{"id":297988,"date":"2019-01-29T16:02:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T21:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=297988"},"modified":"2021-10-26T09:26:32","modified_gmt":"2021-10-26T13:26:32","slug":"kamala-harris-not-new-not-fresh-not-different","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/01\/29\/kamala-harris-not-new-not-fresh-not-different\/","title":{"rendered":"Kamala Harris: Not New, Not Fresh, Not Different"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Time to get into the political nature of things here.  We start with, as I mentioned at the top of the program, Kamala Harris.  Everybody is focusing on Kamala Harris because she is the first Democrat to announce with great fanfare. CNN helped Kamala Harris with a town hall in Iowa last night.  They televised the town hall, and in the midst of this town hall — during it — Kamala Harris promised to get rid of private insurance. Just wipe it all out.  There won\u2019t be any health insurance.  You\u2019ll just go to the doctor, you\u2019ll just go to the emergency room, and you\u2019ll be treated with whatever you need.<\/p>\n

\"\"There will be no forms to sign, no forms to fill out, no insurance to cover any portion of it, because there isn\u2019t gonna be private insurance.  She promised to eliminate all private health care insurance if she\u2019s elected.  She said to Jake Tapper, “The idea is that everybody gets access to medical care and you don\u2019t have to go through the process of going through an insurance company, having them give you approval, going through the paperwork and all the delay that that might require.”  Now, if a Republican had made this proposal, CNN would have been all over them with the impracticality of it, the impossibility of it.<\/p>\n

“What are you gonna do about insurance companies that you\u2019re putting out of business? What about people that work in that industry? What about all the ancillary effects of this?”  But, no. They sit here and they fawn and they applaud (clapping) and they think it\u2019s really advanced so forth — and it\u2019s Obama on steroids.  What it shows is how little Kamala Harris knows about either private insurance or Medicare.  Jake Tapper asked her if people who like their current health care insurance could keep it.  Now, why would he ask her that?  Well, because Obama lied about it.<\/p>\n

And so rather than say, “Now, Ms. Harris, Barack Obama promised everybody that their health insurance premiums would go down and if they like their doctor, they can keep their doctor.” Of course, that turned out not to be true. He didn\u2019t preface his question with the fact that Obama totally lied to the American people. He just said, “Well, what about people who like their plans and their insurance companies, can they keep them?”<\/p>\n

And Kamala Harris said (paraphrasing), “No, people will not be allowed to keep their plans because there won\u2019t be any insurance.” She said, “Listen, the idea is that everybody gets access to medical care, and you don\u2019t have to go through the process of going through an insurance company or have them give you approval. No paperwork. All of those delays are gone. Who among us has not had that situation,” she said. “Where you gotta wait for approval and the doctor says, ‘Well, I don\u2019t know if your insurance company is gonna cover this.” Let\u2019s just eliminate all that. Let\u2019s just move on and cover everybody for whatever they need whenever they need it, which shows how little she knows about either private insurance or Medicare.<\/p>\n

Not all private insurance requires preapprovals. Only the HMOs do. But we\u2019re back to the argument that we were discussing yesterday, “How do you pay for this?” And to most people that no longer is a question that causes them any trouble. “What do you mean, how you gonna pay for it? How we paying for anything? We pay for everything else; why not this?” Most people don\u2019t see people going without. Most people don\u2019t see government going without. Most people, “What do you mean, what we gonna pay, how we gonna pay? How are we paying for anything?”<\/p>\n

\"\"It used to be that you could cause liberals trouble by asking them, “How you gonna pay for it?” But it doesn\u2019t cause any trouble today. Not nearly as much because way too many Americans are not concerned with the citizenship aspect of government paying for everything. They\u2019re not concerned with we have or have not the money. So we\u2019re gonna have to come up with different ways of approaching this, which I have some ideas that I\u2019ll share with you as the program unfolds.<\/p>\n

Let me take a break. We\u2019ll go to some of the audio sound bites from this town hall from last night. You can hear for yourself some of this lunacy that was presented as artful and reasonable and compassionate and all of that other gunk.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, folks, there\u2019s some fascinating things happening already on the Democrat side in response to Kamala Harris basically saying, “When it comes to health care, go wherever you want and get whatever you need, no paperwork, no insurance, no forms, don\u2019t worry about paying for it, just show up.”<\/p>\n

So far, two Democrats have come out and said this is insane, it is impossible, it cannot be done. One of them is Howard Schultz, who seeks the Democrat — well, no, he\u2019s gonna seek the presidency as an independent, which has the Democrats fit to be tied because they think he\u2019s gonna take votes away from the Democrat nominee, not Trump.<\/p>\n

But now Howard Schultz, the Starbucks guy, has been joined by Doomberg, the former mayor of New York. He\u2019s in Nashua, New Hampshire, today and a reporter said, “Kamala Harris said last night that she\u2019d be in favor -” and this administration\u2019s running on the Democrat side if he runs or maybe an independent, but he\u2019s not a Republican. In name only when he wanted to be elected in New York. So the reporter says, “Kamala Harris said that she would be in favor of eliminating private insurance and replacing it with Medicare for everybody. What is your position on that?”<\/p>\n

BLOOMBERG: I think you could never afford that. You\u2019re talking about trillions of dollars. I think you can have Medicare for all for people that are uncovered, \u2019cause that\u2019s a smaller group, and a lot of them are taken care of, Medicaid already, Medicare. But to replace the entire private system where companies provide health care for their employees would bankrupt us for a very long time.<\/p>\n

\"\"RUSH: The guy\u2019s gonna get heckled. Just like Howard Schultz got heckled because this is what the Democrats want. They think they deserve this. They think they\u2019re owed this. And here this guy, you replace the entire private system where companies provide health care for their employees, it would bankrupt us? Democrats worried about bankruptcy? This doesn\u2019t happen. Democrats responding to another Democrat saying, “We don\u2019t have the money for your spending”?<\/p>\n

That never happened to Obama. There\u2019s nothing new about Kamala Harris, folks. She is Barack Obama, different gender, but that\u2019s about the only difference. It\u2019s about the only difference. Well, Obama didn\u2019t have that much in common with Stormy Daniels, and she does. But aside from that, it\u2019s about the only difference. In terms of what she\u2019s saying, what her agenda is.<\/p>\n

So already two prominent leftists are suggesting that we can\u2019t start spending money like this. We don\u2019t have any. We\u2019re bankrupt. Grab sound bite 8. Here is what she actually said about this from the question that I mentioned earlier from Jake Tapper. This is from an audience member. “What\u2019s your solution to ensure that people have access to quality health care at an affordable price and does that solution involve cutting insurance companies as we know them out of the equation?”<\/p>\n

HARRIS: We need to have Medicare for all. That\u2019s just the bottom line. (applause) Access to health care should not be thought of as a privilege. It should be understood to be a right. It should be understood to be something that all people should be entitled to so that they can live a productive life, so that they can have dignity. And having a system that makes a difference in terms of who receives what based on your income is unconscionable, it is cruel, and in many situations that I have witnessed, inhumane.<\/p>\n

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Kamala Harris supports a complete government takeover of healthcare, says regarding the free market: “Let\u2019s eliminate all that. Let\u2019s move on.” pic.twitter.com\/0HmW2Pnn6d<\/a><\/p>\n

— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) January 29, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n