{"id":32396,"date":"2009-05-11T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T02:25:22","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T02:25:22","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T02:25:22","slug":"foolish_health_care_industry_thinks_they_can_appease_obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2009\/05\/11\/foolish_health_care_industry_thinks_they_can_appease_obama\/","title":{"rendered":"Foolish Health Care Industry Thinks They Can Appease Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"
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RUSH: Obama actually said today that too many Americans are ‘skimping on health care\u2019 because they\u2019re in financial straits. You know, they\u2019re not spending on health care because they need to do other things, and they ought to be spending on health care. So that was his push for national health insurance. He had one of these meetings today with all these health insurance groups. It\u2019s like Don Corleone bringing these people in and telling them what\u2019s going to happen to them if they don\u2019t go along. We know this is the modus operandi. We know that threats and intimidation are used by this administration to get what they want. <\/p>\n

Now, there\u2019s a story about the health care meeting today from the Associated Press: ‘President Barack Obama\u2019s plan to provide medical insurance for all Americans took a big step toward becoming reality Sunday after leaders of the health care industry offered $2 trillion in spending reductions over 10 years to help pay for the program. Hospitals, insurance companies, drug makers and doctors planned to tell Obama [today] they\u2019ll voluntarily slow their rate increases in coming years in a move that government economists say would create breathing room to help provide health insurance to an estimated 50 million Americans who now go without it,\u2019 and that\u2019s a phony number! <\/p>\n

‘With this move, Obama picks up key private-sector allies that fought former President Bill Clinton\u2019s effort to overhaul health care.\u2019 You read a little further and you find this… You might be asking a question, by the way. Before I tell you this, you might be asking a question: ‘Well, if these people could offer $2 trillion in spending reductions over ten years, why didn\u2019t they do it? Why do it now?\u2019 If there are $2 trillion in overcharges…? Look at it this way: if there are $2 trillion in overcharges, why not just avoid a lot of hassle and cut some prices ten years ago? Well, then you read… You have that question, you read the next ‘graph, and it says (ahem), ‘The industry groups are trying to get on the administration bandwagon for expanded coverage now in the hope they can steer Congress away from legislation that would restrict their profitability in future years.\u2019 <\/p>\n

So what they know is, they have heard Obama say (and he\u2019s used these words) that he\u2019s going to squeeze the doctors. He\u2019s going to squeeze the insurance companies. He\u2019s gonna squeeze the pharmaceuticals. Which means he\u2019s going to demand that they make less money, and he\u2019s talking about profits. So these industry groups think if they go along now and show some goodwill, that they\u2019ll be taken care of down the road. They are fools! They are big-time fools who happen to be blind. Just look at the car companies and the banks. What profits? And whatever profits there are, are going to go to Obama and the government. Obama is going to ‘fix\u2019 health care just like he\u2019s ‘fixed\u2019 GM? He\u2019s going to ‘fix\u2019 health care like he\u2019s ‘fixed\u2019 Chrysler? <\/p>\n

He\u2019s gonna ‘fix\u2019 health care like he ‘fixed\u2019 Wall Street? How can a government that has no money bail out one-seventh of the US economy, which is our health care sector? It\u2019s one-seventh of the economy. How in the world can they bail it out when they don\u2019t have any money? How? ‘[I]ndustry groups are trying to get on the administration bandwagon for expanded coverage now in the hope they can steer Congress away from legislation…\u2019 This is like us saying, ‘You know what? If we release the prisoners at Club Gitmo, then Bin Laden will like us and will never attack us again!\u2019 These guys are saying, ‘If we just give Obama some spending cuts now, then he\u2019ll leave us alone down the road.\u2019 (laughing)<\/p>\n

Fools! But they\u2019re scared. They\u2019re scared to death. They can see what\u2019s happening to other private sectors. They can see what\u2019s happening. They saw what happened to Rick Wagoner. They hear the scuttlebutt that Obama might fire more CEOs on Wall Street. They see the legislation coming out on pay caps for Wall Street and so forth. They\u2019re thinking that if they just don\u2019t make Obama mad, then he won\u2019t restrict them that way. They\u2019re just fools. So, fewer and fewer people are willing to stand up to this. That\u2019s, again, why I focus everybody\u2019s attention on Dick Cheney. He\u2019s standing up to all of it, and what motivates him? It\u2019s national interest, love of country. He doesn\u2019t need the money. He doesn\u2019t want to run for office again. He\u2019s not hot for interns. He\u2019s doing it because of love, huge heart, for the country. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Obama actually said today that too many Americans are ‘skimping on health care\u2019 because they\u2019re in financial straits. You know, they\u2019re not spending on health care because they need to do other things, and they ought to be spending on health care. So that was his push for national health insurance. 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