Pass Health Care Reform and Lose Limbaugh?

[erik_blank]

If there were no other reason to pass health care reform, I think that this would suffice by itself: Rush Limbaugh says he'll Leave the U.S. if Health Care Reform Passes

Of course he is threatening to go to Costa Rica should Health Care Reform pass. I wonder if Costa Rica will accept him?

Of course if he is attempting to get away from 'socialized' medicine he will have to find someplace else that is more advanced than Costa Rica (they have 'universal' health care). I suppose that he could try Turkey, or perhaps if Mexico steps back a bit, he could settle for Tijuana...

[Inquartata]

Meh, I trust you realize that radio and television broadcasts are not blocked by borders. He can still annoy and bedevil you from abroad.

[Hauptman]

Meh, I trust you realize that radio and television broadcasts are not blocked by borders. He can still annoy and bedevil you from abroad.

Bah!! You just couldn't even let me enjoy the idea for even a little while could you?!

Killjoy!!

[Bayou Bum]

You do know that on your radio or TV you can just change the channel or station?

[lindajdunn]

You do know that on your radio or TV you can just change the channel or station?

Yes... and when I change the channel on the radio, I get another radio station that carries Rush.

I acquired an iPod for when I travel in my car because all I can find in the area (with the exception of Q95) are Rush-affiliated stations.

Unfortunately, some public areas have Fox locked down on their televisions. Another excellent reason to own an iPod.

[phillipmj]

Rush Limbaugh says he'll Leave the U.S. if Health Care Reform Passes

Maybe this is the real reason he's selling his (really gaudy looking) penthouse in New York. . .

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/0..._n_483065.html

[Inquartata]

Poor Rush-haunted Linda! It's like being in the 8th circle of Hell. Whatever did you do to warrant such torment?

[lindajdunn]

Poor Rush-haunted Linda! It's like being in the 8th circle of Hell. Whatever did you do to warrant such torment?

Oh, pffftttt! It's just a reflection of the area in which I live so "what I did" was be born in the wrong part of the country. It's cheaper to carry Rush than to carry real content and the viewing audience out here likes Rush.

If I don't have my ipod, I can always just remove my hearing aids.

[KidLazy]

I just wonder how come he has not die of heart attack yet? All that anger, stress, and rage every signle day, nonstop, can't be good for the heart.

[Inquartata]

"There was a king reigned in the East:
There, when kings will sit to feast,
They get their fill before they think
With poisoned meat and poisoned drink.
He gathered all the springs to birth
From the many-venomed earth;
First a little, thence to more,
He sampled all her killing store;
And easy, smiling, seasoned sound,
Sate the king when healths went round.
They put arsenic in his meat
And stared aghast to watch him eat;
They poured strychnine in his cup
And shook to see him drink it up:
They shook, they stared as white’s their shirt:
Them it was their poison hurt.
—I tell the tale that I heard told.
Mithridates, he died old."

[migopod]

I just wonder how come he has not die of heart attack yet? All that anger, stress, and rage every signle day, nonstop, can't be good for the heart.

Can't have a heart attack if you lack the requisite anatomy.

[lindajdunn]

Them it was their poison hurt.
—I tell the tale that I heard told.
Mithridates, he died old."

...snip...

I spent the last few years building up an immunity to iocane powder.

[Purple Fencer]

Can't have a heart attack if you lack the requisite anatomy.

This. QFT.

[Hauptman]

Can't have a heart attack if you lack the requisite anatomy.

You beat me to it too!!

[lindajdunn]

Not about Rush, but about health care.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/12/op...NytimesKrugman

Health care myths debunked.

Myth 1: Obama proposes a takeover of 1/6th of the economy.
Truth: Medicare and Medicaid is already paying for not quite half of American health care. Private insurance barely covers a THIRD. [And note that most of us are getting health insurance via our employers, which are subsidized with tax exemptions and heavily regulated.]

Myth 2: Proposed reform does nothing to control costs.
Truth (or at least an opposing opinion): It could raise total health care spending by less than 1% while extending coverage to millions of Americans who wouldn't otherwise be insured. The Congressional Budget Office estimates the math will look better in the second decade -- assuming congress doesn't #### with it.

Myth 3: Health reform is fiscally irresponsible.
Opinion: Yes, reducing the deficit is a bad idea, let's let things continue just as they are. Note that this is sarcasm.

All the polls I see show most Americans don't want the health care reform but I note that many of them don't want it because it doesn't provide sufficient coverage, or they want a public option, etc. The polls also show than less than 5% want to keep the status quo.

IOW, the overwhelming majority of us want health care reform. Like always, the devil is in the details.

[Hauptman]

Not about Rush, but about health care.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/12/op...NytimesKrugman

Health care myths debunked.

Myth 1: Obama proposes a takeover of 1/6th of the economy.
Truth: Medicare and Medicaid is already paying for not quite half of American health care. Private insurance barely covers a THIRD. [And note that most of us are getting health insurance via our employers, which are subsidized with tax exemptions and heavily regulated.]

Myth 2: Proposed reform does nothing to control costs.
Truth (or at least an opposing opinion): It could raise total health care spending by less than 1% while extending coverage to millions of Americans who wouldn't otherwise be insured. The Congressional Budget Office estimates the math will look better in the second decade -- assuming congress doesn't #### with it.

Myth 3: Health reform is fiscally irresponsible.
Opinion: Yes, reducing the deficit is a bad idea, let's let things continue just as they are. Note that this is sarcasm.

All the polls I see show most Americans don't want the health care reform but I note that many of them don't want it because it doesn't provide sufficient coverage, or they want a public option, etc. The polls also show than less than 5% want to keep the status quo.

IOW, the overwhelming majority of us want health care reform. Like always, the devil is in the details.

Ok, how about this:

The vast majority of health care costs come in the last few years of life.

Currently, in this country virtually all health care for people over the age of 65 is already paid for by the gov't.

That means they can potentially collect premiums for many years, and just when the actually costs for those patients starts to peak they hand them off to the gov't.

So that seems to imply that those years that we're paying for insurance from the private sector should be the most cost effective, and yield the highest profit margins.

And yet the insurance companies have been raising rates at an outrageous pace for over a decade with some companies attempting as high a 30% increase this year alone!

Our system is very broken.

[Inquartata]

Linda, buhbeh...you do know that Krugman has been shilling for this for some time, right?

Not quite as bad as Huffington, but come on...

Hey, with the "graying of America", eventually Medicare will cover 99% of all Americans, so why worry about hastening the inevitable?