Posted on 03/24/2010 7:19:41 AM PDT by Libloather
Why Wait Until 2014? Demand All Obamacare Provisions Right Now
March 23, 2010
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RUSH: I'm thinking about that Politico piece here from Carrie Budoff Brown in which she says: Oh, the Democrats are really smart here, because they have timed a lot of the goodies to kick in -- not all of them by any means -- right before the November elections but all of the pain and poison pills don't kick in until after the 2012 election. This is said to be something that will harm Republican reelection chances in our effort to take over the House and maybe the Senate in November. Well, Ms. Budoff Brown and all of you at The Politico: As far as I know, none of the bad stuff kicked in during the debate before the pill passed, either, and we still had a majority of Americans opposing the bill even though none of the bad stuff happened. Of course nothing happened during the debate, but look: No matter how you want to slice it, nowhere near a majority of the people supports this health care bill.
That having been said, we need to keep talking about what's coming in the bill now that it is law, just like we were discussing what was coming if it were made into a law. We need to be talking about what's going to happen next year, what was going to happen in 2012 and 2013; how it's so bad that Obama pushed off a lot of the worst of the bill until after the next presidential race because he knows it stinks. This is not hard to say. It's the truth. We have been saying this throughout this year-long debate. No reason to stop now. Now is the time to ratchet this up. Here is another twist. Here's another twist. I think that in the meantime, we ought to start demanding all of the benefits. We want the premium reductions now! We want access to free services now, like the free preventive care like colonoscopies and whatever, mammograms.
We want the deficit reduction starting now! We want all the promises today. We don't want the promises in 2014; we don't want the promises in 2019. We want it now! We want all of the goodies in this bill to happen immediately. Because after all, most of the people that supported it think the stuff happens immediately. If Obama is to be true to his word, if Obama's to be true to his supporters who voted in support of this thing, we want it all now: Deficit reduction, free services, and the reduction in premiums. We want all these kids that are gonna get to stay on their parents' policies until 27. We want that on now. We want the preexisting condition insurance changed so that it happened right now. We want 32 million people without health care to have it this week. We don't want to wait until 2015 for these poor, unfortunate people. We've already been told that 127 people are dying a day because they don't have health insurance.
Well, now we've got health care "reform," and until 2014, 127 people will continue to die a day because they don't have health insurance. In the meantime, we thought this was fixed. So right now, today, we demand -- and, yes, Republicans, I'm giving you some talking points here -- that all 32 million uninsured be covered by the start of next week. Get the process going. Tell the 32 million where to go and what they have to do to get their insurance that they are unfairly being denied today. It's going to lower the deficit. Why wait 'til 2014 to lower the deficit? Why wait 'til 2019 to lower deficit? Let's lower the deficit starting next week. If this bill has all of this magic, if this bill is "Christmas," why wait until December? Let's have Christmas in March or Christmas in April. They're waiting for it in Raleigh. Grab audio sound bite number 31. This poor guy, DeCarlo Flythe, he's waiting for it. Wait 'til somebody tells him this doesn't happen 'til 2014.
FLYTHE: It's just going to be like Christmas, I mean it's going to be great. No worries, you know, the bills, we can go ahead and pay our copay and be all right.
RUSH: Right. That's DeCarlo Flythe. He's not going to be all right when he finds out that none of this Christmas stuff happens 'til 2014, and he doesn't have insurance now. He may be one of the 127 a day that die between now and 2014, Obama's own numbers, 'cause they don't have health insurance. We want the union health care benefits taxed now. All these Cadillac insurance plans, we want them now! We don't want to wait 'til 2018 for the tax to kick in on Cadillac insurance plans. How are we going to reduce the deficit? Why wait 'til 2018? For crying out loud, we don't know who's going to be president then. 2018, that's like eight years from now, nine years from now. We want the Cadillac tax on union health plans now. The "carve-out" is 2018. It did make it in but there's a carve-out. Remember, it's part of the Cornhusker Kickback. Whether it's in reconciliation or the Senate bill, it's in there. No, it's 2018. That's the carve-out.
He didn't eliminate it. He just delayed the implementation 'til 2018. That's what I'm saying: We want it now. The $2,500 checks that constitute the reduction in insurance premiums? Send 'em out tomorrow. Obama said insurance premiums are going to drop by 2,500 bucks. He also said that senior citizens are going to get 250 bucks (big whoop) to close a doughnut hole to pay for prescriptions they can't afford now. Send the checks out! What are we waiting for? There's no time to waste! We're talking life and death here. We gotta spare people from dying because of the evil insurance companies. I'm dead serious about this. The point is: The benefits don't all kick in, either, just as the taxes don't all kick in until after the midterm elections in many cases. So all we have to do -- all we have to do from now to November -- is just ask the Reagan question: Are you better off today than you were 48 hours ago? Are you better off today than you were yesterday? Get hold of the DeCarlo Flythe bite. Here, grab audio sound bite 31 number again, get hold of this guy tomorrow and ask him: Has Santa showed up?
FLYTHE: It's just going to be like Christmas, I mean it's going to be great. No worries, you know, the bills, we can go ahead and pay our copay and be all right.
RUSH: Why wait? Why wait for any of this? All of the things that are going to happen on the deficit reduction side, why wait 'til 2014? Now! Thirty-two million uninsured? Save their lives! Why not just do it now, Mr. President? After all, life is just a copay, according to DeCarlo Flythe. That's the only pain he's going to have once Santa shows up. That's like having to fill your own stocking after going through what's under the tree. You'd gladly fill your own stocking. Pay your copay. Life's just a copay! Folks, you know what I'm sensing here today? We got this TIME Magazine piece; we got this Politico piece. I'm warning you: They're going to be doing everything they can from the White House to Congress to the media to dispirit you, to tell you it can't happen. "We ought to drop this whole thing! Opposition to health care is going to kill us." Take a look at the polling data: People who support health care are dying, Pelosi is at 11%, Harry Reid is at 8%, Obama's at 46 to 44% -- and they're trying to tell us we hold the losing hand here? Bunch of locoweed idiots. Demand it all now. It's so wonderful, it's so good, it has so many great things for America? Why wait? Why? Who knows what's going to happen between now and 2014. I mean, just do deem-and-pass and get it done. It's real simple. Quickly, this is Ronnie in Plymouth, Massachusetts. It's great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.
During the run-up, the claim was made that 40,000 Americans died each year because they did not have health insurance. That’s 109 per day. So, at least 109 Americans have died since President Obama signed the bill into law. How long can this go on?
“How long can this go on?”
Uh, until 2014?
Shall we start a death counter for those dying as of noon yesterday, under Pelosi-obamacare?
Or, at least, Kwanzaa.
We should start a death counter. People will understand that. Obviously people are to stupid to figure out the true agenda by the Dums.
Maybe they will understand THAT.
Along with the death count, there should also be some estimate of how much tax money has been collected as a result of this legislation, how many new jobs were created as a result of this legislation, how many existing jobs were lost as a result of this legislation, and so on. It will give the poor something to keep track of while they wait for their benefit programs to start.
That’s fine as long as we get the 16,500 IRS snoops tomorrow too....
Cloward-Piven Strategy, right?
Of course it won’t be possible, but it should fluster some Donks to explain why.
I heard him say this last night. This is the brilliant Rush I remember from the 1990s. They can’t give the benefits now because they know in practice many voters will rebel against the side effects when we see what it really does. They must wait till Obama is safely re-elected.
The whole 2014 thing is to weed out the Insurance Companies who will be forced to insure everyone regardless of prior illnesses or recent use of all benefits. They figure 2 to 3 years and most Companies will be insolvent.
Viola! Single Payer Plan run by Government will come to the rescue to tell mother’s with disabled babies and old folks (especially conservatives) to die and die quickly! (Rep. Grayson, FL)
Be careful of what your enemies accuse you of.
The Republicans will never win if they don’t start educating their ‘spokespeople’ on TV. The Democrats have talking points - most of them lies - the uneducated Republican just sits there. They should be able to strike back with the truth.
Example: the Democrats say ObamaCare strengthens Medicare. The truth is, this is a big LIE. The CBO says that would be double-counting:
“To describe the full amount of HI trust fund savings as both improving the government’s ability to pay future Medicare benefits and financing new spending outside of Medicare would essentially double-count a large share of those savings and thus overstate the improvement in the government’s fiscal position.”
page 2, last paragraph: http://cbo.gov/ftpdocs/108xx/doc10868/12-23-Trust_Fund_Accounting.pdf
Sorry, repeating this in the hope some GOP leader will see it!
We have walk-in clinics where I live. Yesterday an article in our paper about HC let people comment. Someone posted they were in a clinic and saw a man arguing at the front desk about why he had to pay now that HC reform passed. Seriously.
“The Republicans will never win if they don’t start educating their ‘spokespeople’ on TV. The Democrats have talking points - most of them lies - the uneducated Republican just sits there. They should be able to strike back with the truth.”
It’s sad when in my part time I can think of more talking points than the pathetic Republicans who are PAID FULL TIME to do just that!
Can’t Obama just get this out of his “stash” and distribute it to us now?
No, let the rats string it out as long as possible before enacting it, because otherwise all the parasite voters will all have their lips locked on the government teat even more firmly and raise a mighty stink if anyone tries to take it away. Just the same as happened with other taxpayer-funded “entitlements”. It will make any efforts to repeal impossible, as this program will have become yet another “untouchable”.
I know they’re not all that stupid or inarticulate, that’s why my cynical side starts to wonder just how much of what we see is grandstanding. If their hearts were in it, they’d put more effort into their responses. I know some of them are sincerely opposing this, but are enough of them really in it to fight?
They have been telling us this is an emergency. That people are dying in the streets and such. Why is Washington dragging its feet while people die?!?!
That means that by delaying the "benefits" for 4 years the democrats are causing the deaths of 160,000 Americans. How can they live with the blood on their hands?!
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