{"id":16502,"date":"2012-02-21T18:59:24","date_gmt":"2012-02-21T18:59:24","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-02-21T18:59:24","modified_gmt":"2012-02-21T18:59:24","slug":"the_truth_about_medical_bankruptcy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/02\/21\/the_truth_about_medical_bankruptcy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Truth About Medical Bankruptcy"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: All right. My staff once again thinks that I have stepped in it big time and that I essentially have lost touch with you, the, quote, unquote, average American member of the audience in my references<\/a> to bankruptcy vis-a-vis getting sick. I will deal with this in just a moment. <\/p>\n

First, a couple of observations. Barack Obama. We\u2019ve gone from Obama lowering the oceans, which he promised to do, to now lowering our expectations and furthering a fear not rooted in reality. And that\u2019s what bankruptcy because of getting sick is: a fear not rooted in reality. I understand the fear is real and I understand people live with the fear every day. I was just giving an example. “Imagine your kid needs a kidney and your health insurance doesn\u2019t provide it because health insurance companies are mean SOBs, and you have to sell your house, which you would do to find a kidney for your child.” <\/p>\n

I calmly replied, “Can you tell me the last time somebody sold their house to buy a kidney?” <\/line><\/p>\n

“That\u2019s not what I mean. I\u2019m talking about the fear. Besides, people don\u2019t own houses anymore because they\u2019re essentially underwater.” <\/p>\n

I said, “Can you tell me the last time somebody sold their house to buy a kidney?” <\/p>\n

“Well, there won\u2019t be any houses and there won\u2019t be any kidneys if — “<\/p>\n

“Can you tell me the last time somebody sold their house to buy a kidney?” <\/p>\n

“It\u2019s the fear, Rush, it\u2019s the fear.” <\/p>\n

And who created this fear? The Democrat Party. And what\u2019s the purpose of the fear? The purpose of the created fear is to paralyze you and to get you to subliminally agree with the downsizing of your life, the downsizing of your expectations, the downsizing of your dreams. They want health care passed because they want to control every breath you take. And they want to scare you into accepting it by telling you that you are one illness away from bankruptcy. Meanwhile, when is the last time that happened? Now, I\u2019m sure in a country this large, people can cite me examples where people have been destroyed financially or severely harmed financially because of an illness not covered by health insurance. <\/p>\n

Is it the norm in this country or is it a fear? Well, it\u2019s clearly not the norm. It might become the norm if these people succeed in getting this monstrosity implemented because guess who\u2019s gonna ultimately be in charge of whether your kid gets the kidney whether you can pay for it or not? The secretary of Health and Human Services is gonna be in charge of determining whether or not your kid gets a kidney in this example. In the meantime, they hit you every day with this fear: bankruptcy because you get sick. Obama just did it. That\u2019s what the sound bite\u2019s all about from January 25th. (imitating Obama) “You want to put in the work. The idea is you should be able to raise a family and own a home and not go bankrupt because you got sick.” <\/p>\n

Who is going bankrupt because they get sick? Isn\u2019t it true that we hear stories in this country of great valor involving the medical community? Aren\u2019t most of the stories we hear about involving good works and good deeds by people living in communities in dire circumstances coming together to help the aggrieved? It\u2019s not normal. It\u2019s not the rule of thumb that people go bankrupt in this country because they get sick. They want you to think it is, and they want you to think it could happen to you tomorrow, and that\u2019s why you\u2019ll give up a little bit of your freedom and that\u2019s why you\u2019ll sacrifice a little bit of your liberty and that\u2019s why you\u2019ll sit there and eagerly pay higher taxes to make sure you don\u2019t go bankrupt if you get sick. That\u2019s right, the government will protect you from that. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m not denying the fear is real. I\u2019m not denying that people base their lives on it. It\u2019s to me a crying shame. It\u2019s a crying shame. This is the kind of stuff totalitarian regimes do, soft despotism, soft tyranny. This is not bludgeoning you over the head. This is working on you for years and years and years and exploiting a natural fear. What could be a greater fear than your child getting very sick. You\u2019d do anything to stop that, including give up everything you\u2019ve got to Obama or the government. They\u2019re exploiting that, and they\u2019ve created a fear that isn\u2019t rooted in reality. Federal law is you get treated in this country, emergency room or what have you. <\/line><\/p>\n

Now, I\u2019ve had a guy looking for an example, Google search, since this all started, I\u2019ve had a guy looking for an example of somebody selling a house to buy a kidney. No, no. I\u2019m not gonna let this go. I\u2019m told I\u2019m out of touch. I\u2019m the one in touch with reality. I don\u2019t have the fear and it\u2019s not because of anything financial. It\u2019s just I know liberals. I know how they work. I do not allow them — I mean, they scare me in other ways. They scare me by having this stuff work on other people. That\u2019s how I get scared. I am terribly frightened by how easily they are able to get inside people\u2019s heads and turn them into squishy mush. <\/p>\n

I am frightened of how easy liberals get into people\u2019s heads and convince them to give up their freedom and their security and everything else for an imagined crisis, one that doesn\u2019t happen. So I had this guy out there looking for an example, somebody who sold a house to buy a kidney. (interruption) You know what I mean. Now I didn\u2019t mean buy a kidney. You know exactly what I mean. To pay for the transplant surgery, whatever, you still have to get the kidney. The point is we found something in the San Francisco Examiner. <\/p>\n

A 17-year-old high school student did sell a kidney to buy an iPad. Yep, Google search, medical bankruptcy, 105 million hits, medical bankruptcy, 105 million results. From the National Center for Policy Analysis, July 8, 2009: “US Medical Bankruptcies a Myth. The idea that large numbers of Americans are declaring bankruptcy due to medical expenses is a myth. Therefore, the introduction of government-run health insurance in the United States will do nothing to reduce personal bankruptcies, concludes a new study by the Fraser Institute.” This is a think tank. Went out and looked at it. <\/p>\n

But a 17-year-old high school student in the San Francisco Examiner in, what was the date, this has to be recent, iPad\u2019s only two or three years old, sold a kidney to buy an iPad. You can sell a kidney. Somebody bought a kidney. My only point here is that we\u2019ve got a guy downsizing people\u2019s dreams. Try that with your child. You ask your child, “Hey, little Johnny, what do you want to be?” Let\u2019s say your kid tells you he wants to be a trained physician. “No, Johnny, you can\u2019t do that.” “Why?” “You\u2019ll never be able to.” In fact, do we not all know of parents who continually beat their kids down? “You can\u2019t do that, who do you think you are? You\u2019re never gonna be good enough to do that.” That\u2019s what Obama\u2019s doing here. Obama\u2019s telling us we have to learn to deal with our own limitations. <\/p>\n

The problem is it\u2019s his limitations being forced on us that he is attempting to replace our own dreams with. And our dreams are none of his business. He has made our dreams his business and his purpose is to downsize our dreams, our hopes, our expectations, and the techniques they use to do this are fear, loathing, frighten, scare, intimidate. I\u2019ll tell you what. Instead of lowering the oceans, how about we raise our expectations and throw him out of office? And then we enjoy the oceans instead of feeling like we can\u2019t even enjoy that, can\u2019t even enjoy the oceans.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m gonna tell you: Normal people are more likely to go bankrupt not being able to pay their taxes than because they lose a body part or an organ. You check it out. How many people go bankrupt because of the IRS than because they need a kidney? Look it up!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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