"This is not good, folks. Not good" --- guess who
I posted yesterday my recounting of a certain midday talk radio host's double meltdown.
Today I offer a transcript. I won't post a link but if you're curious it's entitled "Trump Doubles Down — And the Freedom Caucus Makes Him an Offer"
RUSH: Trump has doubled down on his criticism of the Freedom Caucus. Now he’s calling them out by name: Mark Meadows and a couple others. This is not good, folks. Not good. After a football team loses a game, what does the head coach do in the post-game press conference?
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He goes on to trash Trump singling out the Freedom Caucus. What I post below is also transcript- it gives you an glimpse of an idea of the daily nonsense that his listeners take as fact. If you can follow it good for you. They are spinning folks. It's all swirling around too fast.
I thought the Democrats have been assuring us it was just Republicans and probably Russian propaganda that the Obamacare law was unraveling, that it was spiraling down. After all, if Obamacare was really on the rocks, the Democrats would be very eager to fix it, wouldn’t they? Ha-ha-ha-ha. A little sarcasm there. But it does raise the question: Why aren’t Anthem and the rest of the insurance companies pushing the Ryan plan or any of Trump’s reforms?
They had no problems pushing Obamacare like crazy. And if the thing is imploding, if they’re gonna be pulling out, why aren’t they gonna be pushing one of these gigantically great reform plans, hmm? I mean, all these insurance companies were in from day one with Obama. And the main reason for that was Obama guaranteed them a profit by demanding every American buy their stupid product. So if you’re in the business and the federal government passes a law saying every citizen has to buy it or pay a penalty and maybe go to jail, you’d love to be in that business.
And then, if you set up rules where the insurance companies and states don’t have any competition from outside, you can’t lose, except they all are. In a legal circumstance where the insurance companies were set up not to fail, guess what’s happening? (interruption) Damn right I mean not to fail. Okay. Follow this now one more time.
You’re an insurance company, you sell health insurance. The president of the United States wants you to sign on board to help him sell his new health care reform law called Obamacare. The president says to you, “I’m going to mandate that every American buy the product, and I’m gonna make sure that you don’t have any competition from outside the states you’re operating in.”
Who wouldn’t sign up with that? Does that not sound like a guaranteed success path? And yet all of these insurance companies slowly but surely are pulling out of it. And, by the same token, I don’t see any of these insurance companies eagerly embracing the Ryan replacement plan.
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all states have them (I believe) and their job is to regulate anybody who sells insurance within the state lines. In Blue states, at least, that means something.
The demand to "sell across state lines" is a means of dismantling that level of consumer protection and driving everybody to the lowest levels of protection.
Yes, it's already legal, the Ins cos just have to abide by the law. 
