{"id":242599,"date":"2017-07-31T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-31T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=242599"},"modified":"2017-08-01T16:01:31","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T20:01:31","slug":"obamacare-implodes-and-its-the-republicans-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/07\/31\/obamacare-implodes-and-its-the-republicans-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Obamacare Implodes — and It\u2019s the Republicans\u2019 Problem?"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: This is from Reuters. “Hundreds of Counties at Risk for No Obamacare Insurer in 2018<\/a> — With Republican efforts to dismantle Obamacare in disarray, hundreds of U.S. counties are at risk…” Isn\u2019t this rich? Obamacare\u2019s imploding. It\u2019s a total Democrat corruption. It\u2019s the Republicans\u2019 problem! It\u2019s the Republicans\u2019 fault, the way Reuters writes this.<\/p>\n

\"\"“With Republican efforts to dismantle Obamacare in disarray, hundreds of U.S. counties are at risk of losing access to private health coverage in 2018 as insurers consider pulling out of those markets in the coming months. Republican senators failed this week to repeal and replace Obamacare, former President Barack Obama\u2019s signature health care reform law, creating new uncertainty over how the program providing health benefits to 20 million Americans…”<\/p>\n

What an absolute… It makes me want to shout and spit vomit, this stuff is so outrageously miswritten. That whole paragraph is journalistic malpractice: “creating new uncertainty over how the program providing health benefits to 20 million Americans…” That\u2019s what it was? I thought Obamacare took care of everybody! What do you mean “provided benefits for 20 million”? See, there\u2019s that number again. No matter where you look in this stupid story: 20 million Americans. Obamacare “provided insurance for 20 million Americans” to save their lives.<\/p>\n

The CBO said the repeal and replace would cause “20 million Americans to lose their health insurance.” It\u2019s 20 million here, 20 million there. That\u2019s what we did all this for? So Obama still has the halo over his head because he created something that insured 20 million and the Republicans have failed to take it away? So it\u2019s a Republican problem that insurance companies are pulling out of the Obamacare exchanges?<\/p>\n

You see how this works?<\/p>\n

There\u2019s not a single Republican fingerprint on this stupid law! You know, Trump thinks the Democrats are gonna own this implosion, and we\u2019re gonna see to it here that that\u2019s true. But the media is gonna be out there trying to hang this albatross around the Republicans\u2019 heads \u2019cause they didn\u2019t fix it, and yet when Obamacare came out, it was panacea! Remember? It was another step along the road to utopia. It was a wonderful thing! “Affordable health care for all Americans.” I\u2019ll never forget Pelosi saying this. She still doesn\u2019t know what\u2019s in it!<\/p>\n

“Affordable health care for all Americans.” Now, it\u2019s falling apart, and it\u2019s the Republicans\u2019 problem, because they can\u2019t repeal it or fix it or replace it, and it\u2019s still the greatest piece of legislation ever because it\u2019s Obama\u2019s, because it insured 20 million people. There are 20 million people the Republicans want to take it away from. But it\u2019s their fault for not fixing it. How is the average, ordinary consumer of news supposed to make sense of this? Well, the average, ordinary consumer of news won\u2019t.<\/p>\n

\"\"The average, ordinary consumer of news is gonna think that Obamacare was a great thing that gave health insurance to 20 million Americans and Republicans wanted to take it away \u2019cause they\u2019re just like corporations. They want to kill people, and they want people to get sick, and the Republicans failed to do it because the Democrats hung tough along with a couple of Republicans. So you now have “20 million Americans will not lose their health insurance,” but everybody else will, because the exchanges are imploding, and it\u2019s the greatest thing ever because Obama did it.<\/p>\n

Who in the world but me could ever translate this effectively like that? Nobody, and certainly not your average, ordinary American. You notice the wording. It\u2019s now become a fact that the Republicans “failed” to fix Obamacare when Obamacare was wonderful! It was brilliant. It was the first step to utopia. But it\u2019s falling apart \u2019cause of the Republicans. The Democrats — my point is — are never blamed for any of this. Never! Obama\u2019s never blamed. They remain victims. Obama\u2019s a victim of these dastardly Republicans wanting to deny health insurance to 20 million Americans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RUSH: You notice the wording. It's now become a fact that the Republicans "failed" to fix Obamacare when Obamacare was wonderful! It was brilliant. It was the first step to utopia. But it's falling apart 'cause of the Republicans. The Democrats — my point is — are never blamed for any of this. Never! Obama's never blamed. They remain victims. Obama's a victim of these dastardly Republicans wanting to deny health insurance to 20 million Americans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":242607,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nObamacare Implodes - and It's the Republicans' Problem? - The Rush Limbaugh Show<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/07\/31\/obamacare-implodes-and-its-the-republicans-problem\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Obamacare Implodes - and It's the Republicans' Problem? - The Rush Limbaugh Show\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"RUSH: You notice the wording. 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