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Why wait?

cutterone

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Rush is right on about this. Why are we waiting on this historic and triumphant piece of legislation to take affect?
We need to be talking about what's going to happen next year, what was going to happen in 2012 and 2013; how it's so bad that Obama pushed off a lot of the worst of the bill until after the next presidential race because he knows it stinks. This is not hard to say. It's the truth. We have been saying this throughout this year-long debate. No reason to stop now. Now is the time to ratchet this up. Here is another twist. Here's another twist. I think that in the meantime, we ought to start demanding all of the benefits. We want the premium reductions now! We want access to free services now, like the free preventive care like colonoscopies and whatever, mammograms.

We want the deficit reduction starting now! We want all the promises today. We don't want the promises in 2014; we don't want the promises in 2019. We want it now! We want all of the goodies in this bill to happen immediately. Because after all, most of the people that supported it think the stuff happens immediately. If Obama is to be true to his word, if Obama's to be true to his supporters who voted in support of this thing, we want it all now: Deficit reduction, free services, and the reduction in premiums. We want all these kids that are gonna get to stay on their parents' policies until 27. We want that on now. We want the preexisting condition insurance changed so that it happened right now. We want 32 million people without health care to have it this week. We don't want to wait until 2015 for these poor, unfortunate people. We've already been told that 127 people are dying a day because they don't have health insurance.

Well, now we've got health care "reform," and until 2014, 127 people will continue to die a day because they don't have health insurance. In the meantime, we thought this was fixed. So right now, today, we demand -- and, yes, Republicans, I'm giving you some talking points here -- that all 32 million uninsured be covered by the start of next week. Get the process going. Tell the 32 million where to go and what they have to do to get their insurance that they are unfairly being denied today. It's going to lower the deficit. Why wait 'til 2014 to lower the deficit? Why wait 'til 2019 to lower deficit? Let's lower the deficit starting next week. If this bill has all of this magic, if this bill is "Christmas," why wait until December? Let's have Christmas in March or Christmas in April. They're waiting for it in Raleigh. Grab audio sound bite number 31. This poor guy, DeCarlo Flythe, he's waiting for it. Wait 'til somebody tells him this doesn't happen 'til 2014.

FLYTHE: It's just going to be like Christmas, I mean it's going to be great. No worries, you know, the bills, we can go ahead and pay our copay and be all right.


RUSH: Right. That's DeCarlo Flythe. He's not going to be all right when he finds out that none of this Christmas stuff happens 'til 2014, and he doesn't have insurance now. He may be one of the 127 a day that die between now and 2014, Obama's own numbers, 'cause they don't have health insurance. We want the union health care benefits taxed now. All these Cadillac insurance plans, we want them now! We don't want to wait 'til 2018 for the tax to kick in on Cadillac insurance plans. How are we going to reduce the deficit? Why wait 'til 2018? For crying out loud, we don't know who's going to be president then. 2018, that's like eight years from now, nine years from now. We want the Cadillac tax on union health plans now. The "carve-out" is 2018. It did make it in but there's a carve-out. Remember, it's part of the Cornhusker Kickback. Whether it's in reconciliation or the Senate bill, it's in there. No, it's 2018. That's the carve-out.

He didn't eliminate it. He just delayed the implementation 'til 2018. That's what I'm saying: We want it now. The $2,500 checks that constitute the reduction in insurance premiums? Send 'em out tomorrow. Obama said insurance premiums are going to drop by 2,500 bucks. He also said that senior citizens are going to get 250 bucks (big whoop) to close a doughnut hole to pay for prescriptions they can't afford now. Send the checks out! What are we waiting for? There's no time to waste! We're talking life and death here. We gotta spare people from dying because of the evil insurance companies. I'm dead serious about this. The point is: The benefits don't all kick in, either, just as the taxes don't all kick in until after the midterm elections in many cases. So all we have to do -- all we have to do from now to November -- is just ask the Reagan question: Are you better off today than you were 48 hours ago? Are you better off today than you were yesterday? Get hold of the DeCarlo Flythe bite. Here, grab audio sound bite 31 number again, get hold of this guy tomorrow and ask him: Has Santa showed up?

FLYTHE: It's just going to be like Christmas, I mean it's going to be great. No worries, you know, the bills, we can go ahead and pay our copay and be all right.

RUSH: Why wait? Why wait for any of this? All of the things that are going to happen on the deficit reduction side, why wait 'til 2014? Now! Thirty-two million uninsured? Save their lives! Why not just do it now, Mr. President? After all, life is just a copay, according to DeCarlo Flythe. That's the only pain he's going to have once Santa shows up. That's like having to fill your own stocking after going through what's under the tree. You'd gladly fill your own stocking. Pay your copay. Life's just a copay! Folks, you know what I'm sensing here today? We got this TIME Magazine piece; we got this Politico piece. I'm warning you: They're going to be doing everything they can from the White House to Congress to the media to dispirit you, to tell you it can't happen. "We ought to drop this whole thing! Opposition to health care is going to kill us." Take a look at the polling data: People who support health care are dying, Pelosi is at 11%, Harry Reid is at 8%, Obama's at 46 to 44% -- and they're trying to tell us we hold the losing hand here? Bunch of locoweed idiots. Demand it all now. It's so wonderful, it's so good, it has so many great things for America? Why wait? Why? Who knows what's going to happen between now and 2014. I mean, just do deem-and-pass and get it done.
 
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