What could be more socialistic than going to hospital emergency rooms...?

[kentuck]

...and letting everyone else pick up the tab?

That is Mitt Romney's latest healthcare plan.

[LondonReign2]

1. Kick

[Agnosticsherbet]

2. I get your point, but that isn't socialism...

And going to the emergency room is effing expensive. It cost my son $600.00, and the hospital wasn't nice about seeking collection. Only in the most extreme cases of poverty do the poor actually get anything free at the emergency room. Those are homeless indigents who are taken there and have no real way to pay at all.

[kentuck]

3. Romney sez...

If you get sick in your apartment, you can always go to the emergency room, if you don't have any money or health insurance.

[cbdo2007]

4. and he admits that the Govt picks up the overpriced bill.

It is absolutely socialized medicine.

[Agnosticsherbet]

5. Yes, but he is wrong.

(1) As long as they think you have money, hospitals will extract it from your hide. It is only slightly worse owing money to the mob.
(2) The number of people who go there and get free service is actually quite small. It is why it is a last act of desperation for the working poor.
(3) Using it this way causes hospitals and service providers to raise their prices so the rest of us pay more for hospital services.

Finally...

Neither Romney nor his idiot brethren know what socialism is. They use it like the big bad wolf to keep their constituents drawers shitty with fear.

I understand that you are pointing out his utter lack of common sense and his inability to think the simplest things through.

[Enrique]

6. Romney made that point in 2007

Mitt Romney, 2007:

n a 2007 interview with Glenn Beck, Romney called the fact that people without insurance were able to get "free care" in emergency rooms "a form of socialism."

"When they show up at the hospital, they get care. They get free care paid for by you and me. If that's not a form of socialism, I don't know what is," he said at the time. "So my plan did something quite different. It said, you know what? If people can afford to buy insurance ... or if they can pay their own way, then they either buy that insurance or pay their own way, but they no longer look to government to hand out free care. And that, in my opinion, is ultimate conservativism."

[Agnosticsherbet]

10. Romney argues both sides, and sometimes a third of every issue...

It is where ever the wind blows/


But it still isn't socialism, even if he deludes himself.

[One_Life_To_Give]

7. Fire Dept.

Most Fire Dept's don't send you a bill afterwards.

[HopeHoops]

8. Taking money from the proletariat and redistributing it to the top 1% - D'OH!

[madrchsod]

9. i declared bankruptcy 3 times because of medical debts

those debts occurred when i had insurance. i had a 25,000 dollar bill for a overnight stay in icu when i did`t have insurance. the hospital decided to write off the bill with their charity accountant.

[David Zephyr]

11. That's a very valid observation about Romney's "health plan"

I never it saw it that way, but it is exactly that and one of the reasons (there are a lot more) why health care costs are through the roof.

Instead of universal coverage and preventative care, we wind up with uninsured folks going to the emergency rooms, which thank goodness cannot turn them away.