You gotta give LimpBoy credit, he never tires of lying. Gawwwwwd-da must be really proud of the return he is getting on his "loan."
And I've seen his sycophants stupidly parrot this one too!
I won't be surprised if they avoid this lie and proceed directly to their programmed personal attacks.
Barack Obama is an Illusionist
July 20, 2009
RUSH: So here we go, trying to ramp up the crisis mentality. Parents can't afford checkups for their kids! They have to go to the emergency room. Parents can't afford this; parents can't afford that.
There's nobody leaving this country for health care, folks, other than some that go to Sweden to dry out,
but traditional health care, nobody leaves this country to get their kids treated. Except for the charlatan cancer treatments you find in Mexico and places, but you know what I mean.
Nobody is leaving here.
Rush Goes On the Record with Greta Van Susteren, Part One
July 24, 2009
RUSH: We've got the greatest health care system in the world.
Nobody leaves this country for health coverage. Everybody in the rest of the world comes here.
Medical Tourism - one answer to rising health care costs?
Why spend $160,000 on heart valve replacement surgery in Boston when the same procedure costs as little as $8,000 in India or a $43,000 hip replacement in New York when it can be done in Thailand for about $12,000? And that includes airfare, luxury accommodations, US or British trained doctors and, English speaking staff, Ten years ago, the practice of traveling to another country for medical care known as
medical tourism usually involved people getting breast implants or face lifts abroad.
However, more Americans than ever are opting for significant medical and dental care thousands of miles from home, many taking these so-called “medical holidays” because they can not afford the high costs of similar procedures in the states when faced with rising health insurance premiums, high deductibles or no insurance at all.
According to the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions, in 2007, an estimated 750,000 Americans traveled abroad to receive some kind of elective medical treatment with India, Singapore, Thailand, and Costa Rica as favored destinations.
And itÂ’s not just individual patients considering overseas care. In the last few years, major insurers and employers have signed contracts with companies to cover a range of elective medical procedures performed at international facilities catering to medical tourists. Outsourcing of healthcare is a growing business.
In January of this year, Wellpoint, the nationÂ’s largest health insurer in terms of enrollment included an India outsourcing benefit for employees of Serigraph, Inc. in Wisconsin. Healthbase Online Inc, a Boston based medical tourism facilitator is collaborating with Wellpoint on a pilot basis to provide global health care coverage to these employees. Those who choose to have non-emergency care in India such as major joint replacement or upper and lower back fusion have their deductibles and co-insurance waived as well as all medical costs and travel paid for the patient and a companion,
Blue Shield and Health Net of California offers its members care in Mexico. Aetna has a program for small businesses that allows immigrant workers to receive all of their care—not just selected procedures—in "network" hospitals in Mexico, through
Vitalidad México con Aetna.
United Group Programs (UGP) in Boca Raton, Florida, a third party administrator, has targeted self-insured employers by promoting overseas surgeries to over 40 corporations. UGP claims its plan saves employers 50 percent in health care costs and cuts employee contributions to zero.
Companion Healthcare. an international subsidiary of Blue Cross of South Carolina, set up to manage all health and dental care delivered outside of the United States has signed alliances in the last few years with about a dozen hospitals worldwide including Bumrungrad International Hospital in Thailand, the first Asian hospital accredited by the Joint Commission International (JCI) the international arm of the organization that reviews and accredits American hospitals.
Aetna now manages a self-insured group of 27,000 members that introduced a medical-tourism benefit for hip and knee surgery for U.S. employees who want an option to reduce the $3,000 deductible on elective surgery.
Some US businesses are beginning to cover lower-cost options abroad. Last year, Hannaford supermarkets in Maine added an international option for hip replacement in Singapore where the cost is about $10,000 to $15,000, compared to more than $40,000 in the U.S. Generally, under the Hannaford health plans, the company pays 80 percent of an employee's medical costs -- until the worker reaches an out-of-pocket limit of $2,000 to $3,000. For an employee who goes to Singapore for a hip replacement, Hannaford will pay the entire medical tab; the worker won't have any out-of-pocket costs. In addition, the firm will pay for travel costs, including airfare and lodging for the patient and a companion, up to $10,000.
Blue Ridge Paper Products in North Carolina, is offering similar employees incentives to obtain major medical care overseas, providing up to $10,000 for undergoing expensive U.S. procedures in select hospitals in India.
Is this the future?
The medical tourism trend is clearly growing. The Deloitte Center for Health Solutions estimates that 6 million Americans will travel abroad for their care by 2010. The primary driver for this growth has been cost savings. According to
Victor Lazzaro Jr., CEO of BridgeHealth International, Inc.,a global medical travel network,
“If only 10 percent of the top 50 low-risk treatments were performed abroad, the U.S. health care system would save about $1.4 billion annually.”
Then you try this kind of stupid deflection because you had an EPIC FAIL? Nice try...but when you lie about me...you get the neg. Try taking what I said in context sonny. I haven't said anything about defending Rush, and I stand by that. Go get a post where I defended Rush. I'm saying you can't do it. But what you always do is try to sell your one trick pony drivel on this board, and it's an old trick. 
