This from TheHill.com<\/a>: “The Tea Party Express has decided to back the GOP bill to repeal and replace Obamacare hours before a pivotal vote in the House. ‘Admittedly, this is far from a perfect repeal, and no conservative would propose this if it weren\u2019t for the reality of the obstructionist Democrats in the Senate,\u2019 Tea Party Express co-founder Sal Russo wrote in a Medium post explaining the decision. The former staffer to President Ronald Reagan went on to paraphrase the conservative president\u2019s approach to negotiations with Democrats: If they offer you half a loaf, what do you do? You take half a loaf and then you come back for more.”<\/p>\nThat is apparently the thinking here. Not just from the Tea Party, but I\u2019m talking about the Trump White House and everybody involved in trying to get this done. The thing like for the Freedom Caucus guys, the conservative caucus in the House that\u2019s dead sent against this and supposedly they\u2019re 20 to 25, maybe 27 votes opposing it, the way they\u2019re being sold, the way they\u2019re being pitched is, “Hey, look, guys, this is just the first vote, and it\u2019s not by any stretch the bill that\u2019s gonna end up anywhere. This gets the ball rolling. If we don\u2019t get the ball rolling, we\u2019re not gonna get anything. If we don\u2019t get the ball rolling on this, we\u2019re gonna get nothing.”<\/p>\n
They are countering by saying, “Yeah, but if you don\u2019t have a bunch of conservative things that form a foundation in this, then they\u2019re never gonna get in there.” And, traditionally, they\u2019re right about that. The Congress is not a conservative institution. So these guys are holding out for getting as much of a conservative foundation on which to build in the bill.<\/p>\n
The Tea Party Express coming along, these are the people that there wasn\u2019t a specific Tea Party leader, there wasn\u2019t a specific Tea Party, but the Tea Party, keep in mind, sprung to life because of Obamacare and Obama\u2019s just runaway spending which scared the heck out of them for the future of their kids and their grandkids, running up this debt so rapidly that it was obscene. So they have come around here, said, “We will continue to support the efforts of conservatives to improve the bill and to advance the plan to repeal and replace Obamacare. But regardless of the outcome of specific amendments, we must all keep Reagan\u2019s advice in mind and plan on going back for more.”<\/p>\n
Now, I know, a lot of you are gonna say that\u2019s a cop-out because we\u2019re never gonna go back for more. And you\u2019re remembering Senator Cotton from Arkansas, there isn\u2019t gonna be phase 2, there isn\u2019t gonna be phase 3. Well, the people who are really pushing this believe there will be. It is their absolute intention for there to be. Vice President Pence I know desperately wants this fixed and gotten rid of. Getting rid of the restriction on insurance companies not being able to sell nationally, that would be a huge thing.<\/p>\n
And of course this gets in the weeds here, but what can you pass with budget reconciliation and what can you not, legally? And this involves the Senate parliamentarian ruling on what you can and can\u2019t do under reconciliation. And reconciliation is short for budget reconciliation, and because the budget has to be passed, it is exempt from the 60-vote rule in the Senate. So you try to get as much as you can, much of Obamacare was passed through reconciliation because they were never gonna get 60 votes for it, even on the Democrat side.<\/p>\n
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So what was used for reconciliation to pass it is going to be used in this bill to get rid of it. But that\u2019s still gonna leave a lot of things that are untouched, and that\u2019s where the secretary of Health and Human Services, Tom Price, comes into the picture and starts just eliminating things that were added by Kathleen Sebelius and others during the Obama administration. And that\u2019s as best as I understand it, that is a first step.<\/p>\n
Nobody\u2019s trying to sell it as perfect. Nobody\u2019s trying to sell it as thoroughbred conservative. Nobody\u2019s trying to sell it as we repeal and replace Obamacare with this bill, because it doesn\u2019t happen. It still has to go to the Senate where it may well die. The Democrats, as you know, never get mentioned in this. They are never reported on. They\u2019re never discussed. They are never considered factors in any of this, and the reason for that is that the media and everybody else wants this to crumble and they want it to fall apart and they want all of that to be on the Republicans.<\/p>\n
They would love for Trump and Ryan to take control of this and have it bomb out just like Obamacare did, but when that happens it\u2019s no longer Obamacare; it\u2019s either Ryancare or Trumpcare. There\u2019s also that aspect of it too, that the Democrats don\u2019t want it to succeed. Now we\u2019re back to the substance has nothing to do with it, it\u2019s just the horse race.<\/p>\n
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RUSH:\u00a0 No, no.\u00a0 I understand.\u00a0 There are a lot of people who think, “Hey, we won the election.\u00a0 Trump won the election.\u00a0 The conservatives won.\u00a0 Why don\u2019t we just come up with the perfect repeal and replace bill?\u00a0 We run the show.\u00a0 We run the town.\u00a0 Why don\u2019t we just come up with that and send it up there and make them vote against it?”<\/p>\n
Well, ladies and gentlemen, the conservatives do not run Capitol Hill.\u00a0 Can I be blunt here about something?\u00a0 How many members of the House of Representatives do the Republicans have, what\u2019s the number?\u00a0 What\u2019s the number, 200, 230? I don\u2019t need the exact number, but it\u2019s over 200, right?\u00a0 How many in the Freedom Caucus, how many admitted conservatives?<\/p>\n
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Thirty that are in this group, 30, 35.\u00a0 You would think that if this were conservative it would be all of them in the Freedom Caucus. I know we gotta have some RINOs in there, some moderates, but not even half of the place has people who will join a conservative caucus.\u00a0 I mean, the numbers are the numbers.\u00a0 That\u2019s why I said, “Look, all that\u2019s happened here is we won an election in November.”<\/p>\n
Jim in Oelwein, Iowa.\u00a0 Great to have you on the EIB Network.\u00a0 Hello.<\/p>\n
CALLER:\u00a0 Hey, Rush.<\/p>\n
RUSH:\u00a0 Hey.<\/p>\n
CALLER:\u00a0 Longtime listener.\u00a0 My wife, Dawn, has been a longer time listener than me, but I listen along with her, too, so —<\/p>\n
RUSH:\u00a0 I appreciate it.\u00a0 Thank you very much.<\/p>\n
CALLER:\u00a0 I\u2019m just kind of wondering, I\u2019m one of the frustrated multitude when it comes to this whole health care thing.\u00a0 Why can it not just go back to normal competition like everything else?\u00a0 Just a quick history.\u00a0 I worked for a company for over 28 years, had a group health insurance, retired in about 2010, and I was paying about $700 out of my checks toward health care.\u00a0 When I left, they offered me COBRA, which is their replacement, saying, oh, you can be on your own health care but just have to pay for it —<\/p>\n
RUSH:\u00a0 Right.<\/p>\n
CALLER:\u00a0 — for $1,400, so —<\/p>\n
RUSH:\u00a0 I had to do that, too.\u00a0 I had to do COBRA.\u00a0 Yeah.\u00a0 When I moved to New York, I had to do COBRA.<\/p>\n
CALLER:\u00a0 But mine was ridiculously twice as much as I was paying before, so I said, “This is stupid.”\u00a0 So I shopped online and made some phone calls, got insurance for a family of five, very basic but, you know, good covered plan for about $380 a month.\u00a0 Later that year my wife and I tried to get together a business, she used to be in the business of processing health insurance care claims so said, “Let\u2019s get into that.”<\/p>\n
So we formed a company, started visiting all these doctors.\u00a0 That\u2019s about the time Obamacare really started coming into place.\u00a0 And most of the older doctors were saying before this officially comes, you know, that they have to go under it, they were gonna retire.\u00a0 They knew then this was gonna be bad.\u00a0 Socialized medicine as a whole has never worked anywhere in the world.<\/p>\n
RUSH:\u00a0 Yes, it has.\u00a0 Yes, it has.\u00a0 Yes, it has.\u00a0 That\u2019s the point.\u00a0 It\u2019s not worked for you, but it\u2019s worked for the tyrants.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Now, on this selling insurance across state lines, this is the one thing I don\u2019t understand. I haven\u2019t had anybody explain to me why is this has to be the last thing done, and be in so-called phase 3. I don\u2019t know why it can\u2019t be here in phase 1. I\u2019ve asked, and the answers I\u2019ve gotten have been gobbledygook. They\u2019ve ranged from, “Well, insurance is a powerful lobby up here and…” Well, why wouldn\u2019t they want to be able to sell across state lines? “Because, Rush, they\u2019ve got in-state monopolies and they\u2019re big donors.” Okay, but at some point either now or phase 2 or phase 3, this is gonna have to end.<\/p>\n
The whole objective here is to lower prices, would everybody agree? The whole objective is to lower prices. If the mandates for coverage are done away with… In other words, if you, by law, have to have coverage, and the insurance companies cannot compete across state lines and have in-state monopolies, then there\u2019s no competition for price reduction. They can charge whatever they want if you have to buy it! If you have no choice, if you have no alternative company to buy from, if there\u2019s only one or two companies in your state — and Obamacare mandates you to have insurance — you\u2019re stuck, folks.<\/p>\n
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There is nothing that\u2019s going to bring prices down.<\/p>\n
They\u2019re gonna continue to go up.<\/p>\n
That is part and parcel of the problem with monopolies.<\/p>\n
But that\u2019s not the only mandate. The first mandate is for coverage. Then there is a requirement to buy insurance. Now, you might think they\u2019re the same thing, and they arguably might be. But the law, the mandate, involves a penalty if you fail to comply. It\u2019s a financial penalty. Originally, they were gonna put you in jail! They wanted the option to put you in jail, under Obamacare, if you didn\u2019t buy insurance. So the mandate that you buy it and then the requirement that you buy insurance, if those two things are erased — if you don\u2019t have to buy it — then the people selling it are gonna have to make it attractive to you.<\/p>\n
Now, they know you want it because it\u2019s health care and you don\u2019t want to be left hanging should a catastrophe happen. But it\u2019s a far cry from being forced to. This is why the insurance companies signed on to Obamacare first! It was the greatest godsend they\u2019d ever had. Imagine if Congress passed a law maintaining every man, woman, and child buy an iPhone. A, what do you think they would cost, and, B, what would you say of the requirement? What if you don\u2019t like Apple? What if you want a Samsung? What if you want some cheap flip phone or something?<\/p>\n
“Sorry, you have to buy an iPhone.”<\/p>\n
This is like what Obamacare did. You eliminate that, and by eliminating the mandate automatically, prices are gonna come down. Then you eliminate the requirement to purchase insurance. Well, then the people that sell it are gonna have to make it more attractive. The thing I don\u2019t understand… I haven\u2019t had anybody explain this to me in a satisfactory way, and I probably haven\u2019t asked enough people. I don\u2019t know why eliminating the “cannot sell across state lines” isn\u2019t done right now. There may be a good economic reason for it. There may be a responsible economic reason.<\/p>\n
There may be a political reason: The insurance companies are big donors and lobbyists and so forth. But I think… See, I think something like that you put in this bill, and that sweetens the pot over in the Senate and makes it much more attractive and makes the public much more supportive of it, if you put that in there, then eliminate this business that insurance companies can only sell in certain states. But there\u2019s a reason. I just… As I say, I haven\u2019t had it explained to me in a way that I understand. But it\u2019s in the plan. It\u2019s in the plan for way down the line, phase 2 or phase 3. Now, I do know this.<\/p>\n
One of the groups who do not want insurance to be sold across state lines is state insurance commissions and commissioners. Bureaucrats. They have a lot of power if there\u2019s only one or two insurance companies in their state — and in many states, the people who live there only have one insurance company now. The insurance companies are fleeing Obamacare left and right, in droves. And there are a lot of people this country who only have one insurance company. And the state insurance commission and commissioners have a lot of power.<\/p>\n
And they\u2019re opposed to anything that would limit or water down their power in a lot of ways.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Coen or Colin? I can\u2019t tell which. In Poughkeepsie. Coen is Poughkeepsie. How you doing, sir?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Pretty good. I was told to make this quick, so I want to know what happens in four years\u2019 time if the Democrats regain the presidency, all the stuff they say they\u2019re gonna take out of the Obamacare is gonna be just put back in, so we have to do it now. They gotta just —<\/p>\n
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RUSH: That\u2019s an excellent question. Let me ‘splain what he means. It\u2019s an excellent question. In the three phase or multiphase process, phase 1 here, the reason you can\u2019t send a clean bill over there, let me just tell you flat-out, the reason that they say, in the House, that they can\u2019t do a clean repeal, just send the bill, “We are repealing Obamacare,” send it to the Senate, is the Senate is a completely different functioning thing.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s reconciliation; there\u2019s filibusters; there\u2019s rules on the fly, rules made on the go that involve the parliamentarian over what you can do here; and as much of that as can be anticipated has been put into this first effort to make it as smooth as possible in the Senate, knowing full well it isn\u2019t gonna be.<\/p>\n
Now, as to the question here — he\u2019s very astute — it\u2019s a very astute question. He\u2019s, okay, look, they get into phase 2, and then they have our secretary of Health and Human Services pull out those drastic Obamacare restrictions, yank \u2019em out. His question is, what happens if we lose in 2020, the Democrats win, we haven\u2019t repealed all of Obamacare, and a new Health and Human Services secretary just puts all that stuff and more back in.<\/p>\n
Well, that is one of the arguments that the Freedom Caucus is making in their opposition to the bill. If you\u2019re gonna have \u2019em pulled out, if you\u2019re gonna do this so that the secretary of Health and Human Services, Tom Price, can pull all those things out that Sebelius and Obama put in there, why not make that official as part of legislation so it\u2019s done with?<\/p>\n
The answer is, that will happen either in phase 2 or phase 3. But they\u2019re afraid that if they go for that in phase 1, that the Senate is gonna automatically reject it as DOA and it dies. And they want the opportunity, at least, for Price to be able to strip this thing naked. Now, admittedly, their plan is multiphased. You\u2019ve heard them say it. They\u2019re standing by it. There have been all kinds of helpful suggestions to do this in one swoop, forget this 2 and 3 phase business.<\/p>\n
Tom Cotton, Senator from Arkansas, says you all are smoking something if you think there\u2019s gonna be a phase 2 or phase 3. He\u2019s of the opinion that the people in the House just want this passed and they\u2019re done. They\u2019ve washed their hands with it, mission accomplished, and no more. Well, that may be the attitude of the House, but I don\u2019t think that\u2019s the attitude of the Trump administration.<\/p>\n
The Trump administration is not just Trump. There\u2019s somebody over there named Mike Pence who is as thoroughbred a conservative as you can find, and there are other people in there who want this obliterated. But they just don\u2019t think it can be done in one clean, “Hey, Senate, here\u2019s a bill, we just passed it, that totally wipes out Obamacare, sign this thing, pass it, so we can send it up to Trump.” They don\u2019t think that\u2019s gonna happen. And they\u2019re probably right.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: So I think our guys are planning on not losing in 2020, number one, and I think they\u2019re also planning on, A, an eventual full repeal and replacement rewrite of Obamacare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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CALLER: I\u2019ve heard that.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/TrumpThumbs-Up.jpg\")
Folks, I hate to have to say this. I hate to have to know that this is true and deal with it, but we still have to acknowledge that the opposition of Donald Trump on Capitol Hill has no boundaries. People of, you know, all three sexual orientations, both political parties, House and Senate, think tanks, banks, you name it. And because of all this, I have really undertaken an effort to understand what they\u2019re trying to do with this, the people that believe in it. I was just starting to explain it to the caller who called and said, “I don\u2019t understand why they…<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/650-011817-Price-B.jpg\")
The people behind this bill want to be able to use those provisions to strip it bare, to take those things out. What kind of things am I talking about? Well, just in an article I think from… I\u2019m not sure. It\u2019s USA Today. “The GOP bill would eliminate the Obama statute\u2019s unpopular fines on those who do not obtain coverage and the often generous subsidies…” It doesn\u2019t eliminate subsidies. It eliminates these out of control not based-in-reality subsidies that were used to buy support or buy votes! “Republican tax credits would be based on age, not income.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/650-031517-McConnell-Ryan.jpg\")
When I say that name, you\u2019re not beaming in there. What do you think…? (interruption) Why not? (interruption) What\u2019s the…? (interruption) Well, just tell me. I mean, one or two… (interruption) Well, I know, but why? Why? (interruption) Oh, well, I know he said something about me. See, that\u2019s… Grover will fundraise off me and then criticize me after he\u2019s raised the money. But that doesn\u2019t matter. That\u2019s part and parcel of being up here and everybody else shooting at you from down there. Anyway, Nyquist — I\u2019m sorry, Norquist — has said in his analysis that this bill cuts a trillion dollars in taxes over 10 years, and it cuts a trillion dollars in spending over a decade.<\/p>\n