Another reason to root for health reform: Rush Limbaugh will flee to Costa Rica. (Will Jonah Goldberg call him an un-American fool?)

Via Think Progress, Rush Limbaugh threatens to leave America if health reform passes:

CALLER: If the health care bill passes, where would you go for health care yourself? And the second part of that is, what would happen to the doctors, do they have to participate in the federal program, or could they opt out of it?[...]

LIMBAUGH: My guess in even in Canada and even in the UK, doctors have opted out. And once they’ve opted, they can’t see anybody Medicare, Medicaid, or what will become the exchanges. They have to have a clientele of private patients that will pay them a retainer and it’ll be a very small practice. I don’t know if that’s been outlawed in the Senate bill. I don’t know. I’ll just tell you this, if this passes and it’s five years from now and all that stuff gets implemented — I am leaving the country. I’ll go to Costa Rica.

I know, I know: Just a bit of hyperbole on Rush’s part. We shouldn’t take it that seriously.

But, uh, remember when Alec Baldwin threatened to leave the United States if George W. Bush was elected president? Remember the fits that conservatives threw about that? Conservatives like Jonah Goldberg?

My dictionary says that a moralist is someone who is particularly concerned with teaching moral lessons. If Alec Baldwin leaves because George W. Bush wins he will be the furthest thing in the world from that. He will instead be teaching people that in a democracy, when your side loses, those who can afford to take their money and their passports and bug out in a hissy fit. I don’t think I’ve ever used the word un-American before with any seriousness. But, if he thinks that’s the moral lesson for Americans, Alec Baldwin isn’t just a fool. He’s an un-American fool.

I’m very much looking forward to Jonah Goldberg lecturing his fellow conservative on this matter.