Limbaugh on CBO saying Senate health care bill reduces deficit: "That's frankly a lie"
March 11, 2010 3:32 pm ET
From the March 11 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show:
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This man who has no formal education to speak of is questioning the Congressional Budget Office's analysis. He is, once again, pulling this out of his backside like he does most things.
GOP rule #1: Avoid reality at all costs.
If dittoheads could think for themselves, they'd feel shame and embarrassment for listening to this porcine prick.
I remember during the 2008 campaign when Hannity refused to believe all of the polling that had Obama in the lead-we saw how that turned out.
Recently, Hannity went into denial when he had both Rasmussen and Zogby on his program saying that the election this fall may not be an overwhelming victory (or victory at all) for the republicans.
They love the "data" when it favors them, but completely deny and discredit it when it doesn't.
The Bush Medicare Drug Plan piled hundreds of billions to the deficit.
And we're REALLY supposed to believe that an even bigger expansion of government isn't going to increase the deficit?
Sen Dick Durbin (D-IL) even admitted that premiums will go up. And the costs for services will not?
And Republicans are the ones that can't deal with reality?
Is there any proof beyond one CBO analysis?
MMFA debunked the rw smear on this last week. Some premiums will increase because some customers may choose policies in exchanges with more benefits after HCR is passed. More benefits=higher prices. This is different from saying that HCR will cause all premiums to increase. The CBO says otherwise, and these are the facts of the matter.
By the way, they're not the only group that says that the bill will reduce the deficit. Medicare actuaries agree, as do economists and most non-partisan think tanks that I see.
By the way, they're not the only group that says that the bill will reduce the deficit. Medicare actuaries agree, as do economists and most non-partisan think tanks that I see.
....Okay? Where's your proof? Where's your logic? Or, I guess the better question is, why does your audience require neither?
If "single payer" is so bad, why don't the other industrialized nations in the world who have it [we're the only one who doesn't] switch back to the insurance run health care we have here . . . you know the one which is threatening to bankrupt our country? Got any clues?