Limbaugh: "I don't believe anybody in this country is dying because of a lack of health insurance"
From the September 30 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show:
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From an American Journal of Public Health press release:
Lack of health insurance leads to 45,000 excess deaths annually
A new study shows that a lack of health insurance is associated with nearly 45,000 deaths in the United States each year -- or one death every 12 minutes.
Researchers conducted a survival analysis with data from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey and analyzed participants aged 17 to 64 years to determine whether uninsurance at the time of interview predicted death. After adjusting for age, gender, education, employment status, smoking and other factors, the authors found that lack of health insurance causes 44,789 deaths each year.
The number of excess deaths is nearly two-and-a-half times greater than previous estimates by the Institute of Medicine, which were based on older studies.
[From: "Health Insurance and Mortality in U.S. Adults." Contact: Andrew P. Wilper, University of Washington Medical School, wilp9522@u.washington.edu].
C'mon - Clap. Keep clapping. Clap louder, Clap faster! I DO believe in faeries!! I DO believe in health-for-profit!!! Clap!!!! YOU'RE NOT CLAPPING LOUD ENOUGH!!! COME ON - CLAP!!!! CLAP LIKE YOUR LIFE DEPENDED ON IT!!!! CLAAAAP, YOU BASTARDS.....!!!!
Great. Their dead, and it's your fault. You didn't really believe. Your political views were invested in the failure of the health insurance industry, and now thousands of innocent people are dead.
Hope you liberals are proud of yourselves.
BTW Neon, that's a suspiciously European spelling of "fairies" you're using there. Watch it.
On a Boss Hogg -related note, if anybody can find a link to audio of "Susan" who called in about a half hour before the end of the show today, it was awesome, and made my pre-lunch drive complete.
She was a lawyer, who left a great job at a law firm, because God had promoted her to "Mother of Seven".
She was, for the first time in her life, ashamed of her government.
She advised Boss Hogg to pick up the phone and call Sarah Palin to be his running mate in 2012.(oh, pleeeeaaassssse !!)
She rambled on for several minutes with an emotional, melodramatic paranoid rant that she bragged she did without a teleprompter.
She apologized for running on, but Rush comforted her, telling her that she had summarized the first hour of his show perfectly.As others have pointed out here, this is the format of Rush's show; he blathers on with his talking points and BS, the dittoheads call in and repeat what he just said, and Daddy tells them they're brilliant.
And, BTW, the spelling of "faeries" was intentionally to differentiate between... well... real men don't believe in homosexuality, anyway. Curious, though - we still hear an awful lot about it, like it exists...
You know, the type of slow-witted zombie who would need to ask to have that explained.
Have you ever considered that maybe YOU'RE the problem?
That would be part of the problem.
The other part would be that they might see that things could be better.
Where Rush believes things are perfect now, well, except for Obama and all those Democrats.
there certainly are people who's priorities are not straight, but the fact remains that there also are people who live underneath the crack they have fallen through or was born under...
i remember hearing levine not long ago put both his feet in his mouth talking about the 'actual number' of people who don't have health care. and he went on to say something like what a small measure (as if they don't count). and lament how he would never allow his relatives to go without seeing a doctor...hmmmmm does that mean that he has means...
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Being all cooped up in that little cubbyhole you speak from I can certainly understand how you are not able to notice all the suffering going on around you!
Do us all a favor... pull your lower lip over you head and swallow!
I hope nobody really cares what Rush believes because there are lots of things he doesn't believe in...
Science, because global warming isn't real
Marriage, not just gay marriage, but marriage in general since his hate towards women is equal to that of gays.
Truth, since his tenuous relationship with the truth is ethereal at best.
It's insulting that he says things like this and nobody calls him on it. I would love to see him in a room with the families of people who have been bankrupted by health care, have lost loved ones because of insurance failures, or people who have had their insurance rescinded and say to their faces..."I don't believe anyone is dying because of a lack of health insurance"
But they're probably convinced that they would be keeping up if their taxes were cut by about 50k a year.
Hear no evil see no evil
They remember Reagan telling them that Socialized medicine is the greatest evil of all, but they forget that they were referring to Medicare.
Yep, they disappear with either ruined credit or a bankruptcy or a foreclosure. To echo the Colonel, thanks for arguing for universal health care.
Says the de facto leader of the movement that insists that death panels are in the future and that socialized healthcare will kill grandma.
You know, those vids you see of him talking into the mic on his program don't show us what he's looking at when he talks. I bet it's a mirror.
His callers are pre-screened and few who disagree with him are allowed on the air. For five days a week, Limbaugh puts out his opinions with little fear of contradiction. Yes he does it with a somewhat perverted sense of humor and plenty of sarcasm.
Like Beck, he pontificates with a confident, authoritative voice that gives the impression that what he says is accurate and true. The fact is that many of the facts he and Beck claim are often inaccurate and many are just downright wrong.
But, as I have penned before, what do they care? As long as the millions pure into their bank accounts, they will spew out as much rhetoric and hatred as their employers will permit.
IS HE REALLY BELIEVING HIMSELF!?!?
Oh! Its the pill bottles talking to him!
Harvard Medical Study Links Lack of Insurance to 45,000 U.S. Deaths a Year
http://prescriptions.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/17/harvard-medical-study-links-lack-of-insurance-to-45000-us-deaths-a-year/
Ask Groucho.
See how easy it is to project willy nilly?
I have worked my whole life.. and have ALWAYS had to use the ER for ANY health care.. Oh and yes.. I am VERY sick.. They give me 5 years with my liver... I don't know if health care would help.. but would love to try it..
You right wing A$$holes are KILLING us For NOTHING more then MORE money for the insurance companies. Fools.. It will affect you to.
And I don't believe that Rush is a living, breathing, thinking human being.