{"id":19054,"date":"2011-05-25T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T00:18:55","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-07-20T00:18:55","modified_gmt":"2011-07-20T00:18:55","slug":"the_truth_about_medicare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2011\/05\/25\/the_truth_about_medicare\/","title":{"rendered":"The Truth About Medicare"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p>RUSH: I don\u2019t like the idea of letting Medicare collapse. I think it\u2019s already happening. The idea that Medicare is solvent is a joke anyway. Medicare is already busted. Doctors are walking away from it, doctors are leaving it. The whole Medicare-Medicaid system is a joke now. It\u2019s not solvent. It is not healthy. But to sit here and say, okay, let\u2019s just do an Atlas Shrugged on it, if you mean it in the same way, let\u2019s let the Democrats win the election, let\u2019s let the American people find out how bad it is with Democrats. I\u2019m sorry, they\u2019re finding out. But no, we\u2019ve rallied around this fix. You can\u2019t just abandon it after doing that. You just can\u2019t. You got no credibility whatsoever if you don\u2019t. I know you want to say, okay, senior citizens, fine, you\u2019re on your own. I understand that.<\/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: I don\u2019t like the idea of letting Medicare collapse. I think it\u2019s already happening. The idea that Medicare is solvent is a joke anyway. Medicare is already busted. Doctors are walking away from it, doctors are leaving it. The whole Medicare-Medicaid system is a joke now. It\u2019s not solvent. It is not healthy. 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