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RUSH: To Oklahoma, here is Dustin. Dustin, it\u2019s nice to have you, sir. He\u2019s 23 years old. Nice to have you on the EIB Network.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey thank you, Rush. Hey, I\u2019ve heard a little bit about what is wrong with the health care plan, but what is right with it, and can it be fixed?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now are you asking me what\u2019s right about the American health care system, or what\u2019s right about the health care reform plan that Obama\u2019s trying to pass?<\/p>\n

CALLER: What\u2019s right with his plan, if anything. I mean, is there anything that can be taken from that and made into something good?<\/p>\n

RUSH: No.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (chuckles) Well, I\u2019m sorry. I\u2019m the ignorant American. I don\u2019t know what exactly he\u2019s talking about. I just hear a little bit here and there.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me tell you why. That\u2019s a legitimate question. It\u2019s sort of a variation of the question, ‘Rush, is there anything good you can say about Obama?\u2019 Yeah. He\u2019s going to Martha\u2019s Vineyard and he rented a house owned by a Republican. See? I can say good things about Obama. The reason this plan is bad is because this plan has nothing to do with health care. This plan does not improve health care. It does not extend health care to people that have it. It doesn\u2019t do anything it\u2019s advertised. All it does is put the government in total control of every aspect of your life, Dustin. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: The government is going to determine what diseases are treated, how much is spent treating them, who gets treated. There\u2019s nothing in this that is redeemable at all. You know, you\u2019ve heard probably that there are 47 million uninsured Americans, and ‘That\u2019s just horrible! In a country like ours have that many uninsured Americans,\u2019 right?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. The House bill has been analyzed by the Washington Post and the Congressional Budget Office. This monstrous, 1,017 page bill, after it passes — ten years after it passes — there\u2019s still 17 million uninsured Americans! It does even accomplish its primary, advertised objective. But the reason it\u2019s bad and the reason there\u2019s nothing in it that\u2019s good is because the government is going to be totally in charge of it. There\u2019s nobody in government that understands health. Obama\u2019s never been a doctor. Obama\u2019s not a businessman. It\u2019s none of his business what you eat, what kind of car you drive. It\u2019s none of his business where you go to the school. It\u2019s none of his business, period, how you live. It\u2019s none of his business if you choose to smoke.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: If you\u2019re not breaking the law, it\u2019s nobody\u2019s business what you do. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: These people have the power, if this plan passes, to regulate behavior based on the impact your behavior will have on our health care system. I guarantee you there\u2019s nothing about it that\u2019s any good. But socialism. It is liberalism. It expands the government at the expense of your liberty. I\u2019m not interested in cherry-picking what might be a page or two in here to have some good ideas, because the whole thing has gotta be stopped.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay. You know, I do building maintenance, and if they run a building like they run the health care system, it\u2019s just going to be a mess.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, did you hear the president the other day? He was out doing a town hall meeting, and one of the falsehoods that he\u2019s telling people, he says — and I want you to understand the logic of this. There\u2019s two parts here. The president says first thing, ‘Our health care system is broken. It\u2019s gotta be fixed. It\u2019s just immoral and unjust! We\u2019ve got to do something about it,\u2019 right?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Then he says, ‘If you like your insurance plan and like your doctor, you get to keep it.\u2019 Well, now, wait a minute, Dustin. I just thought he said the whole system is broken, yet if you like yours, you can keep it?<\/p>\n

CALLER: (laughs)<\/p>\n

RUSH: Those two don\u2019t go together. The second thing is he said that he wants a government option in insurance to compete with all the private insurance options that people have, to keep the insurance companies honest. Now, to people who were objecting to this, he said, ‘Hey, look, UPS and FedEx are doing fine. It\u2019s the Post Office that\u2019s in trouble.\u2019 Now, this was one of the most unfortunate things for him he\u2019s ever said. He just told the American people that a federal agency, the Post Office, is in debt. It\u2019s not doing well. It\u2019s a mess.<\/p>\n

Private sector companies delivering packages are doing much better than the government plan, and yet he went ahead and made that comparison. The reason he did it is because he\u2019s trying to convince people that their private insurance plan will remain intact. It will not. Eighty-three percent of people who currently like their health care plans through their employer will lose it and have to go to the government option within five years of the program passing, by design. The president himself has said numerous times since 2003 that he\u2019s for a single-payer system, which is government-controlled health care. So just in a philosophical sense, Dustin, your instincts are right on the money, your analogy is. You do building maintenance, and you say, ‘If they run a building like they run the health care system, it will be a disaster.\u2019<\/p>\n

CALLER: Absolutely.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Your instincts are right on the money. There is nothing redeemable in this plan. This is nothing redeemable of putting Barney Frank or Henry Waxman or Nancy Pelosi in charge of your life.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, they wouldn\u2019t be on the same health care plan themselves, would they?<\/p>\n

RUSH: No. <\/p>\n

CALLER: (laughing)<\/p>\n

RUSH: They will exempt themselves. There will be no government-run health care for them. Their health care insurance and doctors will remain private sector as they are now. They\u2019ve got great health care options, as elected officials. But the big mistake is people think that that\u2019s a government-run plan. It\u2019s not! It\u2019s government paid for, us, taxpayer.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Ugh!<\/p>\n

RUSH: Senator Kennedy didn\u2019t go to some government doctor.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Senator Kennedy went to a private hospital, private doctor.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: The government doesn\u2019t run any of those health care plans, but they\u2019re going to run ours if this thing passes. So, you got a good head on your shoulders. You follow your instincts out there.<\/p>\n

CALLER: All right. Thank you, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right. I like that question: ‘Is there anything good in the health care plan?\u2019 See, you know what that question does? Is it illustrates the desire that a lot of Americans have: ‘Can\u2019t we just get along? Can\u2019t you find something to say good?\u2019 In this case, bottom of my heart honest, there is nothing in this bill worth having if we have to take everything else along with it. There may be a couple good ideas, I don\u2019t know, but they\u2019re not worth having if all 1,016 other pages are filled with the garbage that they are filled with. No, no. This has to be stopped. You don\u2019t compromise with socialists. You beat them. You don\u2019t compromise with people who want to take your freedom away. You beat them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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