Bonus Of Passing HCR

[kpete]

Limbaugh vows to flee the country if health care passes.

Hate radio host Rush Limbaugh has been one of health care reform’s most vociferous opponents, warning that “uman beings will die earlier than normal” under the “freedom killing” and “life threatening” plan, and calling for it to be “aborted.” Yesterday, Limbaugh put his money where his mouth is, saying that if health care passes and all his fears are realized, he’ll leave the country:

CALLER: If the health care bill passes, where would you go for health care yourself? And the second part of that is, what would happen to the doctors, do they have to participate in the federal program, or could they opt out of it?<...>

LIMBAUGH: My guess in even in Canada and even in the UK, doctors have opted out. And once they’ve opted, they can’t see anybody Medicare, Medicaid, or what will become the exchanges. They have to have a clientele of private patients that will pay them a retainer and it’ll be a very small practice. I don’t know if that’s been outlawed in the Senate bill. I don’t know. I’ll just tell you this, if this passes and it’s five years from now and all that stuff gets implemented — I am leaving the country. I’ll go to Costa Rica.

audio and more:
http://thinkprogress.org/2010/03/09/limbaugh-exile-health-care/

[rockymountaindem]

1. Crap. Now the powerful Costa Rica lobby will be against it. n/t

[slampoet]

2. Costa Rica is more liberal than us.

[Larkspur]

3. Maybe we can just send him to one of those atolls in the Pacific

and let Global Warming take care of the rest.

I don't think Costa Rica deserves to be tortured by the likes of Limbaugh.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

8. No! Do you want to double the Great Garbage Patch size in one fell swoop?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_Garbage_Patch

[nykym]

15. Like maybe

Bikini Atoll.

[MineralMan]

4. Adios, MF!

[piratefish08]

5. 5 YEARS??!!?? Why wait, you fat fucking pill gobbling douchebag?

Don't let the US border hit you in the ass on the way out.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

6. Can we take up a collection to get him out of this country?

PLEASE!!!!!!!!

[kenny blankenship]

7. Hilarious. Costa Rica has "gummint run" national health insurance: the CCSS

Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social

And notice where Costa Rica places in the UN World Health Organization's ranking of health care, country by country:
1 France
2 Italy
3 San Marino
4 Andorra
5 Malta
6 Singapore
7 Spain
8 Oman
9 Austria
10 Japan
11 Norway
12 Portugal
13 Monaco
14 Greece
15 Iceland
16 Luxembourg
17 Netherlands
18 United Kingdom
19 Ireland
20 Switzerland
21 Belgium
22 Colombia
23 Sweden
24 Cyprus
25 Germany
26 Saudi Arabia
27 United Arab Emirates
28 Israel
29 Morocco
30 Canada
31 Finland
32 Australia
33 Chile
34 Denmark
35 Dominica
36 Costa Rica
37 United States of America

How is tiny poor third world Costa Rica able to deliver better standards of health care to its people than the mighty United States? Maybe they don't tolerate Rush Limbaughs down there.

[Turbineguy]

9. Yes Rush

and you can count on DU to raise a stink if the CIA blows yo away down there. OK, maybe not me, but somebody.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

10. Umm, just another example of his ignorance

Costa Rica has national health care. So do a few other countries in Latin America.

I don't know about Canada, but the UK definitely has a "private option," doctors in private practice who take private insurance. According to our fellow DUers in the UK Forum, though, the fact that any legal resident of the UK can use the National Health Service means that private practice doctors have an incentive to keep their prices reasonable.

[LeftishBrit]

11. Another incentive for Americans to pass health care reform...

though it seems a little rough on the Costa Ricans.

Glad he's not thinking of coming to the UK!!!

I don't know that anywhere yet has a treatment for what ails him: a heart three sizes too small, and a brain deeply embedded in his rear end.

[Bluenorthwest]

12. Costa Rica has government run national health care

And also, it has entry rules.

[Winterblues]

13. I would think Somalia would be more to his liking.

:shrug:

[Larkspur]

14. If Somalia was a country of white people running around with guns

instead of those "dreaded" brown skinned people, he'd have moved there a long time ago.