Limbaugh criticizes health care reform as "a civil rights bill" and "reparations"

It's health equality. Nothing ticks off Rush more than average people getting what rich people have for doing the same if not more and harder work.

Randy

Basically it's saying that you can't provide extra incentives to the executives that you don't provide to everyone. In what way is that wealth redistribution?

Good point. It's not wealth redistribution. As an HR professional, I never did like these executive medical plans because I always felt that they were discriminatory despite what the law indicated. These executive medical plans pick up the slack and cover everything the regular plans do not. In addition, both the base medical plan and the executive medical plan are often times offered at no charge to the executives, while the regular workers have to contribute anywhere from 20%-25% on average towards the cost of their medical plan out of their paycheck. Those contributions are separate from the copays and deductibles employees have to meet should they utilize the plan (Gasp)!

I find it ridiculous that the rich executives financially need these plans and pay nothing for them while making millions of dollars. Why can't they pay for their own medical costs out of their own pocket just like their hero Rush?

If the average employee knew the amount of money their company pays towards these executive plans (both in contributions and in claim expenses), they would be appalled.

You also forgot that if someone calls it racism, both stooges call that person racist.

I think the real question is "Why does Rush think that calling it a Civil Rights Bill means it's a BAD thing?"

I have no problem calling strong health care reform (which we are not likely to see, in my opinion) a Civil Rights Bill. Because I happen to believe that Health Care is a Civil Right. But I can understand why someone who loathes the idea of Civil Rights would attack Health Care reform this way.

The poor are disproportionately represented in which ethnic groups? Therein lies the answer.

So, what part of what Rush said was "racist"? I'm a black man with a white wife and relatives in the ghetto, bro', and I don't see racism in what Rush said. What's wrong with you, bro', does everything have to be partisan bull with you? {just doing my k1dork impersonation}

That if it brings any amount of equal access to anything and benefits poor people/people of color/the middle class/small business owners, it automatically involves civil rights and reparations and is bad for the country. This is another wedge Limpballs is creating and trying to use as a political/social/cultural/economic tool to appeal to his weak-minded listeners.