{"id":9650,"date":"2014-04-09T16:19:14","date_gmt":"2014-04-09T16:19:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-04-09T16:19:14","modified_gmt":"2014-04-09T16:19:14","slug":"the_opening_salvo_in_the_war_on_doctors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2014\/04\/09\/the_opening_salvo_in_the_war_on_doctors\/","title":{"rendered":"The Opening Salvo in the War on Doctors"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Listen<\/a><\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, the Obamacare Stack<\/a>. You remember…? You probably don\u2019t, \u2019cause when I read the story I had to jog my own memory and remind myself that I had made the very point.<\/a> It\u2019s a See, I Told You So in the story. Because there\u2019s been so much to say about Obamacare in explaining it, and there have been so many things to predict about it that are coming true. <\/p>\n

One of the things that I had said in the past that I\u2019d, frankly, forgotten \u2019til I saw the AP story<\/a> was it wouldn\u2019t be long — wasn\u2019t gonna be long — before massive criticism of doctors<\/a> erupted. That criticism would take the form of, “Why should people treating the sick become rich?” Remember? It was going to be long — I warned you — before we saw a class warfare assault on doctors. <\/p>\n

<\/a>“Why should anybody make anything making people well? Why should there be profit in helping the sick get well?” I predicted that the left would be on this case and that they would target doctors with it. “Why in the world…? Especially since they\u2019re not just gonna make a profit and not just get paid. Why should people get rich treating the sick? <\/p>\n

“Why should that be a source of wealth? That\u2019s a public duty! That is a community responsibility. We should all be trying to help the sick and the helpless and the starving and the thirsty. Why should anybody get paid, and why should anybody get rich?” Lo and behold, here comes the first installment in the effort to stigmatize doctors as undeserving profiteers. <\/p>\n

It comes from the AP. I think the memo has gone out from the Regime: It\u2019s time now to bash Medicare. As I predicted, doctors are the next heavies here. “Why should they make so much money?” This story, I think, is the first move or one of the first moves in an effort to open a the war on Medicare and doctors. The headline is: “Database: Some Doctors Getting Millions From Medicare.” (Gasp!) <\/p>\n

You\u2019re supposed to get mad when you see that headline, and you\u2019re supposed to be outraged. “Medicare paid a tiny group of doctors $3 million or more apiece in 2012. One got nearly $21 million. Those are among the findings of an Associated Press analysis of physician data released Wednesday by the Obama [Regime], part of a move to open the books on health care financing.”<\/p>\n

We\u2019re not “open[ing] the books on health care financing.” Health care financing is Obamacare! By the way, CBO I think does have it. The latest cost on Obamacare is now $2 trillion and climbing — $2 trillion and climbing! It sort of takes you back to those heady days when they told us we\u2019re gonna be able to pull all this off for $900 billion. (New Castrati impression) “It was going to cost less than the Iraq war, Mr. Limbaugh. <\/p>\n

“In that way, it was going to net cost us nothing. We were just going to replace the obscene, immoral cost of the Iraq war with the humanitarian costs of Obamacare.” Well, we blown through that first trillion and now we\u2019re up to $2 trillion, and there\u2019s no end in sight to this. So this little paragraph: “Medicare paid a tiny group of doctors $3 million or more apiece in 2012.<\/p>\n

“One” of these eeevil charlatans “got nearly $21 million. Those are among the findings of an Associated Press analysis of physician data released Wednesday by the Obama [Regime], part of a move to open the books on health care financing.” No, what this is is part of a move to open a war on Medicare and doctors. Because don\u2019t forget… There\u2019s so much to remind people that happened that they forgotten, \u2019cause it\u2019s just enough to keep up with present day.<\/p>\n