{"id":18706,"date":"2011-04-06T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T00:21:27","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-07-20T00:21:27","modified_gmt":"2011-07-20T00:21:27","slug":"the_only_government_action_that_will_kill_americans_is_obamacare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2011\/04\/06\/the_only_government_action_that_will_kill_americans_is_obamacare\/","title":{"rendered":"The Only Government Action That Will Kill Americans is Obamacare"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p>RUSH: We\u2019ve been going back to the archives. If you\u2019re just joining us, we have been going back to the archives of previous programs as far back as 16 years ago to demonstrate the Democrat reaction to the new Republican budget that Paul Ryan presented yesterday. It\u2019s nothing new. They always claim that people are gonna die, old people, kids, whatever, Republican budgets kill people when in <img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125108.Par.89380.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright\"\/>fact if anybody\u2019s gonna die because of government action in this country, it\u2019s gonna be because of Obamacare and death panels. Now, I want to take you back to June 24th, 2009, ABC had a primetime special, questions for the president, Prescription for America. <\/p>\n<p>A member of the audience, Jane Sturm, had a question. She said, &#8220;My mother is now over 105. But at 100, the doctors said to her, &#8216;I can\u2019t do anything more unless you have a pacemaker.\u2019 I said, &#8216;Go for it.\u2019 She said, &#8216;Go for it.\u2019 But the specialist said, &#8216;No, she\u2019s too old.\u2019 But when the other specialist saw her and saw her joy of life, he said, &#8216;I\u2019m going for it.\u2019 That was over five years ago. &#8230; Outside the medical criteria for prolonging life for somebody who is elderly, is there any &#8211;&#8221; keep in mind what we\u2019ve got here. We have an American citizen asking the president of the United States, &#8220;&#8211; is there any consideration that can be given for a certain spirit, a certain joy of living, a quality of life, or is it just a medical cutoff at a certain age?&#8221; She is asking Obama essentially whether or not under his plan, her mother would be allowed to live, would be allowed to get a pacemaker, because the government is going to have the power to decide whether or not her mother got one. Here\u2019s what Obama said.<\/p>\n<p>OBAMA: I don\u2019t think that we can make judgments based on people\u2019s spirit. That would be a pretty subjective decision to be making. I think we have to have rules that say that we are going to provide good, quality care for all people. End-of-life care is one of the most difficult sets of decisions that we\u2019re going to have to make. But understand that those decisions are already being made in one way or another. If they\u2019re not being made under Medicare and Medicaid, they\u2019re being made by private insurers. At least we can let doctors know and your mom know that, you know what, maybe this isn\u2019t going to help. Maybe you\u2019re better off not having the surgery but taking the painkiller.<\/p>\n<paragraph\/><paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\"><\/p>\n<paragraph\/><paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">RUSH: There\u2019s Obama telling the woman basically, &#8220;Your mother, nah, her spirit, will to live, no, we can\u2019t factor that in. Give her a pain pill.&#8221; Her mother dies because of Obama and his health care plan. <\/p>\n<p>(playing of Obama spoof song) <\/p>\n<p>RUSH: If anybody dies because of government action in this country, it will not be because of Republican budgets. It will be because of Barack Obamacare, the health care law that is now the unconstitutional health law of the land.<\/p>\n<p>END TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>*Note: Links to content outside RushLimbaugh.com usually become inactive over time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: We\u2019ve been going back to the archives. If you\u2019re just joining us, we have been going back to the archives of previous programs as far back as 16 years ago to demonstrate the Democrat reaction to the new Republican budget that Paul Ryan presented yesterday. It\u2019s nothing new. 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