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Tom in Danbury, Connecticut, you\u2019re next on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Good afternoon, Rush. What a privilege. Longtime listener back to Mapplethorpe debacle.<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: I have raised four Rush Babies who are now four Rush adults.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, thank you very much. That\u2019s great to hear.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Talking about the cost of health care and we get fed this information about the constant rising costs, well, why? One of the big reasons is because of the cost of Medicare and the cost of Medicaid. Anybody who has a relative, a mother or somebody on Medicare will see that typically they only pay one-third of normal customary charges. Well, who\u2019s going to pay the balance? The insurance companies have to make a profit from somewhere, and so because of government\u2019s involvement in health care already, that\u2019s one of the reasons that health care costs so much. What do they want to do? They want more government involvement. It\u2019s insanity, isn\u2019t it, Rush?<\/p>\n

RUSH: It is. It\u2019s the subprime mortgage crisis coming to health care. Same arguments; same failures predictable shortly down the road. <\/p>\n

Robert in Stuart, Florida. You\u2019re next. Great to have you, sir, on the EIB Network.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush, a little CBI lingo. Anyone who signs on for this in my opinion — I\u2019m an 88-year-old veteran, hundred percent totally permanently disabled — kiss of death. History remembers the Bataan death march. If you couldn\u2019t make it, you were cut. When your name becomes a symbol and next to it it\u2019s red, you are not producing. You\u2019re taking too much medicine, it costs too much and so forth, you\u2019re going to go. The government controls those who can be born, who choose to be born, and now they\u2019re getting in the business of choosing who may live. Not right, Rush. We\u2019re a better country than that. You can\u2019t put the mothers and fathers and older people on the block and say, ‘Why don\u2019t you think they should be terminated? They\u2019re not paying in anything, they\u2019re taking Social Security.\u2019 You\u2019re a number, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s what\u2019s going to happen.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly.<\/p>\n

RUSH: In fact, let me give you a good illustration of this. Ed Koch. You said you\u2019re 88 out there, Robert. Ed Koch is 84. Let\u2019s say Obamacare is the law of the land. Ed Koch needed bypass surgery, quadruple bypass surgery on June 19th. He had a heart valve replacement and successful quadruple bypass surgery on June 19th. He\u2019s been in the hospital since then. He\u2019s 84. Under Obamacare — take Ed Koch out of it, because Ed Koch, former mayor, he\u2019d get covered, government official, apparatchik, commissar — but your average 84-year-old who needs a heart valve and a quadruple bypass, I guarantee you is not going to get it. The government will say there\u2019s no point in making this investment in you. You\u2019re already past the life expectancy. And guess what? Koch had to have gallbladder surgery today after having the heart valve and the quadruple bypass on June the 19th. He\u2019s been in the hospital since then.<\/p>\n

Now, I\u2019m not trying to be ghoulish. I\u2019m trying to be rational and illustrate a point. If Ed Koch were your average 84-year-old American would he get any of that treatment? By design he would not because he\u2019s too old. He\u2019s not worth the investment to keep alive because we gotta cut health care costs and so forth. We gotta use less health care. It\u2019s in the bill. Ed Koch had the ability with his current plan to have this work done. He will lose his current plan — well, Koch may not be the best example because he\u2019s a former mayor, he\u2019s a Democrat government guy and I\u2019m sure would be taken care of as one of the apparatchiks, which reminds me of this story. Henry Allingham, he went to war as a teenager and he helped keep flimsy aircraft flying. He survived his wounds and came home from World War I to live to 113 years of age. He died Saturday. <\/p>\n

You know what he attributed his longevity to? Cigarettes, whiskey, and wild, wild women, 113. ‘Jokes aside, he was a modest man, he served as Britain\u2019s conscience –‘ it said here, ‘– reminding young people time and time again about the true cost of war. ‘I want everyone to know they died for us.” These old guys will be looked upon with disfavor by the Obama health care plan. They represent some of the greatest sources of collected wisdom to impart to other people simply because of the experiences that they\u2019ve had. You asked yourself a question about Ed Koch, 88-year-old Robert here from Stuart, Florida, if he needs major surgery like this, Obama plan, he doesn\u2019t get it, and he can\u2019t go pay for it privately. He can\u2019t have private health insurance. If he can\u2019t afford the procedure on his own — and then he\u2019s gotta find a doctor who\u2019s willing to work outside the government plan, and there\u2019s going to be intimidation on that. This is just a dreadful, horrible thing that they have on the drawing board.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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