{"id":12277,"date":"2013-06-05T16:22:35","date_gmt":"2013-06-05T16:22:35","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-06-05T16:22:35","modified_gmt":"2013-06-05T16:22:35","slug":"death_panel_secretary_sebelius_denies_lung_transplant_for_10_year_old_girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/06\/05\/death_panel_secretary_sebelius_denies_lung_transplant_for_10_year_old_girl\/","title":{"rendered":"Death Panel: Secretary Sebelius Denies Lung Transplant for 10-Year-Old Girl"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: Kathleen Sebelius, have you heard about this? There\u2019s a little girl in Pennsylvania who is being denied a lung transplant because she\u2019s 10 years old. <\/p>\n

I lit a cigar in honor of Sarah Palin right as the program began. Death panels. Just exactly what Sarah Palin said, exactly what we all knew. Obamacare establishes death panels, and right now Sebelius is it. And that\u2019s what Obamacare says. I don\u2019t know how many times it says it in there, but the phrase “as the secretary shall determine,” meaning the secretary of Health and Human Services. Well, Sebelius is determined a 10-year-old doesn\u2019t get the lung. She doesn\u2019t get a lung transplant \u2019cause she is 10 years old, and you have to be 12 to get a lung transplant under the current regulations. <\/p>\n

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Her congressman has begged Sebelius to waive the regulation, but she has refused. The congressman\u2019s a Republican. Of course Sebelius would refuse. But I remember how people laughed. I remember how the media said, “Ah, you Republicans, ah, you conservatives, you\u2019re just over the top. There aren\u2019t any death panels. What are you talking about?” Look, I\u2019m not even gonna sit here and say that Sebelius is wrong not to not intervene, but they\u2019re death panels. The government\u2019s making the decision who lives and dies. That\u2019s what Obamacare is. Little think piece, just a little bit. A proposition to the low-information voters. Tell you what we\u2019re gonna do. You have two choices here. <\/p>\n

President Obama and 14 people he names to run American health care, or Rush Limbaugh and 14 people he names to run American health care. What do you choose? And we\u2019ll point out now with Obama, he\u2019ll actually choose 14 people, and they will tell you what you can and can\u2019t have and where you can and can\u2019t go and what will and will not be paid for. <\/p>\n

I will not set up such a commission. I will tell you your health care business is yours, you work it out with your doctor, you work it out with your insurance company, but I have no control over whether or not your daughter gets a lung transplant and I\u2019m not gonna ever assume that kind of power over you. But Obama and his people happily will, and they happily have. So this a forerunner, it\u2019s just a glaring illustration that there are indeed death panels in Obamacare. <\/p>\n

Now, you remember we had a story, oh, a month ago, maybe longer, that the average or lowest cost health insurance annual premium will be $20,000, and I happened to be gearing up for my return to the Golden EIB Microphone starting yesterday, and right there\u2019s a story in the Cybercast News Service: Average Health Care Cost, $20,000.” And there was an accompanying story: “Two-thirds of Americans probably will not have insurance.” They\u2019ll pay the fine. This according to polling data, because this could be too expensive.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: We go to Manitowoc, Wisconsin. Greg, I\u2019m glad you waited. It\u2019s great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you, Rush. I just want to say major dittos from the beautiful shores of Lake Michigan.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you, sir. Wonderful to have you here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: This morning I\u2019m listening to CBS News, and I think I did a double-take when I heard a story about Kathleen Sebelius saying no to that kid, and I thought, holy cow, is that a shot across the bow to the public or what? Then I hear a story about Mrs. Obama heckled at a private fundraiser, and they ran audio of that, and I\u2019m thinking, okay, what\u2019s going on here, you know?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, as far as Sebelius, the value there is that yes, Virginia, there are death panels, and she\u2019s it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yep.<\/p>\n

RUSH: This is where we\u2019ve been headed. We\u2019ve got a 10-year-old girl that needs a lung transplant, and the government\u2019s involved. The government says, yes, you can. Or, no, you can\u2019t? Does the name Jane Sturm ring a bell with you, Greg? <\/p>\n

CALLER: No, not off the top of my head, no.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, you\u2019ll remember who she is. Her mother, a hundred years old, needed a new pacemaker.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Ohhhh, yes.<\/p>\n