RUSH: Robin in Houston, you’re next on the EIB Network. Hi.
CALLER: Hi, Rush. Thanks for taking my call.
RUSH: Yes, ma’am.
CALLER: I’m calling, the monologue you gave a while back about how when we get back in power, that we’re going to basically use all the tactics that they’ve used against us on them —
RUSH: I was kind of having fun that day.
CALLER: Yes.
RUSH: I was warning them, okay, you guys are putting in all these laws and privileges for the government to wreak havoc on people, wait ’til we get in power and turn ’em on you, that’s basically what I said.
CALLER: Yes. And to that point, the health care, well, all of what he’s doing but mostly the health care thing recently, we keep hearing that once health care takes hold that we’re not going to be able to turn it back and mainly based on more than the individual but the businesses because if they go to the state-run or socialized medicine, then that’s, you know, off their backs for having to provide insurance for employees. And so that, you know, is scary, but my point is that when we do take back power all these radical things that they’ve done, why couldn’t we radically reduce taxes to the amount where businesses, it’s advantageous to just completely wipe out the health care, socialized medicine —
The reason why a rollback on health care is going to be almost impossible is because it’s going to permeate at virtually every level of our society. I’m not saying it couldn’t be done, but it would be the hardest thing to roll back. It’s easy to lower taxes, for example, and it’s easy to sell General Motors to somebody in the private sector. But when you’re talking something as massive as national health care with tentacles that go as deep into the strata of our society as possible, you know, rolling all that back, that would be major.
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RUSH: This is Michael from parts unknown, cannot say where he is. Hello, Michael.
CALLER: Great day to you, Rush.
RUSH: Yes, sir.
CALLER: Hey, I have some firsthand information that I think you might be interested in. The American Cancer Society, for the most part, is a great organization, but they have stepped into what I consider to be great hypocrisy. They are now making phone calls to constituents and they are telling them this — and trust me, this is very accurate. They are saying, part of what they say, ‘Fighting cancer means fixing health care. The current health care system is failing millions of our Americans and the need for reform is now. Insurance costs seem to get higher each year, and some policies don’t even cover lifesaving cancer screenings. Many cancer survivors can’t get the adequate and affordable health care coverage because of preexisting conditions. Too often –‘ this is what really killed me ‘– too often consumers don’t fully understand their policies and find out too late that they don’t have adequate coverage.’ I’m just kind of baffled when here it is they’re trying to promote this, and national health care reform, where, you know, we hear about like in England all the time these patients who aren’t getting cancer medications to help them out. To me that’s hypocrisy to the highest level.
RUSH: Sounds like it.
CALLER: Yeah. And then one of the things they add on at the end is, if you want to be transferred, to talk to your local senator. Part of what they say is that part of the thing that they want to have included in it is to make cancer screening either available for free or at very little cost. So who’s going to pay for it, guys? Just I’m baffled.
RUSH: See, but that’s part of the ruse. Put the word free or low-cost out there and then associate it with the government running it and that’s how you advance the cause. It’s, to me, not surprising at all.