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RUSH: From Ft. Lauderdale: ‘A woman battling a cancer battle was dealt a surprise blow by Uncle Sam this month. Diana Smith has gone through six months of radiation and chemotherapy — one week out of every month. She is in remission and had a donor for a transplant; being in remission is <\/a>prerequisite for the transplant. But her hopes of receiving the transplant were dashed in March, when she says, the Social Security Administration contacted her — without her soliciting it — and told her that her three-year-old son was entitled to receive Social Security disability payments. Even though she didn\u2019t ask for it, she signed the form and received her son\u2019s first check check [sic]. In April, Medicaid canceled her universal health care policy because her income level had risen with her son\u2019s payments — making her ineligible for the insurance program.\u2019 <\/p>\n

My friends, the largest insurance company in the United States, the United States government and its CEO Obama, tricked a woman! They tricked a woman out of getting off her medical coverage. Since when does the Social Security Administration start soliciting? We know the food stamp crowd does. But now the Social Security Administration called her up. ‘Hey, you want to get your kid on disability payments?\u2019 And of course she said, ‘Yeah,\u2019 and that income vaulted her above her eligibility level. ‘The problem is Jackson Memorial Hospital cannot provide the procedure because the risk is too high. The universal policy from Medicaid helps shield the hospital from liability in this kind of case. Without it, they are subject to liability issues. Even though Smith offered to cancel her son\u2019s disability benefits, she was told it\u2019s too late. <\/p>\n

”She\u2019s gone through six months worth of radiation and chemo, her body can\u2019t take anymore. If they don\u2019t allow her to have this transplant coming up right now next week, they\u2019re in effect signing her death warrant,\u2019 said her friend Tom Noonan.\u2019 Can anybody say death panel? Now, here\u2019s your all-caring, all-loving federal government — the Obama regime — claiming that this only happens in the private sector. Only the evil, private sector insurance companies do this to people. Now the regime tricks an unsuspecting citizen into accepting disability payments for her son, which launches her income above the eligibility level, and universal care has been dropped. She can\u2019t do any more radiation, chemo, because it would wipe her out. The only thing now is a transplant. She is in remission. That has been denied. So they tricked her. <\/p>\n

Your coverage will not change!<\/p>\n

You wanna to keep your doctor? You can keep your doctor! <\/p>\n

Your coverage won\u2019t change!<\/p>\n

The only thing missing from this story is an official letter from the White House saying, ‘Just take a pain pill.\u2019 That\u2019s all that\u2019s missing. This is an important story. They have a picture of this woman here. She\u2019s very young with her little son next to her, and she\u2019s bald because of the radiation treatments. I\u2019m just struck by this, because this is the exact kind of thing that the regime used to accuse the private sector of doing to try to convince as many people as possible to support the government running everybody\u2019s health care. Yeah. Let\u2019s just see if this woman\u2019s son becomes an Obama sob story, because he\u2019s still out there selling this, folks. He\u2019s still out there selling his health care plan. Will he grab this woman\u2019s son, Diana Smith\u2019s son, and will he parade him all over the country on these sales pitches at various town meetings and say, ‘Look what the federal government did to this man, this young child\u2019?<\/p>\n

No, he won\u2019t. Of course Obama will not exploit this family for his own personal political gain. This is a woman, according to a friend, who\u2019s been sentenced to death by the regime. Now, I imagine with all the attention this story is going to get that there will be somebody come in as white knight, save the day, and suggest, ‘Oh, it was a mistake that happened. I\u2019m sorry. We\u2019re going to make this right.\u2019 We\u2019ll see now since this story has received a lot of attention. Especially now. We\u2019ll just see if an exception isn\u2019t made here, or some step is taken. If that happens, don\u2019t forget what caused it, and that is existing federal rules. You don\u2019t qualify for all this help if your income level is at a certain level and I bet it\u2019s not that high. This woman cannot possibly have a whole lot of money. So despite all the promises and all the talk about how everybody\u2019s going to get the coverage they want…<\/p>\n

We tried to warn you before the vote that there are more denials of claims, more declines of insurance from Medicare and Medicaid expressed as a percentage than anywhere in the private sector. The regime\u2019s stories with all these kids, these sob stories, they\u2019re largely made up. Now, Big Insurance, if this happened? If he news had gotten out that a big insurance company did this, they\u2019d admit they made a mistake. They\u2019d do something because the PR would require them to. But the government does not have to admit that it made a mistake because it has no competitors. Medicaid and Medicare are it for the poor and to the elderly. So it will be up to the magnanimity of the regime and whatever PR value they think might accrue to them if they reverse course on this. I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if it happens, not to be compassionate to the mother and not to be compassionate to the child, but to limit the PR hit. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: This story involving the woman out of Ft. Lauderdale is far more dramatic and far more painful than any of the sob stories Obama misrepresented or even made up in his town hall tour to sell health care. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Bob in Sacramento from KFBK, our blowtorch affiliate out there. Hello, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello, Rush. How are you?<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: For 20 years I\u2019ve been working in the Medi-Cal, Medicare veterans benefit field, and the story you were telling earlier is not an isolated event. That happens, has happened hundreds of times in my career.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You mean the government will call, solicit Social Security in this case, Social Security supplemental payment, putting the patient above the eligibility line and losing her coverage from the government, Medicaid?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Because they\u2019re different programs, people have no idea that one impacts the other. So they think that they\u2019re gonna go out and in this case she thinks she\u2019s helping her son, and in helping her son she finds out that she loses Medi-Cal. We have people denied organ transplants. We\u2019ve had people die while waiting for medical care.<\/p>\n

RUSH: From the government?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right now the VA takes a year to get people medical care in some cases. This is not new. I\u2019ve been telling people for years that in effect — I know it\u2019s not technically correct — but the death panels already exist because we have government bureaucrats somewhere sitting in an office who are making health care decisions and life-and-death decisions for people, and they don\u2019t know anything about what\u2019s going on.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, do you think it\u2019s possible this woman was genuinely tricked, that Social Security called her up to get her to take the supplemental benefits precisely to disqualify her from Medicaid payment for her organ transplant?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I can\u2019t say that for a certainty because I wasn\u2019t there, but let me tell you, I\u2019ve seen nefarious activities happen all the time in which workers don\u2019t tell people, ‘If you do this it will impact that.\u2019 We see that all the time.<\/line>We see it with IRAs, we see it with pension plans, we see it with homes, we see it with all kinds of stuff where people are given incorrect or very misleading information.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Bob, thanks very much. That\u2019s excellent. The largest insurance company in the country, owned and operated by the regime, and this apparently is very common, which a lot of people tried to inform everybody of, and it wouldn\u2019t have made any difference. The Democrats in the House simply didn\u2019t care about any of these kinds of details. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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