Rush Limbaugh: Criminally stupid
How stupid is Rush Limbaugh?
This stupid:
By the way, there's something else that you need to know: There aren't 50 million uninsured. There aren't 42 million uninsured. There aren't 30 million uninsured, and there never have been.
There's an AP story today. I found it in the Las Vegas Review-Journal, but you know what the total number of people without health insurance is? When you factor the fact that everybody gets treated at the emergency room by law anyway, the number of Americans out of a population just north of 300 million is 15 million people. We're doing all of this for 15 million people, and those 15 million people are young or wealthy and have chosen not to buy health insurance. And we're doing all of this! If we're not careful, we are going to lose this country. We are going to shred the Constitution in ways that it can't be put back together.
Hmm. Let's just see what that
AP story has to say about the number of uninsured, shall we?
Sooner or later, the dilemma of the nation's 50 million uninsured would land back on the doorstep of Congress.
So where did Rush get that 15 million number?
Still, various economic studies have projected that without the mandate ten million to 15 million people who would have been covered instead will remain uninsured.
So even though the article clearly references 50 million uninsured Americans, and clearly states that 10 to 15 million Americans are covered specifically because of the mandate—that is, that 10 to 15 million would not buy insurance if not for the requirement—Rush decided he'd just cite the article as proof that actually, it's
only 15 million Americans who are uninsured and therefore, there's no reason to expand health insurance.
Rush, of course, doesn't just stick with lying about the number of uninsured Americans. Heck no. Because according to Rush's (and I use this term loosely) "logic," emergency rooms equal health insurance. And everyone knows there's no type of health care you can't get from the emergency room, right? Physicals? Mammograms? Pap smears? Yep, that's exactly the kind of care emergency rooms provide, right? So really, why bother having health insurance at all?
Yep, Rush Limbaugh is a big, fat idiot. And a liar. But we already knew that.