u2019s really had a big campaign issue taken away from him in one sense, and we\u2019ve had one-handed to us. This whole thing has now become purely political. With the court ruling that this is a tax and it turns out to be the largest tax increase in world history<\/a> and a tax that we were deceived about, it becomes a purely political issue. It\u2019s made to order for the campaign, made to order. <\/line><\/p>\n

Obama\u2019s got nothing to defend. He can go out there and defend this bill all day long, but the number of people who don\u2019t want any part of it just multiplied. He\u2019s gotta go out and defend and brag about a law that nobody wants, or a vast majority of the American people don\u2019t want. He has to go out and try to defend an economic plan that\u2019s resulted in destruction of the American private sector. You try to look for positives wherever you can, folks, and along those lines, there is a, to me, still somewhat confusing aspect of a ruling here on Medicaid and the states. There\u2019s this little excerpt here from the majority opinion. <\/p>\n

“Nothing in our opinion precludes Congress from offering funds under the (Affordable Care Act) to expand the availability of health care, and requiring that states accepting such funds comply with the conditions on their use. What Congress is not free to do is to penalize States that choose not to participate in that new program by taking away their existing Medicaid funding.”<\/p>\n

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So the Supreme Court apparently has decided that the government, in this case the Department of Health and Human Services cannot penalize states who choose not to participate in the new Medicaid expansion. Again, “Nothing in our opinion precludes Congress from offering funds under the (Affordable Care Act) to expand the availability of health care, and requiring that states accepting such funds comply with the conditions on their use. What Congress is not free to do is to penalize States that choose not to participate in that new program by taking away their existing Medicaid funding.”<\/p>\n

So they can\u2019t do a health care version on Arizona, like they did on immigration in Arizona to the rest of the states. But remember who we\u2019re talking about here. We\u2019re talking about the Democrat Party and President Obama who picks and chooses which parts of the law that he seeks to ignore and accept. <\/p>\n

Mitt Romney spoke just before noon about this. We have three sound bites. Here is the first of the three…<\/p>\n