{"id":11082,"date":"2013-10-22T17:16:32","date_gmt":"2013-10-22T17:16:32","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-10-22T17:16:32","modified_gmt":"2013-10-22T17:16:32","slug":"is_this_gross_incompetence_or_the_planned_path_to_single_payer_health_care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/10\/22\/is_this_gross_incompetence_or_the_planned_path_to_single_payer_health_care\/","title":{"rendered":"Is This Gross Incompetence or the Planned Path to Single-Payer Health Care?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: I want to go back to something that I\u2019ve said repeatedly in the past few months, but I think Obama\u2019s press conference yesterday adds some weight to this. My belief is that the details, the minutia of any of this, do not interest Obama. I don\u2019t think he really cares. I don\u2019t think he cares if people are gonna have trouble signing up. I don\u2019t think he cares what it\u2019s gonna end up costing anybody. That\u2019s not what this is about. Oh, he\u2019ll act like it, but one of the reasons why — let\u2019s be honest. I assume almost all of you have real-world business experience to one degree or another, and in every circumstance, let\u2019s take Obama at his word and let\u2019s say that this is the thing that he really loves. I mean, that\u2019s the impression that he\u2019s given.<\/p>\n

This is his signature deal. This is what he\u2019s really wanted. This. Universal single-payer health care. This is what he\u2019s really wanted. The Democrat Party\u2019s wanted it forever, for 50 years, but he\u2019s the guy that really wanted it. Now, in a circumstance like that, when you have the president or the CEO, whatever the top dog is called, that person\u2019s passion for it lights the fires under everybody else to make it happen. This is how Steve Jobs worked, or any successful CEO. A CEO cannot have hands on every project that is going on in a business. <\/p>\n

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But the one thing at the moment, at the time that matters most to that CEO, everybody knows about it. Everybody working there wants to impress the boss, but you add the liberal political aspect to this, the true believer, big government\u2019s the solution to everything aspect to this, and there\u2019s no reason why this shoulda happened except one thing. And that is these people are genuinely incompetent. They haven\u2019t the slightest idea what they\u2019re doing. They don\u2019t know what to do. And their arrogance and their condescending view of people outside of government makes it — they\u2019re only gonna hire people who\u2019ve worked in other governments. You know, they\u2019ll use private sector people as props, bring \u2019em in for photo-ops. Buffett in now and then whenever you need him, get a photo op having lunch with Steve Jobs, but that\u2019s as far as it goes. <\/p>\n

Now, the fact that this thing is an utter disaster is evidence Obama doesn\u2019t care about this beyond the day it was signed into law because the only thing that matters about this to Obama is that one day the government\u2019s gonna be in charge of everybody\u2019s health care, and whatever happens between now and then is simply what has to happen, good or bad, that\u2019s the price. It doesn\u2019t matter. He doesn\u2019t care about individuals and their problems with insurance, availability, cost, actual treatment. He doesn\u2019t care, doesn\u2019t matter. Not what this is about. All that is nothing more than salesmanship. That\u2019s nothing more than a photo-op itself, like yesterday.<\/p>\n

You go out and act like you\u2019re Billy Mays or whoever the latest Ron Popeil is with the Ginsu knife, and you go sell it, and you ratchet it up. Then you make sure everybody understands that you are upset with it, too, which continues to just amaze me that he gets away with this, this Limbaugh Theorem, that he gets away with this. It\u2019s his plan, and the fact that it is bollixed up like this can be traced right back to him. I\u2019m telling you, whoever is the leader of people in a group, be it a business or any organization, once that leader comes up with something and if there are true believers in that organization, and there are throughout this regime, they are all true believers. They are true believers blinded by reality. <\/p>\n

They haven\u2019t the slightest idea what they\u2019re doing. But they believe that only they are equipped to do this, only they care enough, that only they are compassionate enough, that only they are the ones that can make this work. They\u2019re the only ones. And the fact that this thing had three years and is an utter disaster goes right to the top and shows absent leadership. Now, when I say that Obama doesn\u2019t care, I don\u2019t want you to misunderstand me. It\u2019s not that he doesn\u2019t care whether it works or not. He\u2019s not worried about it not working. He\u2019s not worried about it being repealed. He\u2019s not worried about it being defunded or delayed. <\/p>\n