Bloggers all over the Internet are talking about Rush Limbaugh’s threatened move to Costa Rica, and they’re using the International Living website to help him understand his choice of countries.
On March 9, 2010 Limbaugh was asked by a caller to his radio program what he’d do if the health care bill currently being considered by Congressed actually passed.
“…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,” said Limbaugh.
The fact that Limbaugh, an avowed Conservative, said that the passage of the U.S. health care bill would drive him to Costa Rica – a country with a socialized national medical system and universal coverage – was not lost on the blogosphere.
Eli at Firedoglake posted: “But here’s the problem for Rush: If he’s going to leave the U.S. because our health care system has become too socialist… where’s he gonna go? Not only does Costa Rica have socialized medicine, but the health care system of every single country above them on International Living’s Quality of Life Index is more socialist and universal than ours.”
Ron at Ron’s Log posted: “He says he’ll go to Costa Rica, but he seems to be unaware that the poor Costa Ricans are already suffering under the intolerable yoke of universal health care.”
Robert at I’m Important and Smart wrote: He says that if the health care bill passes, he will travel to Costa Rica for health care…a country that has a more socialized medical system that what the US will have under the current health care bill proposed by Obama! The article linked to above provides this website as an explanation of what Costa Rica health care is like.”
At Political Irony, this post: But what’s really ironic about this is that Costa Rica already has universal health care. Between Costa Rica and Hawaii, Rush seems to be having a not-so-secret love affair with universal health care.”
Rush Limbaugh and the blogosphere aside, estimates are that tens of thousands of American have already moved abroad to avoid crushing medical costs in the U.S. and find high-quality, affordable health care abroad.
