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Limbaugh: "Human beings will die earlier than normal" under "freedom killing" and "life threatening" health-care reform

November 09, 2009 1:37 pm ET

From the November 9 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show:

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    • Author by IRONY 101 (November 09, 2009 1:47 pm ET)
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      More expert opinion from the megalomaniacal high school graduate who normally gets everything wrong...
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      • Author by WhoIsJohnGalt (November 09, 2009 4:41 pm ET)
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        Yeah I mean come on he must be an idiot and a racist because he is a high school graduate. I think the government should crack down on the uneducated who run our media. Kudos to you!
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    • Author by The_Cat (November 09, 2009 1:52 pm ET)
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      Um, Rush? I kinda thought we were already supposed to be dead. Remember? Voting Democrats into power meant that al Qaeda would kill us all. Voting for Obama meant we'd be all squishy on terrorism, and al Qaeda would kill us all. Closing Gitmo would prove to the terrorists we were getting soft, and they'd kill us all.

      By the way, shouldn't you be off somewhere spanking yourself?
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      • Author by Conchobhar (November 09, 2009 3:08 pm ET)
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        "Rush? I kinda thought we were already supposed to be dead."
        In addition, the only demographic in this country with consistently better medical outcomes and a longer life expectancy than similar demmographics in other "socialized" industrial countries, is the over 65 demographic, those on Medicare. Yeh, Rush, those Americans who are "dying earlier than normal," because they're victims of "government run health care," are actually living longer than their peers around the world.
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    • Author by Bad News (November 09, 2009 1:53 pm ET)
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      This has got to stop.


      Mr. News
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    • Author by fishgirl26 (November 09, 2009 1:57 pm ET)
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      These guys keep going on and on about Health Care killing freedom. How so sir? I can't leave my job to start a new business because if I lose my health insurance they may discover that I once sought a mental health professional because my mother and husband died within 16 months of each other and determine that I have a preexisting condition to people dying around me. Also, how much freedom can you have if you are laying in a hospital bed with your loved ones around you not worrying about you getting well but wondering how they will live and where they will take you home to? You see, these guys don't think about it in those terms..they think about life in dollar signs!
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    • Author by MickD (November 09, 2009 2:29 pm ET)
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      The idea of commerce is to squelch freedom of choice so the proprietor can profit from his ability to provide the good or service. We already, in regards to healthcare, have freedom killing. Why can't that simple and undeniable fact permeate a Rushbo audience member?
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    • Author by shaggles (November 09, 2009 2:33 pm ET)
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      In what way does this bill threaten anyones freedom? The only thing I can think is the mandatory coverage thing but that's something the insurance industry wants.
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      • Author by DellDolly (November 09, 2009 4:24 pm ET)
           
        Young healthy people are going to be forced to buy insurance to help carry the load.

        Just like people who are good savers are forced to contribute to Social Security all their lives. For those people, they'd be better off being able to keep all their own money and investing it. But because we know most people aren't that disciplined, and because Social Security was set up so that today's retirees are being supported by today's workers, we couldn't afford to let the disciplined people opt out of Social Security.

        And that's a good thing, don't get me wrong, but that's the loss of freedom argument.

        Healthy people who are willing to take the risk that they won't get sick, and who don't get sick, will lose freedoms, and they'll resent it. Similar people who don't opt for insurance but get sick? Those people cost all of us money in increased premiums and increased taxes to pay for their care. And that's not fair. I've paid lots of insurance premiums in my life, and I've never gotten my money's worth out of them. That's life, and that's okay, and I'm willing to give up some of my hard-earned paycheck to have that peace of mind.

        I don't care if the insurance industry wants mandatory coverage. It's something we need to institute to spread out the cost and mitigate health disasters.
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        • Author by shaggles (November 09, 2009 5:22 pm ET)
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          I understand the need for everyone being covered but forcing everyone to buy private health insurance doesn't seem like the answer to me.
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    • Author by jmariemo (November 09, 2009 2:38 pm ET)
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      Rush sounds like the homeless man I serve coffee to every morning. Of course, his excuse is that he is a Vietnam hero long forgotten by his country and left to degenerate into obscurity. I, however, cannot think of one for Limbaugh.
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    • Author by twointimeofwar (November 09, 2009 3:10 pm ET)
         
      Oh geezzzz.... this is just absurd. There is no evidence to support that this is even remotely true.
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    • Author by dmhack (November 09, 2009 3:20 pm ET)
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      First it was Freedom Fries.
      Now it's Freedom Killing.

      People like the Great Gasbag talk a lot about freedom, but they clearly don't know what the word means.
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    • Author by tiger081096 (November 10, 2009 1:27 am ET)
         
      What Rush means by freedom is the freedom for health insurance companies to increase costs, and deny coverage based on "preexisting conditions" so that they can pay their CEO $5 million per year plus stock options.
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