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RUSH: Joe in Norfolk, Virginia, hello, and welcome to the EIB Network.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, how you doing, Rush?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Never better, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Good. Hey, I seem to keep on missing the tail end of the conversation about the health care for the children that the Democrats are trying to propose and they\u2019re trying to pass, but I did hear a couple things last week and I wish I coulda got through when I originally heard you talk about them. I think it was you that had mentioned about people not having health insurance and you were kind of talking about that, and I guess that as a Republican, which I am, I guess we\u2019re supposed to not support this Democratic…um, process here, but I have a question for you, and I want to see where I fit into this category and I want to see if when you were kind of — maybe were generalizing all people, and I want to see how I fit, because I make about $50,000 a year. My health insurance right now is 60-40. My boss pays 60% and I pay 40%. It\u2019s well over $900. I work a full-time job plus a part-time job. I mean, I\u2019m working pretty hard out there, and I just need to know exactly what would be so bad — and like I said, I\u2019m really not too sure what the deal is, so if you can clarify that, but I kind of feel like that if I can get some kind of fee subsidized from the government, I would be more than happy to pay, because if my —<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m sure you would. Let me ask you a pointed question.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Sure.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Why do you want me and my broadcast engineer and my call screener to pay for your health insurance?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I don\u2019t.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes, well, you are. What do you think funds the government?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, that\u2019s what I want you to clarify. What I\u2019m trying to say is, we pay for other things — and that\u2019s a good question, and I\u2019m not disagreeing with you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: We have a learning opportunity here, is what we have. This is a ‘teachable moment,\u2019 as they used to say in classrooms.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, and I want a teachable moment because right now I\u2019m paying for it, but I will say this, though, Rush, and you may disagree with me. If my employer wasn\u2019t paying 60%, you had made the comment about people not having insurance at all. It would be — and I\u2019m being from the bottom of my heart, it would be — really tough for me to make that payment, and if you — I don\u2019t know how other people spend their money.<\/p>\n

RUSH: People face these questions throughout your life. It would be really tough if you had a car that you couldn\u2019t afford. It would be really tough. You know, people have to make priorities. You have to establish priorities. If health care is the most important thing to you, then you gotta do — wherever you are now, you\u2019ve got to do — with less somewhere else. You\u2019re asking your neighbors to subsidize your insurance for health care. This program that you\u2019re talking about, the SCHIP program (that\u2019s SCHIP with a P) is a stealth maneuver by the Democrats to take us further down the road to nationalized, socialized medicine, which will be an abject failure. It will not be ‘free.\u2019 You may not be paying for it yourself, but you\u2019ll also suffer in the kind of coverage that you get, and treatment that you get. But that\u2019s beside the point, the intricacies of the program. Do you think it\u2019s right that a health insurance program for ‘the children\u2019 includes children under the age of 25? Do you think that it matters that a family of four earning $82,000 a year qualifies as a ‘poverty-stricken family\u2019 so that their kids can get health insurance? Who\u2019s paying for this? You\u2019re asking your neighbors to pay for this. You obviously don\u2019t see it that way, but that\u2019s how you\u2019ve got to start looking at it. What if we all started doing that? Sadly, way too many of us are already doing that. Your need and your fear have combined to make you susceptible to the notion that the Democrats are peddling something to you that doesn\u2019t cost any of your neighbors any money, and it does because they\u2019re the ones who are going to be paying for it for you.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: We had a phone call at the end of the last hour, and the guy said, ‘I make $50,000, I work two jobs, my employer pays 60% of my health care, I pay 40%. But I like the SCHIP program here, Rush, because if somebody wants to come along, the government, and pay for my health care, I\u2019ll take it.\u2019 I said, ‘The government\u2019s not paying for it, why are you asking me to?\u2019 ‘Well, I\u2019m not.\u2019 ‘You are. Why are you asking me call screener? ‘I\u2019m not.\u2019 ‘You are. Why are you asking me broadcast engineer to pay for it?\u2019 ‘I\u2019m not.\u2019 You are when you ask the government to pay for it. ‘Well, it\u2019s a subsidy I could use.\u2019 Well get rid of the 15 color TVs you might have and whatever it is and get down to one. Try an outdoor antenna instead of cable, whatever you have to do here, priorities are priorities. Where is it written that people that do get help from the taxpayers never ever say thanks. The Medicare bunch, every year they demand more. It\u2019s no different than if you walk down the neighborhood where you live and start banging on the front door, and say, ‘Hey, my kids need health care. I need some of your money.\u2019 It\u2019s the same thing. <\/p>\n

Now, the Democrats, ‘defying President Bush who promises to veto this, voted decisively yesterday to expand this program,\u2019 the SCHIP with a P program, ‘a popular,\u2019 it says here, ‘health insurance program for children of the working poor. They have more than doubled tobacco taxes to pay for it.\u2019 This is a middle class entitlement. This is not simply restricted to insuring the children of the poor. ‘Senators of both parties banded together in the 68-31 vote to support the program, which currently insures about 6 million children. Eighteen Republicans joined 48 Democrats and two independents voting for the legislation.\u2019 Now, they gotta go to the House, they gotta conference this. ‘If congressional negotiators can strike a bipartisan deal, some senior Republicans suggest the White House may have to back down on its veto threat.\u2019 But the White House says, we\u2019re not going to back down on the veto threat, both these versions are too expensive and would expand benefits to the middle class. This is by design. This is. This is not even stealth anymore. This is right out in the open. <\/p>\n

This is an incremental addition to the number of people getting health insurance paid for by their neighbors on the way to the eventual universal health care that the Democratic presidential candidates are all promising to accomplish and achieve. I\u2019m blue in the face. A family of four can earn up to $82 grand and qualify as a poor family to get health insurance for your child. I\u2019m not making this up. The age of a child in this bill is 25 years old. So you can have a family of four with a 24-year-old dad, a 22-year-old mom and a kid or two, and the four of them would qualify as children! Under the SCHIP program. With a P. Now, they say that the program\u2019s been very successful because ‘before the program of ten years was inaugurated 23% of the American children had no health insurance, that has dropped to about 16%, but an estimated…\u2019 they don\u2019t know. It\u2019s a wild guess ‘…eight million to nine million children remain uninsured. Experts say most are eligible for federal programs and remain uninsured because some parents don\u2019t know such help is available.\u2019 Now, the Urban Institute, which is a liberal think tank out there, says that it\u2019s 1.1 million children who are eligible and are uninsured, 1.1 million children of the poor. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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