{"id":7763,"date":"2014-11-18T17:32:36","date_gmt":"2014-11-18T17:32:36","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-11-18T17:32:36","modified_gmt":"2014-11-18T17:32:36","slug":"gruber_admits_obamacare_s_long_term_objective_is_to_end_employer_provided_health_insurance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2014\/11\/18\/gruber_admits_obamacare_s_long_term_objective_is_to_end_employer_provided_health_insurance\/","title":{"rendered":"Gruber Admits Obamacare\u2019s Long-Term Objective Is to End Employer-Provided Health Insurance"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: I\u2019m gonna take you back four years to March 5, 2010<\/a>. This is me talking about health insurance reform and the plan to eliminate employer-based insurance.<\/p>\n

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RUSH ARCHIVE: Once a significant number of businesses have offloaded their health care benefits and the government is now providing that insurance, how do you stop that? “Okay, we\u2019re going to repeal this now.” The Democrats are going to be out there saying, “See? We told you. Republicans don\u2019t want you to have health care! Republicans want to take your health care away. Just like you senior citizens, the Republicans want to take your Social Security away from you.”<\/p>\n

The cost of doing business in the United States today, as you know, is very high. There\u2019s no economic growth. People are being laid off. People are not being hired. The growth is occurring in the public sector. In fact, for the first time, public sector employee average salaries are $7,000 a year higher than in the private sector. Sixty-seven thousand versus 60 is the average. Not the mean, the average. And this is a trend that has been ongoing for quite a while.<\/p>\n

So any business… You go out and talk to them. The whole health care situation bugs \u2019em. They have to provide it. Employees expect it. They have to provide it to get quality people. But they hate it. The costs keep going up. The employees are never satisfied with all of what they\u2019re getting, even though the employees are paying no tax on it. It\u2019s a free benefit.<\/line><\/p>\n

Companies now have to have entire departments just to deal with that aspect of running their business, which has nothing to do with running the business. If you think a company will not choose an 8% off-the-top option payment to the government rather than 14 to 15% that is costing them to provide benefits for their employees, you got another thing coming, with as much pressure and stress on these people as there is to stay open. All of this is by design…<\/p>\n

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RUSH: This was my attempting to explain — and it\u2019s tough take a minute-and-45 bite. Half of that\u2019s irrelevant to what I was talking about. The point was that the government was gonna offer businesses an opportunity to get out of providing health insurance for employees with a small, one-time, 8% off-the-top payment to the government, and that 8% payment to the government was in lieu of providing health insurance.<\/p>\n