STILL one of the funniest ways to describe liberal political philosophy!
Posted on 03/26/2010 7:32:39 AM PDT by IMissPresidentReagan
Early post because I have a rally to attend.
I think he was just kidding about going to Costa Rica for medical care. Don’t think he ever really intended to do that, just yuking it up with that insurance lady named Stacy who calls him occasionally.
I’m still confused. I assumed when Rush originally talked about how he would go to Costa Rica for his medical care that he intended to go private pay, and that insurance wouldn’t be involved. If the reason he’s saying Costa Rica is no longer an option is because of the 85-15 clause, I don’t understand why that would be any different in any other country he (or I) might go to for off-shore health care. How are the Bahamas or New Zealand different from Costa Rica? Or is Rush just off on a golfing vacation and none of this is supposed to make sense?
I think you’re right about that. Thanks for the reply.
I sent JD a little something something I may send him another. But with figures like these it seems like a lost cause.
Never give up! You never know. Scott Brown was behind Martha Coakley by 30 points mere weeks before the election. We here in Connecticut managed to dump Chris Dodd, although now we have an uphill battle with 'RAT candidate Dick Blumenthal.
Didn't Arizona used to be sort of a Red State? There's still hope...
It makes me SICK to hear McCain lately moving to the right to counter JD. Where has the so-called "conservative" McCain been all these years??
I didn't quite get all the details of that call between Rush and Stacy a few days ago (I'm always doing 10 different things while listening to Rush, so I get distracted), but she sure sounded depressed and defeated over the passage of ObamaCare. I believe she said she had no choice but to get out of the business?
Sad, she was always so upbeat in the past... :-(
True, but I thought that anyone who even remotely threatened the sitting president's life would expect a visit (or at least a call) by the Secret Service....?
No, I'm Not Moving to Costa Rica
RUSH: The Huffington Post, you remember we had a call here from a guy, we're talking about health care and what's going to happen after Obama puts private insurance out of business, how all the fines that businesses and individuals pay are much cheaper than having to go out and buy health insurance itself, and that people will naturally pay the fine. If they don't have to go to jail they'll pay the fine rather than incur costs, especially if the Senate bill says, which it does, that the day you have the auto accident, you get covered. You don't have to have any coverage before that, but the day you're in the crash you go to the hospital the insurance company has to pay for your treatment. Well, that's not insurance, that's private sector welfare and nobody could afford it and they'll go out of business, which is the purpose. So a guy calls up and says, "If all this happens, what are you going to do?" And I said, "Well, if doctors are not permitted to opt out of the government insurance pool and so forth, Medicare, Medicaid, whatever it is, and if they're not allowed to establish a private practice with private sector patients paying their own way, then I'll go to Costa Rica."Well, that has been turned into I'm going to leave the country for Costa Rica and move there if Obamacare passes. I've had all kinds of reporters: "Are you serious? Do you really mean this?" So I've had to patiently explain today to people who do not bother to stay informed on this stuff what the genesis and the primary context of my comment was. I said, "Look, there are insurance companies who don't want to be put out of business." We've talked to them on the program. I've talked to them privately. They are establishing health care clinics with quality doctors in places like Costa Rica. They're going to continue to sell policies to people who have the ability to fly down there and get treatment. If I have to get thrown into this massive government health care insurance business and end up going to the driver's license office every day when I need to go to the doctor, yeah, I'll go to Costa Rica for treatment, not move there. So they're just in a tizzy out there, between Costa Rica and Eric Massa. So -- (laughing) -- it's going to be a fun day. Heck, it already is a fun day.
RUSH: You know, I am in such hot water now. People in New Zealand are sending me e-mails: "How come you're not coming here? You've been telling everybody you're moving to New Zealand and now you're saying you're going to Costa Rica." I did not say I'm going to Costa Rica. The stupid people in the media who cannot trouble themselves to read my transcripts or listen to this program, listen to out of context stuff. I was asked yesterday where will I go for health care if Obama's health care passes, and I said if doctors here are not permitted to form private practice little clinics with individuals paying a fee, a retainer, and for services, then I'll go to Costa Rica to get major medical health care. I didn't say I would move there. They're all over these websites: "Limbaugh says he'd move to Costa Rica. Why, what more incentive do we have to pass health care to get Limbaugh to move to Costa Rica?" Now, New Zealand is reading about this and they're all bent out of shape that I'm somehow not coming there, all because of the stupid media. They are not competing for me because Costa Rica doesn't think I'm going to move there, which I wouldn't. Gosh.
Stacy, Our EIB Insurance expert
RUSH: Stacy in hiding... is this our insurance babe? Stacy, welcome back. Great to have you here.CALLER: Hey, Rush.
RUSH: Do you know you have gotten me into so much fun hot water?
CALLER: I know, I've heard!
RUSH: Do you know how you did that?
CALLER: I did by coming on about Costa Rica.
RUSH: You came on and you told me that your insurance company was setting up medical operations in Costa Rica, you're going to take the doctors and everything down there and you're going to sell insurance policies if this thing all happened to your customers, and included in the premium would be trips to Costa Rica for medical treatment and so forth. So after having heard you say that, another caller asked me, "What are you going to do if it passes?" "I'm going to go get treated in Costa Rica." And so now everybody thinks I said I'm leaving the country for Costa Rica. So I need to ask you, how soon are you going to get those clinics set up so I can go?
CALLER: Well, I'm afraid that even that's not going to save us.
RUSH: Oh, no.
CALLER: I've gotta revise my estimate. We may last two to three years, tops, and let me tell you why. The 85-15 provision that has just been signed into law an hour ago --
RUSH: Yeah?
CALLER: -- by definition of every state and federal insurance regulator makes us financially unsound.
A Canadian on Coulter Controversy
CALLER: (laughs) Rush, it's just an unmitigated disaster here. Our big question now is: What are we going to do now that you guys have our system? Where are we going to go? I guess I have to follow you to Costa Rica.RUSH: Well, except I cannot go to Costa Rica because the plan was to be part of an insurance policy that was going to set up operations down there, but the insurance company says they're going to be out of business in three years because of Obamacare and they won't be able to do it. So I'm back looking at New Zealand.
Are you a football coach? You give good pep talks. The poll I quoted was from The Politico from earlier this month. I have no idea what they were citing because I got off my butt and checked Rasmussen and they have it much closer than the lying Politico.
Greetings; a great answer to the question was given on KLRU Public TV in Austin by Ted Nugent. He summed the entire issue up. If you’re interested, google the station call letters and Teds name. The Nudge doesn’t fail to please.
See the links at post #129
The 53-31 point lead for McCain was the January poll. The March 18 Rasmussen poll shows McCain leading by only 7%, 48-41.
I wish Mark would realize that there's a reason McCain suddenly sounds more conservative: because he wants to be re-elected. McCain thinks he can talk like a conservative for 6 months (it doesn't come naturally though) to get elected for 6 years.
Why she chose this race is beyond me.
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Mark Davis is a glad-handing, small-talking BUM. He brings this show DOWN!
(jmo)
Did you catch this thread a couple days ago?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2478605/posts?q=1&;page=51
Mark Davis is the talk show host I don’t even want to have a beer with.
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Davis is just a small-time, get-along fool.
Bring on MARK STEYN. He is great!
Notice the posts, maybe 140. He seems to be making alot of excuses today. Uhhh that voice. Please Rush find someone else!!!!lol
I agree. What is his attraction? The guy has nothing.
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