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RUSH: The New York Times — let\u2019s see, I guess it was yesterday — had a story: ‘Obama Supports Easing Health Law Mandates for States.\u2019 Now, we\u2019re being set up all over the place here. The purpose of this story, it says here: ‘Seeking to appease disgruntled governors…\u2019 Seeking to appease disgruntled governors! You don\u2019t really need to read any more after this. The mandate is where this bill has been found to be unconstitutional. So here\u2019s ‘Obama Supports Easing Health Law Mandates for States,\u2019 and then the Politico has a companion story. Folks, I gotta tell you: Politico, you guys, why don\u2019t you start running last week\u2019s weather forecasts, because that\u2019s about how relevant the stuff that you\u2019re talking about is. <\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the point. Guess what The Politico just figured out? The purpose of the mandate, if you take this at face value, is to get 32 million uninsured Americans to buy health insurance. This creates an even larger ‘pool,\u2019 and this is supposed to make premiums go down. However, however, there is another provision. If you don\u2019t buy a policy, you pay a fine. Guess what The Politico just discovered? The fine is barely 10% of the cost of a policy. Guess what else The Politico just learned? They learned that people would probably pay the fine rather than buy the policy. We pointed this out for over a year. I know. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s why they ought to start running last week\u2019s weather forecasts at The Politico, \u2019cause they\u2019re running this as though it\u2019s breaking news. They\u2019re running this as though they just figured this out. There\u2019s one thing they still haven\u2019t figured out about this, though, and that is: The whole point of having the fine lower than the price of the policy is to make sure people don\u2019t buy insurance so that ultimately they have to go to the government to get it. It\u2019s all about charting a course to get to single-payer. Well, The Politico has just now figured out — or whoever wrote the story. I\u2019ve got it here buried in the stack. <\/p>\n

Whoever wrote the story has just figured out that the reason Obama\u2019s relaxing the mandate is because they realize that the fine is cheaper than the mandate and people paying the fine does not accomplish the objective of the bill — which is to get 32 million people who are uninsured, insured. Well, shazam! So they have no clue. They\u2019re so wrapped up in being stenographers. (The Daily Caller blog has an entry today about how The Politico reporterette covering Michelle Obama is simply a flack, not even a reporter. You know, particularly covering Moochelle on her dietary advice for everybody else, they\u2019re stenographers.) So again the elements: 32 million uninsured, mandate, require \u2019em to buy insurance, make sure everybody gets covered. <\/p>\n

Insurance companies love that, 32 million new customers. Ah, ah, ah! You don\u2019t really have to \u2019cause there\u2019s a fine you can pay, and the fine is much, much less (up until 2014, 2015). So you pay the fine rather than pay the money for a policy. Millions do not get insured. Objective is not met. ‘Damn! Aw, damn. It isn\u2019t working,\u2019 which is the point. So on down the line, this leads to the only obvious solution, which is just get rid of the insurance companies and force everybody to the government to get their insurance. Obama has said it I don\u2019t know how many times: It could take 10, 15 years to finally get to single-payer. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s the objective, but they gotta start out small. It\u2019s hilarious. They really think they\u2019re onto something here. They\u2019ve just discovered this at The Politico, and now you\u2019ve got this New York Times story: ‘Obama Supports Easing Health Law Mandates for States.\u2019 You know why? Because they just discovered there\u2019s a fine in there, and the mandate really is not a mandate because there\u2019s always a chance people could not buy the policy, go ahead and get the fine done, and then they\u2019re still abiding by the law. <\/p>\n

So all this means is that Obama has recognized they\u2019re on the losing side of a Proposition here. They have to hedge their bets. They have to act like they\u2019re gonna lose this if it goes all the way to the Supreme Court and lose on the constitutionality of all this. They have to plan for that. They have to think of a way around it because they\u2019re not going to give up the golden goose here, which to them is single-payer, government-run health care. So how do they get there? Well, one of the things they do is change the image. <\/p>\n

They\u2019re trying to make it look like Obama\u2019s moving to the center. We got audio sound bites. Jack Welch, former GE, says, ‘Well, he\u2019s not moving to the center. He looks like it, but he\u2019s not,\u2019 and this is part of that trick to make it look like he\u2019s moving to the center by relaxing some of these things. It\u2019s all about creating an image, but it\u2019s all phony baloney, plastic banana, good-time rock ‘n\u2019 roll stuff, which we will demonstrate as the program unfolds, plus continue to focus on what\u2019s happening in Wisconsin, all of the civility that\u2019s taking place there from people on the left. It\u2019s funny to watch. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me just summarize very quickly what that New York Times story yesterday was all about. It\u2019s very, very simple, folks. This ‘compromise\u2019 with the states, ‘Obama Supports Easing Health Law Mandate for the States,\u2019 in a nutshell what Obama is offering with this great compromise is waivers. The states will have three years longer before they have to start taxing the uninsured. The fines. But in order to get that waiver they\u2019ll have to meet Obama\u2019s quota for the number of people they coerce into buying health insurance. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s up to them how they do it, but that\u2019s what this little Obamacare ‘compromise\u2019 is really all about. It\u2019s not a compromise; it\u2019s a quasi-waiver, and it\u2019s all for show. It\u2019s all to make it look like Obama moving to the center, willing to compromise on this mandate. ‘Mandate\u2019s unconstitutional? Okay, let\u2019s move the mandate as the centerpiece here that we\u2019re talking about, and let\u2019s bring it back to insuring the uninsured.\u2019 It\u2019s all a trick! One thing leftists will never do is lose sight of their goal. In this case it\u2019s single-payer, government-run health care. This is just, ‘Okay, we gotta change the route to get there now,\u2019 but that\u2019s what\u2019s up. <\/p>\n

So anyway we\u2019re gonna go to the phones. People have been waiting since the show started and we haven\u2019t yet taken a call so we\u2019ll start in Napa, California. Eric, great to have you on the program, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush, thank you for taking my call.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, what a pleasure. I really enjoyed hearing you talking with Donald Trump<\/a> there. Thank you for sharing that.<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: Hey, the reason I was calling: In talking yesterday with the president speaking to the governors, I really felt like that entire speech that he gave was just a socialist manifesto. We should just keep replaying clips of that until the next election. But even in the president trying to give a very backhanded compliment to the private sector and to private industry and to entrepreneurism as a whole, he made the comment — he said that — well, he understood that it was gonna be the businesses in the private sector that led to the resurgence of the economy. He said that it was the research and development that was really the roots and the foundation to that growth and that it was the government that led the way in research. And it was just a total of: Well, it\u2019s the benevolence of the government that even gives the business the ability to make the economy grow.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s what people like him think. They believe that government picks and chooses winners. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: They believe that government somehow funds research and development. Somebody like Obama really does believe that everything great has a link to government somehow.<\/p>\n

CALLER: To people like myself, it almost makes you sick to your stomach when you hear that. More so when you hear it and it\u2019s not challenged anymore, and that\u2019s what was so frustrating in listening to that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Challenge it? Who did you expect to challenge it?<\/p>\n

CALLER: (laughing) Well, I saw Chris Christie sitting in the audience. So you hope he woulda stood up and said something. No, that wasn\u2019t the place to do that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Some of those… Chris Christie down the line might. Look, these guys are not gonna openly speak up. You know, Obama shows up; let him speak and get out of there. They\u2019re not gonna prolong the guy\u2019s visit. They don\u2019t want to get into a debate with him. They understand it\u2019s a pro forma thing. At the National Governors Meeting, the president has the show up. I mean, have you ever gotten an invitation to something, you agreed to go to it and the day of the event, ‘Why did I say I\u2019d go? Ah, I don\u2019t want to do this! Why did I agree to show up?\u2019 Well, that\u2019s what this is. It\u2019s pro forma, it\u2019s perfunctory.<\/p>\n

So, okay, you go. The president shows up. Get him in, get him out as quick as possible and whatever he says deal with it later on your terms and your forum. They know they\u2019re not gonna be able to debate the guy. So if you\u2019re waiting for Chris Christie to respond, at some point he will, or somebody else in that audience will, or as you have now. You didn\u2019t even need a governor to respond. All you needed was the EIB Network, and luck, and Snerdley being in a good mood putting your call up. So it all worked out for you. Happy as you can be. That\u2019s the way it\u2019s all worked out. I guarantee you\u2019re not gonna have these guys stand up and take issue with the president a thing like this. <\/p>\n

It sometimes happens. I remember the president showed up at a Republican retreat, congressional retreat in Baltimore the first year or at the health care summit. Remember, Paul Ryan and a couple guys at the White House tried to speak and Obama just stared daggers at \u2019em and moved on. You learn that that event is not the forum for rebuttal and getting it done. Anyway, you can see even when Obama speaks to the governors you can see what his priorities are: All the jobs from the stimulus go to the union workers. He\u2019s out there still praising the stimulus today. He\u2019s still got a bunch of bunk analysis of the stimulus, how wonderful it was and the jobs that it created. All those shovel-ready jobs had to go to union shovelers. We know what happened. The money laundering just continues. These governors all know it. As I say, the time to speak up about it is gonna be one of their choosing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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