# Dancing on the grave of health care "reform" **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 3, 2010, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dancing-on-the-grave-of-health-care-reform/527487 "2010-02-03T04:17:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 44
**Author:** ![This\_Just\_In\_2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@This\_Just\_In\_2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/This_Just_In_2)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2010, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dancing-on-the-grave-of-health-care-reform/527487/861 "2010-03-22T17:20:32Z")
Victory always feels sweeter when it comes from behind. Thanks to RR for placing the taunts in the OP and giving all those with rational thought another means to express delight. Rub your face in your money before I use it to pay for my next rectal exam. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2010, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dancing-on-the-grave-of-health-care-reform/527487/862 "2010-03-22T17:34:39Z")
> **[Home](https://www.mothersalwaysright.com/)** > > Find practical parenting tips, expert advice, and heartfelt stories for every stage. Join our community and thrive together on your parenting journey! > [@](#): > > Recently, a number of interesting things happened. First, Rush Limbaugh said on his radio show that if the Healthcare Reform Bill passed, he would go to Costa Rica. Second, the Healthcare Reform Bill passed. As you can imagine, this has made a number of people very excited. We are among that number. We want to make sure that Rush is able to make good on his promise, and so we’ve made this website. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2010, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dancing-on-the-grave-of-health-care-reform/527487/863 "2010-03-22T18:13:21Z")
Wow - Costa Rica looks beautiful. I may just have to save up some vacation days. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2010, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dancing-on-the-grave-of-health-care-reform/527487/864 "2010-03-22T18:13:33Z")
Yes, but Rush goes to Costa Rica regularly. He keeps coming back. ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2010, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dancing-on-the-grave-of-health-care-reform/527487/865 "2010-03-22T18:15:51Z")
> [@The\_Second\_Stone](#): > > Yes, but Rush goes to Costa Rica regularly. He keeps coming back. Look, if you can’t get your maid to score pills for you anymore, you just have to be a MAN (see **Starving Retard’s** ode to Teabaggers above) and go to an entire COUNTRY full of maids to get your own damned pills. -Joe ---
**Author:** ![Ca3799](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9f8e36/32.png) [@Ca3799](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ca3799)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2010, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dancing-on-the-grave-of-health-care-reform/527487/866 "2010-03-22T19:31:54Z")
> [@Revtim](#): > > [http://www.aticketforrush.com/](http://www.aticketforrush.com/) LOL! I love it and will go donate now! ---
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2010, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dancing-on-the-grave-of-health-care-reform/527487/867 "2010-03-22T19:40:48Z")
I’ve been to Costa Rica. Fabulous place. Please I beg of you. Don’t inflict Rush on the nice, sweet, peace loving Ticos. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2010, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dancing-on-the-grave-of-health-care-reform/527487/868 "2010-03-22T19:42:40Z")
[Hee. Heehee. HAHAHA!!!](http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/88285-mccain-dont-expect-gop-cooperation-the-rest-of-this-year) > [@](#): > > Democrats shouldn’t expect much cooperation from Republicans the rest of this year, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) warned Monday. > > McCain and another Republican senator decried the effect health reform legislation has had on the Senate, a day after the House passed the upper chamber’s bill. > GOP senators emerged Monday to caution that the health debate had taken a toll on the institution, warning of little work between parties the rest of this year. > “There will be no cooperation for the rest of the year,” McCain said during an interview Monday on an Arizona radio affiliate. “They have poisoned the well in what they’ve done and how they’ve done it.” So…this is going to be like one of those trick “Find the Differences” games where both pictures are identical? No, seriously, this isn’t an Onion piece! ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2010, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dancing-on-the-grave-of-health-care-reform/527487/869 "2010-03-22T19:46:45Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > So…this is going to be like one of those trick “Find the Differences” games where both pictures are identical? > > No, seriously, this isn’t an Onion piece! To (loosely) quote Harlan Ellison, this is a threat roughly as imposing as informing a man who has just crawled through the Gobi desert on his hands and knees that he may not have a peanut butter sandwich. ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2010, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dancing-on-the-grave-of-health-care-reform/527487/870 "2010-03-22T19:52:43Z")
Interesting that Limbaugh holds up Costa Rica as somewhere he can flee to and not be subject to the evils of being forced to pay for health care for all, when Costa Rica has…[wait for it](http://www.cehat.org/rthc/paper5.htm)… ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2010, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dancing-on-the-grave-of-health-care-reform/527487/871 "2010-03-22T20:06:34Z")
Can you get McCain’s leftover “Country First” banners from his campaign on eBay? ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2010, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dancing-on-the-grave-of-health-care-reform/527487/872 "2010-03-22T20:34:47Z")
> [@Duke](#): > > Interesting that Limbaugh holds up Costa Rica as somewhere he can flee to and not be subject to the evils of being forced to pay for health care for all, when Costa Rica has…[wait for it](http://www.cehat.org/rthc/paper5.htm)… To be fair it’s pretty hard to find any vaguely civilized nation that doesn’t. I think he should go to Somalia along with all the diehard Libertarians–it’s a paradise for those who hate government! ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2010, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dancing-on-the-grave-of-health-care-reform/527487/873 "2010-03-22T20:40:29Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > Can you get McCain’s leftover “Country First” banners from his campaign on eBay? Nice facsimile available [HERE](http://www.cafepress.com/+cuntry_first_greeting_card,303642147). ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2010, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dancing-on-the-grave-of-health-care-reform/527487/874 "2010-03-22T21:18:39Z")
> [@SmartAleq](#): > > To be fair it’s pretty hard to find any vaguely civilized nation that doesn’t. I think he should go to Somalia along with all the diehard Libertarians–it’s a paradise for those who hate government! As it happens, I’ve heard libertarians who claim that Somalia is now better off than it was with a government. Notably, I’ve yet to run across one that actually wants to move there. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2010, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dancing-on-the-grave-of-health-care-reform/527487/875 "2010-03-22T21:23:11Z")
> [@SmartAleq](#): > > To be fair it’s pretty hard to find any vaguely civilized nation that doesn’t. I think he should go to Somalia along with all the diehard Libertarians–it’s a paradise for those who hate government! You misunderstand. Conservatives don’t hate government…unless it’s trying to take money from one segment of the population and spend it buying the votes of another segment of the population. And trying to us dependent upon and under the control of a nanny-state government. And trying to convert the country into a giant human ant farm. And, you know, things like that… But other than that, yeah, government is not only good but necessary. It only becomes a problem when it falls into liberal hands. Which is usually followed by the bastards getting kicked out, but they’re devious and their programs remain embedded long after they’re gone and are almost impossible to get rid of. So then we get to where we are today, where liberalism seems to be winning the day in the direction the country follows, when the reality is that it has simply succeeded in sticking us with programs that we can’t get rid of even after we’ve gotten rid of the schmucks who foisted them upon us in the first place. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2010, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dancing-on-the-grave-of-health-care-reform/527487/876 "2010-03-22T21:40:53Z")
> [@Starving Artist](#): > > But other than that, yeah, government is not only good but necessary. It only becomes a problem when it falls into liberal hands. Which is usually followed by the bastards getting kicked out, but they’re devious and their programs remain embedded long after they’re gone and are almost impossible to get rid of. Yes, it’s so annoying!! Damn those devious liberal bastards for creating and enacting government programs that the public likes and doesn’t want to get rid of! Sheesh, it’s as if they think their job is actually to serve the public interest or some dipshit idea like that!! Thank heavens that Real Man Conservatives ™ would never behave that way! ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2010, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dancing-on-the-grave-of-health-care-reform/527487/877 "2010-03-22T21:41:18Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > You misunderstand. Conservatives don’t hate government…unless it’s trying to take money from one segment of the population and spend it buying the votes of another segment of the population. And trying to us dependent upon and under the control of a nanny-state government. And trying to convert the country into a giant human ant farm. And, you know, things like that… Ah yes, how well I remember the Pubbies crying out in the wilderness as the Bush tax cuts wrung money from the middle class and gave it to the rich fucks. And how they protested as they gutted the Fourth Amendment protections and sanctioned warrantless wiretapping of ordinary citizens suspected of no crime. And created “free speech zones” far away from any place where a Pubbie was making a speech so’s not to have them influenced by anything the unwashed masses might have to say–said unwashed not being allowed to exercise that free speech anywhere near the Pubbies, of course. You are a complete and total moron. You are anencephalic. Your recto-cranial inversion is of legendary proportions. I suggest you continue that slow crawl up your own anus until you disappear with an audible pop–one that will be shortly echoed by the sound of a thousand bottles of champagne being opened to celebrate no longer having to be exposed to your worthless drivel. ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2010, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dancing-on-the-grave-of-health-care-reform/527487/878 "2010-03-22T21:41:21Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > But other than that, yeah, government is not only good but necessary. It only becomes a problem when it falls into liberal hands. Which is usually followed by the bastards getting kicked out, but they’re devious and their programs remain embedded long after they’re gone and are almost impossible to get rid of. So then we get to where we are today, where liberalism seems to be winning the day in the direction the country follows, when the reality is that it has simply succeeded in sticking us with programs that we can’t get rid of even after we’ve gotten rid of the schmucks who foisted them upon us in the first place. The word you are looking for is “progress.” ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2010, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dancing-on-the-grave-of-health-care-reform/527487/879 "2010-03-22T21:52:28Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > But other than that, yeah, government is not only good but necessary. It only becomes a problem when it falls into liberal hands. Which is usually followed by the bastards getting kicked out, but they’re devious and their programs remain embedded long after they’re gone and are almost impossible to get rid of. So then we get to where we are today, where liberalism seems to be winning the day in the direction the country follows, when the reality is that it has simply succeeded in sticking us with programs that we can’t get rid of even after we’ve gotten rid of the schmucks who foisted them upon us in the first place. Which programs would those be, and why aren’t your champions the Republicans looking out for your interests by getting rid of them when they’ve had the power to do so? ---
**Author:** ![blinkie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/43a26b/32.png) [@blinkie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blinkie)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2010, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dancing-on-the-grave-of-health-care-reform/527487/880 "2010-03-22T21:54:50Z")
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