Limbaugh: A right to health care is like saying "staying in a five-star hotel is a right"

Except nobody is dying from not staying in a five-star hotel.

he will say anything for ratings and his paycheck. Basically, Rush is a whore.

or a five star hospital in HAWAII

this is just beyond disgusting even for limbaugh

NO, it's not really equivalent to that, Rush.

Rush basically says "I got mine so screw you".

I love these Republican Christian values…NOT! How about being your brothers keeper Rush, and making sure that not one American goes without access to affordable healthcare? I don't understand why we have American citizens suffering from easily treatable conditions in the most advanced and wealthiest nation on Earth? True patriotism is taking care of our fellow Americans.

I don't recall reading about Jesus, or even Luke checking for insurance when they healed the sick.

He totally bombed on the analogy section of the SAT.

Question from Rush's SAT:
A wood chip is to a wooden block as

A. The moon is to the sun.
B. A mistress is to a wife.
C. A bread crumb is to a slice of bread.
D. A pastry is to a doughnut.

Rush's answer: B & D.
Rush's reasoning while answering the question: "Can I choose both? I've got to have both, it's my right to have a wife, a mistress, a pastry, and a doughnut. You can keep the wooden block, I've already got one of those on top of my neck. Duh!"

Doesn't this hearken back to his appearance on William Shatner's Raw Nerve?

So sleeping in a 4 star hotel is going to kill someone?

So fiscal Conservatives have found their "fiscal conservatism" all of a sudden. When G.W. Bush was running up the national credit card on phony wars. Fiscal conservatism was nowhere to be found. Now the Democrats are in office there is plenty of "fiscal responsibility" to go around! The real kicker is though, that for self righteous types like Rush, is if you are poor and cannot afford decent healthcare, they want you to go somewhere and die! You are a lazy good for nothing drain on society and deserve whatever fate you get. Nevermind that billions of YOUR tax dollars are spent every year to maintain military bases in places like Germany? Japan? Not to even bring in the insane wars we are currently fighting to keep us "safe". This guy is another one of those selfish "Country Firsters". Or is it Country Club Firsters?

Yesterday a student told me he has to drop my class. Doctors found a shadow on his lungs and it may be cancerous. However, he can't afford to get a biopsy so he's dropping out of school to raise money.

By Rush's analogy, this kid can't even sit in the hotel lobby for a cup of coffee.

Who would Jesus ignore and leave them to fend for themselves because they can't afford medical care due to high prices for treatments and medications?

There's a bit of a difference. Honestly though, do people like Rush really think that living in Canada or any other developed country, where health care is a right, is that bad? I would like to assure him that it's quite okay and he can still be rich under universal health care. It's going to be okay...

Yes Rushbo, the sacred temple that is the human body, whose proper care we all have a birthright to, is exactly the same as a luxury commodity item bought and sold on the free market.

Nice false equivalency, which seems to the new favorite logical fallacy of the uber-right.

This is the point where all argumentative substance ends, and a simple, good ol' fashioned human difference of opinion begins.

Do you care for your fellow man, whether they live or die, or are you like millionaire Rush, who has absolutely nothing to lose or gain from health care but some taxes.

I don't believe we're talking about a "right to health care", but instead a right to be insured, to have health insurance when and if you need it.

Maybe the distinction is too little to make, maybe there's no real distinction, but either way, both the problem of the obscenely high cost of private health insurance premiums, and the problem of fifty million Americans who either can't afford those obscenely high premiums or otherwise elect to go uninsured, for the money it saves them (and young Americans who mostly never need to go to a doctor, they elect to go without insurance in fairly high numbers), it's the problems of high insurance costs and uninsured Americans we are dealing with, and it's the solution of Public Health Insurance ("public option") we are discussing and is causing such controversy, that makes me prefer "right to health insurance" over "right to health care".

Whatever the case, here's the facts in a brief and fundamental lesson in Civics (otherwise known as the Theory of Law and Government):

We can, by way of electing our Lawmakers, and by way of their making the Laws, make anything we like to be a Right, just as we can make anything we like to be a Law.

True.

Example: we made education a Right, when by Law we made for Public Schools, and made also that all children whoever they are, may by Right attend those schools, regardless of their ability to pay any fee or tuition.

Now, did that pizz off private schools, that customers of their's would now have a Right to attend a Public School, and therefore wouldn't be doing any business with the private schools?

I don't know or care, because it's the analogy I making that's true, that to offer people Public Health Insurance, as a Right, regardless of their inability to pay for it, is what's pizzing off the private health insurance industry and their lobby, and has them buying as many of our Congresspersons as they can to stop this from being made a Right, by way of being made a Law, and has them employing overtime their big-mouthed jerks in the media questioning this potential Law ("public option"), jerks like rush limbaugh.

Anyway, the Civics lesson stands, we may make anything we like to be a Right, by way of making anything we like to be a Law... health insurance (or health care if you prefer), a public education (K-12), keeping and bearing arms, peaceably assembling to speak your political mind and even pass out political literature, why even to manufacture and transport and sell alcoholic beverages too...

That's as good an example as any, of how we can make anything a Law that we like, when the American people and their Lawmakers first prohibited the manufacture transportation and sale of booze (the Eighteenth Amendment), and then turned around some thirteen years later, and said never mind, you can do those things, we can make anything a Right and a Law we like, and they passed the Twenty-First Amendment, which simply repealed the Eighteenth.

We can make anything we want to be a Right, by way of making any Law we like, if we have enough people to do so, which in the case of Public Health Insurance, I believe we do.

Basically the conservative right and Rush as their leader is trying to equate Health Care as a perk... why not, we do call them Benefits, don't we?

The fact remains that it is a basic right, but that's not an argument that they can comprehend because they have no fear.

They either have no fear because they have enough money so that even if they do become sick they can afford it.

They have no fear because they have "good" health care...

Well, the fact remains that 50% of all bankruptcies in America are due to a health related problem (either getting sick or a family member getting sick) and of those bankruptcies, 85% of these people HAD HEALTH INSURANCE.

The Democratic talking point for health care reform needs to be... just because you have health insurance doesn't mean you are covered... YOU COULD BE NEXT!!

But, that will forever be lost on Rush because he's rich.

How are we not paying for the service when we pay more money then any one else in the world for health care? We're not even asking for five star health care, we're just asking for any health care.

This was a test by the Limpman..."if the dittoheads buy this, they'll buy anything".