{"id":298238,"date":"2019-01-31T16:13:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T21:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=298238"},"modified":"2019-02-01T15:31:57","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T20:31:57","slug":"obama-previews-death-panels-take-a-painkiller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/01\/31\/obama-previews-death-panels-take-a-painkiller\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Previews Death Panels: Take the Painkiller"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: I want to make my point in another way. I mentioned Obama mere moments ago<\/a>. See, I do care about societal values, cultural values. They\u2019re all we have. It\u2019s one of the many things that distinguishes the United States from everywhere else in the world.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m telling you: The left is doing as much as it can to erase all of these differences that define American exceptionalism. We are the only nation on earth where, in our founding documents, the right to life is considered a right and specified. The right to liberty, the pursuit of happiness… There\u2019s no other country that has ever codified these things in government documents. We all take it for granted because we grew up with it and it\u2019s not been any big deal. It\u2019s been the way things are.<\/p>\n

But those are the kinds of things that define American exceptionalism, not that we\u2019re better people, and not that we\u2019re smarter. That has nothing to do with American exceptionalism. But let\u2019s go back. This is 2009. So what is this, 10 years ago now? It\u2019d actually be 9-1\/2 years ago. June of 2009, the famous ABC special, prime time “Questions for the President: Prescription for America.” A member of the audience, Jane Sturm, stood up and asked, \u201cMy mother is now over 105. But at 100, the doctors said to her, \u2018I can\u2019t do anything more unless you have a pacemaker.\u2019 I said, \u2018Go for it.\u2019<\/p>\n

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“[My mother] said, \u2018Go for it.\u2019 But the specialist said, \u2018No, she\u2019s too old.\u2019 But when the other specialist saw her and saw her joy of life,” how full of life she is, “he said, \u2018I\u2019m going for it.\u2019 That was over five years ago, Mr. President. My mother\u2019s 105 and happily alive. My question to you is, outside the medical criteria for prolonging life for somebody who is elderly, is there any consideration that can be given for a certain spirit, a certain joy of living, a quality of life, or is it just a medical cutoff at a certain age?\u201d<\/p>\n

Now, stop and think what we\u2019re hearing here. A citizen at the White House is asking the president essentially, “Under your plan, can my mother continue to live and experience the joy of life? She\u2019s full of life. Under your plan, would my mother get the pacemaker?” This is what the president of the United States told that woman 9-1\/2 years ago…<\/p>\n

OBAMA: I don\u2019t think that we can make judgments based on people\u2019s spirit. That would be a pretty subjective decision to be making. I think we have to have rules that say that we are going to provide good, quality care for all people. End-of-life care is one of the most difficult sets of decisions that we\u2019re going to have to make. But understand that those decisions are already being made in one way or another. If they\u2019re not being made under Medicare and Medicaid, they\u2019re being made by private insurers. At least we can let doctors know and your mom know that, you know what, maybe this isn\u2019t going to help. Maybe you\u2019re better off not having the surgery but taking the painkiller.<\/p>\n