[Vision2020] Say What?

[Ron Force]

Poor fellow is unaware that Costa Rica has universal health care, and taxes residents for same.  I was just there-- a great deal of advertising in the airport and publications to "health care tourists" promising affordable hip & knee replacements, cosmetic surgery, etc.

 From ThinkProgress' Wonk Room:


But unbeknownst Rush, Costa Rica’s hybrid government-private health 
care system provides comprehensive universal coverage to all residents — and even sells affordable policies to soon-to-be visitors like 
Limbaugh. The government owns several major public hospitals and operates small clinics in almost every community. Workers are required to contribute 15% of their 
salaries to health insurance and the unemployed “obtain public funding for 
all health services, including prescription drugs.” At least a third of all Costa Rican residents receive some care in the private sector 
and the government regularly purchases services from private providers. 
The system is not without its problems, but it boasts a higher ranking 
from the World Health Organization — Costa Rica is 36, 
United States 37 — and has higher life expectancy and lower infant 
mortality rates. Costa Rica also spends less per capita on health care than the United States and insures 
almost all of its residents. 
In fact, there is literally nowhere in the developed world Limbaugh 
can travel to receive market-driven medicine or escape “government 
intervention in health care.” Thus, his accidental endorsement of 
universal health reform and Palin’s admission that she had traveled to single-payer Canada for care, make for several curious 
conservative endorsements of greater government involvement in the 
health care system.



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From: Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com>
To: Moscow Vision 2020 <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Wed, March 10, 2010 5:18:56 AM
Subject: [Vision2020] Say What?

"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."

- Rush Limbaugh on health care reform bill

http://thinkprogress.org/2010/03/09/limbaugh-exile-health-care/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNQn3aBKtlo

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Yet, another reason to pass health care reform.

Seeya round town, Moscow.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

"The Pessimist complains about the wind, the Optimist expects it to change
and the Realist adjusts his sails."

- Unknown


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