Posted on 03/09/2010 2:13:29 PM PST by DogByte6RER
Limbaugh Vows to Leave US Over Health Care
(March 9) -- Radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh has thrown down the gauntlet. If the U.S. Congress passes health care reform, Limbaugh will leave the country to receive his medical treatment.
Specifically, Limbaugh told a caller that he envisions traveling to Costa Rica should the government, through a federal program costing upwards of $1 trillion, expand health care coverage to approximately 30 million Americans who are currently uninsured.
Costa Rica, as it happens, offers universal heath care to all of its residents.
Limbaugh's guarantee is but the latest variation of what has come to be known as "Baldwin's wager," after actor Alec Baldwin was said to have threatened to expatriate himself should George W. Bush defeat Al Gore in the 2000 presidential election. Bush won, of course, and Baldwin did not end up relocating to foreign shores.
Other celebrities who have promised the equivalent of "going Galt" provided that political events did not turn out to their liking include director Robert Altman and actress Kim Basinger, who also threatened to pack up and go should Bush defeat Gore.
Poking fun at his own brother, in 2008, actor Stephen Baldwin said he'd leave the U.S. should Barack Obama be nominated to run for president for the Democrats. And, like his brother, he remains in the U.S.
Susan Sarandon, Heidi Klum and husband, Seal, meanwhile promised to join the ranks of ex-pats should John McCain best Obama.
Not to be outdone, however, actress Tina Fey raised the bar further still. Fed up with having to impersonate Sarah Palin, Fey shuddered at the thought a McCain/Palin future.
"If she wins, I'm done," Fey told TV Guide. "I can't do that for four years. And by 'I'm done,' I mean I'm leaving Earth."
Whether Limbaugh, who is 59, will actually follow through with his on-air promise should health care reform be implemented over the next few years remains unclear. Anyone care for a wager?
He said he would get in his jet and fly to another country for health care.
Well, if you can, you should.
He did not. He said he would go there for private health care; not live there.
Rush was talking about this today....totally bogus.
He set them up again- he even predicted this response.
The PRAVDA MEDIA echos Soros’ Media Matters daily redacted quotes.
It’s an old COMMUNIST trick. Don’t want to be called Communists? Don’t use Media Matters as a source for anything.
LOL! As usual, the MSM picks and chooses what they want to hear.........
Limbaugh Vows to Leave US Over Health Care
(March 9) — Radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh has thrown down the gauntlet. If the U.S. Congress passes health care reform, Limbaugh will leave the country to receive his medical treatment.
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Flat out lie. Simply not true. I heard El Rushbo on today’s show re-explain what he said.
I wonder if the idiot lefties that make up this drivel really even care that they are liars.
many millions knows AOL LIES.
Stupid misleading headline. So what if he goes elsewhere for medical treatment? Wishful thinking on the media's part that he would leave for good.
Doctors are already setting up hospitals in Costa Rica for Americans with the money to fly there.
The wealthy in this country will not let Obama, Pelosi, and Reid deny them care and ship them to hospice facilities to await their death.
Millions of union useful idiots are begging to be shipped off by the Fuhrer. The first batch of useful idiots are the SEIU union thugs.
I heard him today and I heard him when he said it. I thought he meant he was moving to Costa Rica.
Maybe Obama can make a similar promise.
He said he would fly there for treatment or find one of the many doctors here in the US who will refuse to participate and keep small, private practices. He can afford to.
Agreed with above posters. This was NOT what he said at all. Just ridiculous.
Now I think he was trying to see just how many idiot lefties would bite at this and humiliate themselves over an easily provable falsehood.
This story is total BS,he said he would go there for medical care if the socialists takeover our healthcare system.
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