Limbaugh to Obama on health care: "Screw you ... my doctor doesn't even like you, none of my doctors do"
June 25, 2009 12:51 pm ET
From the June 25 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show:
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It's called writters block.
The problem is it happened to Mr. Limbaugh 10 years ago.
Mr. News
Did they like being shopped around while you were cruising for another oxy 'scrip Rush?
D'ya ever think that they might just be tieeling you what you want to hear so they can keep taking your money?
Idiot.
Again, Rush and the rest are using scare tactics of things that are already occurring today.
I have a friend who is a cancer survivor going on two years. 6 months after her last chemo and radiation treatment, her insurance company told her that her oncologist was no longer "in network" and that they were going to refer her to another one.
So, I don't want to hear the scare tactics of what President Obama is going to do... the Insurance companies are doing it now!
Besides, the doctors that Rush sees probably don't accept insurance patients anyhow.
For every "nightmare" scenario these guys prop up, it's something that's already happening under the current system. Rationing of care. Dropping of the insured patients. Denying treatments because it's too expensive. And so on.
All of their so called arguments are things that are already happening, or have happened with our current "free market" system.
I hate these people. I hate them so much I can taste it in my balls. Anyone of the lower 98% (under $250K income) who support the current system deserves to lose their job, lose their coverage, then get dagnosed with cancer a week later, before they can line up a new plan. (Then let'em get stuck with "pre-exsisting conditions.") Then let THEM chose between their lives and their life's savings. I have no sypmathy for these fools. They should die uncovered or live the rest of theit lives broke. Give 'em a good dose of what their defending, and forcing everyone else into.
Typical conservative reasoning: Assume it'll happnen to someone else. Then just don't give a $#!t.
The republican philosphy in eight words: I've got mine, screw the rest of you.
I prefer YOYO (You're On Your Own)
I will never understand how people can listen to this scumbag and actually think that he even remotely lives in the same type of world that they do. Limbaugh has made hundreds of millions of dollars by telling the weak minded exactly what they want to hear. Do his listeners really believe that whatever is in the best interest of Rush is also in their best interest given the difference in their income? Limbaugh can afford the best of everything and far too many in this country are living paycheck to paycheck. He can afford the best doctors even to the point of getting some of his hearing back after going deaf (from heavy drug use?). I'm willing to bet that most of his listeners could not afford the same procedure nor have the access to the doctors if they were to lose their hearing.
Let's GO!
"...none of my doctors..."
None of his many, many doctors.
JUst as others have pointed out above, it's all bootstraps and tough talk until it happens to them. The caller sounded like a decent guy, just forced to face reality after swallowing the right wing line for years, while he had a job & benefits.The man sounded beaten, and tired.
The caller said he was paying $1,000 a month for his families insurance, and he couldn't do it any more. Medved's response was to ask the guy if his neighbor should be expected to pay that thousand a month.
This is how the issue is being dumbed down for the below-average American mass media consumer; If you're paying $X through a private plan, and you lose it, then a public plan will cost the guy next door a grand.
Another "Nightmare Scenario" being pushed by the media is almost as dopey. Referencing surveys that say many businesses would switch to the National plan if avaiilable, the dittoheads are being frightened with the threat that they won't be able to choose their health care plan if their employer switches.
And I guess the target audience isn't supposed to figure out that they didn't get to choose the current plan that their employer chose for them.
Now a liberal is a conservative who's been mugged by reality.
I wish I had a link to audio of that phone call. It was a bit sad. The guy was obviously a long-time follower of right wing radio, and he made this call, sounding desperate and scared. He was most likely cheering right along for all the years he had his job and insurance, railing against the socialist agenda as he enjoyed the benefits of his socialist company bennies.
The response from Medved was sickening. This was a fan calling, probably a man like many who feels great personal failure at struggling to provide for a family in hard times.
And Medved could only offer a quick "sorry" before launching in to the "walk it off" pep talk that the very rich and fortunate like to dish out to their inferiors.
If someone thinks that's wrong, go through unemployment like I did, and see how much COBRA costs you for the same plan. Example. I was paying $120/month, just for myself mind you (my wife had her own plan) when employed. When I lost my job, same policy, same benefits would have cost me $850/month. Luckily, I was able to get coverage under my wife's plan for a whole lot less.
These guys whine and moan about "paying for the other guy" when in reality, they're not even paying for themselves to begin with (most of the time).
If we can get a public plan that works well, and isn't going to cost me too much more in taxes, I'd be happy to send along some additional funds if it means everyone in this country gets covered, and receives care.
There was an article a few weeks ago, in the Murdoch Street Journal, centering on a young father of two who'd lost his job on Wall Street. He'd been one of those crazy guys in the pit, pulling down close to a quarter mill a year. $600,000.00 condo, Lexus, private schools, the whole nine yards. Now he's a greeter in a restaurant he used to patronize, and lucky to have that. Of course he doesn't feel so lucky, as the savings go, along with tuition, the car and condo, and guys who still have their jobs on the Street come in and look at him sideways.
The article goes on to quote the founder of an NGO in lower Manhattan which provides after school recreation, enrichment, and homework support for the public schools in the area, and a Summer Camp. Parents who were sending their kids to the camp in previous years are calling up to see if he has any jobs available. One of the new missions for the organization, which was at the forefront of the recovery of the Tribeca community after 9/11 (my two older sons are program directors and have been deeply involved {yes, they might be called "community organizers}), is support of families who've been hit hard, as the subject of the article was.
The last line of the article quotes that young man, and his words should be seared into the souls of all of us:
"I used to look at guys without jobs and think it was all on them. Now it's happened to me."
It's been a strange dynamic I've seen in my lifetime, the increasing number of people I've met over the past few decades who couldn't really tell me what they did for a living, but they seemed to be making a lot of money. A lot more than those who could tell me specifically what they did to earn a paycheck.
When I was a kid, it seemed normal that blue-collar workers, teachers, average hard-working people owned homes (even here in SoCal), took vacations, had a little money in the bank, sometimes with only one spouse working outside the home.
What seems more normal now is two income couples in their thirties or forties renting and living paycheck to paycheck. Even some I know with college educations.
And , amazingly, a good number of people down here in the lower 90 percentile with us continue to cheerlead for the same conservative policies that have led us to this point.
Your point about "choice" is important to the debate. My "choice" is to accept what United Health Care doles out (a.k.a. rationing) or go "out of network." For example, I waited over 2 months to get my gall bladder chopped out.
As for costs, I wish there was more focus on what we're paying per capita compared to the rest of the industrialized world.
The least expensive of the retirement plans Ma Bell "chose" for me still costs me and my wife $5K a year, including deductable, NOT including the extra 10% for the big ticket items.
I don't expect to see the financial aspects of health care explored in the CCM (corporate-controlled media), but the blogs could easily keep this pot stirring on their home pages.
You had to wait for to get a procedure approved? What, were you in Canada, England?
That doesn't happen here... that would only happen if we "socialized" health care. <<<sarcasm>>>
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What the NeoCons demonstrate with every scare tactic they spout out is how out of touch they are with the rest of us.
My girlfriend was diagnosed with cancer in May and had to wait 2 months to get a Petscan approved by her insurance carrier to confirm the cancer before they could start treatments in August.
Thankfully she has been cancer free for two years and the delay didn't cause any harm, but what if it had? I would be so angry if I ever heard (well, if we would have started Chemo a couple months sooner...)
rush is getting awfully upset ...is it correct to say that your upset big guy over the notion you don't like the fact your "DOCTORS" will be supervised as to how much OPIATES they dospense you for your ADDICTION? are you high now?
I hope you are, that will be your only defense as to why your spewing stupidity as usual. LOL what a tool