Washington Post, a piece by Timothy Stoltzfus Jost<\/a>. Timothy Stoltzfus Jost is an emeritus professor at Washington and Lee University School of Law. Would you like to listen to the first paragraph of Timothy Stoltzfus Jost\u2019s piece?<\/p>\n“The American health care act introduced in the House Energy and Commerce and Ways and Means Committee late Monday was advertised as a bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.” You know, if we keep calling Obamacare the Affordable Care Act — I mean, that\u2019s what it is, but it isn\u2019t that at all. I mean, the roots of confusion on this are planted so deeply that they begin with the way this stupid newfangled thing was named. Anyway, “It was advertised as a bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, but the real focus of the legislation is not on health care reform,” says Mr. Timothy Stoltzfus Jost.<\/p>\n
No, the real focus is not even on repealing Obamacare. “What the Obamacare repeal act would do –” wait for it — dadelut dadelut dadelut dadelut “– massively redistribute wealth from the poorest Americans to the wealthiest. Here we go again. The rich got rich by stealing everything they\u2019ve got from the poor. How does that happen? I\u2019ve never understood the mathematics on this. The rich somehow were as poor as the poor one day, but then they figured out ways to steal what the poor have. (audio drop) So much wealth among the poor for the Republicans to have written a bill that allows the rich to go steal even more money from the poor.<\/p>\n
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And it\u2019s called the repeal Obamacare act, or whatever it is. How does this work? So when you see something like this from Timothy Stoltzfus Jost, you realize the opposition to this is purely ideologically partisan, and this is right out of the Democrat playbook. You oppose everything the Republicans do. It doesn\u2019t matter. Whatever the legislation is, whatever the campaign proposal is, whatever the tax cut proposal is, whatever the infrastructure, you oppose it because the involves the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer and the added bonus is the rich get richer by stealing money from the poor.<\/p>\n
I did not know the poor were that wealthy. I knew they\u2019re better off in this country than they are in many other countries, but I didn\u2019t know that there was enough wealth that the rich have stolen. And there\u2019s still some left, apparently. The poor may not even know how much money they\u2019ve got, but there\u2019s apparently a pool of it out there big enough for the Republicans to write another piece of legislation that allows all of Trump\u2019s cabinet and Trump himself and any other multimillionaire or billionaire to go raid the bank accounts of the poor or their mattresses or wherever they keep the money and take it again. How does this happen? Well, it doesn\u2019t. Obviously I am being facetious.<\/p>\n
So you see something like this, and that\u2019s the best they\u2019ve got to oppose what\u2019s going on here? And it\u2019s the Washington Post. And it\u2019s an op-ed. It ran in the published newspaper, Timothy Stoltzfus Jost, an emeritus professor at Washington and Lee University School of Law. Anyway, we\u2019ll dig deep into this and figure out as best we can what this is about and where it\u2019s going. I\u2019ll tell you what my tendency is — I spent a lot of time on this yesterday — I don\u2019t like it compared to what it could be.<\/p>\n
You know, six different times the Republicans sent a total repeal bill up to Obama. They knew he wasn\u2019t gonna sign it. Six! Why not send that back again? “Well, because it\u2019s more than just repeal now, Mr. Limbaugh. We must replace! The onus is on us since we\u2019re the winners. We must have a plan whereby the poor who can\u2019t afford health care must now find access.” Wait, the poor apparently have enough money for the rich to steal it and get even richer. What do you mean, the poor can\u2019t afford health care?<\/p>\n
Why don\u2019t you pass a law saying, “The poor must now pay for their own health care so that the rich can\u2019t steal it”? I mean, that would be my answer to Timothy Stoltzfus Jost: “If the poor have enough money for the rich to steal and get richer, then pass a law that says the poor\u2019s wealth has to be spent on health care, preempting any grab that the rich might have on the poor\u2019s money. Simple!” Now, I spent a lot of time yesterday talking about the virtues of markets, free markets. I had a couple of analogies, and I\u2019ve always believed that that\u2019s what\u2019s missing from anything that we\u2019re doing in health care is any accommodation and trust of the market.<\/p>\n
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You know, I look at these various ideas: “We match this… Spend $90,000 here, up to $90,000 there… You match… Under $45,000, there\u2019s no…” What is this? It\u2019s just a continuation of the complications that mean average people can\u2019t figure this out. Health care is becoming like a tax return, and I don\u2019t understand it compared to what I know they\u2019ve done in the past. They\u2019ve had six repeal bills. I know. I know. They knew Obama would never sign it, and it got universal votes — a hundred percent, unanimous votes. (Not universal. Unanimous.) Even from the Senate. I know. I know.<\/p>\n
They knew Obama would never sign it, and they were making a political statement. But there doesn\u2019t seem to be any desire to scrap this thing and then gradually let the market sort things out. There just isn\u2019t trust there, and so who are they refusing to trust? Is it consumers? It\u2019s the insurance industry? Is it the actual health care industries that are not trusted here? But obviously there isn\u2019t any, or not very much. That would be my preference. Now, it appears we\u2019re not gonna get that. So when you realize you can\u2019t get exactly or all of what you want, then what do you do next?<\/p>\n
And then all kinds of doors open, not necessarily all of them opportunities. All kinds of options. Then the politics of it gets rolled in and factored in — and, believe me, that\u2019s a biggie. You can hear these guys all talking about the 2008 midterms as they put together the Obamacare Repeal Act. So what\u2019s it really all about or what does it appear to be? Be reelected! “What\u2019s the easiest path to the least amount of controversy or blowback to me as a member of Congress or the Senate, if I vote this way or that way?”<\/p>\n
And I think if you listen to the proponents and the opponents, listen to all of them, we\u2019re still listening to Washington-speak. We\u2019re still listening to the terminology, the sentence structure, the thinking, the logic that goes into everything happening in Washington. Which, many Trump voters thought that swamp was going to be drained and a modicum of common sense, if not more, was going to infuse the system. Now Trump, for his part, is out there demanding people sign onto this thing. He\u2019s out there saying, “This is it. It\u2019s only Phase 1. We\u2019re gonna get rid of the lines in Phase 2 or Phase 3, the state lines.”<\/p>\n
Meaning competition among insurance companies would be allowed to take place all across the country, not just within singular states. But it\u2019s clear that Trump is on board with this thing and wants a win out of this. Hence this email I got last night apparently saying (stammering), “You — you — you — you gotta get to him! You — you gotta stop him! You gotta tell him that he\u2019s flirting with political disaster. You gotta!” I don\u2019t think I\u2019m the only recipient of this thing, by the way. But nevertheless.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: That\u2019s why there is so much revulsion at this Obamacare repeal proposal. We\u2019ve got one shot. Here\u2019s the thing that\u2019s always bothered me about repeal and replace, since I\u2019ve brought up the subject. Remember when repeal and replace was first mentioned as a strategy, there were two phases, and they were unclear, unsure how to proceed.<\/p>\n
One possibility was to repeal and do nothing. Another was to repeal it to fulfill a campaign promise but then don\u2019t propose any replacement for two years. The third option, repeal it, do away with it, but don\u2019t propose a replacement for three years. Well, now, each of those last two options include the 2018 midterms. And if you look at things as they are now, the Democrats are gonna take another bath in November of 2018.<\/p>\n
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The Democrats are not doing anything here on their own to engender support. All they\u2019ve got is to talk people out of Trump. But there\u2019s nothing they can do. The Democrats have tried everything they know. They\u2019re losing seats. They\u2019re losing elections left and right. And they can\u2019t point to anything they\u2019ve done that works better. They can\u2019t point to what they believe elsewhere in the world and show how well it works. They\u2019re lost. So all they\u2019ve got is to bring down Trump. All they\u2019ve got is to destroy Trump or whatever he\u2019s gonna do.<\/p>\n
In the 2018 midterms, the Democrats have something like 10 or more Senate seats up in states that went for Trump in double digits. So if nothing changes — and of course it will because it\u2019s politics — if nothing changes and those midterm elections were today, the Democrats would lose all of those seats and the Republicans would end up with 60 seats in the Senate. Then there would really be no excuses.<\/p>\n
So you throw repeal and replace into this. And when you realize that what the most important thing to anybody that\u2019s been elected to office is being reelected, then you realize here that the impact of the 2018 midterms is a huge influencer on what they do with Obamacare repeal and replace.<\/p>\n
So if they just repeal it but don\u2019t replace it with anything, they\u2019re scared to death that the market will not come through, that somehow the insurance companies will start doing whatever to anger people and that when the 2018 midterms come around, that the Republicans will be blamed and people will just vote against them on principle \u2019cause they\u2019re so mad.<\/p>\n
So they say, “Yeah, we gotta have a replacement. But if we wait two years for the replacement or three, that\u2019s after the midterms. We can\u2019t do that. We gotta do it before the midterms.” Some people want to wait \u2019til after the midterms. Obviously what\u2019s happened here is that heads on the Republican side have gotten together and they have concluded that there better be repeal and replace in one piece of legislation, and now they want it done in April!<\/p>\n
They want to get it done and off the board in enough advance of the 2018 midterms that something else will come along and replace it as a potential key issue in the campaign. This is why I say we\u2019ve got one chance here to get this right. We got one chance to fix a lot of things. Trump\u2019s election represents that one chance. We don\u2019t know how much support on the Republican side there really is for fixing all of this stuff because many of the Republicans are proud members of the establishment. Many of the Republicans are proud recipients of huge donations from big donors, and that determines what elected officials support and don\u2019t support.<\/p>\n
So it\u2019s, as it always is in this, it\u2019s complicated with all kinds of different scenarios and potentialities that outweigh the substance of whatever\u2019s being discussed, in this case getting rid of Obamacare. There\u2019s nobody that thinks Obama — well, other than Democrats, the people we\u2019re talking about, there\u2019s nobody that thinks it should just be allowed to stay as it is. It\u2019s got to go. What do you do then, is where we are, you know, what replaces it. And you know me: free market all the way as much as is possible.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: To the audio sound bites on health care. This is a montage we\u2019ve put together. We have Jim Jordan, Mike Lee, Rand Paul, Mark Sanford, and Louie Gohmert. This is a montage of conservatives not at all happy with the Obamacare repeal and replace bill that Paul Ryan rolled out yesterday.<\/p>\n
JORDAN: The first thing Republicans are bringing forward is a piece of legislation that says we repeal it, but keeps Medicaid expansion and actually expands it, that keeps some of the tax increases. That is not what we promised the American people we were gonna do.<\/p>\n
LEE: This is instead a step in the wrong direction. And as much as anything, it\u2019s a missed opportunity.<\/p>\n
PAUL: We are united on repeal, but we are divided on replacement.<\/p>\n
SANFORD: Do we need to lower the bar in what we believe as conservatives simply because a Republican is now in the White House?<\/p>\n
GOHMERT: I think amidst the horse excrement we can find a pony around here somewhere, and that\u2019s what we\u2019re gonna be looking to have. I think we\u2019ll have a racehorse as long as we get good amendments when we\u2019re done.<\/p>\n
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Representative Louie Gohmert<\/p><\/div>\n
RUSH: Louie Gohmert there from Texas. (laughing) “I think amidst the horse excrement,” the horse manure that is the Ryan bill, “we can find a pony around here somewhere, and that\u2019s what we\u2019re gonna be looking to have. I think we\u2019ll have a racehorse as long as we get good amendments when we\u2019re done.” So when this thing was first presented it was, “Take it or leave it,” right? Trump and the gang said, “Take it or leave it. This is it,” and there was so much opposition to it that the Trump team and Tom Price, they were forced to say, “It\u2019s a work in progress.”<\/p>\n
I saw Karl Rove on Fox today say (paraphrased), “Nah, everybody needs to back off and relax. The legislative process has gotta play out. The House is gonna have their version, the Senate\u2019s gonna have their version, and they\u2019ll have a conference committee. They probably won\u2019t agree the first time whatever they come up with. Then it\u2019s gonna go back to the House, go back to the Senate.” He said, “Don\u2019t worry about it. That\u2019s the legislative process.” Well, that\u2019s true. But that\u2019s what they wanted to avoid.<\/p>\n
Mitch McConnell\u2019s out there saying, “No horse trading on this thing. You pass it in the House and get it to me and it is up to the president in two hours,” or that day, or the next day. I mean, immediately. They want this out of the way. They want this done and over with, and they want it in such a way that they think they\u2019ve put it behind \u2019em, and I think there are people that are telling the president, “This is not the bill to get behind. This is not what you told people was gonna happen.<\/p>\n
“This is not repealing Obamacare — and along with immigration, this is almost as important as why people voted for you.” So now there\u2019s talk of Phase 2 and Phase 3. But again, I\u2019m leery of this Phase 2 and Phase 3 stuff. The only reason is, do you realize once we get to this time next year, the only thing that\u2019s gonna have any effect on anything is the reelection campaign one year from November. Senators have to raise money every day, practically. House members have to spend a lot of time fundraising.<\/p>\n
Once you get into the midst of the reelection cycle, legislative action oftentimes falls by the wayside, \u2019cause people are afraid that the wrong move will harm the incumbent. Incumbents are the safest when nothing happens. Incumbents are at greatest risk when something changes. Now, if it changes for the better, then they\u2019re good and everything\u2019s fine. But there\u2019s Phase 2, Phase 3 up against the 2018 midterms. That\u2019s what worries me about this. If you\u2019re gonna eliminate this limitation on not being able to sell insurance across state lines in Phase 2 or Phase 3, why don\u2019t you put it in Phase 1?<\/p>\n
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RUSH: This is Keith in Detroit. Keith, I\u2019m glad you waited. Welcome to the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yeah, first-time caller, Rush. It\u2019s great to finally get through to you.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Thank you, sir.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yeah. I think I might have a solution to that health care impasse. You know, it took a number of years for them to roll out Obamacare. What if in this same bill they have now they take a period of time to roll back the entitlements?<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, that\u2019s essentially what Trump says they\u2019re gonna do. That\u2019s what Phase 2 and Phase 3 is.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Oh, okay. Well, they are talking about the tax credits like those were gonna be a permanent deal. I think they\u2019re afraid with the work participation rate so low — you know, like 90 million people not working — that it would look really bad if you just all of a sudden cut \u2019em off, you know, with just the repeal and not have something to take its place. But if you did it over a period of, you know, say seven years, you\u2019d rolled back the tax credits —<\/p>\n
RUSH: All right. Okay. Look, I hear all that. I just have to… When we\u2019re gonna start writing legislation that\u2019s structured around 94 million Americans not working, then it\u2019s over. You know, we\u2019re not taking this seriously anyway. We\u2019re writing a welfare bill, if that\u2019s what we\u2019re talking about here.<\/p>\n
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CALLER: Well, the thing is when the Trump economy rolls back, rolls out, gets everything rolling again, I don\u2019t think we\u2019ll have a problem.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, I hope that you would be right about that. But if… (sigh) Look, I know I\u2019m probably in the small room on this one.<\/p>\n
CALLER: ‘Cause if he does those —<\/p>\n
RUSH: No, I understand. Look, the realities of the situation are that there are people that cannot afford this without some kind of subsidy or some kind of tax credit or some kind of, you know, gift from Santa Claus. But doesn\u2019t that tell you that something\u2019s wrong with this? What else in life do those 94 million want? What else are they unable to pay for?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Krauthammer said it last night. “You just can\u2019t take it away.” Well, no, not immediately, but if you roll it back over a period of time and when the economy kicks back in where —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n
CALLER: — people are actually back working —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n
CALLER: — I don\u2019t think there will be any problems with it.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, how many of those 94 million do you expect to end up back at work?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, I would say over half, if they actually get the economy rolling back the way they —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Do you realize there\u2019s a political party that will oppose that as long as it\u2019s breathing?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Oh, I know. That\u2019s… But, you know what? After these midterms, I think we won\u2019t have that problem.<\/p>\n
RUSH: I hope you\u2019re right about.<\/p>\n
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CALLER: After these midterms, we won\u2019t have that problem.<\/p>\n
RUSH: I know, I know. You can\u2019t take it away and survive politically. I know you can\u2019t do that.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Just three more sound bites here. First off, Paul Ryan, he had the press conference on Capitol Hill today to talk about Obamacare, and he was supremely confident. I had a lot of people that saw it tell me that they were conflicted about it, they didn\u2019t know what to think about it, and they saw Ryan, and they said, “Man, it sounds great, this sounds great.” And other people who heard Ryan are just livid and fit to be tied and think Trump\u2019s being sold a bill of goods here.<\/p>\n
Anyway, here\u2019s what Ryan said at the end. They keep peppering him about the legislative processes, when\u2019s this gonna happen, what\u2019s gonna happen. It\u2019s just three seconds here, so listen fastest.<\/p>\n
RYAN: We\u2019ll have 218 when this thing comes to the floor, I can guarantee you that.<\/p>\n
RUSH: “We\u2019ll have 218 when this thing comes to the floor, I can guarantee you that,” which means he\u2019s got no doubt that the House Republicans are gonna make this happen. Now, I don\u2019t know if he means in its current form or after they have, you know, added amendments. They didn\u2019t want to do that. I know they didn\u2019t want to do that. That\u2019s a bit much a bit to expect. But, nevertheless, he\u2019s supremely confident. This is Trump on board with the House Republican plan late yesterday afternoon at the White House.<\/p>\n
THE PRESIDENT: I\u2019m proud to support the replacement plan released by the House of Representatives and encouraged by members of both parties. We\u2019re going to have something that\u2019s going to be much more understood and much more popular than people can even imagine. It follows the guidelines I laid out in my congressional address, a plan that will lower costs, expand choices, increase competition, and ensure health care access for all Americans. This will be a plan where you can choose your doctor. This will be a plan where you can choose your plan. And you know what the plan is. This is the plan. I think we\u2019re gonna have a tremendous success. It\u2019s a complicated process, but actually it\u2019s very simple. It\u2019s called good health care.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Right. It\u2019s gonna be the best health care plan that we\u2019ve ever had. It\u2019s the most magnificent, the greatest health care plan anybody\u2019s ever dreamed of, and Trump\u2019s gonna deliver it. And it\u2019s gonna let you choose your plan, it\u2019s gonna let you choose your doctor. It\u2019s gonna be a tremendous success. So he sounds all-in on this. And he wasn\u2019t through. I mean, he continued to praise this thing.<\/p>\n
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THE PRESIDENT: And as you know, after that we work on the tax cut. We\u2019re gonna be planning a major tax cut. I know exactly what we\u2019re looking at. Most of us know exactly the plan. It\u2019s going to put our country in great shape, and we\u2019re gonna reduce taxes for companies and for people — and I can use the word again — “massively.” It\u2019s gonna be a big tax cut, the biggest since Reagan, maybe bigger than Reagan.<\/p>\n
RUSH: It\u2019s gonna be the biggest tax cut we\u2019ve ever had, bigger and better than anybody\u2019s tax cut has ever been, and he\u2019s assuring it\u2019s gonna happen. Do you know something, folks? Do you know that the last three years\u2019 tax collections in this country have set a record? Do you know that even while that was happening, the national debt was exploding, as it always did under Obama? Do you know that even while tax collections, actual revenue that was being collected was at record numbers, the deficit was continuing to grow? It was so out of balance.<\/p>\n
At some point I found myself asking, why do they even bother to collect taxes? Because what they\u2019re spending isn\u2019t based on any income or revenue at all. The whole budgetary process has just been bastardized these last eight years. Just spend whatever you want, stimulus here, stimulus there, doesn\u2019t matter, Obamacare over here, Obamacare over there, just spend it.<\/p>\n
Now, you would think that responsible budgeting, the two would be as close to balanced as you can get, that there would be some relationship to income versus what you spend. And the federal government, when liberals get control of it, it doesn\u2019t matter. They might as well cancel the income tax, as far as I\u2019m concerned, because the amount of money they spend is not even related to how much they\u2019ve collected. And it is a mountainous amount of money.<\/p>\n
By that, I mean, we are so overtaxed, it is hard to express how. It doesn\u2019t look like it because we have this deficit and because we have this massive national debt, so they can convince you you\u2019re not paying enough taxes, because look at how much we\u2019re short in what we have to spend every year, and that\u2019s where it breaks down. They\u2019re spending money they don\u2019t have to spend. They\u2019re spending money they want to spend to buy votes, to secure their power, and even with record tax revenues, which means the American people are overtaxed, and American corporations are overtaxed, the budget still blew out sky-high the deficit and the national debt. It is astounding how little correlation there is between the two.<\/p>\n
You would think with record tax revenue the deficit would start to come down. You would think with record tax revenue the national debt maybe would slow down its rate of growth. But neither of the two happened. There hasn\u2019t been any fiscal responsibility whatsoever. And because of that, what I just told you is gonna be turned around and used to argue against Trump tax cuts. You\u2019re gonna have people on the Democrat side say, “We can\u2019t tax people less. We\u2019re collecting tax revenue now and it\u2019s still not enough. Look at the deficit, and look at the national debt.” They\u2019ll never admit that it\u2019s the spending side that\u2019s causing the problem.<\/p>\n
But we\u2019re so overtaxed is out of the blue. And I remember Trump said that we can\u2019t move on tax reform until we get Obamacare done, because until we know what we\u2019re doing there, until we know what the tax, the revenue requirements and so forth are, then we can\u2019t put together our tax plan. And that, my friends, might be one of the reasons that they\u2019re moving so fast here on Obamacare. Could be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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<\/a>There is some genuine opposition percolating out there to this. And then you come here to the Washington Post, you read one thing, “Yeah, yeah, that makes sense, I like that.” Then you read something else and it makes you change your mind to what you just read. Then you listen to Paul Ryan and you don\u2019t know what to think, and you change your mind again. Then you listen to Jim Jordan, “Right on, Dude.” Then you listen to Louie Gohmert, “Yes, that\u2019s it.” And then you see something else, “I don\u2019t know.”<\/p>\n