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RUSH: I want to grab a phone call here first. It is Emily in Guntersville, Alabama. Hi, Emily. Great to have you here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you so much. How are you today?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Very well. Thanks.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I have one good question for you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. I can answer it I\u2019m sure.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It\u2019s about health care. Why are we not hearing the big insurance companies like Blue Cross and Blue Shield? Why aren\u2019t they running ads and screaming and yelling about this?<\/p>\n

RUSH: I am so glad you asked that question because there is an answer to this. By the way, Blue Cross just laid off 650 people. Blue Cross\/Blue Shield of Illinois is losing 650 jobs. ‘Preparing for the future under health care reform, the parent of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois will [can] 650 jobs amid the economic downturn that has caused its employer customers to reduce employees and a demand from Congress and President Obama to reduce administrative costs.\u2019 So that\u2019s just a little side statistic about Blue Cross\/Blue Shield of Illinois. Emily, here\u2019s the answer to the question. All of these companies being demonized — the Big Pharmaceutical, Big Insurance — they\u2019re out there. <\/p>\n

What they\u2019re trying to do right now is work with their lobbyists and members of Congress to shape a bill that is favorable to them. They understand what\u2019s going on in Washington. They have to operate under the premise that there\u2019s going to be a bill. In servicing premise, they have their lobbyists behind the scenes doing everything they can to shape that bill so it\u2019s most advantageous or the least damages to them. As always, there is a plan B, and that is: If they begin to see it falling apart and if they begin to see these protests and this civic unrest as really leading to serious trouble with the bill\u2019s passage, then they will join. They will join the effort with TV ads to try to kill it at that point. But right now, they don\u2019t want to make enemies of the White House. <\/p>\n

You gotta understand: Everybody\u2019s scared to death of this guy. They see what he\u2019s doing with health care. They see that he wants to take over life-and-death decisions. He wants to take \u2019em from Congress. He wants the White House and the executive branch to be able to do this. This is a man who fired the CEO of General Motors after taking over the company. This is a man who has a ‘pay czar\u2019 who is determining today what executive compensation is going to be at seven firms on Wall Street. There are members of the White House economic roundtable who have been called by Rahm Emanuel: ‘You embarrassed the president with that question. You don\u2019t do this.\u2019 They\u2019re living in fear. Right now they\u2019re playing a protection game. <\/p>\n

They\u2019re not going to run ads to defeat this until they think there\u2019s a chance it can be defeated. Because if they run ads right now, Emily, they are just putting a big bull\u2019s-eye, front and back, on their clothes, on their bodies. But there are starting to be some signs here. The Chamber of Commerce yesterday launched a multimillion-dollar ad buy criticizing Democrat reform plans for raising taxes and expanding government control over health care, but they didn\u2019t come out and oppose the plan. They just criticized elements of the plan. But there is more and more opposition — and believe me, behind the scenes these people are planning their ad buys and their campaigns right now to come out and kill this thing if they think it can happen. <\/p>\n

‘A veteran…\u2019 This is from The Politico today: ‘A veteran Republican lobbyist suggests that groups hang on as long as possible because the real deal-making, he said, doesn\u2019t happen until a House-Senate conference committee hashes out a final bill, and that\u2019s when groups will have the most leverage,\u2019 and that\u2019s another reason why they\u2019re waiting. The House has got its bill; the Senate\u2019s got a number of them. But when they go to conference and put together the real bill, that\u2019s when the lobbying starts. If there\u2019s a chance to kill it, that\u2019s when the ads to do so will start. But they\u2019re not going to do it now. It\u2019s just they\u2019re keeping their powder dry. But I guarantee you the insurance companies are fuming. <\/p>\n

They are sitting there fuming. Much of what they do is dictated by government already. We had numerous calls from insurance agents. They would love to be able to sell policies to individuals that the government will not let them sell. Believe me, they\u2019re seething out there, individual agents, executives at companies and company-wide. Nobody wants to see what this guy\u2019s doing, but if he\u2019s going to get it done, they want to find a way to make it as harmless to them or as least damaging as possible. You know, one of the things that frustrates people like you and me, Emily, and the rest of us, is we look at Washington and we look at this. I mean, this health care to me is a zero-sum game. There is no compromise on this to me. This plan that\u2019s out there doesn\u2019t have anything in it I want to compromise on. <\/p>\n

But Washington is a town of compromise, so we\u2019ve got the leaders, the party that runs the place is the Democrats. They\u2019ve got this plan out there and Obama is out there pushing it in generalities. The Republicans don\u2019t have the votes to stop it. So you and I look at this and say, ‘Kill it. It is bad. It will destroy the private sector. It\u2019s bad for freedom. It\u2019s bad for liberty.\u2019 In Washington, with the lobbyists and the politicians, it is more a compromise game. The premise has been accepted: health care reform. So you think that the insurance companies that are being demonized would be just like we are. ‘Kill it. It\u2019s rotten. We don\u2019t want to be part of it,\u2019 but they are already regulated by government, and they have got to make sure that when this is all over, they still have some friends there. <\/p>\n

They don\u2019t want to all be Bill Gates and Microsoft with the Justice Department coming after them with business-ending anti-trust lawsuits or who knows what else. The doctors are seething, too. Obama\u2019s out there denigrating them, accusing them — and he\u2019s just firing from the hip. I\u2019ve talked to a lot of doctors and I\u2019ve heard from a lot of doctors. There\u2019s no such thing as a 30 or 40 or $50,000 reimbursement for an amputation. A thousand dollars in one case I heard, $650 for amputation of a leg. There\u2019s no 30 or $40,000 a doctor is reimbursed for amputating a foot of a diabetic. He\u2019s just throwing these numbers out. He doesn\u2019t even know what he\u2019s talking about and he doesn\u2019t even care. The details don\u2019t matter to him. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s why he\u2019s not getting into details, and there are other reasons why he\u2019s not getting into details as well. Folks, let me say something. We conservatives, we are not against driving down costs. But the way you drive down costs is by expanding competition. You create a financial relationship between a patient and the doctor through direct purchasing of policies; through health savings accounts, controlled by the individual. You don\u2019t do it by some kind of government edict. And let\u2019s never forget… This is a premise, I think, that would serve us all well remembering: Health care is not for the healthy. Health care is to take care of the sick. Health care is to take care of those who become unhealthy in some way. You don\u2019t save costs on the healthy! <\/p>\n

The healthy running around exercising and not eating trans fats is not going to save you a dime. It\u2019s all BS. All of this is an attempt to regulate your behavior, make you feel guilty for enjoying yourself, essentially. If you\u2019re enjoying yourself they\u2019re gonna find a way to make you feel guilty and tax you for it and say, ‘You enjoying yourself is leading to higher health care costs and the election of Republicans, and we\u2019re not going to have either.\u2019 So what we have to do if we\u2019re going to save money, we don\u2019t spend money on the healthy. Who do we spend money on? We spend money on the unhealthy — and to save money, you have to cut spending on those who are being treated. It\u2019s just that simple. If the objective is to cut spending, or to make it cheaper — and it is — we\u2019re not spending any money on the healthy. <\/p>\n

So all of you who fear death panels or denial of service? Hello! Your instincts are exactly right, but when you get sick, not when you\u2019re healthy. When you get sick, that\u2019s where all the money is spent in our health care system particularly beyond a certain age, end-of-life. Where the hell do you think the savings going to come from? This notion that there\u2019s no rationing? Obama is lying through his teeth about this. Every Democrat is saying that all these rumors and myths are not true is lying through their teeth. There\u2019s only one way to save money in our current health care system, and that\u2019s: Stop spending as much money on the sick, because we don\u2019t spend any money on the healthy. Now, if Obama\u2019s daughters became ill, he would look for the best doctors at the best hospitals. He would demand the best treatment and medicines. <\/p>\n

He would not tell the provider to cut costs. He would not tell the provider to cut tests. He would not tell the provider to cut procedures. No loving parent would. Yet Obama is demanding that the rest of us do so. Our families mean just as much to us as his does to him, or any member of Congress. We want the best we can get. That\u2019s what America is. He is going to deny us the best we can get — not just in health care, but in any number of things — by forcing us into systems and products that he wants us to have. Systems and products that he will exempt himself from, as will every member of Congress. We all want the best we can get. The issue is how we pay for it. We all don\u2019t get the best and we never have all gotten the best, depending on how you define it. <\/p>\n

We all can\u2019t afford the same kind of car. We all can\u2019t afford the same kind of house. We all can\u2019t afford the same kind of vacation. But we all want the best of what we can get for what we can pay for. What needs to be reformed is how we pay to get the best we can when it comes to the health care, but Obama wants to decide that. Obama wants to decide who gets what. He wants to play doctor. Obama ultimately wants to play God. This messianic complex of his is genuine. Pelosi wants to play God. Harry Reid wants to play God. Barney Frank wants to play Godette. And that\u2019s the key difference. We conservatives don\u2019t pretend to know what treatments or medicines should be offered in every situation. I wouldn\u2019t have the chutzpah to stand up and tell 300 million people that I know what\u2019s best for you in anything, particularly health care. <\/p>\n

I mean, the hubris, the ego, the arrogance, and the conceit of a guy whose career spans all of five minutes, with zilch, zero, nada executive experience! It\u2019s clear he doesn\u2019t know what he\u2019s doing when he\u2019s off that teleprompter. Yet he\u2019s got the audacity to go out and tell a woman, ‘I don\u2019t think your hundred-year-old mother should get anything but a pain pill.\u2019 Who the hell is he, and who does he think he is? There isn\u2019t one member of the conservative movement, leadership or rank-and-file, that would dare assume to know this kind of thing: What\u2019s best for you in terms of health care. We don\u2019t pretend to know what treatments. We don\u2019t pretend to know what medicines ought to be offered in every situation. We don\u2019t pretend to know what tests should be taken. We believe this must be left to individuals and the highly trained specialists in the field who have gone to school to learn about this, and I don\u2019t think Obama\u2019s ever been to med school and, if he has, we\u2019ll never see the records. We know the financing of health care requires reform. Market reforms, not a government takeover. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me just shoot straight on, ladies and gentlemen. Barack Obama is a serial liar. He\u2019s out there saying all these doctors cut off feet and limbs for a 30, 40, $50,000 reimbursement. Not true. He says that doctors — pediatricians — take out tonsils to line their pockets. The guy\u2019s a serial liar. He is campaigning all over the place for a House bill that he has not himself said he will support as is. How crazy is this? He doesn\u2019t have a plan. He has not put together a plan. There\u2019s a reason for this. All Obama wants is the government to steal the health care industry. He just wants to steal it and control it. So he\u2019s out on the stump. He shoots from the hip because he believes he has ‘a gift.\u2019 He told Harry Reid, ‘Harry, I have a gift,\u2019 meaning his ‘eloquence,\u2019 his ability to persuade simply by the power of his presence. <\/p>\n

Well, that\u2019s gone. He thinks he can talk his way around anything. But by not getting specific, by not having a plan, he can rhetorically deny supporting something that is unpopular or support something he thinks may be popular. This is Axelrod\u2019s strategy: Don\u2019t make any firm commitments about any specific thing. Speak in generalities, speak philosophical. When somebody says that they take your health insurance say, ‘No, I\u2019ll never support that. Dah, dah, dah.\u2019 They\u2019ll be accountable for nothing is the plan here. Be accountable for nothing negative. Take credit for everything that might be positive. I don\u2019t think his own party members get it. I think he\u2019s sending them out there to take all the arrows. They\u2019re the ones going out there getting the grief at the town halls. <\/p>\n

He stacks and stages his where he gets all these minions going, ‘Yes, we can! Yes, we can!\u2019 But the Democrat Party is out there getting its ass whipped by average Americans, and Obama is sitting there in comfort on Air Force One or in the Oval Office or surrounded by a bunch of paid lackeys giving him a false impression of security. He\u2019s prepared to leave them high and dry. He has already thrown them under the bus. They\u2019re the ones taking heat for his idea. Now, I know the health care plan in the House is something that Pelosi and Henry Waxman have been dreaming about for years, and they probably just had to pull it out of a drawer. It\u2019s probably been written years ago in anticipation of this day. But it\u2019s all about Obama, in Obama\u2019s mind. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s not about his party. It\u2019s not about his country. It\u2019s about him. He doesn\u2019t really give a rat\u2019s rear end about the Democrat Party, either. It\u2019s about him. He\u2019s bigger than any of it. ‘Oh, come on, Rush. You\u2019re a little over the top.\u2019 Oh, really? Obama doesn\u2019t give a damn about his own stepbrother still living in a hut in Kenya, a six-by-nine-foot hut! Less than $20 would double this guy\u2019s annual income. George Obongo Obango Odingo Obama or whatever his name is, is still living in a hut. Obama hasn\u2019t even sent him a sign to put inside: ‘Hut, Sweet Hut.\u2019 Hut! Hut! His aunt in this country is facing deportation. He doesn\u2019t care! He won\u2019t give his brother a nickel, a dime or whatever — and his poor aunt in Boston, may be here illegally and is facing deportation. <\/p>\n

What makes these Democrat hacks in Congress think Obama gives a damn about them? They\u2019re only useful to him as long as they\u2019re doing his bidding. Otherwise, he doesn\u2019t care. Let me ask you something. If you were president of the United States and the news hit that you had a half-brother living in squalor — living in a hut, a six-square-foot hut with a dirt floor with no air-conditioning — would you do something about it? Would you at least dispatch the Meals on Wheels program? He hasn\u2019t done diddly-squat! He was in Africa, wasn\u2019t he? He\u2019s been in Africa. I know he didn\u2019t have time to visit. He didn\u2019t want the photo-op. If I had a brother living in a hut, I\u2019d take care of it before I became president of the United States just on humane principles. For crying out loud, he doesn\u2019t give a rat\u2019s rear end about the Democrat Party. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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