{"id":10837,"date":"2013-11-18T17:22:57","date_gmt":"2013-11-18T17:22:57","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-11-18T17:22:57","modified_gmt":"2013-11-18T17:22:57","slug":"it_s_a_big_week_for_obamacare_so_the_media_will_distract_with_the_jfk_assassination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/11\/18\/it_s_a_big_week_for_obamacare_so_the_media_will_distract_with_the_jfk_assassination\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s a Big Week for Obamacare, So the Media Will Distract with the JFK Assassination"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: You know, something\u2019s happening to me that I never thought would happen. I\u2019m worn out of football by five o\u2019clock on Sunday afternoon, I\u2019ve had enough. I don\u2019t care what\u2019s going on. I never thought that would be the case. I mean, I used to be — well, you people know, you stick-to-the-issues people, golf or football, whatever, you just got ticked off at me talking about it a lot. <\/p>\n

I\u2019ll tell you, the game is — I don\u2019t know. I\u2019ve been thinking about it, and I know what\u2019s going on. I predicted it, and it\u2019s having an impact on me. The way the game is covered<\/a>. The way it\u2019s played. The way it\u2019s refereed. The way they deal with — (interruption) well, no, I\u2019ve been asking myself if it\u2019s me or if it\u2019s the game. I mean, it could well be that, you know, we all have our passions change as we get older, or maybe age has nothing to do with it, it\u2019s just as we live. <\/p>\n

Like the game last night, there was a big game last night, the Chiefs and the Broncos. I didn\u2019t care. I watched a little bit of it, and Kathryn said, “You know, Homeland\u2019s on at nine o\u2019clock. You want to watch it sometime this week?” I said, “Let\u2019s watch it now. To hell with it, this game\u2019s gonna be going till midnight.” So we watched Homeland last night and the game didn\u2019t change much from when we started watching Homeland at about 10 after nine until I tuned back at midnight and the game was just ending. But, no, I don\u2019t want to make a big deal of it. I mean, I\u2019ve done no analysis. I\u2019m just telling you, and I don\u2019t know what it means. It may mean nothing. I\u2019m losing my “can\u2019t tear me away from it.” I haven\u2019t been to one game this year. There hasn\u2019t been a game on the schedule that I care to go to, period. <\/p>\n

Anyway, folks, this a big week. It\u2019s a big week for Obamacare, and that means the media\u2019s gonna spend as much time this week on the anniversary of the assassination of JFK as they can. The assassination of JFK will happen on the 22nd, which is Friday, and they\u2019re gonna take occasion of this anniversary to just totally blanket coverage on the JFK 50th anniversary, which is a big deal, but it will also provide the Drive-Bys and everybody else an opportunity to ignore Obamacare.<\/line><\/p>\n

Major cancellations are yet to happen with Obamacare. Obama and his minions are still trying to downplay what they\u2019re calling, “Ah, it\u2019s just 5%. We\u2019re just talking about the individual marketplace that\u2019s been canceled.” Now you got insurance examiners and companies being brought to the White House. I\u2019m sure Obama\u2019s promised \u2019em a bailout. You know he has. You know he\u2019s bringing these insurance guys in, and he\u2019s promising them a bailout. That\u2019s how these guys work. They\u2019re gonna lose money left and right by reinstituting policies that they had canceled, policies which remain illegal, by the way, just the Regime isn\u2019t gonna enforce them for one more year. But they\u2019re illegal. <\/p>\n

The plan that you liked, the doctor that you had that you liked and all that, if your insurance company is able to give you that plan back, they\u2019re gonna loose money. I don\u2019t know that it\u2019s happened. I mean, I\u2019m not sitting here saying conclusively, but Obama\u2019s bringing these insurance execs up to the White House, and what do you think he\u2019s promising \u2019em? You know he\u2019s gonna bail \u2019em out. I mean, everything\u2019s riding on this, cover their losses or what have you. The question remains, are they going to be able to actually reinstate your old policy? I mean, they have bureaucratic snafus that they have to navigate as well. <\/p>\n

But, look. While everybody\u2019s focused on just this, the private insurance market, ladies and gentlemen, I mentioned to you last week, Betsy McCaughey had an analysis<\/a>. She said if you think this is it, you\u2019re wrong. The tip of the iceberg has barely even been reached because beginning next year everybody in an employer-provided plan will get their cancellation notice. In fact, I know people who have already started receiving their cancellation notices. My cousin, who lives out in Los Angeles, I got this obscenity-laced e-mail from him on Thursday or Friday last week. He\u2019s in his early thirties and he just got canceled. And all of these employer-based plans, they\u2019re next. Everybody\u2019s starting to write about that. <\/p>\n

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Now, even The Politico is writing about it. No, I take it back. Everybody is not. The Politico is sort of alone. Betsy McCaughey is, Andy McCarthy has a piece about it today at National Review. We spoke about it last week. And now we\u2019re talking about not 15 million people as Obama is talking about. We\u2019re talking about 156 million Americans who get their health insurance through their jobs. A hundred fifty-six Americans, and the lion\u2019s share of those plans are gonna be canceled. Look, it\u2019s in the Federal Register. The Regime knew and stated that 93 million Americans were gonna lose their plans. <\/p>\n

Speaking of twisters, hurricanes, Pelosi is trying to defend Obamacare. She was on Meet the Depressed yesterday with David Gregory. Did you see this? She\u2019s recycling this. She stood by her famous remark about having to pass the bill to see what\u2019s in it. She is still saying that when people see the bill they will like what\u2019s in it, in the midst of them getting canceled, in the midst of people losing the insurance they liked, after having been lied to, after having been defrauded. By the way, I mentioned my buddy Andy McCarthy, this is the second piece that he has written on the fact that this is a criminal fraud. Anywhere in the private sector the people that do this would be prosecuted, most likely by federal prosecutors. <\/line>