How the Obamacare Bill Passed(Government Debits Your Account)

RUSH: Rita in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, welcome to the EIB Network. Great to have you here. Hello.

CALLER: "Hi, Rush. It's an honor and a privilege to speak with you. I have been a longtime listener, and I'm really disturbed by this whole administration. My question to you today is, referring back to the health care bill: On pages 58 and 59 of the health care bill it specifically states that the government will have access to our monies -- and that includes, I do believe, our IRA accounts, our 401(k)s, our savings, our checkings. This is in the health care bill. Why is this not being addressed by anyone?"

RUSH: It was prior to its being passed, but only in places like this show. I specifically remember reading excerpts, pages as we learned of them. You know there were over 2,000 pages in the health care bill.

RUSH: Basically I think what that section is, if it's the one I recall: If you don't pay, they've got the right to go get your money.

CALLER: So they're not gonna go in and just take our money at their will like they did in the Ukraine and Russia and China?

CALLER: Right. Oh, boy. And it also specifically states -- this is Pelosi's little thing -- I think once you reach the age of 73, you are no longer a candidate for cancer treatment if you have cancer. So I mean this is -- this is --

CALLER: -- not being able to go to physician I want to see and being denied care. The Republicans that are running, I don't think anybody's even addressing this health care bill.

CALLER: I know they brought the lawsuit, but -- RUSH: Hang on a second. It's very tough. Folks, I must tell you again: We cannot have a conversation with anybody on a cell phone because they cannot hear me. It's not that they are rude, but it is that I sound really ticked off trying to make the phone system work.

Now, Rita, it sounds like you're just learning this, and I share your frustration. The Tea Party people basically came into existence because of this. There were a number of people during the debate saying that the Democrats were trying to keep all of this hidden.

This was when Pelosi was saying, "We have to pass the bill to find out what's in it." There were people who would read the bill. There were people who were reading it, reporting on it.

Your observation that people 73 years of age who have cancer will not be treated? Yeah, "Hello, death panels." Sarah Palin warned about it, and they went, "No, no, there aren't any death panels in here."

This program trumpeted, as loudly as possible, that what they're heading for is there's going to be a day the Department of Health and Human Services sets up panels or committees and they are going to assess every case that comes before them, and they're gonna decide whether to treat or not treat based on the value of the investment.

So if you're 73 and you show up with cancer, they're going to say, "It's not cost efficient to treat it. You're not gonna live long. Actuarial tables say so. We're gonna save the money and treat younger people. Sayonara! Take a pill."

Obama even told a woman this on an ABC town hall from the White House. She wanted to know... I still can't forget this.

This was a televised town hall on ABC, and an American citizen showed up and actually asked the president of the United States if he would allow her 102-year-old mother to get a pacemaker. She wanted to know if the government would be taking into account a person's spirit and will to live. And Obama said, no, we really can't take things into account like spirit and will to live. At some point (I'm paraphrasing) we're just gonna have to say, "Here, take a pill," meaning a pain pill.

I remember watching that show and I thought, "This is not the country I grew up in where a citizen asks the leader of the regime if her mother will get treated by a doctor," and yet that woman knew what was in the health care bill.

Rita, all kinds of people knew what was in this. My point is the Republicans couldn't stop it. Elections have consequences. They didn't have the votes to stop it.

Now, when Scott Brown... A little history, remind people: When Scott Brown finally won the Senate seat in Massachusetts vacated by the death of Senator Kennedy, that took away the 60 seat super majority that the Democrats had. That's when they started talking passing it through budget reconciliation.

Remember, they did this over the Christmas holidays anyway. They were gonna get this passed. They were gonna "deem" it to be passed, if you recall, without even taking a vote on it. The Republicans didn't have the votes to stop it.

You're asking me, "Didn't anybody say anything?" All kinds of people were saying things. The only hope rested in convincing justice two Democrats in the Senate to vote against it, but there was no way that was gonna happen.

In the House, we had numbers that were equivalent to what we had in the seventies and eighties -- 135, 150 -- and we couldn't stop anything if we were totally unified. I'm glad you called to provide an opportunity to revisit recent history. This is just a year ago, year and a half ago that all this happened.

You're just now finding what's in it, and you're wondering why nobody stopped it. Nobody could! Nobody could because a bunch of people made a stupid mistake and voted for an image in 2008 rather than knowing what they were doing.

RUSH: I went back here during the break. That call from Rita. She's reading from page 58, 59 of the health care bill about the government's access to our bank accounts, and she wanted to know why nobody's talking about it -- and I told her everybody did.

May I quote from myself, August 4th of 2009? It's just a little over two years ago. Quote: "The federal government will have direct, real-time access to all individual bank accounts for electronic funds transfer to pay.

Yes, my friends, the federal government will have direct, real-time access to all individual bank accounts for electronic funds transfer, meaning from your account to them. They will be able to debit your account for health expenses. That's on page 59, go get the bill. I'm summarizing here for you. "

This resulted, by the way, in the White House attacking Drudge for reporting certain aspects that were in the health care bill -- and in the process, they call attention to what they didn't want anybody to see. So, again, Rita, I'm really glad you called.

It's a golden opportunity to remind people -- and, of course, the tune-in factor here is nuts. There are people listening now that weren't there who are just probably learning this and hearing about it for the first time, because since it did pass there hasn't been nearly as much focus on it, on those kind of details.

The focus has been on all the "waivers." What are we up to, over 2500 waivers the regime has granted now to various companies, large and small, who would be out of business if they had to play by Obamacare law right now?

Can't have that before the election! If this thing isn't repealed or if it isn't defunded, after 2012, 2013, 2014, when it really starts to hit, people have no idea.

What has happened to this country up to this point is nothing compared to what's in store for us with just this one piece of legislation.

On pages 58 and 59 of the health care bill it specifically states that the government will have access to our monies -- and that includes, I do believe, our IRA accounts, our 401(k)s, our savings, our checkings. This is in the health care bill.

Just wonder how this will go over during campaign season, town hall meetings may go scarce and they aren't even up to page 300 yet.

It irks me that this bill was turned down for a fast trach to the SC.

You wait, something will happen to another SCOTUS judge. A more conservative one, before the bill gets before the court.

Obama will then put another communist in.

Hello Obamacare.

Obamacare was passed Unconstitutionally. The Individual Mandate is Unconstitutional and so is giving a "Health" Czar all authority over our lives (whether we can eat salt or not, etc.) UNCONSTITUTIONAL!

Oh, and just wait until there is a little MISTAKE. Oops, we DRAINED ALL AMERICANS ACCOUNTS with our Obamacare electronic Transfers. Oops, SORRY, we can't return your money because the government is BROKE! OOPS!

Thanks very much for starting this thread.

I didn't know that it specifically said you couldn't get cancer treatment after age 73 and that the government would have access to all our monies. Rita is right these things were not being reported.

Sounds like a lot more is unconstitutional than the health care mandate in this bill. And yes the Republicans could not have stopped this bill by themselves, but if they had been reporting on what was in this bill, the American people would have been much more against it.

There is plenty Boehner could have done to raise awareness. Including passing another bill now against funding this monstrosity

Isn’t it great? We get to pay in (forced voluntary or confiscated) for “health care” we will be denied.

Our checking, savings, retirement, etc. can be drained for redistribution to others, and there is nothing we can do about it.

“We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America”.

“We must change our history, we’re gonna have to change our traditions” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4WGsU-BHAg

There’s a communist in the White House.

They are all in on it. Do not think for one moment that Republicans will save us from Obamacare.

We need a total change in the way we do politics. We need to rid ourselves of every stinking RINO in the Congress and tar and feather the Democrats.

Well, as Obama himself said in 2008, “We need to hit the reset button.”

Now, we really do need to hit the reset button and undo everything this evil person has done.

“They are all in on it...”

This bill gives SO much power to DC..that all the beneficiaries of that power have clustered around Congress to prevent Congress from interfering with it.

“Obama even told a woman this on an ABC town hall from the White House. She wanted to know... I still can't forget this.

I remember this townhall too and Obama was shocking. The 102 year old had the surgery because her doctor thought she was a good candidate. The woman did great and was living an active life. When Obama answered he already knew the surgery was successful and still answered that taking a pill was the right answer for someone this old.

I agree that we need to rid ourselves of RINOs. The trouble is we will get worse with Dems. I think we shoud target certain RINOs with power in the next election. Boehner should be targeted first for going along with the Dems on the unconstitutional super committee. A lot of the RINOs are sheep and will go along with whoever is the majority leader.

I agree. I would love to target Boehner first with Tea Party ads pointing out how he sold out the people and went along with Obama’s agenda. He could have easily introduced a bill that said we would pay our debt and military first and dared the Dems to vote against it.

Great post! Thanks. HOORAY Rush! HOORAY Rita in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan!

Hillarycare/Obamacare/Totalitariancare

DEFUND socialist/totalitarian collectives, ~~foreign and~~ domestic.

For all of those in Rio Linda...tt's the socialism, stupid. /Rush humor

"On pages 58 and 59 of the health care bill it specifically states that the government will have access to our monies -- and that includes, I do believe, our IRA accounts, our 401(k)s, our savings, our checkings. This is in the health care bill."

This sounds like another reason for the people that can to move their assets out of the reach of the United States and into safe foreign banking systems. Although not directly related, I wonder how this will play with all the rhetoric about getting companies to repatriate their foreign earnings to the US? Not on a bet. Hugo Chavez Obama cannot be trusted.

Obamacare was passed Unconstitutionally.

Silly Freeper, the Constitution isn't relevant anymore. Don't you know that? Don't you read Newsweek? Didn't you hear Obama tell us the document is flawed because it stops the government from doing whatever it wants? Didn't you hear Rep. Phil Hare (D-IL) tell us that we don't have to worry about the Constitution when it comes to addressing the "maldistribution" of income in America?

You really need to get with the program, Citizen.

That Super Committee was a treasonous act.

It is Unconstitutional and is a profound change in our basic government.,

Even a total idiot could see who the Democrats would place on that Committee.Perhaps not by name ,but by degree of liberalism.
John Kerry—an embarrassment to every patriotic American, a fraud, a gigolo, a traitor,a man who never worked an honest day in his life.
Patty Murray, Come on now—a Communist from the word go.

It shows what a great deal our country is in that the rest of the Congress voted to pass this mess.

Sorry, Sorry. Hail King Obama! Hail the Prince of Socialism! Uh, Hail Hail!

The very worst part of creating the super committee is that it gives equal representation to the enemy party, even as conservatives won in the House and are poised to become majorities in the Senate. What kind of “leadership” bargains away it’s advantage.

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