McCain Advisor says that there are no uninsured people in America
This has got to be one of the most jackassy things that I ever read. This dipshit who advises McCain on health care policy, claims that there are no uninsured, because people can go to the emergency room.
Texas still leads nation in rate of uninsured residents
But the numbers are misleading, said John Goodman, president of the National Center for Policy Analysis, a right-leaning Dallas-based think tank. Mr. Goodman, who helped craft Sen. John McCain’s health care policy, said anyone with access to an emergency room effectively has insurance, albeit the government acts as the payer of last resort. (Hospital emergency rooms by law cannot turn away a patient in need of immediate care.)“So I have a solution. And it will cost not one thin dime,” Mr. Goodman said. “The next president of the United States should sign an executive order requiring the Census Bureau to cease and desist from describing any American – even illegal aliens – as uninsured. Instead, the bureau should categorize people according to the likely source of payment should they need care.
“So, there you have it. Voila! Problem solved.”
HELLO FROM EARTH! Lack of access to care and lack of insurance – not the same thing. Yes, if you’ve been shot someone must take care of you. But that’s not the same as being insured. Going to the ER with “holy fuck my appendix just burst” is NOTHING LIKE going to the doctor’s office because you’re having stomach pains. See the difference? It’s called preventive care, and routine health screening. It’s the difference between routine treatment and possibly dying because no doctor would see your uninsured ass until something went desperately, unfixably wrong.
He also makes the assumption that all uninsured persons are deadbeats who will skip out on their health care bills. Not true. Ever heard of the honest working poor? Sure, if you’re too broke to pay, despite your best intentions, you can stiff the hospital and the gov’t (and the rest of us who DO pay premiums) will have to foot your bill, but it will also ruin your credit.
If you are low-income enough to not have insurance and you do your best to pay after going to the ER, you will probably go bankrupt, since any uninsured ER visit is sure to cost upwards of $5,000.I think my 3-hour visit for my broken foot (for which I wasn’t even admitted) cost upwards of $8,000.
God, what a total fucktard. I mean a TOTAL fucktwatted assfaced baboon. What a clueless dipshit motherfuck. Idiot.
McCain listens to this guy? He had a hand in crafting McCain’s health care policy? WHAT THE FUCK?
I think “right-leaning” is a misnomer for this guy and his group. I think “leaning so far right that they’ve fallen and can’t get up” might describe them better. I would like to put him on the “ER Only” insurance plan for a year, and see what he thinks of it then.
Sheezus.
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Now, whilst I’m here – all politicians are sleazy, fact-bending liars.
That said, I mostly agree. I think some are less sleazy, or at least not sleazy on purpose. But overall they suck.
I think the majority of politicians start their careers with a genuine desire to improve things for people. However the large amount of money they get, combined with the power they weild as they go through their careers turns them into dishonest sleazebags who are so far removed from the general public that they have no idea what it’s like to be a normal person, and they spend the rest of their careers trying to hold onto their jobs and accumulate wealth at the expense of everything they started out in politics to improve.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KHMO14KuJk