{"id":11680,"date":"2013-08-12T18:33:48","date_gmt":"2013-08-12T18:33:48","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-08-12T18:33:48","modified_gmt":"2013-08-12T18:33:48","slug":"the_left_s_agenda_on_the_march_dingy_harry_admits_obamacare_is_just_a_step_toward_a_single_payer_system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/08\/12\/the_left_s_agenda_on_the_march_dingy_harry_admits_obamacare_is_just_a_step_toward_a_single_payer_system\/","title":{"rendered":"The Left\u2019s Agenda on the March: Dingy Harry Admits Obamacare is Just a Step Toward a Single-Payer System"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: The left\u2019s agenda just keeps marching. You\u2019ve got Dingy Harry. Dingy Harry says that we are, what, just one set up away from single payer, what we\u2019ve always wanted. Dingy Harry\u2019s out there complaining about how health care became an employer benefit in World War II, that if that hadn\u2019t happened, we\u2019d already be at single payer. So the Democrats are marching on with Obamacare, salivating over having it become single payer, government-run. All of the chaos that\u2019s happening in the health care and health insurance fields is by design. It\u2019s supposed to be a big mess that people can\u2019t figure out. It\u2019s supposed to be a big mess that leaves a lot of people uninsured and untreated. <\/p>\n

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It\u2019s supposed to be a big mess so that people eventually turn to the place of last resort, the North Pole where the White House is and Santa Claus. That\u2019s the design. And the Democrats are pumping iron, they\u2019re very confident, folks, they don\u2019t think anything can stop them. They really don\u2019t. And why would they? They got the Republicans in Washington basically agreeing with them. They\u2019re marionettes. They\u2019re puppet masters. They want the Republicans to focus on destroying their base by going out and appealing to Hispanics, they do it. They want the Republicans to fail to distinguish themselves on socialism and capitalism by basically agreeing with the Democrats on Obamacare, they do it. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: This is Obama, and this is from his press conference on Friday, which, you know, interestingly, started after this program. Normally Obama does these things at one o\u2019clock Eastern time, while this program is going on, and the objective there is to get some of our stations to bump out of this program and carry the presser. But this time he did it after this program so there would be no possible commentary about the press conference from me. So he\u2019s talking about the Republicans and Obamacare, and listen to this. This cuts to the quick.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: My friends in the other party have made the idea of preventing these people from getting health care their holy grail, their number one priority. The one unifying principle in the Republican Party at the moment is making sure that 30 million people don\u2019t have health care. That\u2019s hard to understand as an agenda that is gonna strengthen our middle class. At least they used to say, “Well, we\u2019re gonna replace it with something better.” There\u2019s not even a pretense now that they\u2019re gonna replace it with something better.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, this is his characterization to low-information voters of the Republican effort to repeal this. Because it is an abject fail. Do you realize after Obamacare is fully implemented — and for any of you out there in the low-information voter crowd — well, normally you know who you are, but people in the low-information do not know that they\u2019re low-information. I mean, the poor know they\u2019re poor, the fat know they\u2019re fat, the ugly know they\u2019re ugly. Low-information people do not know that they\u2019re low-information. They don\u2019t think of themselves that way. Nobody does. That\u2019s why when Romney started talking about the 47% that\u2019ll never support, I mean it wasn\u2019t the best thing to say, but most people in that group would not admit that they\u2019re in that group, so they could act righteously indignity that Romney would treat other people that way. <\/p>\n

But even after Obamacare\u2019s fully implemented, 30 million Americans are still not gonna have health insurance. In fact, a lot more than that are not gonna have it because it\u2019s gonna be so expensive. “But my friends in the other party have made the idea preventing these people from getting health care their holy grail.” So in a press conference, there\u2019s Obama saying the Republican Party doesn\u2019t want you to have health care, not health insurance, the Republican Party doesn\u2019t want you to get treated. It is patently absurd. There\u2019s nothing to back that up. It is an absolutely irresponsible allegation, but he makes it with community, nobody in the press corps challenges him on it, and the low-information voters pick up on it, “Yeah, yeah, the Republicans hate people. They don\u2019t want anybody to get well. You get sick, die. That\u2019s what the Republicans want.” And this is what people end up thinking, when the entire anti-health care effort is based in saving the best health care system the world has ever had. <\/p>\n

Obamacare destroys it. Obamacare makes it unaffordable. I got an e-mail from a female doctor who\u2019s treated me in the past for an ailment. Doesn\u2019t matter which one. And she\u2019s a liberal, by the way. She sends me this note talking about how impossible it already is to comply with this, and she\u2019s thinking of leaving the profession. It\u2019s unworkable. She was talking about the mess that electronic health records are and have become and the place where she works is just more suited for a reality TV show than a genuine health care center. This is happening all over the place. I mean, Obamacare is what is destroying the American health care system. Obamacare is what\u2019s pricing it out of reach, by design. <\/p>\n

And it\u2019s like Dingy Harry says, we are but one step away from single payer. It\u2019s in the Las Vegas Sun. Senate Majority Leader Dingy Harry said “he thinks the country has to ‘work our way past\u2019 insurance-based health care.” He was on a local PBS show in Vegas on Friday night called Nevada Week in Review. “When then asked by panelist Steve Sebelius whether he meant ultimately the country would have to have a health care system that abandoned insurance as the means of accessing it, Reid said: ‘Yes, yes. Absolutely, yes.'” We cannot have a decent health care system that requires people to have insurance. <\/p>\n