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RUSH: I want to go back to audio sound bite number 11 from the Dingy Harry and Sharron Angle debate in which he takes it to the insurance companies. <\/p>\n

<\/a>REID: Insurance companies don\u2019t do things out of the goodness of their hearts. They do it out of a profit motive and they have almost destroyed our economy. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Stop the tape. ‘Insurance companies don\u2019t do things out of the goodness of their hearts. They do it out of a profit motive and they have almost destroyed our economy.\u2019 Mark Hemingway, National Review Online: \u201960 Minutes did a great report on Medicare fraud this past Sunday. Among other things, the report noted that Medicare fraud was now more common in South Florida than the drug trade,\u2019 and then there\u2019s this: ‘Medicare loses seven times as much money in fraud every year than the combined profits of the 14 health insurance companies on the Fortune 500.\u2019 Yet here\u2019s Harry Reid getting paid off on a land deal in Vegas, impugning insurance companies for seeking profit and ‘almost destroying our economy\u2019 when he and his buddies in the Democrat Party are in the process of doing just that. <\/p>\n

In the systems they devise for our health care — Medicare, Medicaid — there\u2019s so much fraud (and who knows who\u2019s getting paid off on this) that it dwarfs the combined profit of 14 health insurance companies in the Fortune 500. This is just an out-and-out outrageous, despicable lie and is typical of what we\u2019ve been getting of the Democrat Party for as long as I\u2019ve been listening to \u2019em speak. Government great! Government God! Profits destroy! Profits destroy economy. Profits destroy the country. Companies, corporations want profits. They don\u2019t care about people. Only Democrats care about people. Only Democrats care about the little guy — unless you\u2019re unborn in the womb and then you\u2019re on your own. <\/p>\n

‘Only Democrats care about people. Everybody else — Big Oil, Big Pharma, Big Insurance, Big Retail — they\u2019re killing people. Big government\u2019s saving \u2019em.\u2019 Big government is defrauding people left and right, failing to produce anything on their promises. This is stunning. ‘Medicare loses seven times as much money in fraud every year than the combined profits of the 14 health insurance companies on the Fortune 500,\u2019 and we\u2019re told that these people in charge of this kind of incompetence and loss or whatever else it is, fraud, are now going to be in charge of one-sixth of the US economy. And we\u2019re supposed to look the other way \u2019cause these people care about us and Republicans are the extremists and the kooks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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