LIMBAUGH: Get the government out of it. Get the government, their stupid regulations, get the government out of Medicare. Look it -- the only way that cost-price ratios make sense is based on the consumer's ability to pay. Get the Government out of Medicare, Rush? Isn't that sort of like saying get the Government out of Congress? At least he's out in the open now. The de facto leader of the Republican Party, while railing against Health Insurance Reform, and scaring the old folks half out of their wits with false claims about "death panels", has REVEALED THE PLAN. THE GOP HEALTH REFORM ACT: Just jerk it. All of it. Medicare, Medicaid - the lot. Think of the dollars saved. And just think of the massive savings to Social Security as well! Why, we could continue to pay it out to Bob Dole and Newt Gingrich forever! And really, these are the folks who deserve it. They have served the People well, have they not? A whole generation of useless, poverty-stricken oldsters would die off many years earlier than projected, and the country would be Back on the Right Track! The only part I don't understand is the part where they moan and sniffle about 'pulling the plug on Granny'. Maybe it's just not fast enough? I don't get it. Seems to me the GOP wants to pull the plug on everyone who doesn't have Blue Cross. You know, these ardent 'capitalists' don't seem to realize that our government has been subsidizing the Insurance Companies since 1965. How? By covering the old, the infirm, the poor, and anyone else who is, in their parlance, a "bad risk". Uncle Sam takes the lemons - Insurers get the lemonade. Now Big Insurance is whining about competition. Boys, you haven't covered anyone but the young, healthy, and employed for a generation. Oh sure, you get the odd kid with leukemia, or the wife with breast cancer, and sometimes you just can't weasel out of the claim, but mostly you've had it pretty soft. All those amazing stock profits, and CEO bonuses, are coming out of the US Treasury, if you stop to think for a minute. American taxpayers have gotten a rotten deal. We pay more and more for less and less. We want a better deal. We want *gasp* COVERAGE. And we aren't buying this twaddle, Rush. You seem to have confused 'Americans in general' with 'idiots who listen to your show'. There are a lot of us out there, Rush, NOT LISTENING. We don't respond to your polls because we don't HEAR THEM. But hey, RUSH HAS A PLAN - not to worry. The caller also mentioned that he recently broke his wrist, and he couldn't afford the costs to treat it. LIMBAUGH: caller shouldn't have broken his wrist if he couldn't afford it. |
