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RUSH: Obama is close to having a number of hospitals, part of a hospital association, on his side now for national care. And I want to tell you how he does this. He calls in each part of the health care industry — the hospitals, the insurance companies, big business retailers, big business providers — and he makes it clear that they can join him or he will punish them. So what they do is cut the best deal they think they can and they [the Obama administration] announce that they are supported by doctors and hospitals. So he goes and speaks to the AMA and the AMA, ‘Oh, we\u2019re all for Obama,\u2019 because he goes out and threatens these people. He brings them in in private — we don\u2019t see these meetings — and he says, ‘Join me or I\u2019m going to ruin you; join me or you\u2019re going to pay the price.\u2019 It was the same when he told the bankers, ‘I\u2019m the only guy between you and the people with the pitchforks.\u2019 Everybody is scared to death of the guy. This is the same trick that he pulled with Caterpillar. <\/p>\n

You\u2019ll see the news that the American Hospital Association or whatever it\u2019s called has now aligned itself with Obama, that Walmart\u2019s lined itself up with Obama on his health care plan, and this is certainly him taking advantage of the fact that he knows that everybody is scared to death of him, and that everybody is scared to death of massive federal power being wielded against them. Remember they used to dump all over H.R. Haldeman as a ‘strongman\u2019 for Nixon doing this kind of stuff. Obama is treated as a visionary and a nice guy. You know what? What\u2019s missing here is courage and guts. These hospital people and the doctors and the CEOs, they need to challenge Obama. They need to challenge him, confront him, fight him, and expose him. These people can help beat Obama and his health care agenda. He\u2019s not invincible. But if you let a bully keep doing what he does, he\u2019s going to keep doing what he does. Otherwise you confront him and you take him down. And Obama is really using the power of the federal government much as a schoolyard bully terrorizes the playground. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: David in Chicago. Nice to have on the program, sir. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello, Rush. It\u2019s a pleasure. I\u2019m a physician and a geriatrician, and I wanted to agree with you that President Obama\u2019s policies will eliminate competition from the health care marketplace and therefore eliminate motivation to innovate. Not just in technology, but in the health care systems and wide use of resources. Let me give you an example. Most of my patients have Medicare Advantage, which is a program that Obama has railed on and wants to eliminate. This works like an HMO, so my patients\u2019 Medicare benefits are reassigned to an insurance company which contracts with me. And if I can manage their health care within a certain amount, then I will actually do well. In other words, if I meet certain goals including patient satisfaction, I get a little bonus at the end of the year because I\u2019ve managed their health care within that amount of money. President Obama has called this program wasteful spending and says that we\u2019re overpaying insurance companies.<\/p>\n

RUSH: See, this is exactly what I mean. Here is a program relying on competition to keep costs down, which means it works. You have an incentive to keep your costs down, to keep your patients happy. You get a bonus. Medicare or Medicaid Plus is who pays you?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Medicare pays the insurance company, which then contracts with me to manage the care well.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wouldn\u2019t you love it though if your patients could pay you?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, those days are gone, I\u2019m afraid.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I refuse to believe that. See, I know what you\u2019re saying. I\u2019m not arguing with you. I\u2019m saying, in a philosophical sense, ‘those days are gone\u2019 is exactly why those days are gone. We\u2019re headed that way. ‘Those days are gone where the patients pay. Those days are gone.\u2019 No, they\u2019re not gone! There\u2019s no reason to give up on them being gone. Anyway, this guy, this doctor, says Obama is targeting his plan to shut it down. He says it\u2019s wasteful. It works! It proves you don\u2019t need Obama\u2019s plan. That\u2019s why this doctor\u2019s arrangement here is under assault. I know this is hard to hear, that we\u2019ve elected a president that wants to do that. I don\u2019t know any other way to say it, folks. It is true.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Let me squeeze one more in here before we have to split for the commercial time-out. Tucson, Arizona, it\u2019s Jack. Hello, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Longtime dittos to you there, Mr. Limbaugh.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m just wondering. You know, so many people seem to have missed one of the comments that Obama mentioned about health care only costing us about $175 a month. It seems to me that a lot of people miss the comment he made just before that where it said in ten years he expected people to be paying $175 a year.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. I don\u2019t care whether he means next week or ten years from now. Nobody\u2019s going to be spending as little as $175 a month, a week, a year, whatever on health care. This is one of the things that\u2019s somewhat frustrating for a lot of us. There is no government program in existence that costs less than what they say it\u2019s going to cost. Every damned one of them costs more. There\u2019s no evidence. I mean, look at all the problems people encounter dealing with government agencies. <\/p>\n

What evidence is there that this government or Obama or anybody else can tackle something as massive and intricate as health care? There is no evidence. So the selling point, the magic is the belief by some people that it isn\u2019t going to cost them anything, not even $175 a year. We\u2019ve accepted way too many premises on all of this. We had a doctor call today and describes his day and how he gets paid. He gets paid by the insurance company. I said, ‘Don\u2019t you wish you got paid by the patient?\u2019<\/p>\n

‘Oh, those days are long gone and will never be again.\u2019 <\/p>\n

They are not. No, they\u2019re not. There are still a lot of Americans that pay the doctors themselves — and if it\u2019s good for some of us, why not for everybody? That\u2019s something to work toward. The way it used to be. I know how deep the culture is, but they\u2019re paying for it! The people that think they aren\u2019t are paying for it. It\u2019s the bottom line. Anyway, I appreciate the call out there. Thanks, Jack, very much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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