Romney: "We don't have people who die because they dont have insurance"

[Good Guy Guevara]

Mitt Romney doubled down on his suggestion that uninsured Americans can find the care they need in emergency rooms, telling The Dispatch that people will always receive the treatment they need, and do not die or suffer because they can not pay for care. He pointed to federal law that requires hospitals to admit emergency patients, repeating his advice that patients rely on the most expensive form of care reserved strictly for emergencies. Romney told the Columbus Dispatch:

“We don’t have a setting across this country where if you don’t have insurance, we just say to you, ‘Tough luck, you’re going to die when you have your heart attack,’  ” he said as he offered more hints as to what he would put in place of “Obamacare,” which he has pledged to repeal.

“No, you go to the hospital, you get treated, you get care, and it’s paid for, either by charity, the government or by the hospital. We don’t have people that become ill, who die in their apartment because they don’t have insurance.”

He pointed out that federal law requires hospitals to treat those without health insurance — although hospital officials frequently say that drives up health-care costs.

Emergency rooms serve as a place of last resort, but 45,000 Americans still die every year because they lack health insurance, or one every 12 minutes. Uninsured adults under age 65 are also at a 40 percent higher death risk. Hospitals may treat patients for emergency medical conditions regardless of legal status or ability to pay, but patients with chronic conditions that don’t require emergency interference are often unable to access needed care.
Romney’s health care proposal would leave 72 million Americans without health insurance and wouldn’t provide all uninsured Americans with a stable source of insurance.

Its abomination that this election is even close.

 

[Shogun]

He's just settin up for the next debate where he knocks em down with "we have far too many uninsured Americans dying every day under the presidents plan "

 

[Street Knowledge]

This is a damn joke at this point

 

[Da King]

cacs gonna cac

 

[radio rahiem]

At least he didn't flipflop the issue

But still.

 

[stealthbomber]

ill be interested in the percentage and demographic of the popular votes mitt gets

 

[Da King]

let's see if Biden got the nuts to bring this up in the debate

 

[zerozero]

I agree though. It's fine to have a toothache for an year as long as someone will give you a free bed in the last couple days when the infection finally kills you

 

[Brown_Pride]

I agree though. It's fine to have a toothache for an year as long as someone will give you a free bed in the last couple days when the infection finally kills you

i don't know bruh get an absest tooth and it's not an emergency but will damn near drive you to suicide. I've said before during a portion of my life me and mine were damn near homeless and without insurance and my wife got a tooth infection. Couldn't afford to pull it, couldn't afford to treat it and today she still will tell me that it's the worst pain she's ever endured....she's had 4 kids, kidneystones, a ruptured appendix, an a cracked femur...that's saying some shyt.

Fuk Romney.

 

[zerozero]

lol I was just being sarcastic. sorry to hear that you guys went through that, I agree toothaches are the worst cause it's right in your mouth.

 

[Mike Otherz]

hey, if romney wins, will it be the most embarrassing election of a president ever? who was the last elected president where everyone was like wha?

 

[Brown_Pride]

lol I was just being sarcastic. sorry to hear that you guys went through that, I agree toothaches are the worst cause it's right in your mouth.

nah man one of the best learning experiences of my life tbh.

put's shyt in perspective big time. It can really help sort out what's important in life and what really matters, not that you can't do that without going through that but none the less I learned a lot from it.

ALso,
Not everyone in a shelter is a fuk up, sometimes shyt just happens in a laughable series of events that really exist outside of one's ability to control

Also,
There are some people who CAN control certain things and don't.

Because of the former I tend to give people the benefit of the doubt.

 

[ExodusNirvana]

hey, if romney wins, will it be the most embarrassing election of a president ever? who was the last elected president where everyone was like wha?

I could'nt vote then but when Bush won the first time I was like

From what I understood the country was doing ok at the time and the next logical step was Al Gore who was more or less the same as Bubba but not as cool.

Then there was 2004 where he won AGAIN and again I was like

 

[TLR Is Mental Poison]

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[Habit]

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