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RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, this is truly outrageous. There\u2019s a headline in The Politico today: “Obamacare? We Were Just Leaving…” And when I saw the headline, I thought it was gonna be an article about how Democrats are afraid of losing their seats because of all the skyrocketing costs of health premiums and all the other negatives associated with Obamacare. <\/p>\n

But that\u2019s not what this story is about. What this story\u2019s about is congressmen worried about themselves. In a nutshell, a number of congressmen and staffers, according to The Politico, are threatening to quit or retire because they can\u2019t afford their premiums under Obamacare! So the same people who gave us this monstrosity, the same people who didn\u2019t have the guts to vote against this monstrosity, are now bellyaching that they can\u2019t afford it. And so they\u2019re either asking for waivers or they\u2019re running for the exits to avoid having to accept it for themselves and face any consequences. And a lot of these congresspeople are Democrats. Some of them are even demanding waivers and, failing that, they want to have their premiums subsidized by taxpayers. I am not kidding.<\/p>\n

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\"original\"<\/a>RUSH: Meanwhile, in addition to members of Congress wanting out<\/a>, threatening to quit because of the high price of Obamacare, try this from AP: “President Obama\u2019s health care law is called the Affordable Care Act.” That\u2019s the lead sentence in a big story by Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar. Did you know that, President Obama\u2019s health care law is called the Affordable Care Act? <\/p>\n

Next sentence. “But a glitch could make it unaffordable for many low-wage workers, including employees at big chain restaurants, retail stores and hotels.” Nice to know now, isn\u2019t it? “Here\u2019s the problem: The law requires medium-sized and large employers to offer what it calls ‘affordable\u2019 coverage or face fines. But policy experts and corporate consultants say the definition of ‘affordable\u2019 can mean premiums up to 9.5 percent of an employee\u2019s income.”<\/p>\n

So under Obamacare, 10% of what you earn going to health care costs is considered affordable. “And that could be unaffordable for many people making around $20,000 a year or a few thousand more. Some supporters of the law are disappointed. They say a fix will be needed. The White House says the worries are overblown. Administration officials say they expect most companies will do the right thing.” Well, it\u2019s wonderful they tell us that now. How great is this, to learn after the election that coverage may be unaffordable for low-wage workers. <\/p>\n

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The dirty little secret is this was designed that way. It\u2019s designed to be unaffordable for an increasing number of people so that they panic when they can\u2019t get it and they start screaming bloody murder after they get upset at Kanye West for cheating on Kimmy<\/a>. Then when they figure out they can\u2019t afford health care they start bellyaching about that and the regime says, “Don\u2019t worry about that. We\u2019ll cover you. We\u2019ll just have single payer. You know what? We\u2019ll make it for you, and we\u2019ll make it free.” This is the design. This is how it\u2019s all supposed to roll out. <\/p>\n

There\u2019s nothing affordable about the Affordable Care Act. It\u2019s gonna cost $20,000 for your average family of four. And for people making $30,000 a year, affordable is now 10% of what they earn. You make 30 grand a year, it\u2019s entirely understandable that you should spend $3,000 after taxes — wait. You don\u2019t pay any taxes — at least income taxes — on your health care. My gosh, that\u2019s more than a big screen. That\u2019s more than an iPhone and two years of service on a contract. What are they expecting of you? Man, it just isn\u2019t fair, is it? It\u2019s so bad, members of Congress are quitting because they can\u2019t afford it on what they earn, which is six figures.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: From The Politico. Here the details. “Dozens of lawmakers and aides are so afraid that their health insurance premiums will skyrocket next year thanks to Obamacare that they are thinking about retiring early or just quitting.”<\/p>\n

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As I said, when I saw the headline, “Obamacare? We Were Just Leaving \u00c2\u2026” I thought it was gonna be an article about how Democrats are afraid of losing their seats because of the costs of health premiums and the other negatives of Obamacare, but it turns out they\u2019re just worried about themselves. <\/p>\n

Back to The Politico story. “The fear: Government-subsidized premiums will disappear at the end of the year under a provision in the health care law that nudges aides and lawmakers onto the government health care exchanges, which could make their benefits exorbitantly expensive.”<\/p>\n

What it means is, the very people who voted for this somehow got tricked into having to live under its circumstances as we are. No longer are they going to have an exemption from this law that we all have to live under. I\u2019m not making this up. I can\u2019t believe this story actually runs today. It is a story about how members of Congress, having to face the same consequences of the law that you and I have to face, can\u2019t afford it because their premiums and benefits are no longer going to be subsidized. Therefore it\u2019s gonna be exorbitantly expensive. And, if it isn\u2019t resolved, massive numbers of lawmakers and aides bolt, many on Capitol Hill fear it could lead to a brain drain. Oh, my God. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s true or not. That\u2019s just the point. I don\u2019t know when we\u2019re being played. I don\u2019t know when our intelligence is being insulted or when we\u2019re being set up. I know that the news isn\u2019t the news anymore, that everything\u2019s part of an agenda, so I pass all this stuff along to you under those provisos. <\/p>\n

I want to finish this, at least the thrust of this Politico story. Members of Congress are leaving because no longer will their health care be subsidized, their premiums. In other words, they\u2019re going to be subject to the law like anybody else, and they\u2019re scared to death. They\u2019ve never had to pay this amount of money for health care before, and they can\u2019t afford it, on what they make, over a hundred thousand dollars. They can\u2019t afford it. They wrote and signed and agreed to a law that, if left to themselves, they couldn\u2019t afford. And yet that law has become the law of the land. Now that they are, in effect, not exempt, they want to quit, they want to retire. <\/p>\n

How is that going to be help them? Are they gonna leverage these gigs into private sector gigs where they earn more money? How is it gonna help them to walk out on $160,000-a-year jobs? That\u2019s just one question I\u2019ve got about this. But The Politico says, as though they\u2019re wringing their hands (paraphrasing), “This could be very, very bad. If the issue isn\u2019t resolved and massive numbers of lawmakers indeed quit, and massive numbers of their staffers indeed quit, many people on Capitol Hill fear it could lead to a brain drain just as Congress tackles a slew of important issues, like fights over the tax code and immigration reform.” Are you kidding me? A brain drain? The combined IQ of these people might equal a pencil eraser. <\/p>\n

What kind of loss are we talking about here? This irritates me. Sorry. It just irritates me. “The problem is far more acute in the House, where lawmakers and aides are generally younger and less wealthy. Sources said several aides have already given lawmakers notice that they\u00c2\u2019ll be leaving over concerns about Obamacare. Republican and Democratic lawmakers said the chatter about retiring now, to remain on the current health care plan, is constant.”<\/p>\n

Oh! Oh! They stay on the current plan if they quit. Now, why didn\u2019t I think of that? See, in my world, when you quit something, you quit. Like if I quit this job, nobody\u2019s gonna pay me anymore. I don\u2019t get a pension. I don\u2019t have anybody paying me. If I quit, that\u2019s it. I don\u2019t live in the world where you quit something and you continue to get paid. I never have lived in that world, but now I understand. Somehow if they stay, they are subject to the law. If they quit or retire, somehow they\u2019re not subject to the law. At least that\u2019s my interpretation. <\/p>\n

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“Republican and Democratic lawmakers said the chatter about retiring now, to remain on the current health care plan, is constant.” So the way I\u2019m reading that, if they retire, they somehow stay on the pre-Obamacare health care plan they have. I don\u2019t pretend to understand how that works. But if they don\u2019t quit, then they don\u2019t get to stay on their current health care plan; they\u2019re subject to the one they passed for all of us, and the poor babies can\u2019t afford it. And now we\u2019re concerned because they\u2019re so smart that if they leave, it\u2019s gonna be a real problem for the country because some of the smartest and brightest people — ahem — are leaving on the cusp of these important, weighty issues, like immigration and tax reform. <\/p>\n

“Pete Sessions, Republican, Texas: ‘It\u00c2\u2019s a reality. This is the law. \u00c2\u2026 It\u00c2\u2019s going to hinder our ability with retention of members, it\u00c2\u2019s going to hinder our ability for members to take care of their families.\u2019 He said his fellow lawmakers are having ‘quiet conversations\u2019 about the threat.”<\/p>\n

There has to be something I\u2019m missing here. As I have read this to you, does any of this make any sense to you? I\u2019m gonna get a phone call from some member of Congress. H.R.\u2019s phone is probably ringing now. ‘Cause none of this makes any sense. <\/p>\n

“Alabama Rep. Jo Bonner said the threat is already real, especially for veteran lawmakers and staff. If they leave this year, they think they can continue to be covered under the current health care plan.” The Affordable Care Act, which is anything but — just like what did Obama call his stimulus? What was the name of the stimulus bill? It was the exact opposite of whatever it actually did. There\u2019s nothing affordable about Obamacare, and there was nothing that was stimulating about the stimulus, whatever its official name was. <\/p>\n

Here we go. “The Affordable Care Act — signed into law in 2010 — contained a provision known as the Grassley Amendment, which said the government can only offer members of Congress and their staff plans that are ‘created\u2019 in the bill or ‘offered through an exchange\u2019 — unless the bill is amended. Currently, aides and lawmakers receive their health care under the generous Federal Employee Health Benefits Program. The government subsidizes upward of 75 percent of the premiums for the health insurance plans.”<\/p>\n

In other words, they\u2019re demanding an exemption from Obamacare or they\u2019re gonna quit. That\u2019s right, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. What an absolute joke that name was. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. And now we have the Affordable Care Act, and it\u2019s so affordable that members of Congress can\u2019t stay in office, and they\u2019re earning six figures. What about the rest of you? So, in other words, they\u2019re demanding an exemption here from Obamacare; and, failing that, they want to have their insurance subsidized by the taxpayers. <\/p>\n

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“In 2014, most Capitol Hill aides and lawmakers are expected to be put onto the exchanges –” like all of you, “– and there has been no guidance whether the government will subsidize those premiums.” Aww! So they\u2019re not certain whether the government\u2019s gonna subsidize their health care going forward. “This is expected to cause a steep spike in health insurance costs.” Isn\u2019t it amazing how that works? Isn\u2019t this classic? The reason I\u2019m having trouble with this is, again, can they be this — I don\u2019t know — obtuse? I mean, complaining about this in public? Having this story? There must be some sense of entitlement to holding public office. <\/p>\n

I am continually surprised at what apparently is just an utter lack of common sense. Are we supposed to feel sorry? Is the purpose of this Politico story, are we supposed to feel sorry? The current salary for 2013 rank-and-file members of the House, Senate $174,000 a year. Now, stop and think about what we\u2019re being told in this Politico story: $174,000 a year, and people earning that cannot afford the new health care costs. Let me make a subtle change. It\u2019s not that they can\u2019t afford it. They don\u2019t want to. They don\u2019t want to have to pay that much more for health care than they already are paying. That\u2019s really what this about. At $174,000 a year, they can afford it. You make adjustments elsewhere in your lifestyle. They don\u2019t want to. <\/p>\n

But we\u2019re supposed to feel sorry and we\u2019re supposed to worry about the brain drain? We\u2019re supposed to worry about all the brilliance that might vanish from high atop Capitol Hill? So then what are we supposed to do? Is there supposed to be able to a mass movement among all of us to exempt members of Congress from Obamacare so that we don\u2019t lose their brain power? I don\u2019t think it\u2019s gonna fly, if that\u2019s the objective. <\/p>\n

“There have been many options for fixing the problem discussed throughout the year, including administrative fixes and legislative tweaks. One scenario seen as likely on Capitol Hill would have OPM simply decide that the government could still subsidize insurance on the exchanges. House Democratic leadership says the issue must be resolved. ‘The leadership has assured members that fixing this issue is a top priority,\u2019 said one Democratic leadership aide. ‘This issue must be fixed by administrative action in order that the flawed Grassley Amendment\u00c2\u2019s spirit is honored and all staff and members are treated the same.'”<\/p>\n

This is chutzpah like I have not seen. That\u2019s why I think I\u2019m missing something. They can\u2019t be this — I guess they can be. Obamacare for thee but not for me. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: I want to put something in perspective here for you on what happened here with this Politico story because it revolves around the Grassley amendment, and basically Grassley — senator from Iowa — devised this amendment as a “gotcha” during the debate over Obamacare. His amendment was intended to demonstrate that congressional staff would want to avoid the exchanges. And instead, the Democrats surprised him by agreeing to it. So the Grassley amendment became part of Obamacare. Now that it\u2019s being implemented, now the Democrats are trying to roll it back. They didn\u2019t want him to get away with this “gotcha” because Grassley was trying to expose the hypocrisy. And instead of allowing Grassley to get away with that, they agreed to it. <\/p>\n

Now that it\u2019s come time to implement this thing, now they\u2019re trying to roll it back, to get an exemption, congressional staff. They\u2019re whining and moaning that they can\u2019t afford it, that they might have to quit, as though we\u2019re all supposed to be worried about, “No, no, please don\u2019t quit! Oh, we need you so badly.” No. That\u2019s not gonna be the reaction. The reaction\u2019s gonna be, “What? You can\u2019t afford it on $174,000? You can\u2019t afford it on $125,000? You can\u2019t afford it on a hundred thousand? Sorry, we have no tears for you.” That\u2019s gonna be the reaction. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Mikhail in Lincoln, Nebraska, welcome to the program. Glad you waited. Hi. How are you, sir?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m doing great. I\u2019m a Rush Baby finishing school<\/a>, so mega dittos.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You are a female?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Ah.<\/p>\n

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CALLER: It\u2019s Mikhail, yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Glad to have you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I just wanted to call you and tell you how right you always are, and when it comes to The Politico piece that you shared at the beginning of the show, you are right on as always. And what I wanted to do was to apply the Limbaugh Theorem to what we see in The Politico article about the members of Congress being all up in arms that suddenly their health care is gonna be so expensive. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Right. <\/p>\n

CALLER: The Limbaugh Theorem<\/a> says that Obama isn\u2019t gonna take the heat for any of it, and I think I see that in this article. Obamacare is gonna be terrible. Anyone who knows anything knows it\u2019s gonna be awful, and his name is attached to it, obviously, so we can\u2019t have him —<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, I gotta tell you something, you\u2019re really on to something, because in this Politico story it\u2019s not called Obamacare. It\u2019s called the Affordable Care Act. It isn\u2019t called Obamacare. Now, it\u2019s a minor point, but these people in Congress who are all, “Oh, my God, I can\u2019t afford it,” you\u2019re right. None of this is Obama\u2019s fault!<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, it\u2019s not, it\u2019s not Obama\u2019s fault. And so what they\u2019re trying to do is now they\u2019re trying to say, “See, even the rich can\u2019t afford it. Health care is way too expensive. Obama needs to save us.” And so they\u2019re trying to shore up support because it\u2019s gonna be bad. And so I just wanted you to know that you were right, and the Limbaugh Theorem is right, and, you know, you\u2019ve given us the tools to see through things like this so that we don\u2019t have to be fooled and we don\u2019t have to scratch our heads.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I appreciate that because, you\u2019re right, it does answer almost everything. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Here\u2019s Doug in Wichita. Doug, glad you called. Great to have you here, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. Big fan, of course. Well, I am a family physician that played the insurance game for many years, was completely fed up with it, and wondered why it is that every other service person — whether it\u2019s a plumber or an electrician or a mechanic — they\u2019re able to charge cash for their fee, and yet physicians, when we transfer or transition out of a insurance model into a cash-only model, everybody goes into an uproar as if this isn\u2019t a business also. So we\u2019ve gotten a lot of attention here in the middle of the country with what we\u2019re trying to do, you know, there\u2019s concierge and all sorts of models.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, you\u2019re trying to stay in business.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right. And if you look at the market, my partner and I, he said, if we could build this thing from scratch, what would we do at the clinic? One, no insurance. Two, we run a membership model that it\u2019s a monthly fee, $10 for kids, $50 per month, for adults. A lot of people spend more on Starbucks. But for that they can come in as much as they need, free procedures in the office, medications and labs discounted. We have saved people more money on the community-funded free clinics than what it cost —<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. I just want to know the financials here. How in the world can you charge somebody as little as $10 a month, $50 for adults and give them free procedures? What kind of free procedures are you talking about?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Laceration repair, putting in stitches, doing wound dressings, if we need to cut off moles, toenail removals, joint injections with steroids, you name it. I mean, if I can do it in my office — you know, even an EKG.<\/p>\n

RUSH: If I wanted to, if I wanted to strike like an advertising deal with you, I could offer members of this audience five free stitches for the wound of their choice, as long as I paid you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: If hey want to go out and hurt themselves.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, yeah. (Laughing.)<\/p>\n

CALLER: It\u2019s not an abusable thing. I mean, people don\u2019t get injured or you know, we freeze off warts for free. People don\u2019t get warts just to come in and have them frozen off. But if you look at the power in numbers, a lot of doctors have to have several thousand people to keep their office full.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: We limit to 500 or 600. Every patient gets at least a half-an-hour appointment, same-day appointment.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, you know, the reason why you catch grief for this is because it isn\u2019t fair. Not everybody can afford your prices, not everybody can do health care without insurance. So you are essentially establishing a caste system, a class system, where you\u2019re saying insurance people are undesirable. That\u2019s why they jump all over you. They try to make it out like you\u2019re some greedy, selfish, unfeeling, uncaring dork.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right. We recommend a high deductible insurance, but one family, in particular utilizing a high deductible plan, three-member family, two adults and a child —<\/p>\n

RUSH: I just gonna tell you, time is running out. We did the story yesterday about this kind of thing, and it\u2019s gonna start up more and more. As Obamacare is implemented, people are going to seek and people are gonna offer affordable alternatives. It\u2019s a fluid, free market still, despite what the Democrats are trying to do. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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