I have so much respect for the vice president, but after just listening to your interview with him<\/a>, you know, he basically just told us all that they\u2019re not gonna repeal Obamacare with phase 1. They\u2019re gonna do some changes to it and make it better, but they\u2019re not gonna repeal it. And my problem with all this is, to me, this is just a bad bill from the get-go.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/tothePhonesWeGo-1-29-B.jpg\")
I mean, phase 2, even if Tom Price makes some changes, what\u2019s gonna keep the next HHS secretary who\u2019s a Democrat from just going in and changing it back and having that same fight again. Phase 3 is a pipe dream. You tell me the Democrat that\u2019s gonna vote for any one thing that they\u2019re talking about in phase 3, much less all of them.<\/p>\n
And the vice president just got through saying, “Well, the president\u2019s gonna get this done in the spring.” Well, hell, it\u2019s March 22nd. Why are we waiting doing something now and doing something in three or four weeks from now? To me it\u2019s just the same old last seven years of the Republicans where it\u2019s always the Democrats that keep from us doing what you wanted. And I will say this, Rush. I have respect for the Democrats, because if they were in charge they\u2019d get their stuff done. They passed everything they wanted through reconciliation. They didn\u2019t wait around for this or that. So to me it\u2019s just the same old stuff from the Republicans.<\/p>\n
RUSH: I hear you. You know, Rand Paul is out there saying that he thinks the bill\u2019s gonna be pulled. Now, he said this yesterday, and this thing is changing so fast that he may have changed his mind, but he says once they realize this thing can\u2019t pass, that they\u2019re gonna pull it, and then when they pull it they\u2019re gonna go back and redo it, and that\u2019s when Rand Paul says do it right.<\/p>\n
Look, I agree with you to this extent, that you gotta get government out of health care. That\u2019s what people don\u2019t want, the government involved in health care. Just repeal this. And Tom Cotton, the Senator from Arkansas, said it like you did just now, it\u2019s a pipe dream to think there\u2019s gonna be a phase 2 and phase 3. But look, I can\u2019t argue with you about the Republicans and their methodology and in many cases their motivation.<\/p>\n
Like you point out, the Democrats — remember, we didn\u2019t have the votes to stop them no matter what they did, although they might not have been able to get 60 votes in the Senate, so you\u2019re right, they did reconciliation for everything, so we allow ourselves to be handcuffed by saying, “Well, we can only use reconciliation to get rid of some of it,” and your point is, “We run the show, we won. Let\u2019s just nuke the thing. What\u2019s the big deal?”<\/p>\n
I know a lot of people agree with you. But I think what\u2019s driving this is the belief on the Republican side that the American people want something done with Obamacare, and they want it done now. And so this is doing something about Obamacare. And a lot of people are gonna claim victory after this, Robert.<\/p>\n
CALLER: But, Rush, phase 1 doesn\u2019t do anything to lower the cost of health care, I mean, not specifically, because it does not address preexisting conditions. I mean, isn\u2019t that what\u2019s driving health care so high? I mean, hell, wouldn\u2019t it be great if my house caught on fire and I called somebody and said I need some homeowners?<\/p>\n
RUSH: Let me tell you something. You might not want to hear it. I don\u2019t care if they nuked Obamacare, if they took every weapon they\u2019ve got and blew it up, preexisting conditions is the cockroach that survives every attempt to destroy it. There is not a single person that\u2019s gonna vote against preexisting conditions be covered, dealt with, or what have you.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s almost like the Holy Grail. It\u2019s almost like the third rail. It\u2019s almost become like Social Security in that regard. That\u2019s my point, okay, if that\u2019s the objective — we got two objectives, right? Insure the uninsured and take care of people who are already sick who can\u2019t afford it. Do that! Just do those two things. You\u2019re dealing with maybe 20 million people. You could do it for far less than what this costs. And then go fix the health business and the health insurance business, using markets and the private sector to do it for the most part.<\/p>\n
I have always thought all of this was a big leap. And we know why the Democrats do it. You know, every time I mention this, it ends up being misquoted. You take a look at any totalitarian Regime in the modern era — and by modern, I\u2019m talking about Mao, the Nazis, the National Socialist Party, even look at Cuba. The first thing that national socialists do is establish a nationwide health care plan. Why? It\u2019s easily sellable because everybody gets sick. So you make grandiose promises about treating everybody who gets sick and covering every catastrophe as only the government has the money to do, yada yada yada yada.<\/p>\n
But the reason they the want is because that one area, health care, including health insurance, is the single biggest one thing you can do to exercise the most control over your population. If you link people\u2019s access to doctors, nurses, and medicine, to them behaving the way you want them to, they will behave the way you want them to. If you tell them that they can only have a doctor, nurse, hospitalization if they eat certain things or if they drive a certain thing, whatever you want them to do, you own them. And that\u2019s why totalitarians and tyrants all make a big deal out of health care, even Cuba.<\/p>\n
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It\u2019s a joke that there\u2019s health care in Cuba, but look at how well the propaganda\u2019s worked. “It\u2019s the best health care in the world.” It\u2019s absurd. Michael Moore makes a stupid movie about it. The second sweeping thing that governments can do to end up controlling their populations and insuring perpetual power is something like climate change.<\/p>\n
Climate change, as an issue, contains pretty much everything leftists salivate over, in terms of controlling people, making people responsible for disasters and calamities, offering them chance to repent, offering them salvation, and then exempting them from the blame that you have foisted on them, and then guaranteeing them clean water and clean air.<\/p>\n
Obamacare, national health care, and climate. This is why I am so radically opposed to all of them is because those two things together get a totalitarian 90% of the way where he wants to end up being. Climate change contains so much of liberalism, so much of the socialist dream, it\u2019s got everything. It\u2019s got human behavior. It\u2019s got blame. It\u2019s got salvation. It\u2019s got people whose lives don\u2019t mean anything. You can tell \u2019em they\u2019re saving the planet.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s got tax increases, it grows government, people willingly support growing government in order to make sure everybody gets to go to the hospital and the doctor and that the climate\u2019s not destroying the planet! And they\u2019ll sign up for that as fast as you can give \u2019em the forms. And that\u2019s why, folks, I am probably gotten to the point of irritating you on some days talking about climate change so much, because of how dastardly it is. And the same thing with national socialized health care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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