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RUSH: Matthews, Virginia, this is Joe. Welcome, sir, to the EIB Network. It\u2019s great to have you with us.<\/line>CALLER: Great to be on your show. Thank you very much.<\/line>RUSH: You bet.<\/line>CALLER: After your segment, though, giving kudos to the president and his speech, I\u2019m not sure I can criticize him, but I do have some criticisms as a conservative.<\/line>RUSH: Wait a minute, now. Wait, wait, wait, wait a minute. I made it plain I was not going to talk specifics in my opening comments. I was going to wait for specifics for you all to weigh in because once I say something about it there\u2019s nothing left to be said. You want to go get specifics. I talked some specifics about the war, but the domestic stuff, I had some problems with it, but I was going to wait for the program to unfold and let you all have your say before I shut you up.<\/line>CALLER: Okay. Here\u2019s my specifics.<\/line>RUSH: Yes?<\/line>CALLER: He rolled on climate change. He rolled on the workers program; we\u2019re going to have amnesty, and he rolled like his father did on taxes. We\u2019re going to get taxed on health benefits. Now, any one of those things is a show in itself but let me tell you about the taxes. If you\u2019re a producer, like I am — you know, I go out and work and I produce things — and say my salary is middle class, which I am, and I get health benefits as part of my salary —<\/line>RUSH: Yes?<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER: — they\u2019re going to get taxed because I\u2019m not going to make a little more than the 15,000 he\u2019s going to give us a write-off on. Well, if it\u2019s a family of four, let me tell you, health benefits are more than that. Let me just go ahead and buy my own insurance. I\u2019d like to do that.<\/line>RUSH: Well, that\u2019s the plan, and if you do you\u2019re going to get a deduction for it, just as the standard exemption for kids is.<\/line>CALLER: Yeah, but my company provides health, and that company provides health more than $15,000, and that\u2019s going to get taxed. So there I am. I\u2019m being taxed get again.<\/line>RUSH: Hold it a second. You\u2019re not going to be in both circumstances. If you go buy your own health insurance, you\u2019re not going to be enrolled in an employer health care plan.<\/line>CALLER: Yeah, but I\u2019m not going to get that salary, either. You recognize that health benefits are part of your salary.<\/line>RUSH: Well, I do.<\/line>CALLER: Yes, you do.<\/line>RUSH: But it\u2019s not part of your take-home pay, so you never see it.<\/line>CALLER: Well, no, no, no, no. It\u2019s part of your take-home pay. You don\u2019t get it cash, but it\u2019s part of your take-home pay.<\/line>RUSH: No, it\u2019s not.<\/line>CALLER: I don\u2019t have to put out that bill later on.<\/line>RUSH: Take-home pay is what your paycheck is. Other benefits, you never see. It costs the employer that much to hire you, but you have no choice over the expenditure of that money you never see.<\/line>CALLER: Well, let\u2019s look at it this way. If I were offered a job, say, by a company that gave me full health benefits and that was in addition to my salary of a hundred thousand dollars —<\/line>RUSH: Yes?<\/line>CALLER: — and another company gave me a hundred thousand dollars salary with no health benefits and I had to fork it out of my own pocket, which job would I take?<\/line>RUSH: Well, that\u2019s a very interesting question.<\/line>CALLER: You bet.<\/line>RUSH: It provides an incredible insight.<\/line>CALLER: You bet. That\u2019s because a lot of people don\u2019t consider health benefits and all the other ancillary things to your salary, as being salary. See, that\u2019s the baloney part of it.<\/line>RUSH: Here\u2019s the problem that we face, particularly with health care — and, by the way, I must tell you that if a Democrat had proposed this plan last night, the Drive-By Media and every one else, would just be all over it. You know, we keep clamoring in this country for new ideas. <\/line>CALLER: Mmm-hmm.<\/line>RUSH: Nobody wants Hillary Care. Do you want national health care run by the government?<\/line>CALLER: Absolutely not. I would just like to do this by myself in the marketplace.<\/line>RUSH: Well, ba-da ba-da ba-da, that\u2019s the Bush plan!<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, not quite.<\/line>RUSH: Yes, it is. It exactly is, and the Democrats are saying it\u2019s dead on arrival precisely because it would involve the free market and market forces; it would take the employer relationship out of it for those who opted out of it. There\u2019s no requirement that you do either. It\u2019s up to you to choose. My gosh, freedom, how about that, a little liberty thrown in? In fact, the Democrats are today talking, “How can they destroy the employer-based health care?” Well, you\u2019re going to, because you\u2019re going to have the government run the whole thing.<\/line>CALLER: Yeah, well, I don\u2019t want the government to run the whole thing, and getting into the free market is still not part of his plan.<\/line>RUSH: We can\u2019t sit here and complain and moan about, “Gosh, there\u2019s no new ideas about health care and Social Security,” and then have a new idea come along, a genuine new idea, and the Democrats aren\u2019t even willing to debate it!<\/line>CALLER: Well, of course not. They\u2019re not going to debate any of this stuff unless it\u2019s Hillary plan or a government plan.<\/line>RUSH: Yet you will call here and you want to dump on Bush.<\/line>CALLER: I\u2019m not dumping on him. <\/line>RUSH: Yes you are!<\/line>CALLER: Yes, I am. I am dumping on him because this is a tax event. I\u2019m sorry, Rush, I don\u2019t agree with it. It\u2019s a tax event.<\/line>RUSH: It could be a tax event. Look, let\u2019s run through the details of this, and there are some people that have fears that this is going to end up raising taxes along the line. Any time Washington does anything, that\u2019s a legitimate fear to have!<\/line>CALLER: You bet.<\/line>RUSH: It\u2019s a legitimate suspicion to have. But the health care system as it is now is out of whack for two reasons. A: the customer, the patient, doesn\u2019t pay for anything, and the patient secondly thus assumes it\u2019s all free. They assume the employer coverage they get as a benefit — even though they don\u2019t see the money — is good. It\u2019s free! Health care is free. Other than the co-pay and the deductible and so forth, it\u2019s basically free.<\/line>CALLER: But that\u2019s my example. So if the guy —<\/line>RUSH: I was getting there.<\/line>CALLER: If the guys didn\u2019t give me my salary increase, in lieu of health plan, what happens then, you see? They have to give me another 20, $25,000 in salary so I can buy it in the market.<\/line>RUSH: No, no, no. Then they\u2019re buying it, not you.<\/line>CALLER: No, no, no, under his health care plan, I go out in the market and pay for it. <\/line>RUSH: Yes.<\/line>CALLER: I don?t have to pay for it. <\/line>RUSH: Yes, you do. One of the underlying theories here is that there are people enrolled in health plans that are far more than they need. They are lavish beyond what\u2019s necessary for normal, everyday health care. Catastrophic is something else entirely.<\/line>CALLER: Mmm-hmm.<\/line>RUSH: The point here is to get people buying their own health insurance like you buy your own car, like you rent your own hotel rooms, like you shop at the mall — and when you do this, theoretically you\u2019re going to shop price.<\/line>CALLER: Mmm-hmm.<\/line>RUSH: When you\u2019re paying for it yourself. This will bring competition into the mix and reduce prices, and in exchange for whatever you — and, by the way, health savings accounts will be part of this.<\/line>CALLER: There still has to be a transition from the company paying this — paying for health care — to the company paying you the salary.<\/line>RUSH: Sure.<\/line>CALLER: And that\u2019s going to be the tough part to sell.<\/line>RUSH: Nothing like this ever happens from a standing start. Of course there\u2019s going to be a phase-in if this thing ever saw the light of day. Look, I\u2019m going to try to explain this to you one more time. I\u2019ve gotta take a break though. Can you hang on?<\/line>CALLER: Go ahead. Go ahead.<\/line>RUSH: Thank you. Thank you. <\/line>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: We\u2019re back now to Joe in Matthews, Virginia. By the way, Joe, your state\u2019s not producing some winners lately here. Jim Webb<\/a>?<\/line>CALLER: Yeah, I know.<\/line>RUSH: You see his response<\/a> last night? My gosh!<\/line>CALLER: We just had the other one go into the other column, too.<\/line>RUSH: I know.<\/line>CALLER: I don\u2019t know what\u2019s going on here in Virginia.<\/line>RUSH: There\u2019s no question the Democrats… The governor, Tim Kaine, gave the response to something a year ago.<\/line>CALLER: Yeah, right. That was not good.<\/line>RUSH: At any rate, look, here\u2019s the way this is going to work. This is the plan as it\u2019s offered — and as you know, if this were ever to be debated — and Fortney “Pete” Stark, and the House committee that is going to look at it, says it\u2019s dead. He\u2019s not even going to conduct hearings. He\u2019s not even going to open the book on it. So this is all theoretical and academic here, but in political sense it may not be. The Democrats are standing in the way of something here, a big idea, new idea. People say, “I\u2019m tired of the same old, same old.” The way this will work is: you go out — you family of four, you go out — and buy your own health insurance, and all of the attached market force results occur. For people who don\u2019t do that — and, by the way, you get a tax deduction for the total amount.<\/line>CALLER: No, up to 15 K.<\/line>RUSH: No, no, no. Hold on a minute. I\u2019m going to get there in a second. You\u2019re combining two things that are separate.<\/line>CALLER: All right.<\/line>RUSH: So you get an exemption just like the standard exemption for your kids. Now, for people who don\u2019t do that, Joe, who stay in their employer-funded health care plan, they are the ones who will get taxed on every dollar above $15,000 worst of benefit, but you can\u2019t possibly be taxed on your employer health plan if you don\u2019t have one.<\/line>CALLER: Okay.<\/line>RUSH: If you\u2019ve gone out and bought your own…<\/line>CALLER: So at that point we are talking about somebody\u2019s going to have to give me the additional 15K, right, to even it out? The company is no longer going to pay, so they\u2019ll have to give that to me in salary —<\/line>RUSH: No, no, no.<\/line>CALLER: — so that I can buy my own in the free market.<\/line>RUSH: I know what you\u2019re saying, but that\u2019s not —<\/line>CALLER: They\u2019re going to tax me on that 15 K. Ha-ha-ha!<\/line>RUSH: That\u2019s where the health savings account comes in. <\/line>CALLER: Uh-huh.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: The health savings account does that in a way, but you\u2019re not going to be equally compensated. Your health savings account is going to be based on your health care expenditures not so much what the sum total of your employee benefits package is. Look, Joe, I wish you could hear you the way I hear you. All you\u2019re concerned about is what somebody is going to give you — and if you\u2019re going to consider the value of your health care plan from your employer to be income, then you\u2019ve gotta accept the concept that it is taxable, which it isn\u2019t now! And I have predicted that it would become taxable for many, many moons now — a little Indian lingo there. What you are illustrating — and I don\u2019t mean this personally or even negatively. The big problem with this is we have become a nation — so many of us have become a nation — that expects, and now even demands, that government do things for us. That\u2019s one of the problems I had with the domestic portion of the speech last night. <\/line>All State of the Union speeches do this, but the first half of this speech was: the government\u2019s going to do this for you so you don\u2019t have to do it; the government\u2019s going to do that; the government\u2019s going to do this. It\u2019s going to make sure you drive less. This creates expectations and demands on the part average citizens, not just people who are in entitlement programs. That\u2019s why it\u2019s tough to reduce these things. We\u2019ve got a health care system that everybody whines and moans about, while at the same time they think it\u2019s free — other than the co-pay and the deduction. Always have to throw that in there. And when anybody starts talking about taking away, the worst health care plan, we have, they scream, “You can\u2019t take my health care away!” The concept of doing something on your own for yourself can enrage<\/emphasize> people, when the concept has been established for decades that somebody else is going to do it for you and that it\u2019s somebody else\u2019s responsibility — like your employer or like the government. The real problem that that anybody who wants to propose a plan like this is going to have, is that when people are told, “You know what? Go do it yourself.”<\/line>“How dare you tell me that! Do it myself, what do you mean? Do you know how expensive it is? What do you mean go do it myself?” and that worries me about the softness and the passivity of the country. <\/line>I know and I understand., I mentioned this yesterday when talking about this: Going out and buying health insurance isn\u2019t cheap. Who has the money lying around to do that? You still have to spend it before you get the tax deduction. Hello, health savings accounts. But you have to understand what this is about. Folks, you\u2019re going to have to do one of two things: Either stop griping about how expensive health care is (while it\u2019s apparently free to you) or roll your sleeves up and understand: to get prices down, it\u2019s going to take a little (ahem!) self-involvement, responsibility.<\/line>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/line><\/p>\n

Now, I don\u2019t want there to be any confusion out there in my analysis of this health care plan that\u2019s dead on arrival. I know there are tax increases in it. I told you this yesterday when I played this cruel trick<\/a> on you. Yes, there are tax increases in it. As I understand it, the impetus behind the program is to get as many people as possible buying their own health insurance so as to introduce as much market force into health care pricing as possible. Now, not everybody is going to do it, and those that don\u2019t are going to face a tax increase. Any amount of health care benefit they get from their employer over $15,000 will be taxed. I don\u2019t know at what rate, but it will be taxed. So, yeah, there\u2019s going to be a tax increase, and the purpose of this is to balance whatever tax deductions the government\u2019s getting. You know government never does with less! You never hear about government willing to do with less! So if we\u2019re going to offer tax exemptions for those of you who go out and buy your own health insurance, they look at it as, “Oh, we gotta get that money back somewhere.”<\/line>But the tax increase, or the new tax on people that stay in there employer-paid health plans is designed as an incentive to get you to go out and leave that plan and buy your own, and I\u2019m just commenting on the fact that I don\u2019t know about the likelihood of that, simply because so many people have come to think of it as free, or as a benefit. You may object to my use of the word “free,” but what is a benefit? It\u2019s an add-on, a bennie, a benefit. How many of you pay for benefits, do you think, in your own mind? I\u2019m just thinking about attitudes here! Forget the economics of the reality. We deal with attitudes here, and when you hear people clamoring for health insurance, health coverage, I\u2019m guarantees you they\u2019re clamoring for something they don\u2019t want to pay for, and one of the reasons they don\u2019t want to pay for it — and I don\u2019t blame \u2019em — it\u2019s so ridiculously expensive, and it\u2019s so ridiculously exclusive. <\/line> If you have a hangnail, you\u2019re going to have tougher rates. If you\u2019ve had a heart attack, good luck getting insurance. It\u2019s just… (sigh) I don\u2019t know. People think the whole system is rigged and that\u2019s why the benefit aspect of it is attractive. Plus, that whole employer benefit system has been in place for so long that uprooting it and changing it? Whew! And those of us who understand market forces understand for every one of us that do, there are 10,000 that don\u2019t, and so when you start trying to sell this on the basis of market forces to bring prices down, it\u2019s going to go right over their heads. That\u2019s not what this is about. They don\u2019t care. <\/line>“I want my health insurance, Mr. Limbaugh! Don\u2019t tell me market forces and reducing prices. I want health coverage so I don\u2019t have to worry about it!” <\/line>Okay. <\/line>It\u2019s going to be a tough sell; I don\u2019t think this is going to go anywhere, but it\u2019s a “new idea,” and everybody is always clamoring for new ideas rather than the “same old, same old.”<\/line><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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