{"id":34838,"date":"2010-03-09T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T01:15:38","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T01:15:38","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T01:15:38","slug":"no_i_m_not_moving_to_costa_rica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2010\/03\/09\/no_i_m_not_moving_to_costa_rica\/","title":{"rendered":"No, I\u2019m Not Moving to Costa Rica"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p>RUSH: The Huffington Post, you remember we had a call here from a guy, we\u2019re talking about health care and what\u2019s going to happen after Obama puts private insurance out of business, how all the fines that businesses and individuals pay are much cheaper than having to go out and buy health insurance itself, and that people will naturally pay the fine. If they don\u2019t have to go to jail they\u2019ll pay the fine rather than incur costs, especially if the Senate bill says, which it does, that the day you have the auto accident, you get covered. You don\u2019t have to have any coverage before that, but the day you\u2019re in the crash you go to the hospital the insurance company has to pay for your treatment. Well, that\u2019s not insurance, that\u2019s private sector welfare and nobody could afford it and they\u2019ll go out of business, which is the purpose. So a guy calls up and says, &#8216;If all this happens, what are you going to do?\u2019 And I <img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125107.Par.89380.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" class=\"alignright\"\/>said, &#8216;Well, if doctors are not permitted to opt out of the government insurance pool and so forth, Medicare, Medicaid, whatever it is, and if they\u2019re not allowed to establish a private practice with private sector patients paying their own way, then I\u2019ll go to Costa Rica.\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>Well, that has been turned into I\u2019m going to leave the country for Costa Rica and move there if Obamacare passes. I\u2019ve had all kinds of reporters: &#8216;Are you serious? Do you really mean this?\u2019 So I\u2019ve had to patiently explain today to people who do not bother to stay informed on this stuff what the genesis and the primary context of my comment was. I said, &#8216;Look, there are insurance companies who don\u2019t want to be put out of business.\u2019 We\u2019ve talked to them on the program. I\u2019ve talked to them privately. They are establishing health care clinics with quality doctors in places like Costa Rica. They\u2019re going to continue to sell policies to people who have the ability to fly down there and get treatment. If I have to get thrown into this massive government health care insurance business and end up going to the driver\u2019s license office every day when I need to go to the doctor, yeah, I\u2019ll go to Costa Rica for treatment, not move there. So they\u2019re just in a tizzy out there, between Costa Rica and Eric Massa. So &#8212; (laughing) &#8212; it\u2019s going to be a fun day. Heck, it already is a fun day. <\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: You know, I am in such hot water now. People in New Zealand are sending me e-mails: &#8216;How come you\u2019re not coming here? You\u2019ve been telling everybody you\u2019re moving to New Zealand and now you\u2019re saying you\u2019re going to Costa Rica.\u2019 I did not say I\u2019m going to Costa Rica. The stupid people in the media who cannot trouble themselves to read my transcripts or listen to this program, listen to out of context stuff. I was asked yesterday where will I go for health care if Obama\u2019s health care passes, and I said if doctors here are not permitted to form private practice little clinics with individuals paying a fee, a retainer, and for services, then I\u2019ll go to Costa Rica to get major medical health care. I didn\u2019t say I would move there. They\u2019re all over these websites: &#8216;Limbaugh says he\u2019d move to Costa Rica. Why, what more incentive do we have to pass health care to get Limbaugh to move to Costa Rica?\u2019 Now, New Zealand is reading about this and they\u2019re all bent out of shape that I\u2019m somehow not coming there, all because of the stupid media. They are not competing for me because Costa Rica doesn\u2019t think I\u2019m going to move there, which I wouldn\u2019t. 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