{"id":34423,"date":"2010-01-14T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T01:30:10","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T01:30:10","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T01:30:10","slug":"obamacare_return_to_morphine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2010\/01\/14\/obamacare_return_to_morphine\/","title":{"rendered":"Obamacare: Return to Morphine?"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p>RUSH: David in Austin, Texas. Hello, sir, welcome to the Rush Limbaugh program.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Well, mega dittos, Rush. Mega 15-year dittos.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Thank you.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Rush, I think we need to inject a little common sense into this whole health care debate. You know, I\u2019ve been reading Reagan lately and just been brought to my senses again. Sure health care costs are rising. Why are they rising? I mean, 50 years ago, 60 years ago morphine was the answer to cancer. Now we\u2019ve got chemo and we\u2019ve got teams of doctors and none of us want to go back. The costs are going to go up, but what we need to do is we need to defeat this monster of a health bill by using a little commonsense alternative and bring us back to some individual freedom and responsibility. What Reagan would do, I think, would give us some hope. I mean, in the past we\u2019ve been able to spread health care costs between people if you were 20 years old or 90 years old, because there wasn\u2019t a huge disparity in health care costs. Well, now since there\u2019s so much difference between the end-of-life and the beginning-of-life health care costs we have some issues. And I think we need to go back to more age-and-stage risk pools. The thing at issue here is that people won\u2019t mind if they spread the risk among peers. But what drives us all crazy is that we have to spread the risk among those that are not peers, those that are in much different circumstances than we are. If we were in a small town and we all decided that we\u2019ll share the load of the electricity burden among all the small houses and shop owners in town, everybody would be okay. But the minute an industrial base moved into town and said, &#8216;Hey will you pay part of my bill?\u2019 we\u2019d all cry foul. So I think we\u2019ve got an amazing spirit in America, and I would love to see more debate &#8212; you and anyone else &#8212; that could bring to the table: How do we share risk appropriately with peers and solve some of this health care problem? Nobody wants to go back to morphine as a cancer treatment, so what do we do?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, the answer to this is simple. The implementation is complicated as hell. The answer is you gotta get the government out of as much of this as possible. The government\u2019s involvement is what skewed prices, and I understand your point about risk pools. Folks, what he\u2019s saying here is that it makes no sense to spread the risk equally in the cost of premiums between people age 30 and people age 70. The person aged 70\u2019s premiums is going to be much, much higher than the person 30; and the person 30 is going to end you be subsidizing the person 70, which is already happening. But I think Obama does want to go back to morphine.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Well, I think he does but the trick is, of course, he\u2019s trying to steel freedom as he does it. But fundamentally also at play is that for my health problems or your health problems, if we come to that point to where it\u2019s like I\u2019m spending somebody else\u2019s money for my health problems, I\u2019m always going to choose to do that.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Exactly, which is what\u2019s happening all across the board here. In fact, a lot of people don\u2019t think they should be spending any of their own money. Most of Obama\u2019s voters don\u2019t think they should be spending any of it. Let the bankers today pay for it.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Absolutely. And of course we run into this huge mentality that we are fighting and need to fight desperately against. It\u2019s against individual freedom, hope, common sense, talking to people in terms they understand and saying, &#8216;Look, there\u2019s no free lunch. Let\u2019s spread the risk. Let\u2019s do what\u2019s helpful. Let\u2019s help those that are downtrodden, but let\u2019s not try to ride this whole beautiful machine that\u2019s been created called the American experiment all the way into the ground because you\u2019re so greedy.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, we\u2019re already doing that. Lawrence Summers back in April may have let the cat out of the bag. He was explaining somewhere in public &#8212; he\u2019s director of the National Economic Council &#8212; and he was explaining how health care costs are rising faster than any other element of the federal budget, and we gotta do something about it &#8216;because if we don\u2019t, people aren\u2019t going to be able to find&#8230;\u2019 and then he stopped. He corrected himself. But what he meant to say was, what he was going to say was, &#8216;People aren\u2019t going to be able to find doctors.\u2019 No doctors are going to be in the Medicare system. They\u2019re all gonna opt out because reimbursements cannot even possibly cover the costs, they\u2019re rising so high. And now with $500 billion in Medicare cuts (or half a trillion dollars in <img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125111.Par.89380.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright\"\/>Medicare cuts if you want to look at it that way) we\u2019re already running the system into the ground. More and more doctors are opting out because they can\u2019t make a living on Medicare reimbursements. So it\u2019s a debacle. Before we even get to your idea there have to be a whole bunch more reforms ahead of that. Really the focus has to be to return a proper relationship between cost as related to customer and service provider, like there is in every other product or service in the economy.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Okay, the e-mails are saying, &#8216;Rush, what do you mean Obama wants to go back to morphine?\u2019 Folks, remember when he did the ABC town hall and this woman stood up and said (paraphrased), &#8216;What about my 100-year-old mother? She needs a pacemaker.\u2019 Obama said, &#8216;Nope. I don\u2019t think we can factor in the will to live. We can\u2019t factor that in. I think situations like that we make \u2019em comfortable and we give \u2019em a pill. Morphine. We don\u2019t treat \u2019em. We don\u2019t have the money to treat somebody 100 years old.\u2019 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: David in Austin, Texas. Hello, sir, welcome to the Rush Limbaugh program. CALLER: Well, mega dittos, Rush. Mega 15-year dittos. RUSH: Thank you. 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