Rush Limbaugh gets more out of touch with every passing day: "People like their health care from their employer"

Talk about delusional.

In my household we haven't had employer provided health insurance since 2008, but recently a new employer offered us some. My jaw hit the floor when I saw the price: $2,033 per month for family coverage.

Currently I pay $532 a month for family coverage, because I have a plan grandfathered in from pre-2010, which I get to keep as long as I don't make any changes to it. The new employer's plan is almost FOUR TIMES more expensive than what I'm paying now.

Compared to what I'm being offered by an employer right now my current plan looks mahvelous, right?

Well guess what it cost just eight years ago?

$227 a month.

That's right. Despite the fact I'm not hostage to Obamacare or employer provided insurance, my premiums have still risen 134% in eight years. And it would be even worse had I not raised the deductible. Needless to say, my coverage is nearly useless for office visits and routine tests; that's all 100% out of pocket, too.

But look at the scale of what's happened. The coverage I had in 2011 now costs me about two and half times as much as it did then, but this new employer plan costs NINE TIMES as much as privately purchased coverage cost me eight years ago.

That is insane.

OBAMACARE IS A CURSE AND A BLIGHT ON THE NATION, WHETHER YOU HAVE IT OR NOT, and Rush Limbaugh is as out of his mind as the Democrat hucksters trying to sell us Medicare for All or some other bottle of government elixir when he says people like their health care from their employer. They do not. The LA Times in May:

Health insurance deductibles soar, leaving Americans with unaffordable bills:

The 2010 healthcare law — often called Obamacare — provided landmark protections to Americans once shut out of health coverage. But as Democrats and Republicans fought over the law, Altman said, neither focused on the rapid run-up in costs for people covered through work. ... Over the same time, insurance premiums also increased, rising at more than double the rate of inflation and outpacing wage gains.

Full-time year-to-date July 2019 averages 50.18% of population, easily missing 2.4 million full-time jobs right now if this had been a normal post-1980 recovery: Welcome to the incredible shrunken economy

Meh: Total nonfarm payrolls increased 164,000 in July 2019

Average to date from November 2016 inclusive is 183,000 per month. Not a boom.

Clinton era average: 243,000 per month for eight straight years.

Reagan boom average: 248,000 per month for six years Nov 1982-Nov 1988.

Richard Spencer falls for silly all the time, including Andrew Yang, fangs come out even for allies with the temerity to point it out

Touchy much? Belies the inherent insecurity and missing center of Richard Spencer.

Spencer: 0

Greer: 1

No matter how hard you try, Valerie, nobody's going to rent a billboard to promote your sucky old regime

.

.

LOL: A complete lunatic Democrat, but I repeat myself, ran against him last time and he almost lost, so he's quitting while he's ahead

LOL: Kamala Harris took money from birther conspiracy theorist in 2011, gave it away 4 years later

"Sphere of influence", what rot: The Republic of Ireland knows all about "sphere of influence"

The West used to be the friend of freedom everywhere, sphere of influence be damned. Now we're full of servile bootlickers like this guy, who might as well be a paid apologist for the Chicoms or Vladimir Putin:

Rush Limbaugh can't even get the differences between the Declaration and the Constitution right

He reveres them, just never reads them.

Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness aren't in the preamble to the Constitution, not now, and not in 2009 when he first made the mistake:

We love and revere our founding documents, the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.

CROWD: (louder applause)

RUSH: We believe that the preamble to the Constitution contains an inarguable truth that we are all endowed by our creator with certain inalienable rights, among them life.

CROWD: (cheers and applause)

RUSH: Liberty, Freedom.

CROWD: (wild cheering and applause)

RUSH: And the pursuit of happiness.

Hey Rush, you miserable grifting idiot, tell the British enemy in 1775 that the Continental Colors flag wasn't political

First hoisted on the colonial warship ALFRED in December 1775

31 Years of Donations to Worthy Causes by You, the People Who Make the Country Work:

And, see, we don’t think the flag is political. We don’t think the flag deserves equal time to people that don’t like it. We don’t think that Betsy Ross is political. We don’t think people need or deserve equal time to respond to Betsy Ross. These are symbols of our founding and our freedom and our liberty. They’re symbols. The left has politicized them, and they’re not political. They shouldn’t be by any stretch of the imagination. So we came up with the Stand Up for Betsy Ross T-shirt for people to push back — and in under three weeks, we sold enough $27 T-shirts to be able to donate $3 million and counting.

Trump today, bright and early: There is always plenty of time to cut

There's always plenty of time to cut spending, by definition, just not right now.

NEVER right now, always later. And when later comes, NEVER right now.

What a fool, and what fools we.

You know the division among Democrats is serious when Obama's wingman has to step in and tell his critics to stfu

This is about 5x the price the coverage would cost him now had Obamacare never passed

Too bad Americans didn't give Republicans control of both chambers of Congress and the White House in 2016 to fix this and gave all that to Democrats instead. 

Biden should absolutely run on deportation of illegal crossers because it will be easy to show how Trump is all talk about it and no action

Biden: A "Crime" To Cross The Border Illegally, You Should Be Sent Back:

[T]he only reason this particular part of the law is being abused is because of Donald Trump. 

Making money from China is more important to Trump than freedom for autonomous Hong Kong

White House Told Officials to Go Easy on China Over Hong Kong:

“It was made clear down the chain that we need to be measured on Hong Kong,” one administration official said, noting that the guidance came from “the top” over concern that fragile talks with China might be jeopardized by any outward show of support for the protests.

Hey Rod Dreher: In the summer of 1967 159 race riots swept the country, but somehow America is still here

You were just a little baby then.

The fevered brow of fanaticism always fears the worst, immanentizing the dystopia

For wasted space, try between Damon Linker's ears

America is nothing if it is not about seeing how a presumptive candidate handles all the hyenas and how he fleshes out his positions and promises in response. America is entitled to form its opinion and express it in the form of actual votes taken at actual primary elections in actual places, like Iowa. What matters is representative democracy selecting the candidate, not the punditocracy.

It's always revealing to see progressives dismissive of the democratic process.

Obama no Reagan, no FDR: Democrat candidates for 2020 attack Obama legacy less than four years after he left office

It wasn't a scandal that Obama and Biden failed to withdraw from Afghanistan in 2014 as promised, and it still isn't

That elephant in the room which no one wants to talk about is that Donald Trump is going to be re-elected in 2020.