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An Unexpected Benefit of Health Care Reform

On his radio show, a caller asked Rush Limbaugh what he would do if the health care bill passes. Limbaugh replied:

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.

I don’t know how you feel, but I’m hoping that this statement alone gets Obama the votes he needs to pass health care reform quickly.

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.

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This was written by Iron Knee. Posted on Wednesday, March 10, 2010, at 12:46 am. Filed under Irony. Bookmark the permalink. Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.

7 Comments

  1. Alex wrote:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_in_Costa_Rica

    Nuff said.

    Wednesday, March 10, 2010 at 1:12 am | Permalink
  2. ebdoug wrote:

    On vacation in California about 1987 (maybe later), driving the Pacific Coast Highway, Limbaugh cames on the radio, I say to my friend who had rented the car “Turn him off or stop the car, and I’ll walk.” He turned him off.
    Working H&R Block, I told my boss, “Turn that radio off or I’ll leave.” I brought in the most returns of anyone so she turned it off. My clients followed me when I left H&R Block in 1994 and are still with me. No Rush on in this house.

    Wednesday, March 10, 2010 at 8:55 am | Permalink
  3. Mad Hatter wrote:

    Somebody needs to send Alex’s link to Limbaugh…again, again and again. Or better yet, try to get through to him and and ask him about it on his radio broadcast. It’s great isn’t it…just like Beck’s “free library books”, these guys really don’t have a clue what they’re talking about. Why in the world do rational people listen to them?

    Wednesday, March 10, 2010 at 9:13 am | Permalink
  4. chinagreenelvis wrote:

    Do rational people listen to them?

    Wednesday, March 10, 2010 at 10:14 am | Permalink
  5. Mad Hatter wrote:

    Obviously, rational people don’t believe them because that would be an oxymoron, wouldn’t it?

    It would be even better if all of Limbaugh’s ditto-heads followed him and they could set up their own little Rushtown. I’m sure the drink of choice there would be purple kool-aid. Also, it would result in our national average IQ going up and getting closer to the national averages of other countries.

    Wednesday, March 10, 2010 at 10:44 am | Permalink
  6. Maslab wrote:

    Actually, rational people can be just as easily deluded as irrational ones. People who are smart can gloss over areas of irrationality in their thinking or explain it away much more easily than a not so smart person could.

    Wednesday, March 10, 2010 at 3:57 pm | Permalink
  7. Jonah wrote:

    Kill two birds with one stone. Good riddance.

    Wednesday, March 10, 2010 at 10:00 pm | Permalink

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