Take it from your friendly neighborhood insurance agent: if Rush Limbaugh was not a millionaire or he was not employed by a company with a group health plan, he could not afford to pay the bills he would have acquired from his recent visit to an emergency room in Hawaii.
If Rush Limbaugh was not gainfully employed, he could not afford the health insurance premiums at age 58 with his conditions (obesity, history of substance abuse), and now that he has had a series of tests and treatments for potential heart disease (a pre-existing condition), he would be subject to denial or rescission. He couldn’t buy health insurance at any price.
From an AP news article:
Limbaugh couldn’t resist a few political comments during his short news conference at the Honolulu hospital.
One appeared to be aimed at health care reform, when he said he got the best health treatment in the world “right here in the United States of America.”
Incidentally, Hawaii is considered “right here in the USA” when Rush is visiting, but it’s considered ”foreign” and ”exotic” by right wing pundits when Obama visits.
I don’t think there’s one thing wrong with the American health care system,” Limbaugh said. “I got no special treatment other than what anybody else that would have called 911 and had been brought in with the same kinds of symptoms.”
Perhaps; however, “anybody else” had better have a low deductible or decent insurance or the bills would be astronomical, Rush. Sure, Limbaugh could afford to self-insure, but the cost of the treatment he enjoyed would be a severe hardship for the majority of his listening audience.
Limbaugh called his health scare a “blessing in disguise.”
“It takes things like this in life maybe to prepare you for the eventuality that you are getting older, you’re not as young as you were, and not as invincible as you once thought you were,” he said.
What would really be a “blessing in disguise” and a valuable life lesson for Rush and his ilk would be if they had to experience a severe health problem *without* the benefit of good health insurance and then have to scramble to find any company willing to insure them after this type of event; never mind having to pay the tens of thousands of dollars in subsequent bills.
D’accord baby. His statement to the press made me want to barf&puke. Lettuce delete him from the inkerneck. Despicable is too kind a word. barf-barf-barf-&-puke-puke-puke. Asphoe of the Universe that he is.
I do adore the “narcissists in the news”. Har-dee-har-har! xxoo
I keep hearing such pathetic arguments; today a righty called into Ed Schultz and said, among other stupid things, that “hospitals will work with you” unless you’re a worthless liberal layabout. I did not know that, nor did Ed. Next thing, David Gregory will say that “plastic surgery is more affordable than you’d think.” If so, David, PLEASE GET SOME! Then you’ll find out that your pre-existing condition disqualifies you.
Apparently, according to Ronni Bennett of “Time Goes By,” http://www.timegoesby.net/, there is still a plot afoot to dismantle Social Security and Medicare. The most recent attack wants to put it all under an appointed commission, rather than leave it in the hands of our legislators, to whom we can complain. Here’s a link to the story: http://www.timegoesby.net/weblog/2010/01/washington-post-joins-plot-to-kill-social-security.html. Keep on top of this, folks, or the fat cats will have us all out on the street!
As long as there is a political crisis in Washington with the Republicans losing voters every day, there is no way they’d touch Social Security. It’s a sacred cow. If you think there were tea baggers over TARP! I’m keeping my eye on a lot of things, but this is not one of my concerns.
Rush Limbaugh makes me queasy. The thought that there are people that actually enjoy listening to the ilk he spews just makes me shake my head.
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By the way, HuffPost says that there will be more republicans retiring than dems.
These are more cheerful…dogs in the snow. I know many people are freezing their buttzawf.
http://www.daily coyote.com
and http://www.frenchwordaday.com
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Wyoming dogs and French dogs.