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Do you know why Rush decided Costa Rica wasn’t an option for off-shore health care? I must have missed something because I was totally surprised when he said that yesterday.

rush was talking with kelly, an insurance company employee when he said that - and was joking

rush pays cash for his health care - he does not use insurance

the conversation was about leaving the country to get health care if doctors are scarce (europe uses india) - kelly said that would not be an option because the way obamacare is set up, her insurance company can't operate and make a profit - her insurance company will close

my suggestion was to open the insurance company offshore - go to a small country (i suggest the bahamas) and build a hospital - open an insurance company if they want to - medical tourism will probably become a big moneymaking industry if obamacare is fully implemented

i suggested eleuthera in the bahamas - near rock sound, there is a plot of 712 acres with beaches on both the east and west - rock sound has a 6500’ runway at its airport and is a port of entry for the bahamas - plus they have a bar/laundromat there that has a killer conch salad

Do you know why Rush decided Costa Rica wasn’t an option for off-shore health care? I must have missed something because I was totally surprised when he said that yesterday.

There is a lady, Stacy, that is a part of a business that was planning on offering excellent health care in Costa Rica for low fees, but because of the new, wonderful bill that passed, there is a clause in the bill which will make them fiscally unstable. The new 85-15 clause.

A Soon To Be Unstable Health Insurance Industry?

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.

Here ya go...

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.