Rush Loves Health Care in the USA!

Well, isn’t it good news? Rush Limbaugh has declared the USA has the best health care in the world and nothing about it should be changed. He should know.

Mr. Limbaugh was recently rushed to the hospital with chest pains that were just like a heart attack. After a battery of tests, the doctors declared that it wasn’t a heart attack. As a matter of fact, they couldn’t find the cause. He should be pleased. He didn’t have a heart attack or any other life threatening condition. Health care in the USA triumphs!

Isn’t it amazing what $33,000,000 a year in pay can buy? Please note that I am quoting the lower end of his annual earnings estimates I’ve been able to find. One was as high as $50M.

For $33M per year, Mr. Limbaugh can buy the best care in the world many times over. He can get the best doctors, emergency transportation, hospitals without thought or care about how he might pay for it. I don’t know if he has insurance. Maybe he does. Even if it’s a high deductible insurance, I’m sure the premiums are not too burdensome for him.

Even with half, or quarter, that amount in income, Mr. Limbaugh would have more than enough to cover any healthcare costs he might have.

Were we all in such circumstances, we would have no need for reform either. If we all had insurance or could afford the premiums or have access to first class care, we would none of us need reform. If only.

I wonder when Mr. Limbaugh last had to worry about whether to pay for a doctor or pay the rent. I wonder when Mr. Limbaugh last needed to decide if he could afford to buy his cholesterol medication or antibiotics or whatever prescription he might be taking instead of food. I wonder when Mr. Limbaugh last had to choose between vaccinating his children against deadly childhood diseases or putting gas in the car so that he could get to work every day. I wonder if Mr. Limbaugh has ever had to make these choices.

If these were choices that didn’t need to be made by millions of people daily in this country, we wouldn’t need healthcare reform. But people need to make the choices. People get sicker and die every day across this nation because they have to make those choices. They need healthcare reform, no matter what Mr. Limbaugh thinks.