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Title: Limbaugh ‘Leaving The Country’ If Health Reform Passes
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RAW STORY
URL Source: http://rawstory.com/2010/03/limbaugh-leaving-country-health-reform/
Published: Mar 9, 2010
Author: RAW STORY
Post Date: 2010-03-09 13:09:39 by Brian S
Keywords: None
Views: 20343
Comments: 62
For years, promises to leave the United States in the wake of an undesirable political development have been the domain of liberals. Celebrities such as Alec Baldwin, Sean Penn and Susan Sarandon all at some point suggested they would move to Canada if a Republican won the White House. (There's even a Facebook group around to motivate them, complete with a helpful link to Canada's department of citizenship and immigration.) While most of those were empty threats, there are notable exceptions: Film director Robert Altman moved to France after George W. Bush's victory in 2000; Law & Order star Michael Moriarty shipped off to Canada well before that. But now the decidedly non-liberal Rush Limbaugh has made a similar move, telling his audience he will move to Costa Rica if health care reform becomes law. And now the only question that remains is whether Limbaugh will make good on his word, or join the ranks of the empty-promisers. "If the health care bill passes, where would you go for health care yourself?" a caller asked Limbaugh on his radio show Tuesday. "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," Limbaugh replied. This audio is from Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show, broadcast March 8, 2009 and uploaded by Media Matters.
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#1. To: Brian S (#0)
Idiot. Rush said he would go the private clinics in Costa Rica if he needed health care, not permanently move there.
If anywhere he'd move to Thailand.
So why do you bother soiling this site with your vacuous and inane commentary? ... yukon haha lots of laughing out loud
He'll pack up his viagra and head for the Dominican Republic.
Already discredited. Anyone that uses Raw Story as a source....(laughing)
my anti groupie can't get through life without me.
I know. Brian S is unhinged.
Goldi-Lox: You're one dumb-fucking bitch.
But now the decidedly non-liberal Rush Limbaugh has made a similar move Michael Moriarty was decidedly non-liberal, also.
I Hate Niggers posted by war on 2010-03-09 10:54:10 ET --
Yes, he is. He simply doesn't know what to do with himself now that he can't blame every dead American soldier on Bush and Cheney these days....
my anti groupie can't get through life without me.
Costa Rica has a Canadian-style single-payer system, they pay $6k less per-capita than the U.S., and they have a longer life expectancy. Shouldn't Limbaugh support bringing a Costa Rican-style system to the U.S.? Here's a good look at Costa Rican healthcare: Being a Republican means you get to choose your own reality.
What is it with you folks that you ***think*** you need to tell us what Fatboy and the Virgin Mary REALLY meant was....?
Day 16 of Packrat refusing to register here. Day 14 Of Boofer The One Eyed Wonder Bot refusing to answer: When is Blackwell going to have the recount? Jan 30, 2006 ... by saveliberty (Proud to be Head Snowflake, Bushbot...
Because we don't care for your sides obfuscation and intellectual dishonesty. Did you like the pics of the blood-dancers I found?
Goldi-Lox: You're one dumb-fucking bitch.
Oh...yes...sorry...saw that as I was running out to get my taxes done. Which were you again? As for Fatboy and The Virgin...they should choose their words more wisely.
Day 17 of Packrat refusing to register here. Day 15 Of Boofer The One Eyed Wonder Bot refusing to answer: When is Blackwell going to have the recount? Jan 30, 2006 ... by saveliberty (Proud to be Head Snowflake, Bushbot...
Costa Rica has private health care also, which I'm sure is what Limbaugh would use.
The Costra Rican system isn't superior to what we have here, GO65, as things stand TODAY. Rush's point was if this nationalization were to happen, THEN it would be superior. He's correct. Got a couple of friends that have relocated, they flat out love it, not just the healthcare but the business opportunities, the tax system...and of coure the climate. I'm thinking of taking a trip to look around sometime this year myself. Whats hilarious is the MSM totally misrepresenting what Limbaugh said, and once again demonstrating how biased they are, to the point they flat out lied.
my anti groupie can't get through life without me.
Day 17 of Packrat refusing to register here. Day 15 Of Boofer The One Eyed Wonder Bot refusing to answer: When is Blackwell going to have the recount? Jan 30, 2006 ... by saveliberty (Proud to be Head Snowflake, Bushbot...
Rush's point was if this nationalization were to happen, THEN it would be superior. Costa Rica has a single-payer Canadian-style system, which goes much further in terms of socializing medicine than either the House or Senate bills are proposing. So again, shouldn't Rush support bringing that kind of system to the U.S. so he doesn't have to leave? Hmmm, so a country with a Canadian-style single-payer system that guarantees universal healthcare is doing great? Well I'll be darned. Don't you think we should implement the same system here then?
Being a Republican means you get to choose your own reality.
Even if he meant that he would go to Costa Rica just for health care, it doesn't change the fact that Costa Rica has had a Canadian-style universal healthcare insurance paid for by a combination of business and personal taxes for over 50 years. They pay far less than we do, but have higher life expectancy rates and nobody goes bankrupt from their medical bills. I imagine Rush wasn't aware of Costa Rica's healthcare system when he made those comments, just as he wasn't aware that he was cared for in a unionized hospital in a state with universal health insurance coverage when he said a few months ago that he had received the best care in the world while in Hawaii.
Being a Republican means you get to choose your own reality.
The US is the last bastion of corporate income redistribution and it won't be until the Boomers start dropping from infected hangnails that they will wake up to the ponzi scheme that the current system is.
Day 17 of Packrat refusing to register here. Day 15 Of Boofer The One Eyed Wonder Bot refusing to answer: When is Blackwell going to have the recount? Jan 30, 2006 ... by saveliberty (Proud to be Head Snowflake, Bushbot...
Yep. but the fact remains it isn't 'superior' to the system here. Nor is the Canadian system.
my anti groupie can't get through life without me.
Its not debatable, he said if this insane nationalization of the best healthcare system in the world passes, he would go to Costa Rica for his personal healthcare. Its also false to assert the CR healthcare system is 'exactly' like the failing Canadian system. Finally, you misrepresent what Rush said about his care in Hawaii. What is it with you today? You getting your info from media matters again? If so, it shows....(chuckle)
my anti groupie can't get through life without me.
And yet a few posts ago you mentioned your friends love it there. How can they love a place that has socialized its insurance system? And why would you argue that a Canadian-style singer-payer system is preferable to the House or Senate bills, neither of which goes nearly as far in terms of socializing medicine?
Being a Republican means you get to choose your own reality.
And again, Costa Rica has gone far further than anything being proposed by the democrats. Remember that the public option is off the table.
Being a Republican means you get to choose your own reality.
They do love it there. They like the taxation, they like the climate, and yep, they like the healthcare system. But they don't claim its 'superior' to the system here as it relates to quality of care. And knock off the putting up things I never said. If you want to debate it, fine by me. But I'm not playing Chrissy mathews style bullshit with you.
my anti groupie can't get through life without me.
Here's the original quote: "The people here at Queen's Hospital could not have been better. I feel very, very fortunate. I have been treated to the best health care the world has to offer -- and that is right here in the United States of America." Hawaii has an employer mandate requiring employers to provide insurance, Queen's Hospital is a unionized facility. At some point you really need to just accept that Rush has no clue what he's talking about (or he's secretly a believer in single-payer health care systems).
Being a Republican means you get to choose your own reality.
They like a Canadian-style single-payer healthcare system that even provides coverage to undocumented aliens. OK.
Being a Republican means you get to choose your own reality.
I dont have time for the childishness today. Later.
my anti groupie can't get through life without me.
FROH
Day 17 of Packrat refusing to register here. Day 15 Of Boofer The One Eyed Wonder Bot refusing to answer: When is Blackwell going to have the recount? Jan 30, 2006 ... by saveliberty (Proud to be Head Snowflake, Bushbot...
Geezus fuck Boofer...you come on this thread and start spouting nonsense...get called on it...feebly defend it and then vamoose like the skittish little guppy that you are...you don't have to announce it when you get your ass kicked but if you'd just be quiet about it people will just think you got a haircut...
Day 17 of Packrat refusing to register here. Day 15 Of Boofer The One Eyed Wonder Bot refusing to answer: When is Blackwell going to have the recount? Jan 30, 2006 ... by saveliberty (Proud to be Head Snowflake, Bushbot...
Ha! You fucked up. Now you don't get to debate with badeye.
So why do you bother soiling this site with your vacuous and inane commentary? ... yukon haha lots of laughing out loud
Run Away!!!
Being a Republican means you get to choose your own reality.
Now you don't get to debate with badeye. Debate? Chuckle.
Being a Republican means you get to choose your own reality.
That montage (or whatever it is called) is wrong on so many levels.
Goldi-Lox: You're one dumb-fucking bitch.
I dont have time for the childishness today. Later. Poor Boofer. Fly, fly away. Maybe Limbaugh will let you travel with him so you two can experience Costa Rica together. Hasn't much of the country been nationalized as set aside nature preserves? Two nature boys exploring paradise together. lolol
Great example of why I don't have the time for you today.
my anti groupie can't get through life without me.
You got something to add, kookie?
my anti groupie can't get through life without me.
Don't worry. We'll all just wait here until you have time for us.
So why do you bother soiling this site with your vacuous and inane commentary? ... yukon haha lots of laughing out loud
He did Boof...and "cookie" is spelled with a "c"...(eyes rolling) /sarc
Day 17 of Packrat refusing to register here. Day 15 Of Boofer The One Eyed Wonder Bot refusing to answer: When is Blackwell going to have the recount? Jan 30, 2006 ... by saveliberty (Proud to be Head Snowflake, Bushbot...
You had the time to post that you don't have the time to post? ROTFLMAO.
Being a Republican means you get to choose your own reality.
I'm not sure that Monty Python could create good old Boof any better than he has himself...
Day 17 of Packrat refusing to register here. Day 15 Of Boofer The One Eyed Wonder Bot refusing to answer: When is Blackwell going to have the recount? Jan 30, 2006 ... by saveliberty (Proud to be Head Snowflake, Bushbot...
I have time to note you are experiencing one of your more childish days in the forum. Takes 15 seconds. I don't have time to write out a difference with you, only to get that juvenile crap in return.
my anti groupie can't get through life without me.
I don't have time to write out a difference with you, only to get that juvenile crap in return. Ohhhh poor wittle baby, maybe you need to go to a forum somewhere that is much more deserving of your immense 'talents'. Why don't you get Mudboy to start one, then you two can post song lyrics to each other all day long. There's certainly nothing juvenile about that. lolol
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#2. To: Happy Quanzaa (#1)
#3. To: Brian S (#0)
#4. To: Brian S (#0)
#5. To: Happy Quanzaa (#1)
Idiot. Rush said he would go the private clinics in Costa Rica if he needed health care, not permanently move there.
#6. To: Brian S (#0)
Law & Order star Michael Moriarty shipped off to Canada well before that.
#7. To: Nebuchadnezzar (#5)
#8. To: Happy Quanzaa, Brian S, Badeye, Nebuchadnezzar, dont eat that (#1)
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Idiot. Rush said he would go the private clinics in Costa Rica if he needed health care, not permanently move there.
#9. To: Client 9, Booferm Nebuchadnezzar (#1)
#10. To: war (#9)
What is it with you folks that you ***think*** you need to tell us what Fatboy and the Virgin Mary REALLY meant was....?
#11. To: Nebuchadnezzar (#10)
#12. To: go65 (#8)
#13. To: go65 (#8)
#14. To: Badeye (#13)
What is it with you folks that you ***think*** you need to tell us what Fatboy and the Virgin Mary REALLY meant was....?
#15. To: Badeye (#13)
(Edited)
The Costra Rican system isn't superior to what we have here, GO65, as things stand TODAY.
He's correct. Got a couple of friends that have relocated, they flat out love it, not just the healthcare but the business opportunities, the tax system...and of coure the climate. I'm thinking of taking a trip to look around sometime this year myself.
#16. To: war, badeye (#14)
What is it with you folks that you ***think*** you need to tell us what Fatboy and the Virgin Mary REALLY meant was....?
#17. To: go65 (#16)
#18. To: go65 (#15)
Costa Rica has a single-payer Canadian-style system, which goes much further in terms of socializing medicine than either the House or Senate bills are proposing.
#19. To: go65 (#16)
Even if he meant that he would go to Costa Rica just for health care
#20. To: Badeye (#18)
Yep. but the fact remains it isn't 'superior' to the system here. Nor is the Canadian system.
#21. To: Badeye (#19)
Its not debatable, he said if this insane nationalization of the best healthcare system in the world passes, he would go to Costa Rica for his personal healthcare.
#22. To: go65 (#20)
And yet a few posts ago you mentioned your friends love it there.
#23. To: Badeye (#19)
Finally, you misrepresent what Rush said about his care in Hawaii. What is it with you today? You getting your info from media matters again?
#24. To: Badeye (#22)
They do love it there. They like the taxation, they like the climate, and yep, they like the healthcare system. But they don't claim its 'superior' to the system here as it relates to quality of care.
#25. To: go65 (#24)
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#26. To: go65, Boofer (#24)
Being a Republican means you get to choose your own reality.
#27. To: Boofer (#25)
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I dont have time for the childishness today. Later.
#28. To: go65 (#25)
I dont have time for the childishness today. Later.
#29. To: Badeye (#25)
I dont have time for the childishness today. Later.
#30. To: Abu el Banat, badeye (#28)
Ha! You fucked up.
#31. To: dont eat that (#12)
#32. To: Badeye (#25)
#33. To: go65 (#30)
#34. To: mininggold (#32)
#35. To: Badeye (#33)
#36. To: Boofer (#34)
You got something to add, kookie?
#37. To: Badeye (#33)
Great example of why I don't have the time for you today.
#38. To: go65, Boofer (#37)
(Edited)
You had the time to post that you don't have the time to post?
#39. To: go65 (#37)
#40. To: Badeye (#39)
(Edited)
I have time to note you are experiencing one of your more childish days in the forum. Takes 15 seconds.
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