Moral?
Thank you for admitting you made it up. Though in the process, you made up another story:
What I did say was:
Your statement regarding Obamacare is neither factual nor “undisputed” as you claim. So far billions have been spent and this law that you defend has provided no healthcare to anyone. It has not saved anyone from financial ruin.
Hello, my old friend. I see you finally dropped all pretense of objectivity. But I guess that’s a good thing.
I remember Rush when Clinton was in office, man was he good. Those were the days. You can say what you want about him, but he can put a show together. He can articulate himself well.
How did Americanism ruin Europe?
When I heard him say that some of what the pope said was pure Marxism, I was shocked–until I read the English mistranslation by the Vatican press office for myself.
AMERICANISM
I think if there is a man maligned in our country he is one of them… remember all the attacks on him because he was on prescription medicine and having hearing issues. People are mean to the bone. I will check out the other post and great to hear he is showing respect for the Pope, links? I find it hard to not like Rush deep down as I think he has fought hard and been maligned at every opportunity.
Of course, rather like our Church, a few people hate Rush Limbaugh, millions hate who they THINK he is. I am not a listener but I get bits and snippets of his discussions from other sources. I also read his autobiography and you see a completely different side of him. Those who know him on a personal basis say he’s a kind hearted, patriotic soul and a great friend. He’s also a great entertainer who uses hyperbole and exaggeration to make his points. He also started the Talk revolution and that is a major way the grassroots folks can get involved in political and cultural issues.
I don’t have a link specifically related to Rush’s respect for the pope, but his radio shows have been peppered with direct implications (at least) of it. Moreover, Rush soon was told by friends and listeners that he had been “had” by Reuters, Wash Post, etc., e.g., the pope never even mentioned “unfettered Capitalism”–it was Reuters, viz: Nov. 26 “(Reuters) - Pope Francis attacked unfettered capitalism as ‘a new tyranny.’”
Amen!
It is factual and disputed only by you because you aren’t completely informed about how Obamacare works. Actually, it’s more basic than that. You don’t seem to understand how insurance works.
Not sure that it’s billions yet. It has probably saved some from financial ruin already due to the ability of insured parents to keep their children on their plans until 26. The individual mandate hasn’t gone into effect yet.
And nobody here is defending it. You made that up.
So you support raising taxes and employer mandates. As a conservative, I cannot. I believe in subsidiarity and individual responsibility. I can only conclude that you are a left-winger who wants single-payer and desires nothing more than for people to live on communes.
Except I presented the problem, i.e., financial ruin due to medical expenses, and you more or less agreed that it’s a problem. You think the solution is a top-down employer mandate and a new welfare program to subsidize high risks and you still wouldn’t address the problem of the uninsured healthy person who unexpectedly gets into a severe car accident.
I don’t. Again, you made it up. I merely stated a fact: Obamacare addresses a problem. I didn’t say it’s the best way to address the problem. I don’t believe it is. You refuse to acknowledge facts and presented as a solution a left-wing plan. How do you defend forcing employers to pick and pay for their employees’ health insurance? How do you defending funneling people into socialist high risk pools?
I suspect you are someone who simply likes to argue who is the world’s best expert on your own opinion but do not provide much more than assumptions and suppositions regarding Obamacare. I am a CPA who’s been in the healthcare financial world for 30+ years. Trust me, I understand how insurance works. I understand how Obamacare was supposed to work although it was set up with so many fatal flaws that it’s doomed to failure. The only question is how much destruction in its wake. As to the great “benefits” of Obamacare, so far you have simply presumed that this must have happened although you have exactly zero evidence. The Obama-nauts are scurrying around trying to find feel good stories but when almost 6,000,000 have lost insurance and many more than that have seen their premiums, co pays and cost sharing double…they are few and far between. There is simply no defense for those who enacted and supported this law. They were ignorant at best and at worst wanted to be a force of destruction.
Clearly you don’t. Here’s how insurance works. You pay a periodic premium so that if the triggering event occurs, you get compensated. So if a healthy but not rich person who doesn’t qualify for Medicaid or Medicare gets into an accident and runs up an enormous medical bill, it kind of makes a difference to his financial situation whether or not he’s insured.
Obamacare “requires” everyone to have insurance but if you don’t carry insurance there is a fine (tax). Many millions of people, particularly the young and healthy will play roulette, pay the fine and hope nothing happens. While they can buy insurance “after the fact” it will not cover the initial incident. So financial ruin might occur despite the mandate.
I’m the mother of a 30-year-old and a 27-year-old. Although they will always be my “children,” they are definitely NOT children, and haven’t been children since they graduated from college in their early twenties (21 and 23–the two extra years were for grad school). At that point, they were both supporting themselves and functioning as adults, independent of their parents. And one of them majored in theater, so don’t tell me that only certain educational choices actually lead to “jobs.” Baloney! My theater kid is savvy and smart and works like a slave to stay employed as a theater professional; she hasn’t taken a “vacation” or even a long weekend in years.
Absolutely spot on. The Left likes to promote perpetual adolescence…free birth control! Stay on your parents’ insurance until you’re 26! That might make sense for for a kid in medical school but for the average young person, you’d hope they’d be launched before they are 26. And nothing would help this cadre more than a growing economy. The levels of unemployment among young people are staggering.
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