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RUSH: By the way, I got a note here from a friend who sent me an excerpt from a column by Terry Jeffrey, the editor-in-chief, Cybercast News Service. His latest column explains how the Senate health care bill will send people to the DMV for their health insurance. We have been joking about this. We make jokes about these people and they come true. The public option is only one lane on <\/a>the road to socialized medicine. The most revelatory passage in the so-called plain English version of the health care bill that the Senate committee approved yesterday — and again, I want to remind you they have not even drafted the actual legislative language. They\u2019re still working on a draft. They voted on nothing. They passed nothing, which clears them now to write something in secret that nobody\u2019s ever going to see, and nobody\u2019s ever going to read. But in this plain English version draft, it says that ‘in the future Americans will be offered the convenience of getting their health insurance at the Department of Motor Vehicles. <\/p>\n

‘This is no joke. If this bill becomes law, it will be the duty of the US secretary of health and human services or the state governments overseeing federally mandated health-insurance exchanges to ensure that you can get your health insurance at the DMV. &hellip; Page 19 of the committee\u2019s ‘plain English\u2019 text says: ‘The Secretary and\/or states would do the following: … Enable customers to enroll in health care plans in local hospitals, schools, Departments of Motor Vehicles, local Social Security offices, and other offices designated by the state.” And yet we\u2019re still being told there\u2019s no public option here. Already they\u2019re setting it up so that one of the places you will have to go for your mandated insurance will be the DMV. ‘The public option is only one lane on the road to socialized medicine. Government subsidies and government regulations are two others — and they run like a super highway through the Finance Committee bill.\u2019 Under that bill, ‘it will be far cheaper for a business to pay the government $400 per worker than to pay a private insurance company thousands per worker for an insurance plan. The Finance Committee has created an irresistible incentive for American businesses to drop their workers off at the DMV.\u2019<\/p>\n

I was driving home yesterday and I have satellite radio in the car, and I decided to dial in the Fox News Channel. I was listening to Shepard Smith interviewing Michael Steele, the head of the Republican National Committee, and Steele was talking about the health bill and Steele was going through the talking points, it\u2019s going to raise taxes, it\u2019s going to reduce fees and services, the dryball talking points, and Shep Smith said, (paraphrasing) ‘I think you misunderstand, the public option is simply an option. It\u2019s a way to add competition to the market, it is a way to reduce costs and make all this more –‘ and Steele did not know what to say. I\u2019m not ripping Steele. I\u2019m sitting there driving. I imagine this happens to you all the time when you\u2019re watching TV. I don\u2019t watch these shows much anymore. I happened by quirk of fate dial it in yesterday. I\u2019m saying, ‘No, Michael, what you tell him here is this: The public option exists to destroy private insurance and to destroy competition because it\u2019s going to force people and businesses to off-load their employer provided health care benefits and force people to go to the government to get it.\u2019 <\/p>\n

That\u2019s the whole point of it. That\u2019s why it is there, and that\u2019s why this bill makes the public option insurance dirt cheap to begin with. If you run a business and it costs you say $8,000 per employee to give them health care benefits, and all of a sudden Big Brother government comes along and says, ‘I\u2019ll do it, I\u2019m in the game, and we\u2019re going to insure your employees at $400 bucks a head instead of $8,000,\u2019 what are you going to do? You off-load them. And this is all being done in the name of competition. This stifles competition. I\u2019m driving along, I\u2019m listening to this and I\u2019m saying, ‘Good Lord, the answer to this is simple.\u2019 Some people think the sales technique for our side is just to recite a litany of, ‘It\u2019s going to raise taxes, it\u2019s going to do this, going to do that,\u2019 that\u2019s not the way to address this. There\u2019s a great piece, Investors.com, by one of my favorite economic writers, Robert J. Samuelson. I gotta take a break here but let me give you the headline: ‘Health Spending Condemns Youth to the Future of Downward Mobility.\u2019 And keep in mind, this is by design. This is on purpose. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: By the way, the plan here, the plan to have us all go to the DMV to get our mandated health insurance from the federal health exchange? From a Democrat point of view, it\u2019s actually pretty brilliant because you can also register to vote at the same DMV or you can change your registration at the DMV. So you can go in for your federally mandated insurance and change your registration to Democrat and get the best coverage. You go in and register for health and they\u2019ll find out what political party you\u2019re a member of. You think it might affect the way you\u2019re going to be treated at the DMV? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RUSH: By the way, I got a note here from a friend who sent me an excerpt from a column by Terry Jeffrey, the editor-in-chief, Cybercast News Service. His latest column explains how the Senate health care bill will send people to the DMV for their health insurance. We have been joking about this. 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