{"id":32668,"date":"2009-06-15T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T02:20:04","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T02:20:04","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T02:20:04","slug":"arrogant_obama_misleads_the_ama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2009\/06\/15\/arrogant_obama_misleads_the_ama\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrogant Obama Misleads the AMA"},"content":{"rendered":"
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RUSH: All right, Obama. I\u2019ve had some people watching the speech. I obviously couldn\u2019t. I didn\u2019t really want to, as I said earlier. It irritates me, but there\u2019s somebody watching it. Apparently one of the primary arguments they had — and of course there were many — but one of the primary arguments that Obama made to the AMA during this hour-long speech was this. ‘Without reform, the system will be even more expensive than it already is.\u2019 Now, this is the way the left sells every government program they want to expand. ‘It\u2019s in a terrible state and needs to be reformed — and if we do anything, if we leave it alone, it\u2019s going to be more expensive than if we get there.\u2019 And of course the truth is, folks, we are out of money. The government cannot pay for what the government is running now. The government cannot pay for what the government\u2019s running now, in anything. We are $2 trillion in debt this year alone. Two trillion! So we can\u2019t even pay for what they\u2019re running now and he wants to expand it!<\/p>\n

He wants to put 47 million more people on the rolls, and somehow this is gonna make it cheaper? It reminds me of the Soc. Security debate. Democrats said that any reform would mean ‘less\u2019 than what some Americans are receiving now. Well, the dirty little secret is that Social Security cannot pay what is promised already. Social Security is bankrupt, too! People are going to get less anyway as soon as Social Security starts to go under in ten years or so. This is another typical, false Obama argument. I also read today that Obama was thinking actually of tort reform. I have a newspaper story somewhere, I think it\u2019s the Washington Post but I\u2019m not sure. Tort reform might be part of health care reform. He\u2019s ‘open\u2019 to tort reform. He\u2019s ‘open\u2019 to all this stuff that he\u2019s not open to. He\u2019s open to tort reform, because that would lower medical malpractice insurance, which would lower health care costs. He said he\u2019s open to it. Well, let\u2019s go to the speech. The first of two sound bites here. Here\u2019s number 25. This is typical Obama, too. He tells the doctors he\u2019s going to listen at them.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: My signature on a bill is not enough. I need your help, doctors. We listen to you. We trust you. That\u2019s why I will listen to you and work with you to pursue reform that works for you. I recognize that it will be hard to make some of these changes if doctors feel like they\u2019re constantly looking over their shoulders for fear of lawsuits. <\/p>\n

DOCTORS: (applause)<\/p>\n

OBAMA: I recognize that. <\/p>\n

DOCTORS: (applause)<\/p>\n

OBAMA: Don\u2019t get too excited yet.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Did you hear that, now? When he laid the ground out here, it\u2019ll ‘be hard to make some of these changes if doctors feel they\u2019re constantly looking over their shoulders for fear of lawsuits.\u2019 They started applauding. They start applauding, and he says, Wait a minute, ‘don\u2019t get too excited yet.\u2019 That\u2019s off script. That was not on the prompter. ‘Don\u2019t get too excited yet,\u2019 because this is what followed.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: Just hold onto your horses here guys. <\/p>\n

DOCTORS: (laughter)<\/p>\n

OBAMA: I — I — I — I want to be honest with you. I\u2019m not advocating, uh, caps on malpractice rules, which I believe, uh — I personally believe can be unfair to people who, uh, have wrongfully harmed. I want to work with the AMA so we can scale back the excessive defensive medicine that reinforces our current system, and shift to a system where we are providing better care rather than simply more treatment.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s up to the doctors, Dad, not you. So he starts out… This is mean. This is dishonest. He tells these guys he understands that malpractice awards are giving them all kinds of problems. They applaud. ‘Don\u2019t get too excited.\u2019 So after he says he\u2019s gonna listen to them, he needs their help and he teases them with some limit on torts, then the very next sentence is, ‘Screw what I just said! I just want that sound bite for my buds in the State-Run Media to play tonight, because I know they will not play what I say right now about any of this. We\u2019re going to put the notion out there that we\u2019re going to reform.\u2019 This is like Lucy and the football with Charlie Brown. The poor guy after 50 years still hadn\u2019t got the football. She still holds it out there, and Charlie Brown thinks he\u2019s gonna kick it, and he never gets it. <\/p>\n

Now, this probably is the smartest group of people he\u2019s ever spoken to, just in terms of education, IQ, and so forth. And they\u2019re already unhappy with what the government\u2019s running especially if they treat Medicare patients. They\u2019re already unhappy with the system and he just wants to expand it. Unless there\u2019s something really earth-shattering, frankly, I don\u2019t want to play any more of this because I\u2019m in a good mood and I just can\u2019t handle this know-it-all, smug, arrogant condescension from this guy. The lying to people. I can\u2019t stand it. I told you Friday I got fired by one of those kind of guys \u2019cause I confronted him head on. He gave me the biggest line of BS about something and I had been going on… Plus at this time I\u2019m be berated for playing music out of rotation and this guy is going on and on. I didn\u2019t blow up. I said, ‘Look I know this is not true. I know you\u2019re lying to everybody. You didn\u2019t do that. You don\u2019t know this person. You have not been to that state. Your track record…\u2019 I shouldn\u2019t have done it because I threatened this guy\u2019s false identity and his alternative reality so I got fired 20 minutes later on a phone by the owner of the radio station. Obama is that guy. (sigh) I hope I never get invited to the White House, I really do, not for a meeting there. That would be tough. It would be tough. I mean I\u2019d be civil, don\u2019t misunderstand. But it would be tough. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let\u2019s go to the phones quickly, to Rigby, Idaho. Jen, nice to have you with us, EIB Network. Hello.<\/line> <\/line> CALLER: Hello! I\u2019m just calling about the health care. I was listening and realizing that I might not have a choice in what I do. I got pregnant about a little while — a year or so ago, and I didn\u2019t have insurance. So my husband and I sat down, went over the numbers, and we wouldn\u2019t only save about $500 if we decided to pay for insurance. We were very lucky, very blessed, and I — you know, I was healthy, the baby was healthy, but we had that choice and I would like to keep that choice. I would like to keep my liberties in that and (laughing), you know, I don\u2019t support state-run or federally — federal government-run —<\/line> <\/line> RUSH: I don\u2019t want to be overly dramatic here, Jen. I really don\u2019t here. But your liberty is at risk with Obama in the White House. All of our liberty is at risk. She makes a brilliant point, though. There are a lot of people who have run the numbers. They don\u2019t have health insurance. They only save 500 bucks with it. It\u2019s not worth the hassle. They were lucky. They had the money to pay for it themselves and they did. She\u2019s afraid of losing that option. She will if Obama gets what he wants here.<\/line><\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I keep trying to avoid any more Obama sound bites. Maybe I just ought to flood the sound bites to make the libs tired of him like Bill Maher is already get tired of him, but I don\u2019t want to tire you out. But this is an outrage. This is an outrage. What you\u2019re going to hear him say here, he knows is not true.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: Let me also address a illegitimate concern that\u2019s being put forward by those who are claiming that a public option is somehow a Trojan horse for a single payer system. Now, I\u2019ll be honest. There are countries where a single payer system works pretty well.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Name one.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: But I believe — and I\u2019ve taken some flak from members of my own party for this belief —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Lieberman.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: — that it\u2019s important for our reform efforts to build on our traditions here in the United States.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Our mistakes.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: So, when you hear the naysayers claim that I\u2019m trying to bring about government-run health care, know this: They\u2019re not telling the truth.<\/p>\n

RUSH: They are! This is a more blatant lie than any Bill Clinton told except that he never had sex with that woman Lewinsky lie. It is precisely government-run health care, and why is he heading out to the AMA to get \u2019em on board? ‘Cause it\u2019s government-run health care. It\u2019s government-run everything with this guy. It\u2019s government-run General Motors, government-run Chrysler, government-run banks, government-run mortgage industry, and whatever else he can get his hands on. You just wonder here how the doctors reacted to this. <\/p>\n

Here\u2019s Rich in Sierra Vista, Arizona, as we go back to the phones. Rich, thank you for waiting. Nice to have you with us, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush, thanks for taking my call.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I have a question for you. You hear this over and over again, especially with the medical thing since it\u2019s up here right now. What are they saying, it\u2019s going to cost $1.2 trillion over ten years? Is that what the fact is, or somewhere around there?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, yeah, yeah. But that\u2019s not the number to look at.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, yeah. The question I would have is, okay, they say over ten years. And I know that it\u2019s going to cost a lot more than that, I totally agree with you, but they say over ten years, what\u2019s supposed to happen in ten years? Is it this thing just not going to pay for itself anymore? What\u2019s going on with that?<\/p>\n

RUSH: George Will made the point yesterday on This Week, every year\u2019s budget is a lie. Every single budget is a lie. Every single year\u2019s budget there\u2019s more spent than what is slated to be spent. They have to go back and get supplementals and they\u2019re lying through their teeth every year and now they\u2019re making the truth in terms of projections ten years out. It\u2019s BS. Your instincts are right. Don\u2019t doubt them. The real number here is not how much they\u2019re going to spend because it\u2019s already outrageous and we don\u2019t have it. We\u2019re already two trillion in debt this year. And the more he takes on, the more he is depleting the private sector economy, the more he\u2019s taking money out of it. He\u2019s trying to nationalize, government-run, the US health care system. It is now one-fifth of the US economy. That number is two-and-a-half trillion dollars. That\u2019s what Obama wants control over. He wants to take two-and-a-half trillion dollars out of the private sector and put his administration in charge of it. Man, follow the money. You always get the answer to most every question. They control two-and-a-half trillion dollars this way whatever they control with the automobile business. This is not good, folks, any way you look at it. <\/p>\n

Doug in Scottsdale, Arizona, where I was told today by a friend there\u2019s no traffic in Scottsdale. Hi. How are you? <\/p>\n

CALLER: Good. I\u2019ve grown up listening to you my whole life. I\u2019m a senior in college and I\u2019m getting ready to graduate, and I\u2019ve learned more listening to one of your shows than I have in all of my years in school.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, that\u2019s awfully nice. I don\u2019t doubt that that\u2019s true, either.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It\u2019s very true. I\u2019m calling because my father is an orthopedic surgeon and I work at his office, and, you know, government and Medicare, they\u2019re already controlling doctors, and they dictate what they get paid, and now it\u2019s even starting to affect the private sector insurance. You know, not too long ago my father did a surgery, and I sent out the bill to a private insurance company, and they came back and they said we will reimburse you for 15% of what you billed. And they said we\u2019re doing that because that\u2019s what Medicare would do.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: So the private sector is now saying, well, you know, government Medicare, they\u2019re dictating, they\u2019re telling doctors what they can —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Exactly. Exactly right. That\u2019s the leverage Obama has over them at the AMA. Medicare already reimburses them. But you know how many people use Medicare. It\u2019s already in as much trouble as Social Security is. But the telling point is Obama\u2019s out there talking about we need a new option, we need more options. There are 1,300 health care options available for people in this country, according to George Will. What\u2019s adding one more gonna mean? In fact, adding the government option will result in a serious decline of the 1,300 private sector options, which is the objective. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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