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Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on July 21, 2010

Rush Limbaugh: Our Joker-in-Chief, Barack Obama, set to end private health insurance

And so it begins…

Rush Limbaugh Show transcript, White House Snaps Fingers and Triggers End of Private Insurance:

Broadcast July 15, 2010
EIB Network

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT

RUSH: This is an innocent little story from Robert Pear: “Health Plans Must Provide Some Tests at No Cost.” Wow. Here it comes. Free. Now, listen to me. I’m going to read from the story. “The White House on Wednesday issued new rules…” the White House — look at me — the White House issued new rules. We’re talking about health care. The White House issued new rules, by fiat. This is reported as though it’s good; it’s common; it’s exactly what life should be like.

“The White House on Wednesday issued new rules requiring health insurance companies to provide free coverage for dozens of screenings, laboratory tests and other types of preventive care,” with the snap of the fingers, the waving of a supposed magic wand Obama required insurance companies to provide free coverage for a bunch of different kinds of screenings and laboratory tests and other types of preventive care. That’s the first sentence.

So Obama just forced private sector business, industry, to give away a hunk of their business for free, to give it away. Well, but they can’t. There is no free lunch. Somebody’s going to pay for this, and guess who it is? All of you people who make less than $250,000, thought you were not gonna get a tax increase, guess what, you’re going to join all the rest of everybody else and you’re going to be paying for this, and this is the law now. Obamacare allows this to happen. There are over 243 of these kind of bureaucracies in the financial regulatory reform bill, 243 different bureaucracies or agencies that can issue fatwa’s like this, once it is in place.

So if it’s this easy, I mean you snap your fingers and you tell those evil bastards in the insurance business you’re going to start giving away free tests and free screenings, why not just tell Apple to give away the iPhone? I mean you could make a health care case for it. Cell phones cause cancer, right? That’s what they’re trying to prove next.

Why not force Apple to give everybody a new iPhone? Why do you have to pay for gasoline in your car? Why can’t Obama just demand that gas stations and oil companies give everybody a free fill-up every time they pull into the pump?

Just because this is a health care business does not mean they don’t need to make money and maintain a profit. So what is happening here is precisely what we all warned you, they’re running the private insurance business out of business. And they can do it because the law was signed into law by Bam, he can just snap his fingers, “You’re gonna start providing this stuff free.” Well, they can’t last doing that. They’ll go belly up. Hello, public option, anyone.

My friends, I have just read three lines of this story. It goes on and on and on. You want to hear more? “The new requirements –” these are not suggestions “– the new requirements [mandated by the White House] promise significant benefits for consumers.” Maybe so, but the thing about this is the majority of us who have health insurance through employers already have most of the costs of these tests covered. That’s going to change, too.

“The new requirements promise significant benefits for consumers if they take advantage of the services that should now be more readily available and affordable. In general, the government said, Americans use preventive services at about half the rate recommended by doctors and public health experts. The rules will eliminate co-payments, deductibles and other charges for blood pressure, diabetes and cholesterol tests; many cancer screenings; routine vaccinations; prenatal care; and regular wellness visits for infants and children.”

Now, who are these tests in particular going to help most? Let’s go through this list here. Blood pressure, ahem, diabetes, ahem, cholesterol tests, ahem, cancer screenings. I mean, it sounds like union groups to me. The obese, the overweight, union members and some minorities thrown in. “Other services that must be offered at no charge –” because the White House said so yesterday “– include counseling to help people stop smoking; screening and counseling for obesity; and tests for infection with the virus that causes AIDS. … the rules stipulate that no copayments can be charged for tests and screenings.”

Recent poll results (July 19) from Rasmussen Reports… Health Care Law: 61% Expect Rise in Health Care Costs Under New Law, 56% Favor Repeal:

Sixty-one percent (61%) of voters nationwide now expect the cost of health care to go up under the health care reform law, the highest level of pessimism measured since the law was passed in March.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of Likely Voters shows only 17% expect the cost of health care to go down under the new law, while another 17% expect costs to stay about the same.

At the end of June, 52% of voters expected health care costs to increase under the new law. Just after the bill was signed into law in March, 55% felt that way. The number of voters who expect costs to go down under the new plan has stayed within a narrow range of 17% to 21%.

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