I didn't hear what Rush actually said, and how he may have responded since then as people have reacted to what ever he said in the first place.
All of this conversation has left me in the dark as to whether he indicated he might MOVE to Costa Rica or that he would COMMUTE to Costa Rica when he needed or wanted healthcare services.
DavidKaye said:
He plans to move to Costa Rica. Costa Rica has "socialized" health care. Nearly every other country of the civilized world has "socialized" health care.
In another discussion group a guy that I often butted heads with announced that now that he is retired he is considering moving to Costa Rica to escape what he sees as the
madness of US politics. I suggested that if he does so, make sure he picks a community where medical care will be available. (There are places in the U.S. that seem like such charming places to retire... you know, mountain streams, lack of population density, etc. But you can end up making a 150 mile round trip just to have a routine doctor's appointment. My trip is 50 miles!) He was the first person to ever introduce to me the fact that apparently Costa Rica has an extremely good level of health care availability. And he indicated to me that it was significantly financed by medical-tourism. People come there from other countries to take advantage of the level of care and they leave a lot of their dollars behind. I have no desire to spend my final years in some other country so I haven't investigated.
Back to broadcasting. Back to Rush. Other than maybe an occasional commentary by Paul Harvey during the last 20 years, I don't think I hear any broadcasters sharing with us what I would consider to be credible information and analysis of how medical care works in other countries.
Yes, we get the "party line" that socialized medicine is a failure and occasional statistics that sound so "credible" about how many thousand Canadians come to the U.S. every years for medical care,
but never, never, never do I hear numbers of how many Americans travel to Costa Rica and other countries for elective surgeries. I know it happens because within the family I know of people who do it because they can afford to. But what I don't know is whether 24 people go to Europe every year for knee replacements and that's the total of it, or if 480,000 Americans cross borders for medical care somewhere else every year.
The silence on this topic is..... deafening. Maybe Rush will tell us once he tries it out and takes a census of the people in the recovery room and in therapy.
