Is This Gross Incompetence or the Planned Path to Single-Payer Health Care?

RUSH: I want to go back to something that I've said repeatedly in the past few months, but I think Obama's press conference yesterday adds some weight to this. My belief is that the details, the minutia of any of this, do not interest Obama. I don't think he really cares. I don't think he cares if people are gonna have trouble signing up. I don't think he cares what it's gonna end up costing anybody. That's not what this is about. Oh, he'll act like it, but one of the reasons why -- let's be honest. I assume almost all of you have real-world business experience to one degree or another, and in every circumstance, let's take Obama at his word and let's say that this is the thing that he really loves. I mean, that's the impression that he's given.

This is his signature deal. This is what he's really wanted. This. Universal single-payer health care. This is what he's really wanted. The Democrat Party's wanted it forever, for 50 years, but he's the guy that really wanted it. Now, in a circumstance like that, when you have the president or the CEO, whatever the top dog is called, that person's passion for it lights the fires under everybody else to make it happen. This is how Steve Jobs worked, or any successful CEO. A CEO cannot have hands on every project that is going on in a business.

But the one thing at the moment, at the time that matters most to that CEO, everybody knows about it. Everybody working there wants to impress the boss, but you add the liberal political aspect to this, the true believer, big government's the solution to everything aspect to this, and there's no reason why this shoulda happened except one thing. And that is these people are genuinely incompetent. They haven't the slightest idea what they're doing. They don't know what to do. And their arrogance and their condescending view of people outside of government makes it -- they're only gonna hire people who've worked in other governments. You know, they'll use private sector people as props, bring 'em in for photo-ops. Buffett in now and then whenever you need him, get a photo op having lunch with Steve Jobs, but that's as far as it goes.

Now, the fact that this thing is an utter disaster is evidence Obama doesn't care about this beyond the day it was signed into law because the only thing that matters about this to Obama is that one day the government's gonna be in charge of everybody's health care, and whatever happens between now and then is simply what has to happen, good or bad, that's the price. It doesn't matter. He doesn't care about individuals and their problems with insurance, availability, cost, actual treatment. He doesn't care, doesn't matter. Not what this is about. All that is nothing more than salesmanship. That's nothing more than a photo-op itself, like yesterday.

You go out and act like you're Billy Mays or whoever the latest Ron Popeil is with the Ginsu knife, and you go sell it, and you ratchet it up. Then you make sure everybody understands that you are upset with it, too, which continues to just amaze me that he gets away with this, this Limbaugh Theorem, that he gets away with this. It's his plan, and the fact that it is bollixed up like this can be traced right back to him. I'm telling you, whoever is the leader of people in a group, be it a business or any organization, once that leader comes up with something and if there are true believers in that organization, and there are throughout this regime, they are all true believers. They are true believers blinded by reality.

They haven't the slightest idea what they're doing. But they believe that only they are equipped to do this, only they care enough, that only they are compassionate enough, that only they are the ones that can make this work. They're the only ones. And the fact that this thing had three years and is an utter disaster goes right to the top and shows absent leadership. Now, when I say that Obama doesn't care, I don't want you to misunderstand me. It's not that he doesn't care whether it works or not. He's not worried about it not working. He's not worried about it being repealed. He's not worried about it being defunded or delayed.

He got it signed into law. He signed it. His signature's on it. It's gonna happen. The Supreme Court's backed him up. Whatever goes on between now and that magic day of single payer, he doesn't care about. There are gonna be times he has to go out and act like he does. Yesterday was one of those. But he doesn't care. The irony of this is that this guy's supporters think he cares more about them than anybody ever has, and the people that voted for him, ditto.

But you know as well as I do, if you are a CEO or if you're a general manager, if you're a leader of a group and you have true believers, people that love you and want to look good to you, want to impress you, and also want you to succeed because they go along with you, they're gonna bust their rear ends to get what you want done. The fact that that didn't happen here is a testament to so many things. A, you've got nothing but glaring incompetence. People are just incapable of doing this. And there's no evidence anywhere that the people involved know how to do this.

Kathleen Sebelius doesn't know how to do this. She doesn't know how to do one thing that she's doing, not one. Neither does Obama. I betcha they didn't know they had a problem until it went live. They think magic happens because they did it. They might have been aware there would be glitches, I don't know. I think they're so incompetent and they love themselves so much, they have such a vaunted self-image and self-view of themselves that whatever they touch is gonna turn to gold.

Now, our old buddy Jim Pethokoukis. We interviewed him, by the way, for the upcoming next issue of the Limbaugh Letter, and he had a great observation about what Sebelius said last week when these problems erupted. I don't know what Stack I put it in, but let me paraphrase. She said, "I got hold of the IT team, and I told them to double down and give us 150% effort to fix this." And his point was who in the world talks that way? In fact, his exact quote: "How people who've never run anything talk," and he quotes Sebelius. "I called on the contractor to get its A team here and give us 150%."

He said Democrats speak this way. Obama speaks this way. Sometimes due to the fact they haven't run anything. Sometimes it's because they know the audience has never run anything. It's the difference between a young wild-eyed Buffalo Bills fan saying, "We're gonna beat the 49ers by 30 and Vegas oddsmakers favoring the 49ers by 13." That's one way of looking at it. But they don't know what they're doing, folks. There's not one of them that does.

I used Steve Jobs as an example. Apple at one time had this Internet services division called MobileMe. It was the forerunner to what they now call iCloud. I was a customer and it was many things. It was a sync service for all of your contacts, calendars, e-mail address, and account settings that would keep 'em synced from device to device, from computer to computer. Sometimes it worked; sometimes it didn't. It mostly never reached its full potential. One day Jobs called the whole team in, and they think they're in there to get some praise and a couple of attaboys, and Jobs says, "Can somebody in this room tell me what MobileMe is supposed to do?"

And one of these bright-eyed team members raises his hand, Jobs called on him, and the guy spells out exactly what it's supposed to do, and Jobs says, "Can you tell me why the hell it doesn't do any of that?" And he let everybody go. He disbanded the team. And it was working 150% better than what this is. Those of you, again, who have led groups of people who know they're working on your baby, this is your deal, this is your life, this is what you want more than anything in the world right now. I'm talking about people loyal to you. Not everybody is, but the people that are loyal to you want you to look good. They want to look good in your eyes. They want you to succeed because they will go with you as that happens. They might also make a name for themselves.

It's an all-in for a great potential positive outcome. Everybody is hoping to please. They're just working overtime, whatever it takes. And that's how greatness happens. Hard work and people just busting their butts with passion, that could not have been present here or this wouldn't have happened. If all of that was present, if there was everything I just described, then the only explanation is glaring incompetence, which is entirely possible and is probably the real cause. There just isn't anybody. They are the equivalent of people in the faculty lounge at Harvard sitting around theorizing on how the private sector screws up and cheats everybody and lies to everybody and rips everybody off, and if they ran the show this how it'd be better. And they find they're running the show and they don't know what they're doing.

Nobody in this regime's got any private sector experience because they hate the private sector. They despise it. They think it's the problem. Just like the United States is the problem in the world, the private sector is the problem in the US economy. The private sector is the root of inequality. The private sector is the root of unfairness and racism and sexism and inequality. It's where all the bad stuff is, is the private sector. So why would you get anybody from there? You know better anyway because you have a bigger heart, you have more compassion. And the private sector would never try to give insurance to everybody, and the private sector would never try to make it affordable, and the private sector, they don't do anything but kill their customers anyway. We're better people.

They don't know what they're doing. But don't you find it strange that after three years of this you can't find one person, not one person who apparently cared enough about this to make Obama look good? Not one person. But that's not even possible, either, because bureaucracies just split things up into so many different groups. It's just not possible to achieve what they tried to accomplish.

RUSH: Now, let me, ladies and gentlemen, offer a counter theory to my just-explained flawless theory, because there is another possibility. Do you remember in the debates when Romney said to Obama, "Why do you always pick losers?" He was talking about Obama's green tech choices, like Solyndra, all of the wind and solar energy companies that Obama chose to give money to that went belly up, and they all did. They all went belly up. And Obama, as a side note, ended up getting some of that money back because those people then became donors. They all got rich, but the companies went belly up. Romney was talking about Obama's green tech choices, but you know it's true about everything Obama does.

This is just a counter theory, a countervailing theory. With incompetence, every now and then you would get something right. But Obama never does. I'm not talking about legislation. I'm talking about when Obama attempts to take over something in the private sector on the theory that he knows better or that he's in touch with the future and he's gonna move us forward, everything he picks goes belly up. Obama, Sebelius, Pelosi, Reid, they have all talked about their desire to go to a single-payer system. And I'm telling you, that's where Obama is confident this is gonna end up. That's why he doesn't care about any of this minutia. It is why he doesn't give a darn about it because he knows where it's gonna end up, and what if that, as I've even said so myself on previous programs, is not the plan?

Now that the government is legally in charge of health care, what's so bad about it screwing up so bad, so much, that people demand it be simplified? And what would simplify it? Get rid of these insurance companies, for God's sakes, that's where all the confusion is. You have this company here and that policy there and this deductible over here. Just get rid of that, let the government do it. What if that's what's going on? It could very well be, 'cause you know they all want single payer. And Obama has told his union buddies it's gonna take five, 10, maybe 15 years to get there, that the American people wouldn't accept it if it were just legislated on 'em, but if they end up demanding it out of a mess like this, that's what they're gunning for.

...difficult for people to accept single-payer if it was legislated directly, the failure of Obamacare will make that task even harder.

I agree with those who predict that the regime and media will blame the failure of 0bamaoCare upon the insurance companies.

The demonization of insurance companies in particular, and of business in general in the eyes of the suffering sheeple will be complete, making it easy to impose Single Payer upon us.

I agree with those who predict that the regime and media will blame the failure of 0bamaoCare upon the insurance companies.

I think that will happen, too. And although I'm certain that there will be people who'll believe it, I'm also skeptical of how successful overall that blame will be.

[Your quoted article by Root]

"How stupid is the GOP? They still don’t get it."

Bzzzzzt!

FAIL!!

No, the Republicans intended all along to "break down" and throw two national elections so the Democrats could get in and machinate Soviet Health Care in order to remove employer healthcare plans and premiums from their corporate books. I'm sure all those CEO's can see those vast sums falling directly, in a mighty cascade, to their bottom lines ...... with a little falling into the lake of executive bonuses for a job well done, of screwing their employees out of their healthcare benefits.

Support: Howell Raines, October 2008, Conde Nast Portfolio. Read it and weep. The deal's been done for half-a-dozen years now, in a locked room, by people who will never answer to us. One from American Enterprise Institute and one from Harvard.

Count your cost, and then go get their names.

The E-GOP is 100%, fully, blackheartedly, complicit in Obamacare, by prior arrangement -- with the Democrats.

Remember, they never talked to you. They talked to the Democrats when the rubber met the road.

I’m of the mind that once this is proven a failure (probably by the end of 2014)...you just won’t be able to find many Americans trusting some political figure talking up the next solution plan of moving onto the single-payer deal.

It’s kinda like buying a Lemon Chrysler...spending six months arguing with the dealer over getting your money back. Once you get the solution resolved...you will walk out the frontdoor and never buy another Chrysler ever again in your life. The suggestion that folks would be talked into sliding into single-payer....isn’t realistic.

I’d also suggest that this administration is now stuck with no real accomplishments for eight years....if this legacy item is noted as “doomed” by the American public. You’d have to go back to the 1800s to find some some President with eight years of activity, and nothing noteworthy to talk about.

Finally, for those in the journalistic profession...your lack of investigative journalism and hype on cheerleading activities are apparent. Why would I waste a buck on a New York Times, or spend thirty minutes watching ABC Nightly News? I’d get more investigative journalism out of the Bolivian national newspapers...than the Washington Post. We might as well pipe in French national news and replace CNN’s ‘puff’ pieces.

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