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RUSH: What is it? Today\u2019s Wednesday, right? So it was just two days ago, two days ago, right here on this very program, that somebody asked me, “Why in the world are they still selling Obamacare<\/a>, Rush? It\u2019s the law of the land. Why are there ads on TV? Why are we getting stories about how the California health exchange is gonna be run by Democrats to sell Obamacare? Why is there still a campaign for this?” <\/p>\n

And I, El Rushbo, said, “Because they remember how health care resulted in a shellacking defeat in the midterms in 2010. And they do not want that repeated in the midterms of 2014. They want to win the House in 2014, the Democrats do. They realize what an albatross Obamacare is. They don\u2019t want a repeat of 2010.” I said it all day Monday. I said it all day yesterday, starting with an appearance on Fox & Friends on the Fox News Channel<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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So after two days of hammering on this program, nowhere else, I must say, nowhere else was it even being discussed, “Why are they selling Obamacare?” It wasn\u2019t even being discussed, this ongoing campaign. People in this audience were curious, and you called, we provided the answer. All it took was two days, and yesterday the regime announces that they are delaying the implementation of the employer mandate for Obamacare until after the 2014 election. They announce it on a day that they hope — you know, leading into the Fourth of July long weekend — that low-information voters will never hear about it, and nobody else will hear about it. <\/p>\n

<\/a>The media is all caught up in the brilliant politics of it. The media thinks it is a brilliant political move. I have a lot of questions about this, but one basic question. I thought, listening to the Democrats, listening to Nancy Pelosi, listening to President Obama, that this was the answer to every health care problem in America. I\u2019ll never forget Pelosi on the day the House passed the bill, and maybe it might have been the day that Obama signed it. She was at a microphone and she was barely able to contain herself she was so happy. She kept saying, “Affordable health care for all Americans.” <\/p>\n

I was watching that, by the way, “Does this women really not know what she just did?” You know, it\u2019s a never-ending debate about Pelosi. Is she really the idiot she appears to be, or is that just an act? And I still don\u2019t know. The odds are she is, but she\u2019s also a liberal, which means she\u2019s a schemer, so it opens up possibilities. But really, folks, I thought Obamacare was wonderful. I thought it was gonna answer all the problems that everybody has in health care. I thought it was the solution to every problem. I thought it was good. I thought it was needed. I thought it was going to lower premiums by $2,500. <\/p>\n

I thought it was going to make health care finally affordable for everybody, whenever they wanted it, whatever they needed, that it was finally gonna happen, and that some 30 million poor, lost soul Americans who didn\u2019t have coverage were going to automatically be covered. And that, if you like your policy and your doctor and all, you get to keep it. I thought it was magic. But did you notice almost immediately after Obama signed it into law, various industries and individual companies began to be excused from it. The regime immediately signed waivers for favored donors and companies exempting them from it. That kind of puzzled me because I thought it was miraculous what had happened here. <\/p>\n

The health care system was in tatters, it was in disarray, and Barack Obama and the Democrat Party finally solved it. It was one of the greatest days in American history, to listen to the Democrat Party. And yet there were all these waivers. And now we\u2019re going to delay the implementation, not of the individual mandate, we\u2019re going to delay the implementation of the employer mandate. I thought this was good. I thought this was the way everybody was gonna get covered. The employer was gonna have to do it. And, if he didn\u2019t, then hello everybody going to the exchange, which is now what\u2019s gonna happen, because the individual mandate stays. It\u2019s just the employer mandate that will not be implemented now until after the 2014 midterm elections. <\/p>\n

I have been right and on the cutting edge about much in my career. This, Mr. Snerdley, I\u2019ve gotta put up there in the top five, in 25 years. There are raging arguments even now. “Does the president have the authority to do this? Is it in the bill that the president can do this?” Some bloggers say it is. Other bloggers say, no, the bill does not permit this. Let me ask you a question. If Obamacare can be delayed — and that\u2019s what this is. I mean, employer mandate, if the president decides, “You know what, this thing might actually hurt my party next election, so I\u2019m gonna delay the damage.”<\/line><\/p>\n

See, what I can\u2019t quite reconcile is, Obama and the Democrats sold this as a utopia program. They sold this as a panacea. They sold this as a magic bullet solution. They sold this as something every American wants and the world wants, and it\u2019s apparently not that. It\u2019s apparently so bad that to actually have it placed into operation, implemented, would cause the president and his party a lot of harm at the ballot box. Imagine that. <\/p>\n

I thought this was going to solidify a Democrat majority because so many Americans wanted this, and it was such a wonderful program, it was such a wonderful piece of legislation. It answered every problem. It addressed every need. It lowered costs. It expanded availability. It brought health coverage and insurance to the uninsured. It was going to bring the deficit down. It was gonna bring the national debt down. Why not implement this thing, this is a magic piece of legislation. Yet for some reason, though, we just can\u2019t implement it before an election? <\/p>\n

Now, if the president can decide, “We got a law here but, you know what, implementing it and enforcing it might not help me,” so if he can just delay Obamacare, what else could be delayed that he doesn\u2019t like? Maybe all these new Border Patrol agents in the Hoeven-Corker amendment. Maybe they can be delayed, too, after the law has been signed into law. It can be enforced, delayed, or ignored on the whim of the presidency. What is the reason we go through the legislative process if, when it\u2019s all over, the president can pick and choose what he\u2019s going to allow and what he isn\u2019t going to allow, what he\u2019s going to permit and what he isn\u2019t gonna permit, what he\u2019s gonna implement and what he isn\u2019t gonna implement. Why even go through the legislative process? <\/p>\n

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You know, we thought Egypt was a country in trouble. Obama just canceled the game. He didn\u2019t want Obamacare to play out, so he canceled it, for now. He\u2019ll play the game, we\u2019ll go back to it when he\u2019s got the Congress in his back pocket. Then he\u2019ll reschedule the game. <\/p>\n

I mean, folks, this is the stuff of banana republics. Laws have no meaning. You remember when the president said the Congress was in recess when they weren\u2019t so he could appoint some people who otherwise couldn\u2019t make it? Remember when he rolled the bondholders of General Motors when he took over the car companies? The bondholders are due money; they\u2019re first in line to get paid. He called \u2019em “greedy.” He told \u2019em to get the hell out, to eat it for the country. <\/p>\n

Remember when he refused to defend the Defense of Marriage Act? The regime just decided, “You know what? We don\u2019t like this bill, and we\u2019re not gonna defend it in federal court.” Remember when he unilaterally granted amnesty to hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens. Just snapped his fingers, just did it. And, of course, his campaign spent millions falsely calling Mitt Romney a tax felon and a murderer. <\/p>\n

But laws come and go at the pleasure of a corrupt regime. The IRS serves as the president\u2019s goon squad. His cabinet secretaries buy off businesses and industries one by one. We don\u2019t yet know what the NSA is doing at his behest and I don\u2019t really know what degree of cooperation the Federal Reserve has with Obama. One thing we do know the Fed is doing is bailing out banks left and right. <\/p>\n

The Fed dollars are bailing out and propping up rich people all over the place to the detriment of middle-class people. The dollar is becoming more and more worthless. The ability for a family in the middle class to accrue wealth is becoming harder and harder and harder. Sequester? Sequester was an excuse to punish the same people who already got roughed up by the TSA and the IRS. What kind of country do we have now? <\/p>\n

At least the people of Egypt had the good sense to turn out in the streets and express displeasure with the way they were treated. At least they turned up in the streets and demanded redress from a fraudulent, lying campaign. But because the employer mandate would potentially harm the Democrats\u2019 prospects in the elections of 2014, we\u2019re gonna delay it. A program that was magical. A program that answered every question and every problem. A program that brought health care to people that didn\u2019t have it, millions of them!<\/p>\n

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A program that was gonna reduce the federal deficit. A program that was gonna lower health care costs and insurance premiums and all the rest. It\u2019s so wonderful and it\u2019s such a great program, that we dare not implement it, because doing so might hurt the president\u2019s party. So now you know that what you heard here on Monday and Tuesday was exactly right. They are out selling Obamacare, campaigning for Obamacare, even though it is the law of the land, because they know Obamacare is the reason for the Tea Party. <\/p>\n

Obamacare is the reason the Democrats got shellacked in the midterms of 2010, and Obamacare and amnesty and the Democrat Party in general could be the reason why the Democrats get shellacked again in the 2014 midterms — and we can\u2019t have that. So we are simply going to delay the suffering. Apparently there\u2019s gonna be a lot of suffering with Obamacare now. Imagine! Apparently there\u2019s going to be a lot of pain. Apparently costs are gonna really go up. Apparently options for health insurance gonna really go down.<\/p>\n

Apparently the health care system is gonna get a lot more expensive. Apparently the health care system is becoming a lot more complicated. Apparently it\u2019s gonna be much more difficult to go to the doctor. Apparently they lied about everything. So now the Democrat Party is stuck with it, except they\u2019re not. They\u2019ll wait until after the election where it, in their mind, can\u2019t hurt them.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Besides kicking the Obamacare negatives past the midterm elections, there\u2019s something else going on here, folks. The individual mandate survives. So while your employer, the place you work will not be mandated to provide you health insurance, you\u2019re still gonna be required to have it. Your employer, by the way, can use this year to cancel. If your employer wants to, your employer can say, “Sayonara.” They can get out of this now. That\u2019s right. <\/p>\n

Businesses can now kick everybody out of their plans and not pay a penalty, which will then force all of you to the Obama exchanges, which is what Obama wants ultimately anyway because the exchanges are the government. So this is a twofer for Obama. He\u2019s not gonna run the risk of having the implementation of this bill be harmful to the Democrats before the election, and it actually speeds up his ultimate dream — that being the government being sole provider, single payer, single source, of everybody for health care. <\/p>\n

We had a caller yesterday, by the way, that suggested — remember this? She suggested, essentially, “Let\u2019s pass the amnesty bill so as to help Marco Rubio get elected and save the country.” <\/p>\n

Question: “If we\u2019re gonna do that, should the jury convict an innocent George Zimmerman<\/a> in order to avoid race riots around the country?” <\/p>\n

You tell me. <\/p>\n

RUSH: I want to play you some audio sound bites from media members on this because it\u2019s instructive and it\u2019s also humorous. It\u2019s funny, but at the same time I would be remiss if I didn\u2019t remind everybody that the Democrat Party and President Obama have had dreams of national health care for 50-plus years.<\/p>\n

They finally made it happen in 2010, and remember it was sold as nirvana, utopia, a panacea. Pelosi: “Affordable health care for all Americans!” It was gonna insure the uninsured. It was gonna lower everybody\u2019s premiums by $2500. “If you like your doctor, keep him. If you like your insurance, keep it. If you like your plan, keep it.” It was gonna reduce the deficit. It was gonna reduce the national debt.<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s gonna free up money for roads and bridges and school repair and all that!” I mean, it was just the greatest thing in the world, and yet they really don\u2019t want to implement this thing because it\u2019s gonna harm \u2019em. The Democrat Party wants to grant waivers. How many waivers did their donors get? And what is a waiver? It\u2019s an exemption. “You don\u2019t have to be bound by it,” Obama said. <\/p>\n

Now they\u2019re gonna eliminate the employer mandate, which has some ramifications for you, too, because the personal mandate remains the law of the land. So whereas employers are not going to be required to provide you insurance until 2015 (after the 2014 elections), you still have to have it. Your employer can now basically cancel. He doesn\u2019t have to provide you insurance, folks. <\/p>\n

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If your employer wants out, if your employer wants to save a bunch of money, they can cancel health care plans. The only thing that might prevent them is they have to compete for quality people — and quality people, employees, can demand decent benefits packages. If Company A doesn\u2019t provide them, they may not be in the running. So there\u2019s that consideration. But, a lot of companies aren\u2019t gonna care.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a chance to off-load these massively expensive health insurance plans? (snaps fingers) They\u2019ll do that in a New York minute! Where does that leave you? You\u2019re still mandated to either pay a fine or to get coverage. So if your employer doesn\u2019t provide it, where are you gonna go? You\u2019re gonna go to an exchange. That\u2019s where you\u2019re gonna have to go. That element of this actually helps speed up one of Obama\u2019s preferred results here, and that is more people depending on the government. <\/p>\n

The more private sector avenues decline, and the less opportunity there is for private sector health insurance, the better for Obama. So if your employer offs his policy? Heh. Fine with Obama! You have to get it somewhere, and your best option is gonna be a government-run exchange. So from that standpoint, it facilitates that — and also from that standpoint it may mitigate what the media is calling a really brilliant political move.<\/p>\n

“Oh, yeah! This is gonna spare Obama a bunch of negative feelings in the campaign for 2014.” Really? How many people are gonna be really ticked off if their companies do drop their health insurance coverage? At that point, the Limbaugh Theorem is gonna kick in and the question is gonna become, “How many people are gonna blame Obama for it?” Because Obama did this essentially on the Friday before a long weekend when they do the document dump.<\/p>\n

They did it yesterday. He\u2019s not even in the country. It\u2019s the Fourth of July weekend. How many people are gonna know? The first word they might get of it is when their employer cancels the policy, and who are they gonna be mad at? Not Obama. They\u2019re gonna be mad at their company. They\u2019re gonna be mad at the business, and Obama\u2019s gonna look like their salvation, \u2019cause there\u2019s the exchange.<\/p>\n

“Go out and get some coverage,” even though Obama\u2019s the one mandating\/causing all this to happen. So it\u2019s unclear yet how this is all gonna manifest itself vis-a-vis the Democrat Party and the 2014 elections. On the surface, at first glance, it would appear to be very damaging to Obama. His health care plan is so bad, it can\u2019t even be implemented. But how many people are gonna know that? <\/p>\n

How many people are gonna look at it that way? Don\u2019t forget the Limbaugh Theorem: Obama does not attach to his own plans, his own policies, including this one, even though it\u2019s called Obamacare. Actually, that may not be true. You know, in this case that may be the one place the Limbaugh Theorem doesn\u2019t apply. You look at the polling data: Only 35% of the country supports Obamacare. It is known as “Obamacare,” not “the Affordable Care Act.” <\/p>\n

So it may well be that he is attached to this. We\u2019ll just have to wait and see. But the bottom line here is, this plan is so damaging — this plan is so harmful — that the party that put it into place cancels it so as not to be hurt at election time. What are we even doing it for? The Republican Party needs to make a vast, fast move here to repeal the whole thing. The door\u2019s been opened for them again!<\/p>\n

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A golden opportunity has been presented to \u2019em. The regime has canceled, has delayed a fundamental element of its own plan! That door is wide open for the Republicans to run in there and say, “See? They\u2019re admitting this thing is unworkable! They\u2019re admitting it\u2019s no good. We just need to get rid of the whole thing.” Whether they succeed or not, a little push-back! Let the party identify with the vast majority of the American people on an issue, and it\u2019s this one. <\/p>\n

There are two major issues where the Republican Party could revive itself. All they would have to do is align themselves with the majority thinking in this country. One is Obamacare; the other is amnesty. That\u2019s all they\u2019d have to do. But the Republican Party is more interested in being liked by and having the introductory doors to the Hispanic population opened than they are in being your party — and when it comes to health care? Whew! Who can explain it, other than to say they\u2019re all children of government.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re all the children of government. They are all part of the ruling class. They are all Washington, and this is what Washington wants. Let\u2019s go to the audio sound bites. We\u2019ll start with John Harwood last night on CNBC\u2019s the Kudlow Report. Correspondent Harwood. This guy\u2019s been with the New York Times, he\u2019s been with Wall Street Journal, he\u2019s been everywhere, and they\u2019re talking about Obama\u2019s decision to delay the employer mandated, and John Harwood said this…<\/line>HARWOOD: The administration in part, I think, hopes to get some benefit from delaying these penalties until after the 2014 elections. They\u2019ve been getting a lot of incoming from Republicans. On the flip side, so that\u2019s a positive for Democrats. On the positive for Republicans, they\u2019re going to use this decision as evidence that the administration itself doesn\u2019t have confidence in the…<\/line><\/p>\n

KUDLOW: All right.<\/p>\n

HARWOOD: …law and try to push harder against some of the things that they can…<\/p>\n

KUDLOW: All right.<\/p>\n

HARWOOD: (crosstalk) …affect.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right. All right. There\u2019s Harwood. So basically he\u2019s covering his bases on both sides of it. John Dickerson next, and he\u2019s the political director at CBS News. This morning on CBS News This Morning, Charlie Rose, speaking with Dickerson, and Charlie said, “John, what does this mean for health care reform, and what does it say about the politics of health care?” Now, I maintain that Charlie knows what it means. No, I take that back. He doesn\u2019t know. Here\u2019s what Dickerson said.<\/p>\n

DICKERSON: As a political matter, this is not good. It sort of contributes to the feeling that the Affordable Care Act is a jalopy they\u2019re trying to roll out of the driveway here barely operational for the president. That\u2019s not good. The problem for Democrats running is that they are already weighed down by the feelings people have about this bill and about the opposition from small business and from businesses of all kinds. And though this delay, again, takes the story from being a chronic ailment, as it gets implemented, it doesn\u2019t really reduce the fact that in a lot of these states where Democrats are running, red states, this law is unpopular.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Why are we even doing this? Does somebody — just one person in the media, you\u2019re talking all around this. This bill is a disaster! You all know it, but you\u2019re looking at it, “Gee, can we mitigate the disaster for Obama so it doesn\u2019t hurt him? Can we mitigate it so it hurts the Republicans?” Can somebody just say, “Why are we doing it at all?” It\u2019s not too late. Why are we doing this at all? Listen to how it\u2019s described. It\u2019s a jalopy, they\u2019re trying to roll it out of the driveway, it\u2019s barely operational, Democrats are being weighed down by the feelings people have. Then why are we doing this? <\/p>\n

I know you and I know the answer, but my point is, nobody wants this. It\u2019s not good for the country. It\u2019s good for somebody, and that\u2019s why we\u2019re doing it, but it\u2019s not good for the country. And what is becoming apparent, listening to all these media people, they all know it. Anybody paying attention, when you can\u2019t implement this thing \u2019cause it might hurt the party at the polls, what does it say about it? Especially versus how it was sold, as nirvana, as utopia, as a panacea. Last night on Hannity on Fox, a bunch people were on there, including Joe Trippi. He got a question. “How outrageous is it that individuals have to pay the mandate, but the employers don\u2019t? Isn\u2019t that against everything you stand for, Joe?”<\/p>\n

TRIPPI: You raise an important point. The whole reason the employer mandate was there was so that those companies that do provide health care couldn\u2019t just dump their employees off of it. I\u2019m very interested in how the administration\u2019s gonna answer that question, because I do think you raise an important point.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And the important point is that there is no penalty now for dumping insurance plans, companies, so they can just dump \u2019em, can just off-load \u2019em. Folks, this is a red letter day for businesses. I mean, for 25 years I have been listening to businessmen complain, whine, moan that they\u2019re not CEOs of their companies. They\u2019ve had to become health care experts. That their job, so much time at their job is devoted to making sure their employees have health care, that it\u2019s affordable, the best policy. They hate it. One of the interim CEOs at General Motors said he got into the car business \u2019cause he loved cars. He didn\u2019t get into the car business because he loves health care, but he had become a health care administrator. <\/p>\n

So I\u2019m just telling you there are business after business after business after business who have hated what has happened to this. It\u2019s an employee benefit that has become an albatross. Well, here\u2019s a chance to get rid of it without a penalty, folks. And so Trippi (imitation), “Yeah, I really wonder what\u2019s gonna happen here now. These companies off-load, I wonder, you know, it\u2019s an important point, how the administration\u2019s gonna answer that.” You still have your mandate to buy and have insurance. <\/p>\n

Peter Orszag, the former director of OMB, Office of Management and Budget, was on CNBC Squawk Box. His question that he got, “There have been people who have said that this will help the Democrats because whatever problems might have emerged as a result of implementing Obamacare will not be on the table for the midterms. What are you thinking about that, Peter?”<\/p>\n

ORSZAG: Obviously, by definition, the administration I think thought that it was beneficial both substantively, and I would imagine politically, to delay or else they wouldn\u2019t have done it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Substantively. If it\u2019s beneficial substantively to them not to do it, then why are we doing it in the first place? <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Here\u2019s Debbie in Portland, Oregon, great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello, Rush. Thank you so much for taking my call.<\/p>\n

RUSH: My pleasure. Great to have you here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I would like to thank you first for your work with the lymphoma society. My father is a lymphoma survivor, and due to the care and quality of care he received, he and my mother celebrated their 62nd wedding anniversary on Monday.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Ho. Sixty-two years!<\/p>\n

CALLER: Sixty-two. And I am flub number three.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I can\u2019t imagine anything happier than that. That\u2019s unbelievable.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right. It\u2019s been awesome. And they\u2019re also still in California. I\u2019m a fifth generation Californian, and it\u2019s been painful for conservatives over the 62 years, I can guarantee you that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me tell you something, I lived out there in the mid-eighties, and the Republican Party, it was still viable then. Republicans still mattered. Republicans still elected senators, still elected governors, and I hate to say this, but the same time I left is when the doors to illegal immigration opened up in that state and those two things happening the same time, immigration, amnesty, and me leaving, that was it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I lived it. I lived it as a young girl. I\u2019ve lived it as a college student when folks were going to college free ride, and I was working my way \u2019cause my folks made too much money for me to get a scholarship. So been there, done that, but what I really called to tell you about or make sure that folks were aware on Obamacare, on the individual mandate. As a tax preparer, I have prepared tax returns for over 30 years, and I will guarantee you that people will not realize the individual cost of Obamacare until they get their taxes done for 2014, which won\u2019t be until January of 2015.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: This is a good point. In real life terms, yeah. Politically they\u2019ll know what\u2019s coming, but the low-information crowd that we\u2019re talking about, they\u2019re not gonna have any idea until 2015. And those that don\u2019t file income taxes may not really feel the full force of it in that way. At some point everybody is gonna understand what a debacle it is, but by that time the tentacles are gonna be so intricately woven in this web of deceit that untangling it is gonna be a mess.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, and that\u2019s the insidiousness of withholding is you can look at perfectly well educated, successful people, and tell them that their refund has gone down, and they\u2019re mad at you as a preparer. It\u2019s like, wait a minute, no. You know, this is not a free loan to the government. But a lot of them don\u2019t see that as their money.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: So it\u2019s been kind of interesting over the 30 years. The other thing that I wanted to bring to your attention is you say nobody wants this? Well, I can tell you my hairdresser here wants this. My colleague wants this. She thinks her daughter\u2019s gonna get a free mammogram.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I know.<\/p>\n

CALLER: You can\u2019t believe the look on the woman\u2019s face when I was getting my haircut, I\u2019m surprised I have any hair left, when I told her that her premium was gonna be at least what she\u2019s paying now, if not more.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, you\u2019re right. When I say everybody what I mean is, the political class in Washington knows what a debacle this is. The Democrats are admitting they don\u2019t want it implemented right now. You\u2019re right. I\u2019m giving people the wrong impression here when I say nobody wants it, because, you\u2019re right, so many people think that it\u2019s gonna be free health care, free mammograms, free this, free that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right. And the shocker for me is I finally went to one of the websites and went through the estimator, and the, quote, unquote, credit, meaning the part the government\u2019s gonna pick up on your health care tab phases out at four times the poverty rate. So here\u2019s an insidious example. If you\u2019re 40, you got two in your household, you make $62,000, your monthly premium\u2019s $491 that you have to pay out of pocket. If you go to $63,000, guess what? You get to pay the full $750. <\/p>\n

RUSH: What is this $490 and $750? The minimum policy\u2019s gonna be $5,500.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, on a monthly basis.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, monthly basis, okay.<\/p>\n

CALLER: The way the credit works is it\u2019s on a sliding scale up to four times the poverty rate. So when you go one dollar over four times the poverty rate, you get zero federal subsidy.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I understand all that, one thing you\u2019re right about, out of pocket, there\u2019s zero expense. This is all done on your tax return. It\u2019s taken away from your refund, the fine or the cost, that\u2019s what the new agents are for. So you\u2019re really not gonna get a bill for your Obamacare expenses. It\u2019s gonna all be deducted, either withheld at your job, or your tax return, your refund, you could be in an owe situation. You might owe this money. But people aren\u2019t, like any other tax, gonna have to write a check for it. So in that way it is kind of sneaky. You\u2019re right, Debbie, you really are right. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: What is it? Today\u2019s Wednesday, right? So it was just two days ago, two days ago, right here on this very program, that somebody asked me, “Why in the world are they still selling Obamacare, Rush? It\u2019s the law of the land. Why are there ads on TV? 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