Truthful Politics

I have been reading the Congressional Budget Office's preliminary analysis of H.R. 3200. It is interesting reading in light of what other pundits are saying. One such person is Rush Limbaugh, and on his show he made an interesting comment regarding the CBO's analysis of the bill. You can read the transcript of August 14th where he says "this monstrous, 1,017 page bill, after it passes -- ten years after it passes -- there's still 17 million uninsured Americans! It does (I am sure he meant to say NOT but it is missing from the transcript) even accomplish its primary, advertised objective." Well shall we see what the CBO analysis actually says?

In the Congressional Budget's analysis on page three it says "...those provisions would yield a significant INCREASE (emphasis mine) in the number of Americans with health insurance." Here is the part Rush left out, "by 2019, CBO and the staff of JCT estimate, the number of nonelderly people without health insurance would be REDUCED (emphasis mine) by about 37 million..." Now here is where Rush Limbaugh picks it up again, "...leaving about 17 million nonelderly (sic) residents uninsured..." Now Rush decided not to continue from here but I will, "(nearly half of whom would be unauthorized immigrants."

Now first of all Rush called them Americans, ummm Rush are you sure you meant to call unauthorized immigrants Americans? I think I need to go back onto Limbaugh's site and see what he has to say about that subject. I wonder what Limbaugh's position is on illegal immigrants getting health insurance...