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RUSH: This Obama! We mentioned this earlier in the program. (laughing) He stunned members of the AARP by telling everybody that the AARP supports his plan when they haven\u2019t done it, and there was a deluge of phone calls to the AARP — which, as I said, are just MoveOn.org members with false teeth. And they were inundated by their rank-and-file members because they haven\u2019t come out officially for it but Obama yesterday in Portsmouth talking about his plan and the AARP.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: We have the AARP on board because they know this is a good deal for our seniors! <\/p>\n

OBAMA: The A-A-AARP would not be endorsing a bill if it was undermining Medicare.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, they haven\u2019t publicly endorsed it. We know that they do! We know. As I say, they\u2019re out-of-work union people with false teeth, MoveOn.org with false teeth, 1960s Vietnam War protesters with false teeth. They haven\u2019t officially done it because they don\u2019t want their rank and file to know they\u2019re on board. Now the rank and file know because Obama, off prompter, let the cat out of the bag. AARP is being inundated now with calls from rank-and-file members saying, ‘What the hell?\u2019 and I\u2019m sure when you call, if you\u2019re an AARP member and you call your local office, they\u2019re probably going to tell you what a member of Congress is telling us at town halls. ‘No! You didn\u2019t hear that right. Obama didn\u2019t say that. You\u2019re an idiot! You gotta listen better.\u2019 Here is Obama at the town hall once again attacking doctors. Remember, he accused pediatricians — who are not surgeons, by definition — of doing unnecessary tonsillectomies to line their pockets.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: If a family care physician works with his or her patient to help them lose weight, modify diet, monitors whether they\u2019re taking their medications in a timely fashion, they might get reimbursed a pittance. But if that same diabetic ends up getting their foot amputated, that\u2019s 30,000, 40, $50,000 immediately the surgeon is reimbursed. But why not make sure that we\u2019re also reimbursing the care that prevents the amputation? Right? That will save us money.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thirty to 40 to $50,000 for every diabetic\u2019s foot you cut off. Now, we have a couple of guests here watching the program today whose father is an orthopedic surgeon. What is the statistic you guys gave me at the top of the hour? What was the…? (interruption) Yeah. What\u2019s the number you gave me? (interruption) Now, your dad\u2019s an orthopedic surgeon? Does your dad do amputations? (interruption) He does. And it\u2019s a thousand bucks? He gets reimbursed a thousand dollars for amputating what? (interruption) Just for the… The hospital bill could be more but the doctor just gets a thousand dollars. It includes three months aftercare. So it\u2019s not that profitable to chop somebody\u2019s foot off? (interruption) No. We have experts here. We have… (interruption) <\/p>\n

Unless you\u2019re into volume, yeah. You\u2019d have to get 30 feet chopped off to get anywhere near Obama\u2019s price or claim. Thousand just for the doctor. The hospital may charge more than that, and that thousand dollars includes the three months of aftercare. Right. Stunning facts once you talk to people who are actually in the business. So $30,000 to amputate a foot. I wonder what they get for an addadictomy in San Francisco. You know, I think I\u2019ll send a question in to Obama\u2019s health care website: ‘What do you do get for an addadictomy?\u2019 (interruption) How do you prevent an amputation, in case of diabetics? Well, I\u2019m not a doctor. I\u2019m not a doctor, Snerdley. There are different kinds of diabetes. There\u2019s type 1 and there\u2019s type 2, and type 2 is adult onset. That can sometimes, if you catch it early, be controlled with diet and exercise, which it does help in diabetes, lowering blood sugar. <\/p>\n

Now, type 1 is a different matter. Type 1, that\u2019s bad. I know people that have been shooting up insulin since they were eight years old on type 1, and be sometimes there\u2019s nothing you can do. Depends. Everybody is different, see, but the problem is that Obamacare would turn everybody into a statistic. There wouldn\u2019t be any personal evaluation or very little personal evaluation. Let\u2019s go back so we don\u2019t forget this. July 22nd at the White House, primetime press conference and a McClatchy reporter asked Obama a question. It\u2019s a long question here. ‘Can you guarantee that the legislation will lock in and say the government will never deny any services, that that\u2019s going to be decided by the doctor and the patient and the government will not deny any coverage? Secondly, can you as a symbolic gesture say that you and the Congress will abide by the same benefits in the public option?\u2019<\/p>\n

OBAMA: Right now doctors a lot of times are forced to make decisions based on the fee payment schedule that\u2019s out there. So if they\u2019re looking and — and you come in and you\u2019ve got a bad sore throat or your child has a bad sore throat or has repeated sore throats, the doctor may look at the reimbursement system and say to himself, ‘You know, what? I make a lot more money if I take this kid\u2019s tonsils out.\u2019<\/p>\n

RUSH: This guy has got… I would love to use the street term for it. I will not. But this guy\u2019s got a thing for doctors. He\u2019s got a thing for the insurance companies. Anybody who\u2019s successful they\u2019ve gotta be cheating the system! They\u2019ve gotta be stealing it from somebody. This guy\u2019s got a chip on his shoulder about that. Tonsillectomies. Unnecessary tonsillectomies to get the reimbursement. You know, the whole notion of ‘reimbursements\u2019 is one glaring illustration of what\u2019s wrong with this whole system. You know, if somebody told me starting next year, ‘Rush, your radio show, we\u2019re going to sell advertising and we\u2019re he going to do this and that, and we\u2019re going to discuss your reimbursement schedule,\u2019 I\u2019d say, ‘What do you mean my ‘reimbursement schedule\u2019? The advertisers pay, we give them the service. What reimbursement?\u2019 <\/p>\n

‘Well, no, the government\u2019s going to act as a middleman and the government is going to determine how much that you should be reimbursed based on what it costs for you to provide the service.\u2019 ‘Why? Why are you getting involved in my payment schedule and what I charge and what people who do business with me are willing to pay?\u2019 ‘Well, because not everybody can afford to advertise on your program and we need to make it so that everybody can. We need Rush insurance. All of your advertisers do really well but not everybody can afford it so we\u2019re going to step in here. We\u2019ll reimburse you two or three months a portion of what you make.\u2019 This whole notion of reimbursement! Imagine if you\u2019re the doctors. Imagine if you\u2019re in a business where you have to wait around for a government ‘reimbursement\u2019 for your income. There\u2019s so much wrong about this structurally. We do need reform, but we don\u2019t need to amplify the problems that exist in the name of solving them. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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