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RUSH: The Wall Street Journal, interesting story today: ‘Why the Health Care Rush?\u2019 It is an editorial. It turns out, ladies and gentlemen, that the Democrats had a Democrat-only meeting yesterday with Obama on nationalized health care. The Democrats want to ram this down everybody\u2019s throat just like they did TARP and just like they did the stimulus bill. They don\u2019t want any public hearings, and no Republicans were in that meeting. ‘Democrats are trying to rush the largest entitlement expansion since LBJ into law with a truncated debate and as little public scrutiny as possible.\u2019 Why? One reason. People find out about it, and they won\u2019t support it. It will not stand public inspection. The Wall Street Journal says here: ‘The reality is that Democrats are contemplating the most sweeping restructuring of the health markets since Medicare in 1965, and they don\u2019t want to let the details slow them down,\u2019 just like they didn\u2019t want the details of amnesty. Remember last summer, two summers, they didn\u2019t want anybody knowing what was in the immigration reform bill. Sorry, (doing McCain impression) ‘Comprehensive immigration reform bill, Limbaugh.\u2019 Right. <\/p>\n

Tom Daschle has spelled out this strategy before he was bounced out of the Senate. This hearkens back to the old days when the Democrats ran the House for 40 years, the Republicans had like 120 or 135 members, and they were shut out of committee meetings, when Bob Michel was the Republican leader. And they didn\u2019t care. They had no business being in there. They couldn\u2019t stop anything. I\u2019m going to tell you why this is a bad deal, folks. One of the things that\u2019s in this bill is taxing health care benefits. Employer provided health care benefits are going to be taxed. The Washington Post even has a story today: ”President Pivots on Taxing Benefits. — Obama willing to consider move to gain health care reform.\u2019 It\u2019s by Ceci Connolly. ‘President Obama, in a pivot from some of his harshest campaign rhetoric, told Democratic senators yesterday –‘ no Republicans in the meeting ‘– that he is willing to consider taxing employer-sponsored health benefits to help pay for a broad expansion of coverage. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) said Obama expressed a willingness to consider changing the existing tax exclusion. The decision would probably anger liberal supporters such as labor unions, but such a tax change would raise enormous sums of money as Congress and the White House are struggling to find the estimated $1.2 trillion needed to pay for,\u2019 nationalized medicine. <\/p>\n

Let\u2019s remember in the campaign last September, Obama said this about Senator McCain: ‘For the first time in American history, he wants to tax your health benefits. Apparently Senator McCain doesn\u2019t think it\u2019s enough that your health premiums have doubled. He thinks you should have to pay taxes on them, too.\u2019 And now Obama is willing to do this. Your health care — I predicted this a long time ago — your health care coverage provided by your employer is gonna be taxed, and it\u2019s not going to be cheap, folks. If your health care package costs your employer $12, $15,000, whatever it is, you\u2019re gonna add that to your salary, to your gross, and your take-home pay is going to go way, way down because you\u2019re gonna get a raise, in effect. You\u2019re never going to see the money, but you\u2019re going to pay taxes on it. Here\u2019s the real problem with nationalized health care, and I made a big point of this in my interview today with Sean Hannity, which was about 40 minutes. It\u2019s going to air two parts tonight and tomorrow on his Fox News Channel show at 9PM ET. If the Democrats get national health care, the concept of individual freedom and liberty will have been obliterated. <\/p>\n

Washington, government, state and local, will be able to regulate every facet of our behavior under the guise that it has some kind of a cost impact on health care. For example, the kind of car you drive will be regulated, the kind of food that you eat, and you may not be prevented from eating certain things, but you\u2019ll be taxed if you do because of the impact on the health care system. So imagine you want popcorn in the theater, there might be a tax added to it. Folks, it\u2019s impossible to exaggerate this. Think of virtually any activity you engage in with your kids that might put them at risk. You take them outside and play. You drive on a snowy road without chains. You fly in an airplane. Anything that could risk injury, which is practically everything you do, could be regulated or taxed because of the impact your behavior will have on the cost of health care. After that takes place, the actual quality of health care we all get is going to hit the sewer. <\/p>\n

Look at the office, the Department of Motor Vehicles. That\u2019s the only place you can go, and do they care a whit about making you happy or satisfying you? If it\u2019s coffee break time, or some other break time, or if they don\u2019t like the way you look or whatever, they can make your life miserable. Now, imagine that when you go to the doctor. This is something everybody\u2019s going to have to really think about, and it\u2019s going to have to be called to everybody\u2019s attention. Here\u2019s an example. This is a story from Health Day News. There\u2019s a new illness, or a new sickness, a new problem. Cell phone elbow. ‘First came Nintendo thumb. Then, Guitar Hero wrist. Now, for the latest affliction of the wired age, it\u2019s cell phone elbow. Medically known as cubital tunnel syndrome, cell phone elbow is numbness, tingling and pain in the forearm and hand caused by compression of the ulnar nerve, which passes along the bony bump on the inside of the elbow. &hellip; Prolonged flexing of the elbow, such as when you hold a cell phone to your ear while closing sales, talking to your mother or keeping tabs on your teens while you\u2019re at work, puts tension on the ulnar nerve. In susceptible people, holding the bent-elbow position for extended periods can lead to decreased blood flow, inflammation and compression of the nerve.\u2019<\/p>\n

So, they diagnose cell phone elbow. I\u2019m just using this as an example. Cell phone elbow has to be treated. It will be treated under the government sponsored health care plan, and a lot of people are going to have it. Maybe they can regulate your use of the phone and fine you if you are caught using the phone with your arm bent or whatever. Think of the most illogical, irrational example and it could come true. Cell phone elbow. You know what my reaction to this was? Makes me wonder how our forefathers and mothers plowed with mules and lived to tell about it. They churned butter. Do you know what that is, Brian? Do you know what churning butter is? You know what milking a cow is? You know what it is to hoe a garden? H-o-e, hoe a garden. Do you know what it is to go down to the creek and haul water back to the house? Do you know what it is to get up at four, Dawn, and follow a mule or a horse and plow a field before you go to school? How did they survive? And now we\u2019re actually going to get upset over cell phone elbow? What a bunch of wusses the left wants to turn us into. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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