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RUSH: Now, don\u2019t forget we\u2019re talking about expanding Medicare to — to 55 years of age. And let\u2019s not forget we have the S-CHIP program, the State Children\u2019s Health Insurance Program — and that insures children up to the age of 25. ‘Children\u2019 up to the age 25! And some people say that it actually insures children up to age 37. Regardless, we have only a few short years they haven\u2019t gotten their hands on yet. Children up to age 25, let\u2019s leave it there, and Medicare at 55 — and expanding. Now, Jennifer Rubin at Commentary magazine, at one of the blogs, posted a couple days ago: ‘Did Harry Reid Kill Obamacare?\u2019 A lot of people now are beginning to really think that the bottom has fallen out of this. <\/p>\n

<\/a>She writes this: ‘Sen. Harry Reid threw a long bomb in an act of desperation. Recognizing that there was no deal on the public option, Reid resuscitated an old liberal gambit — expanding Medicare. But the questions and contradictions came flooding forth. How was this to be paid for? Wouldn\u2019t the buy-in cost be too expensive? How could we dump millions of older, sicker people into Medicare while slashing hundreds of billions in funding from the program? It frankly makes no sense. At week\u2019s end, a flurry of objections and criticism — from senators, the Medicare actuary, editorial pages, previously supportive business groups, doctors, and hospitals — together with shockingly negative polling on Obamacare suggest that we may have finally reached a point when ‘doing nothing\u2019 (at least for a while) makes immense political sense for lawmakers. <\/p>\n

‘The public isn\u2019t clamoring for health-care ‘reform\u2019 and they might even be pleased with lawmakers who insisted that their leaders not jam through a partisan, ill-conceived bill. In a sense, Reid clarified what many suspected was going on. The Democrats had ceased trying to craft a workable bill and had decided to pass something, anything, and fix it later. By choosing an approach so obviously hare-brained, however, Reid deprived his party of the pretense that they were engaged in serious lawmaking.\u2019 From the Heritage Foundation today: ‘The Battle Over Obamacare\u2019s Obituary Has Begun — Last month, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) rammed through her version of Obamacare almost a week before the agency in charge of running Medicare and Medicaid, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMMS), could issue its non-partisan and independent analysis of the legislation. <\/p>\n

‘And for supporters of the President\u2019s plan, it\u2019s a good thing she did. The CMMS report eviscerated almost every single promise the President has made about his health care plan. According to that report, Obamacare: 1) raises health care costs; 2) causes millions of Americans to lose their current health care coverage…\u2019 This is the Medicare actuary, now, making these claims, after studying the Pelosi bill. ‘3) forces millions of Americans to pay fines and still receive no health insurance; 4) causes millions of seniors to lose their Medicare Advantage plans; 4) places millions of Americans on welfare; 5) jeopardizes Medicare access for all seniors; 6) worsens health care access for the poor.\u2019 It\u2019s a debacle. It is a disaster. All it does is benefit Obama and the Democrats. <\/p>\n

Now, ‘This past Friday, CMMS issued another report, this time on Majority Leader Harry Reid\u2019s (D-NV) version of Obamacare and the verdict was in many ways worse.\u2019 Everybody is sitting around touting CBO but this is the Medicare actuary that has to make all this stuff work, and their analysis of Harry Reid\u2019s bill is: ‘1) health care costs would rise by $234 billion; 2) 17 million Americans would be forced out of their existing health insurance; 3) 19 million Americans would pay $29 billion in taxes\/fines and receive no health care in return; 4) 33% of all Medicare Advantage customers would lose their health care plan; 5) 18 million Americans would be put on welfare; 6) the $493 billion in Medicare cuts would force 20% of Medicare providers to become unprofitable thus jeopardizing access to care for all seniors; and 7) the explosion in Medicaid recipients would exacerbate existing health care access problems for the poor.\u2019 <\/p>\n

Folks, when you go through this and you read the devastating effects of this, and then you take that and you look and listen to Democrats touting this as some of the greatest stuff that\u2019s ever happened to the country from Obama on down… It\u2019s like that Senator Whitehouse from Rhode Island last week. We have a responsibility as citizens, folks, and it\u2019s very simply stated. It\u2019s going to be tough to pull off. Most of us are raised to believe that our government is good. I mean, hell, we\u2019re the United States of America, and the government is basically people we send there. We elect them. We\u2019ll have our arguments now and then because our candidates are not always going to win and we\u2019ll have to put up with the other party being in power for a while, but still we have faith in the government. <\/p>\n

And you know that people have faith in the government because despite every failure of the federal government, any time somebody comes along saying, ‘The government\u2019s got a plan to fix this,\u2019 a lot of people instinctively support it. So let\u2019s use Senator Whitehouse, for example, last week. We had a couple sound bites where he\u2019s out complaining about me on the Senate floor asking, ‘How do I know?\u2019 William Shatner asked me in an interview, ‘How do you know? How do you know all about it?\u2019 How do I know? I study it! It\u2019s been my life. It\u2019s my career. It\u2019s my business to know. But the question, ‘How do you know?\u2019 is being asked of the wrong people. I can\u2019t raise your taxes. I can\u2019t fine you. I can\u2019t put you in jail. But these people can, and they\u2019re planning on it. So we have to start asking, ‘Senator Whitehouse, who the hell are you? Who the hell are you or who the hell is Olympia Snowe?\u2019 <\/p>\n

Who the hell is anybody up there to rewrite the health care delivery and insurance system in this country? Who the hell are these people? This is not why we send them there, to create a crisis, to come up with a problem-solving solution that only exacerbates the problem. Then they come back and blame the banks or blame us for being greedy, using our credit cards too much, and they say they gotta ‘fix\u2019 it because we\u2019re doing something wrong, and we always are deferential to these people. And it needs to be the other way around. If there\u2019s any deference, these people need to refer to us. We are more informed than over half the people voting on this bill. We know what\u2019s in it more than those who are going to vote on it know what\u2019s in it — and the reason is, we care about what\u2019s in it, they really don\u2019t. <\/p>\n

They\u2019re just trying to establish a monument for themselves and Obama. They\u2019re just trying to get something done. They just want something that says ‘Health Care Reform, Signed into Law: Barack Obama, Early 2010.\u2019 That, to them, is the achievement. The resulting disaster, they don\u2019t care about. If they cared about resulting disasters they would fix all of the broken programs they\u2019ve implemented in the first place in all of the previous decades in this country\u2019s history. So here we have this independent group analyzing both the Pelosi bill and the Reid bill, and as I read through this, it\u2019s an unmitigated disaster. It is irresponsible. It\u2019s almost criminal. We have to ask the question: ‘Who the hell are these people, and what do they think they\u2019re doing?\u2019 This is more than just your average partisan politics. This is insidious! <\/p>\n

<\/a>So now people are starting to write the obituary. The Heritage Foundation headline: ‘The Battle Over Obamacare\u2019s Obituary Has Begun.\u2019 Jennifer Rubin: ‘Is the Bloom Off the Rose?\u2019 Are the Democrats finally going to be seen now as people who are not really serious about crafting this legislation, but just a bunch of pawns trying to get something done so they can say they got something done? Now, ‘The week before the Senate began debating Obamacare, CNN conducted a poll and found that Americans narrowly opposed the plan, 49% to 46%. Now that the Senate has been debating the plan for two weeks, and CMMS has issued two devastating reports on what the impacts of Obamacare would be, opposition to the plan has skyrocketed. This Friday\u2019s latest CNN poll showed 61% of Americans now oppose Obamacare compared to just 36% who support it.\u2019 <\/p>\n

And still, Senator Whitehouse and Senator Stabenow and Senator Reid take to the Senate floor to denounce me for opposing this! They take to the Senate floor to denounce me for encouraging the Republican leader in the Senate, Mitch McConnell, to just stop this. We don\u2019t need health care reform right now. We just need to stop this. That must be the objective. Stop this, stop it, stop it. We don\u2019t want to ‘fine-tune it.\u2019 There\u2019s nothing in this worth fine-tuning. There\u2019s nothing on the margins that could improve this. This is a dead skunk. There is no way you can beautify or bring back to life a dead skunk. No one would even try, and that\u2019s what this bill is. The arrogance and the condescension that we get from elected officials in Washington about how they\u2019re the only ones they know what\u2019s going on — they\u2019re the only ones that have the intelligence, the foresight, the experience and knowledge to fix this — is just a bunch of pap. <\/p>\n

These people are partisan hacks who have an entirely different motivation in enacting this health care reform plan than the people in this country think of their motivations. Now the people are starting to catch up. And I want to tell you something else. How does this poll move from 49% opposed to 61% opposed, when the State-Controlled Media does not do one critical story on health care, does not do one critical analysis of it? How does it happen? Well, I raise my hands, ladies and gentlemen, and so do many the so-called alternative or New Media. We do know what we\u2019re talking about the people we are talking about either don\u2019t know what they\u2019re talking about or they are lying to us about what\u2019s in the plan. <\/p>\n

Either way, it is they who are disrespecting us. Remember Mrs. Clinton and that shrill shout during the presidential primaries. I think she was up in New Hampshire, and she really loses it talking about how it\u2019s patriotic to dissent in the face of power, dissent from presidents in power. Nobody was going to let her ability to dissent be take away from her. Now dissenting from this you get called a denier, or a hatemonger, or something else. So my dream would be that I could wave a magic wand and that the first attitude every American would have whenever any politician proposes something is suspicion and curiosity. Why? It\u2019s time to stop giving them the blank benefit of the doubt, that are they engaged in things for our benefit. They are engaged in things for their benefit. They need our money to accomplish it. Who are they? <\/p>\n

Who anointed Senator Whitehouse an expert on anything? I don\u2019t know what he\u2019s an expert on except I do know he\u2019s not an expert on the health care system, reforming it, rewriting it, implementing a new one or what have you. What I do know is he\u2019s a Democrat Party hack who is simply advancing an ideology with this, while telling people this is for their own good. ‘We gotta do this to save the economy, to save the health care system.\u2019 I react with suspicion every time I see one of these people show up on television. It\u2019s just my nature now. ‘Well, Rush, it sounds like you hate government.\u2019 Oh, no, no, no, no. See, that\u2019s how they always do it. Hate government? I don\u2019t hate government. I just want it to be good! Just like I want everything to be good! I want it to be the best it can be, and it isn\u2019t. I\u2019m into excellence. I\u2019m into the pursuit of it. I\u2019m into goodness. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m into good things. I don\u2019t want to sit here and have to fight every damn hour of every damn day to save the greatest country on earth. It ought not be necessary. But it is, and one of the things that makes it necessary is a misplaced sense of trust and worship in elected officials, as though they are the political equivalent of Hollywood movie stars. They\u2019re dunces. They\u2019ve gotten away with crafting this image of themselves as smarter and better than everybody else when I look at it and I don\u2019t see what qualification Obama has to rewrite our health care system. Who the hell is he? He has a career of words. ‘Well, Rush, he\u2019s president.\u2019 Yeah, he\u2019s got, he got elected, but what right does that give him to take over one-sixth of the US economy? Who are the people that are placing all this trust in the brilliance of Obama to do this? When has he ever done anything like this that has worked? He can\u2019t point to a single thing. He\u2019s simply saying, ‘Do it because I\u2019m Obama. And I\u2019m special.\u2019 This guy is so in love with himself, it\u2019s sick. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: From The Politico today: ‘For critics of the Democrats\u2019 $849 billion health care bill…\u2019 let me tell you people at Politico, it\u2019s two-and-a-half trillion dollars. There\u2019s no such thing as an $849 billion health care bill. Anyway, ‘For critics of the Democrats\u2019 $849 billion health care bill, this may be the ultimate irony: millions of dollars set aside so the government can help teach citizens how to handle their own money better.\u2019 Did you know that? ‘The funding is part of a broader, $375 million program aimed at promoting responsible lifestyles — a five-year plan to fund state efforts to educate adolescents on abstinence, contraception and other ‘adult preparation subjects\u2019 such as healthy relationships, increased child-parent communication and ‘financial literacy.\u2019 You can imagine how Sen. Jim DeMint feels. ‘The federal government is never going to encourage personal responsibility and never has,\u2019 the South Carolina Republican said. ‘Personal responsibility is a good principle — but not the government doing it.” <\/p>\n

Abstinence, adult preparation, and financial literacy to be taught by the government as part of the health care plan. Now, where the hell are you going to have to go for that to happen? Are your kids going to have it be done to them in school? And if you look at Obama\u2019s safe school czar who believes in teaching homosexuality techniques you can see what they have on the agenda here when they talk about adult preparation subjects, healthy relationships, child-parent communication, financial literacy. I mean it\u2019s dangerous, folks. It\u2019s right out in front of us. We can all see what\u2019s happening. Have you ever wondered why Barack Obama never called Steve Jobs a fat cat? Why doesn\u2019t he ever call Bill Gates or Warren Buffett fat cats? Why does he not call Larry Ellison a fat cat? Why does he not call Tiger Woods a fat cat? <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Claire McCaskill, by the way, ‘One Democratic senator fighting for health care reform said Sunday she ‘absolutely\u2019 would vote against the health care bill being debated in the Senate if it increases out-of-pocket costs for people and drives up the debt.\u2019 Well, if she really said that, then there\u2019s no way she can ever vote for it, no way. ‘But Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri said she doesn\u2019t think that is going to happen because President Obama would also reject such a bill.\u2019 (laughing) Oh, my gosh, you gotta be kidding me. Obama would reject such a bill. ‘McCaskill said everything is ‘on hold\u2019 until the CBO\u2019s numbers come back,\u2019 which is going to be either today or tomorrow. ‘CBO\u2019s results are used by lawmakers to determine whether a bill is financially doable.\u2019 The Democrats need 60 votes. Lieberman\u2019s already counted himself out. And don\u2019t forget the Medicare actuary has already come on record, ‘These plans do just the opposite of what everybody\u2019s telling us they do.\u2019 It\u2019s an utter disaster. I think it is falling apart but it\u2019s not over yet, folks. It\u2019s not over yet because remember what Pelosi said, Nancy Pelosi said she would sign anything to get this done before Christmas. She would sign anything, whatever they put into these bills and conference them. She\u2019ll sign anything to say they got it done and then they\u2019ll go back in and supposedly fix or make it worse. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: We\u2019ll start in St. Louis with Elizabeth. Thank you for waiting, Elizabeth. It\u2019s great to have you here. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you so much. Merry Christmas.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Same to you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I am calling about Obamacare. One of the things that\u2019s going to happen if it passes — God forbid it does — is it\u2019s going to mean the death of the private practice of medicine. It will kill off private practice. Now, people like to sort of wax nostalgic. You know, people can talk about a time when, oh, they remember when doctors made house calls. Well, of course now they don\u2019t do that anymore. But people are going to talk about a future at a time when, ‘Oh, I mean when I had my own doctor and he kinda knew me and I knew where his office was and I would drive there and park and I would make my own appointment.\u2019 Medicare… If everybody gets to be Medicare, it\u2019s not going to look like Medicare anymore. People aren\u2019t going to be in a private practice setting. They\u2019re going to be in a clinic setting. In other words, they\u2019re going to want to see a doctor that\u2019s good that they know, and they\u2019re going to call to make an appointment and the secretary that answers the phone — the government worker that answers the phone — is going to say, ‘Sure you can see Dr. Smith…in, uh, 34 weeks or 38 weeks, and if you want to see another doctor,\u2019 who, frankly, may not have been trained in the United States, may not have gone to medical school in the United States, ‘you can see him in 26 weeks.\u2019 So it is dangerous. This is very, very dangerous and I don\u2019t think people get it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, a lot of people listening to this program today are wondering where you pull that out of your hat, 36 weeks to see a doctor.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I\u2019m just using that as an example. This is not a scientific number. But I can tell you —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, that makes it accurate!<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, exactly! (laughs) That\u2019s how they do it in Washington. What I can tell you is this. The reason I believe private practice will be killed off is my husband is a physician. He\u2019s a cancer doctor. And right now — I was shocked when I found out about this — the business expenses for his practice are 92%. Now, that\u2019s outrageous, right? And the reason that they\u2019re so high is that right now Medicare does not fully reimburse for what it costs to deliver cancer care to people. So if we flood the system with more and more people where the government is not going to be able to pay, people who are in private practice, you just can\u2019t run a business like that. I joke with my husband, ‘You know, you got eight percentage points to go. At some point when you get to a hundred percent I don\u2019t think you\u2019re working anymore, I think you\u2019re volunteering.\u2019 But that is why it\u2019s going to get so expensive to practice medicine that doctors won\u2019t be in private practice. They\u2019ll have to work for the government.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I think, in many instances that\u2019s already happening. You just said it: Your husband and other doctors are already prisoners to whatever the reimbursement schedule is, and that\u2019s just going to be expanded and a bureaucrat — or a series of bureaucrat or bureaucrat board — is going to be making arbitrary decisions, not individual patient decisions on what a doctor is gonna get reimbursed so forth. I know. It\u2019s a disaster in the making. It\u2019s an insult to all of our intelligence to listen to these people tell us what a magical fix this is going to be, how it\u2019s going to insure all the uninsured, how it\u2019s going to make sure everybody gets the same equal and great treatment. None of what they\u2019re saying is true about it. It can\u2019t possibly be. The government has yet to run any enterprise in an efficient, profitable way. They just haven\u2019t! Thanks, Elizabeth, for the phone call.<\/p>\n

‘At a time…\u2019 This is from WTOP Radio Washington: ‘At a time when the White House is projecting the largest deficit in the nation\u2019s history, the country is trying to recover billions of dollars in unpaid taxes from its own employees. Federal workers owe more than $3 billion in income taxes they failed to pay in 2008. According to IRS documents, 276,300 federal employees and retirees owe over $3 billion. The IRS tracks the voluntary compliance rate of federal employees and retirees each year, and every year the feds come up short. The one bright spot in this year\u2019s report is that after several years of steady increases the amount owed by feds is down from the previous year.\u2019 Now, wait a minute! I thought everybody had their taxes withheld — and here\u2019s the old trick again, the old media trick. ‘Well, yeah, they\u2019re still doing really bad in collecting taxes from federal workers, but it\u2019s not as bad this year as it was last.\u2019 Federal workers owe $3 billion in unpaid taxes! The point is the federal government cannot even keep up with its own people, much less run the health care system. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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