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Remember when Barack Obama stood before the American people and said “if you like your healthcare plan, you can keep your healthcare plan”? Well, like everything else that comes out of his mouth that was a lie. Fifty-eight thousand Californians are about to learn that the hard way. Apparently two of the companies that offer individual coverage in California have decided they are pulling out of the market next year, once the individual mandate takes effect. The Los Angeles Times reports: The nation’s largest health insurer, UnitedHealth Group Inc., is leaving California’s individual health insurance market, the second major company...

In a situation that could previously only be conjectured as happening in North Korea, Nazi Germany, or some other tyrannical nation, schoolchildren are going to be used as pawns of the State to promote Obamacare. Where is this Orwellian event occurring, you ask? It's happening in the big government loving state of California. It seems that the Los Angeles school district is using a state grant to teach students to be "messengers" for the law. The district was awarded $990,000 for this purpose, and the California health insurance exchange is spending $37 million in grants overall according to the Heartland...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: I want to go to the audio sound bites, 'cause this was fascinating. On C-SPAN's Washington Journal show today, the guest was the NPR correspondent Julie Rovner, and they had the viewer call-in segment, and they had a caller named Don from Cambridge, Nebraska. The caller knows more about how the regime is using the exchanges than anybody at C-SPAN or NPR. We have two sound bites, and here's the first one. This is the caller, Don from Cambridge, Nebraska. DON: I was just kind of curious about this health care deal. If it's such a good...