Limbaugh on health care: "There is no crisis. ... The crisis in health care here has been manufactured."

Of course there's no crisis if you make $40 million a year.

Putz.

Not for extremely wealthy gasbags, at any rate.


Now the real question is - how many of his healthcare-deprived dittoheads will believe him?

It's doubtful that this poor excuse for a human being will ever see a hospital bill for more than his annual salary.

I'd be willing to bet that 90 % of his listeners some day will.

Rush is such an idiot... ask any business what health care costs have been doing year to year. I know that every year each employer must make a decision on what benefits to limit in order to minimize the increase.

If each employer kept the same benefits they provided to their employees in 2000 that they have now, the cost would have been ten times the current amount. Each year, they have to lower deductibles or ask for employees to pay a higher % of their spouse and children in order to minimize their costs. So in effect, health care costs have more than doubled in 10 years and we are getting far less coverage.

What would happen if Social Security was forced to go from 6.2% (employee contribution) to 15% over 10 years in order to save Social Security... wouldn't it have to be a crisis! To be a better analogy, Health Care costs would not only have to go to 15%, but also the benefits would have to be reduced!

For Rush Limbaugh to deny there is a Health Care Crisis is just him showing further his detachment from reality! What a moron!

Yeah. Like McCain said (well one of his spokesmen actually) during the campaign. We need to stop saying that 47 million Americans don't have health care insurance because anyone can go to the emergancy room and by law they have to treat you. Of course who ultimately pays for all those emergancy room visits? And people say Republicans don't support publically funded health care. Crisis? What crisis?

There's no crisis when your DR. gives you viagra prescriptions with his name.

There's no crisis when your cleaning lady hooks up your Oxycontin for you.

btw... Rush.. you're right there was a crisis in Canadian Health care... there was a movement by some to try to privatize aspects of their health care.. Why would they do so? Gross failures? No, mostly greed, but what did Canadian leaders from all three provincial parties decide...

“There will always be one single payer for that, the public payer.”
NDP party said they would “support public health care, a real jewel of our country.”

While Campbell's interest in health systems in New Zealand and Europe has led to much speculation on Liberal plans to privatize health services or introduce two-tier care, the unanimous support for public health care in tonight's debate is a recognition of just how basic the issue has become in B.C., and for the that matter, Canadian politics.

It's such a crisis that all three provincial parties agree... I doubt that will ever happen here.

http://thetyee.ca/Blogs/TheHook/BC-Politics/2009/05/03/PublicHealth/

Oh and just for the fun of it... another article that states "Since the privatization of cleaning services in B.C.'s hospitals, healthcare workers say they've seen a sharp increase in "healthcare-associated infections" -- diseases contracted by patients and staff within the hospitals themselves."
http://thetyee.ca/News/2009/04/21/HospitalGerms/

Hisfishing expedition is going well. It was yesterday when he was hawking the idea that health nuts caused the health care crisis. This is from a guy that goes overseas to get illicit drugs. And a good percentage of his audience blindly believe everything this gas bag emanates.

Oh no,

There's no crisis for El Fathead. He's got good care. Even includes drug treatment.

Actually Rush is right on this one.

The crisis has been manufactured, by insurance companies and denying health care.

I'm not sure which is worse...

That this fat, drug addled scum-sucking $50 million a year punk can make the claim that the health-care issue is just another in a long line of liberal scams with a straight face...

Or that a large percentage of his 'ditto-heads' who would benefit hugely from a single payer health-care system will end up agreeing with this ass-clown, show up at anti-universal health-care rallies created by the right-wing powers that be, and continue to vote against their own interests?

I'm sure the Wal-Mart worker would like to hear that there's no health care crisis. How about the unemployeed? No health care crisis?

Right, Pig Man....

Typical conservative problem solving strategy. First: DENY THERE'S A PROBLEM!