New Limbaugh argument against public health care plan: "[T]here's no federal dog healthcare plan out there, and it's working just fine"
June 15, 2009 1:49 pm ET
From the June 15 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show:
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Obviously Rush doesn't care a bit, he makes $40 million a year and can afford the most lavish private insurance.
And let's not even mention that Limbaugh is (intentionally) confusing public health care with public health insurance. What we need is public health insurance. Private doctors are just fine thank you very much.
Hold on there... Rush only speaks for the less than 22% of our fellow citizens, you know... the ones that can't help but be led by their noses!
What's damn hilarious is that there is even one person somewhere in America that will actually be brain dead enough to think that Rush's stupid analogy makes sense...
How can something that does not exist (federal level dog health-care) be working just fine??
As for Universal Single Payer Health-care...
IT IS NOT ABOUT THE HEALTH-CARE THAT EXISTS IN THIS COUNTRY... IT IS ABOUT BEING ABLE TO ACCESS ALL THAT GREAT HEALTH-CARE!!
Actually cap, Limpballs speaks for his listers; that's maybe .000001% of our fellow citizens -- on a good day.
:-)
Rush, as someone else pointed out, I'm sure has no issues with his healthcare plan. I'd be willing to guess that he doesn't even have to pay for any of his own healthcare, he's such a big name, I'm sure his company ponies up for his plan, no doubt about it.
It's the classic case of, I've got mine, so I don't need to worry about anyone else!
That's why it's so remarkable that the working people in his audience would give him any credibility at all on this topic.
No family would ever go bankrupt due to health care costs, because we'd simply euthanize anyone who is diagnosed with a serious illness, just like we do with dogs.
Oh, right. The fact that we're HUMAN does complicate things, doesn't it?
I want to laugh at the absurdity of Limbaugh, but I can't laugh at anything as dangerous as he is.
That's right, dear Limbaugh fans. The next time you get into a serious policy discussion with someone who advocates universal healthcare, just start barking. That's sure to help you win the argument. Just answer a rational argument with canine yelping. Then insist that this is not "out of bounds or a stretch."
Huh. Come to think of it, America has tried this particular health care model with human beings before.
What percentage of America's dogs have access to this wonderful "private sector solution" that Rush is so proud of? I'd be extremely surprised if it even approaches a tenth of one percent.
Of course, Limpdog has inadvertently outlined his actual preference... Healthcare for the privileged few.
...How is it that the private sector treating you like a dog is a good thing?
...Dogs don't pay for their own healthcare, which would make them the ultimate welfare recipients.
...One of the most common procedures for animals is euthanasia, which somewhat complicates this analogy for those who identify as "pro life".
...Check me on this, but I was under the impression that most states actually do support public departments of animal care and control, and that among the duties of these departments are vaccinations, spaying and neutering, euthanazation, etc.. So even among domestic animals, the idea that there's no government involvement in health care is just plain false.
They're all excited, and can't wait to get back to the office and obliterate their liberal co-workers with this brilliant piece of Limpdog Logic.
Blimpy says, "And it's working just fine". No sh*t.
I suppose our human healthcare system would work "just fine" if it were limited to those who could afford to pay. I'm sure it would be quite streamlined and efficient, just like Rush's Doggy Healthcare.
This is the same man that bragged about the recession not affecting him while the co. that pays him that obscene salary laid off or fired over 3,000 employees because it could no longer afford to pay them. Did not bother Rush his own words, he chose to ignore it.