This is just too funny... Rush Limbaugh "threatens" to leave the country if healthcare reform passes:
And here's where it gets fun.
Nice choice, Rush.
Think Progress (emphasis theirs):LIMBAUGH: My guess in even in Canada and even in the UK, doctors have opted out. And once they’ve opted, they can’t see anybody Medicare, Medicaid, or what will become the exchanges. They have to have a clientele of private patients that will pay them a retainer and it’ll be a very small practice. I don’t know if that’s been outlawed in the Senate bill. I don’t know. 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.
And here's where it gets fun.
InternationalLiving.com:
Costa Rica Offers Good-Quality Health Care
Costa Rica has universal health care, one of the best health systems in Latin America. As always with nationalized health care, expect red tape and long waits, but the quality of Costa Rica's health care is excellent. Private health care is also available, very affordable, and high quality. Many doctors speak English and have received training in Europe, Canada, or the U.S. There are three large, private hospitals that most expatriates use: CIMA hospital in Escazú, Clinica Biblica in San José, and Clinica Católica in San José-Guadalupe.
Nice choice, Rush.
2 comments:
Not that you need telling, but Rush has zero ranks in "Knowledge (What the Hell He's Talking About)".
GPs in the UK routinely treat both private and NHS patients in the same practice. The difference is that, if the GP decides to refer them to a specialist, private patients get referred to different places. But the doctors who work in those places may well also work in NHS hospitals.
Doctors can do whatever the hell they like, basically. And they do.
I've been to Costa Rica. The wait at the hospital wasn't very long the doctor was very competent, fluent in English and in expensive. In total, including meds, I paid less than my co-pay here in the States.
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