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RUSH: Here\u2019s Richard in St. George, Utah, as we go back to the phones. It\u2019s great to have you with us, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you. Thank you for taking the call.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You bet.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I am a real doctor, not a fake one (chuckles) and I\u2019ve been watching this very closely, trying to understand the public option and everything. My analysis has been basically what the writers in Bloomberg wrote, but today when I heard that Henry Waxman basically requested records for over 50 insurance companies, it just struck me. If this is all about competition and increasing competition, how in the world can they get proprietary knowledge from their competitors?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, that\u2019s an excellent point. It really is, although I don\u2019t think that\u2019s what Waxman is doing because I don\u2019t think he cares. He knows they can\u2019t compete with him.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: But it\u2019s still an excellent point. Here you have the federal government — and a lot of people are more frightened of their government today than they have ever been — and here Henry Waxman is sending out letters to these insurance companies demanding every bit of information about how they run their business, how the executives are compensated. I want to see in the Constitution where they have that right. The insurance companies are under indictment only because the Democrat Party has made the insurance industry its latest demon, its latest villain. But I don\u2019t know that any federal regulatory agency is investigating the insurance industry as a whole for unfair practices and so forth. So here you have this little power hungry guy sending out these threatening letters. This is all about scaring these people. This is about getting them to go along with the plan. <\/p>\n

This is about forcing them by virtue of fear and intimidation. This is the way they did it in Russia, the Soviet Union. This is the way of the world in most places: harassment, intimidation, extortion. But your point is doubly powerful. If they really do mean this business about ‘we just want to provide a public option because we want more competition,\u2019 then they\u2019ve got no business being able to see all the proprietary information of their competitors. So no matter how you look at this, it stinks. Once again: Get out of the way, let \u2019em do this. They\u2019re showing themselves finally for who and what they are, and they\u2019re paying the price for it, big time, and they don\u2019t care. It doesn\u2019t matter, as long as they get as much as they can ramrod through before 2010 in those elections. They\u2019re governing against the will of the people. They have chosen not only to demonize the American insurance industry, they are now demonizing over half the American people. This is who they are. <\/p>\n

This is Tom from Colorado. Nice to have out program, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. How you doing?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Very well, thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I thank you so much for getting the information out there that most people don\u2019t find in the mainstream media. I appreciate you so much. You know, one thing that just terrified me, when Obama says, ‘You get to keep your doctor,\u2019 and I run a medical practice here in Colorado; what I hear him say is, ‘I will take the public option. I will basically have my doctors take that insurance or we\u2019re gonna take our medical license away,\u2019 which just terrifies me. I don\u2019t take Medicaid because we can\u2019t afford to. We can\u2019t see too many patients. I don\u2019t know if you\u2019re aware of this, but on average, the private health care insurances pay 26% more than what Medicare does, and Medicaid —<\/p>\n

RUSH: You mean the reimbursements?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Reimbursements. The reimbursements to the doctors —<\/p>\n

RUSH: So the private insurance companies reimburse you 26% higher than Medicaid does?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, they do. It varies as far as per city, per state in your region.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, don\u2019t forget something. Obama has demonized the doctors, too. <\/p>\n

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

RUSH: Remember, you guys take out body organs that are not necessary to be taken out. You do it to line your pockets. You chop off diabetics\u2019 feet for 30, 40,000 bucks. This guy has demonized doctors. If you look at what he\u2019s doing, he really wants people to end up hating the doctor, hate the HMO, hate the insurance company; love the government.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, everyone should love the private insurance companies because your local hospital could not make it if they just went with Medicare and Medicaid. I mean, can you imagine if you take a 26% cut out of any business? I mean, how many employees would you have to lay off? People say, ‘Well, I don\u2019t get to spend enough time with the doctor now.\u2019 If you cut 20% off of — I\u2019m not a physician, but I run a practice. But if you cut 20% out of my practice, I\u2019m going to have to cut patient time. I\u2019m going to have to cut quality of product. I\u2019m going to have to cut services, you know?<\/p>\n

RUSH: It whittles it down to the point it doesn\u2019t pay you to do your job. It doesn\u2019t pay you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: We have a friend who is in California. She was out to visit this weekend, and in our practice as far as dermatology goes we see somewhere in the nature of 37 or 38 patients per day, and primarily — because, you know, Medicare is about 20, 30% of our business. Medicare and Medicaid is somewhere in nature of like 75 or 80% of her business. She sees 65 patients a day. I mean, compared (crosstalk) and who would you rather go see?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait a second. One doctor, 65 patients a day?<\/p>\n

CALLER: In and out in five minutes. It\u2019s dermatology. You see it, you identify it, you fix it, you write the script, you have the nurse do everything for you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wow. Interesting.<\/p>\n

CALLER: If you want that, go ahead —<\/p>\n

RUSH: I guess —<\/p>\n

CALLER: — to encourage them to support the system. It\u2019s ridiculous. Doctors will find a way.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, Tom, I gotta run here. I just again noticed the clock. I\u2019m a little long. I want to catch myself here before I go too long. But I appreciate your call.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you so much, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thanks very much. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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