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RUSH: A little bit about something I brought up in Philadelphia last night: health care. I\u2019ve talked about it in a similar vein on this program, but I had the occasion recently to meet with another liberal, a liberal chick. This liberal chick had this book on self-reliance, and she\u2019s reading passages to me, and I was thinking to myself, ‘What is a liberal doing with a book on self-reliance?\u2019 So I\u2019m thinking she can\u2019t be as liberal as she thinks — and truly she is moving, even though she doesn\u2019t know it. How could she not be, being with me a couple of hours? At any rate, as she read me some of these passages on self-reliance, I said, ‘Let me ask you a question. Where is self-reliance in the debate in this country over health care.\u2019 <\/p>\n

‘What do you mean?\u2019 <\/p>\n

I said, ‘Well, why is it…?\u2019 and I asked the audience in Philadelphia this last night. I said, ‘Why is it that of all the needs in life, all of the needs — not wants, all of the needs — that we have in this country, how is it that we\u2019re close to 50% of the American people who think it\u2019s somebody else\u2019s job to provide it for them? They\u2019re self-reliant when it comes to buying their homes. They\u2019re self-reliant when it comes to buying their cars, self-reliant when it comes to buying their lawn mowers, self-reliant when it comes to buying their televisions, self-reliant when it comes to buying hotel rooms, self-reliant when it comes to buying food, self-reliant when it comes to buying hardware supplies. Why is it that so many Americans now think that health care and insurance, is something they don\u2019t have to be self-residential about? Does this trouble you?\u2019 <\/p>\n

The answer I got was, ‘Well, you know, I really think we ought to provide health coverage for the poor because they\u2019re overtaxing emergency rooms and that\u2019s raising the price for everyone.\u2019<\/p>\n

I said, ‘Don\u2019t give me that. Answer the question. Just answer the question. You\u2019re going full bore here on self-reliance. This is good. Tell me why self-reliance gets thrown out the window when it comes to health care. I\u2019ll tell you why. It\u2019s politics! For years, and years, and years, Democrats and liberals have been telling people that health care is a constitutional right, that the government is supposed to provide it,\u2019 and I said, ‘The reason that they do this is because they want to control and they want to have as many people as possible dependent on them for the control they want over people,\u2019 and, of course, this is where the conversation started to break down, but at least I made the point, which leads me to the next story here in the Stack of Stuff. A Rasmussen poll. I have said we are approaching mob rule. Once we get to the point that, say, 55% of the American people think that health care should be ‘free,\u2019 paid for by somebody else, then we\u2019re nearing mob rule. How are we going to stop that? Rasmussen poll: ‘Half of Americans support the notion of providing health care for free to all Americans, even though…\u2019 Listen to this, now: ‘even though they expect it will reduce the overall quality of care, increase the overall cost, and increase their personal costs.\u2019 What a bunch of lamebrains, if this is true — and the Rasmussen people are not cranks. <\/p>\n

How do you go from providing health care ‘for free\u2019 to expecting your personal costs will go up? How can your personal costs go up if it\u2019s free? Besides that, they say they\u2019ll go for it even if it will reduce the overall quality of care and increase the cost. However, the support for free health care breaks down, falls dramatically ‘if the plan requires everybody with insurance to change their coverage and join a program administered by the government.\u2019 There is a silver lining in this dark cloud. ‘That\u2019s consistent with a large body of research suggesting strong resistance to any proposal requiring people to switch from the current health insurance.\u2019 Folks, let me clue you in about something. You may not have a choice if Mrs. Clinton gets her way, and I point you back to this S-CHIP thing. This S-CHIP thing is no longer about kids. It\u2019s about putting more and more people under a federal program. And Mrs. Clinton has said if her new health care plan is indoctrinated the way she wants or introduced, she\u2019s going to let people keep their individual insurance, but she\u2019s also going to have government programs, too, and she\u2019s also said you might have to have health insurance when you go to a job interview. Well, if you can\u2019t afford it, you go to the government and get it. That\u2019s how you go get a job. <\/p>\n

The point is that with the government competing with the private sector, the private sector is going to take it on the chin, and people are going to feel the need to leave because prices are going to continue to rise and so forth because the government\u2019s going to affect supply and demand being involved in the mix — and, down the road, the objective is to force the private sector out on its own. Make them just give up, as in businesses saying like the automakers, ‘We can\u2019t survive if $2,000 of every car is priced for health care, and we can\u2019t continue to pay people that are no longer working for us.\u2019 And the government comes along, ‘Well, we\u2019ll take over your health care for you.\u2019 The government says that, and the companies say, ‘Good!\u2019 These CEOs are not dumb when it comes to their bottom line. ‘Let the government take it over, and so this is how it\u2019s going to happen.\u2019 It won\u2019t happen immediately. It\u2019s a stealth program. Look, the old Soviets, folks, they were very patient. They had goals to get something done five years, ten years, 100 years, whatever it took. You know, the old saying: Take two steps forward. If you have to go one step back, now and then, you do it, but you keep making progress. They don\u2019t do things in four-year increments, eight-year increments. The liberals have been at this for a long time, and they\u2019re going to keep at it, so this is one of the stealth techniques that they\u2019re going to employ. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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