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RUSH: As I\u2019ve been watching this, I\u2019ve been thinking, ‘How do we solve this? What\u2019s the objective?\u2019 <\/p>\n

Health care for everybody at lower cost, right? No, that\u2019s the real objective. We\u2019d like everybody to have access to health care. We certainly want to bring the costs down, do we not? That\u2019s what we want to do. I have a plan. I have a plan to give everybody health care and slash costs, and I don\u2019t need a thousand pages of rationing. I don\u2019t need death panels. Oh! Sarah Palin has rocked \u2019em with that one because she\u2019s dead right. They are death panels. I went back. I was reading Levin\u2019s book, Liberty and Tyranny, and he\u2019s got a story in there about a woman in Oregon. They\u2019ve got death panels in Oregon. Nine states already have a version of Obamacare, and it\u2019s a disaster. I\u2019ll share the details when the program unfolds, but I don\u2019t need a thousand pages of rationing, regulating, nor invasion of your privacy. <\/p>\n

I can deliver what Obama is promising with one sentence. It\u2019s very simple. ‘You\u2019re sick? Here\u2019s a train ticket to Canada.\u2019 If you like socialized medicine, we can send to you Canada to get treated, and he can do it for much less than converting our system to Canada\u2019s. All we gotta do is put you on a train or put you on an airplane, whatever the transportation costs. Let the Canadians handle the care. If you like that kind of system or if you want to go to the UK, we\u2019ll put you on a plane send you there. But that\u2019s going to cost so much less and there\u2019s going to be no interruption whatsoever to our personal freedom. The people that do not want to go to Canada, people that don\u2019t want to go to the UK — or maybe if you want to go to Cuba to get treated! <\/p>\n

That\u2019s the best health care in the world, we\u2019re told. So if you want to go to Cuba, we\u2019ll send you there. If you want to go to Canada, we\u2019ll send you there! All it\u2019s going to cost us is whatever the transportation costs and maybe a hotel for a couple nights. But Canada will take care of the health care costs because it\u2019s ‘free\u2019 for everybody. Isn\u2019t this brilliant, folks? I mean, I\u2019ve been sweating and slaving over this all night, and I\u2019ve thought, ‘What are we talking about here? We\u2019ve already got the kind of garbage that Obama is trying to put on us elsewhere, and it\u2019s in Canada and the UK. Send everybody there who gets sick.\u2019 They come here for private care; we go there for public care. I don\u2019t mean become a citizen of Canada. I\u2019m proposing a round trip ticket so that you can go to Canada, you can get better, you can come back home and keep paying more taxes in America. <\/p>\n

I think it\u2019s a brilliant plan, and I\u2019m… (interruption) ‘Will they take us?\u2019 Well, now, I hadn\u2019t thought of will Canada take us. Well, I don\u2019t think that\u2019s really the question. The question is if you… Yeah, we\u2019ll assume they\u2019ll take you, but how long is the line going to be? Who cares? We don\u2019t care about that. I mean, that\u2019s part and parcel of the kind of system we\u2019re going to get. So I\u2019d rather people leave here and stand in line in Canada than goof up and muck up our health care system, which is fine and dandy and working for the most part. And we get rid of these people that want socialized medicine, get \u2019em to Canada — that\u2019s the closest place we can send them — we can fix ours for the people that want it fixed and kill two birds with one stone. And look at the money we\u2019ll be saving and look at the freedom we\u2019ll be preserving and look at the liberty that won\u2019t be attacked!<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll have to put nobody\u2019s records online. The White House is not going to have to determine what Medicare and Medicaid spends on what and on whom. We\u2019ll let Canada handle all that because they got the system down pat, and everybody seems to admire the Canadian system, at least in the Obama realm, and the same thing with the National Health Service in the UK. So if we want to save money here, why ruin our system when we\u2019ve already got two systems that are in ruination now? But if people want to access them, fine. We\u2019ll send \u2019em there. It\u2019s very, very simple. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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