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RUSH: We want to welcome back to the EIB Network our insurance expert, the roving, never know exactly where she is someplace in Georgia Stacy.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hi, Rush. How are you?<\/p>\n
RUSH: I\u2019m doing great. How are you?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Oh, it\u2019s good to have a Friday off.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yeah, but I\u2019m desperately looking for a way out. The thing that killed the CLASS Act is the same thing that\u2019s gonna kill off the rest of us. If the Supreme Court only shuts down the individual mandate —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n
CALLER: — and declares it severable, the exact same reason that the CLASS Act won\u2019t work is why private insurance won\u2019t work. And that\u2019s a little spooky, I mean to depend on a 5-4 decision with that one judge, Kennedy —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Anthony Kennedy, yeah.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yeah, being the arbiter of the rest of my life kind of makes me want to pull my hair out. And before we get started, I did want to ask you how your house training is going, because I\u2019ve been house training a puppy, too, and that\u2019s been one of the more challenging events of my life.<\/p>\n
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CALLER: Oh, yeah.<\/p>\n
RUSH: And the reason why you catch \u2019em at every instance is because they have to be told, somehow informed immediately it\u2019s a no-no.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Are you using a crate?<\/p>\n
RUSH: No.<\/p>\n
CALLER: No? Oh, the crate was invaluable for me.<\/p>\n
RUSH: You mean to put \u2019em in?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n
RUSH: No, we have an area of the kitchen caged off. It\u2019s the same thing. I guess it\u2019s a larger crate, but yeah.<\/p>\n
CALLER: But is it a small section? Because puppies at that age are gonna have a natural aversion to soiling their sleeping area, and the logic behind it is when you can\u2019t have your eye on \u2019em every second you keep \u2019em in it.<\/p>\n
RUSH: That\u2019s exactly what\u2019s happening.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n
RUSH: But, for example — I\u2019m sure people really want to hear this — the other night I let the little puppy out, little puppy did its business, I said, “Okay, I\u2019m good for at least an hour here,” so rather than leave the thing in the cage in the kitchen I took it with me to the library. Within five minutes it goes up on the sofa and tinkle, tinkle, tinkle. <\/p>\n
CALLER: (laughing)<\/p>\n
RUSH: I looked down, “You little son of a… how do you have any left?”<\/p>\n
CALLER: I wonder if the congresswoman will, you know, add diapers for puppies on to her diaper list? <\/p>\n
RUSH: We had to put Wellesley in diapers when she was in heat.<\/p>\n
CALLER: I\u2019m getting ready to go through that. I\u2019m not looking forward to that at all.<\/p>\n
RUSH: We got Wellesley back from the vet today, she\u2019s being spade. Nah, this one\u2019s taking a little bit more time than the other two did.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, okay, off the fun stuff. I was telling Mr. Snerdley, you know, Darrell Issa sent a question to DHHS a while back asking if they had actually procured the database that was discussed way early on in this whole fiasco that would take every American\u2019s claim information and ship it off to DC?<\/p>\n
RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Remember that?<\/p>\n
RUSH: Part of their health records, too, right?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Right. Right. Electronic health records and all their claims experience was gonna go to DC, and supposedly be used for comparative effectiveness research.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n
CALLER: That was the claim.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Right. Yeah.<\/p>\n
CALLER: And Mr. Issa sent a request out asking, you know, did you do this, if so, who got it? And apparently DHS hasn\u2019t answered him, last I heard. So since I had today off of work and it\u2019s been bugging me because in my company, we\u2019ve been circulating three scenarios for what we\u2019ll have to do to meet that requirement. And until we get final word from Washington, we\u2019re just kind of treading water waiting to see. And Washington has a really bad habit of telling us to pull rabbits out of our butts. So we try to get a jump on them any chance we can. We\u2019re still waiting to hear, is this happening, how is this happening, all this good stuff. Well, today, since I\u2019m off work, I decided to go online and look it up. I don\u2019t know how it is that little old me, nobody here in Georgia can find this, but the whole Republican caucus in Congress can\u2019t find it? A $16.5 million contract was awarded to a company called Ingenix. Now, I don\u2019t know anything about them, I\u2019ve never heard of them. But they got that award prior to February of 2011 —<\/p>\n
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CALLER: To build the database. To build the database, the database and the infrastructure that would take massive amounts of data. Every time you go to the doctor, you go to the pharmacist, you go to the hospital, every time you have an x-ray, every time you get your cholesterol checked, all of that information for every —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n
CALLER: — single human being has to go.<\/p>\n
RUSH: What are you surprised at?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, I\u2019m surprised that Congress doesn\u2019t know this. And I can find it, I mean granted it wasn\u2019t easy to find.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, how do you know they don\u2019t know it?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, if he knew, why is he sending DHS a question about it? Why isn\u2019t he saying, “Who\u2019s Ingenix, how did they get this? Because I\u2019m here to tell you this much.”<\/p>\n
RUSH: I have no idea, but I\u2019ll just tell you this. I have a series of doubts, maybe questions about just how opposed to health care are some Republicans really.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Oh.<\/p>\n
RUSH: I\u2019m not saying this about Issa, don\u2019t misunderstand, but if I did a Google search I could find it. There are plenty of Republicans who have said, “I don\u2019t want to repeal the whole thing. There are certain elements of this thing that our voters might like.”<\/p>\n
CALLER: Rush, you remember when I called you with the hangover the day after the 2012 election? I took the day off work.<\/p>\n
RUSH: I\u2019m trying to think. You\u2019re hung over most times. I\u2019m trying to remember the time you weren\u2019t.<\/p>\n
CALLER: (laughing) Hey, now, most times I\u2019m on my lunch break. Be nice.<\/p>\n
RUSH: All right.<\/p>\n
CALLER: No, I called you and told you that I was really happy but I was scared to death that they\u2019re gonna get up there and then they\u2019re not going to be serious about it, that they weren\u2019t gonna do what needs to be done. Right now my company is programming triggers into our computer system. Basically, we\u2019re having to create a system beside a system — it would be like running the Mac OS versus Windows 2007 on a mainframe scale, that takes a massive amount of work. And right now we don\u2019t know if it\u2019s for nothing, we don\u2019t know if they\u2019re gonna flip the switch. I mean it\u2019s just insanity.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, I know, but, Stacy, you\u2019re not alone here. Every business out there doesn\u2019t know what they face.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, I know, but you know, the mom-and-pop shop on the corner store who\u2019s getting robbed by Superman, they\u2019re not gonna be shut down by the federal government if they can\u2019t go live with this on the date that we\u2019re —<\/p>\n
RUSH: They\u2019ll be shut down for different reasons. They\u2019ll shut themselves down because they won\u2019t be able to afford to stay in business.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Very true. Very true. <\/p>\n
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The thing that\u2019s frustrating to me is we\u2019ve got the greatest opportunity that we\u2019ve ever had to contrast who we are with this bunch. This CLASS Act not being able to be implemented because they can\u2019t afford it is a great illustration of how the whole thing should have been handled. If you can\u2019t prove to the federal government that you\u2019ve got the funding for this then you can\u2019t implement it. It was the law that stopped \u2019em here. It was not anything else. It was the law as written by Judd Gregg in one instance with the CLASS Act. You can make us wish that similar laws had been attached to other parts of the health care bill. But you\u2019re in the insurance business, people who are not in the insurance business essentially — Rick Wagoner, shortly after he became CEO at General Motors, (paraphrasing) “I did not know that the number one responsibility I had was administering a health care program. I\u2019m supposed to be making cars.” <\/p>\n
Well, everybody is looking at the same thing. They\u2019re not in the health care business like you are, but they\u2019re gonna be impacted by it one way or the other and to whatever degree and they don\u2019t know because there\u2019s not a clear side to choose here if you are a business. Look at the way Obama\u2019s co-opting all these people. The standard operating procedure is to think that big business equals Republicans. Big business doesn\u2019t equal anything other than who\u2019s in power. Like these people on Wall Street. Goldman Sachs and all these Wall Street firms are in bed with Obama! They\u2019ve been bailed out by Obama! They\u2019re gonna be bailed out again by Obama if they need to be. Big business lives with two things: either fear of what opposing the government will do to \u2019em or the riches they can get by being in bed with government. Those are the two options. And the Republicans, where are they in that equation? We don\u2019t know. Ergo, there\u2019s all kinds of anxiety, angst, and confusion. Stacy, as always, great to hear from you, hung over or not. <\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: By the way, wait \u2019til the unions hear about this. “Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the nation\u2019s largest private employer, is scaling back health care coverage for future part-time workers while raising premiums for many of its full-time workers, particularly tobacco users. The discounter, which employs more than 1.4 million workers, said that rising health care costs are forcing it to eliminate health care coverage for future part-time workers who work less than 24 hours a week. Many workers will also see their premiums rise, and the company will be reducing by half the amount it contributes for health care expenses that are not covered under their plan. Tobacco users will particularly be hit hard, seeing premiums increase by about 40 percent, the company said. Greg Rossiter, a Wal-Mart spokesman, said that the decision was not in response to the new health care law but rather to the harsh realities of escalating health care costs,” which are only going to get worse as the regime\u2019s health care plan is implemented. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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