SoxFan
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Thu Aug-28-08 05:51 PM
Original message |
Welcome to Bizzaro World: McCain's plan for the uninsured |
|
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."http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/bus/stories/DN-Uninsured_27bus.ART.State.Edition2.4dce428.html:wtf:
|
redwitch
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Thu Aug-28-08 05:53 PM
Response to Original message |
1. Click your heels 3 times and say "I have insurance". |
mucifer
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Thu Aug-28-08 05:53 PM
Response to Original message |
2. Wow cool ! Screw this Obama guy I'm gonna vote mccain and get some healthcare! |
|
:rofl:
are people that stupid? Oh never mind.
|
Bluerthanblue
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Thu Aug-28-08 05:54 PM
Response to Original message |
3. somehow I don't think they'll be doin |
|
chemo through the Emergency room.
Mr.Goodman needs a personal reality check.
|
DefenseLawyer
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Thu Aug-28-08 05:55 PM
Response to Original message |
4. Autism? Cancer? HIV? Head over to the E.R.! |
|
Do we have to do everything for you people? What a nation of whiners.
|
Cleita
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Thu Aug-28-08 05:55 PM
Response to Original message |
5. So when is the last time that you went to the ER to ask for a yearly physical |
|
Edited on Thu Aug-28-08 05:55 PM by Cleita
and a mammogram and pap smear?
|
vixengrl
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Thu Aug-28-08 05:56 PM
Response to Original message |
6. "Not cost one thin dime" to whom? |
|
Does that guy think that idea would play really well with emergency room doctors and nurses, or hospital dminitrators, or that over-crowded emergency rooms are a plan? Is he too dumb to realize that preventative and mainenance health care are cheaper than the intensive care required in a true emergency?
And this is the kind of dumbass McCain has on his team. His pack of advisors is like this shed where each tool is duller than the last.
|
kitkat65
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Thu Aug-28-08 05:57 PM
Response to Original message |
7. So that means I should go the the ER to get my cholesterol levels checked? |
|
Since I've been putting it off for over a year because I can't afford my $5,000 deductible along with my $330/mo. premium.
|
Cleita
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Thu Aug-28-08 06:10 PM
Response to Reply #7 |
10. Trust me. The first thing they ask for is your insurance cards. If you |
|
don't have any, then they ask you for money up front first before you ever get to see a doctor. Been there.
|
SoxFan
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Thu Aug-28-08 06:00 PM
Response to Original message |
|
McCan't actually takes this guy seriously. That's downright frightening.
|
pnwmom
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Thu Aug-28-08 06:09 PM
Response to Original message |
9. Which means that the real back-up plan is BANKRUPTCY. |
|
Because the hospitals will BILL for emergency room care. And the only way for more and more people to get out from under medical bills is by declaring bankruptcy.
|
BrklynLiberal
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Thu Aug-28-08 06:20 PM
Response to Original message |
11. Bizzarre is definitely the operative word here... |
justgamma
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Thu Aug-28-08 06:27 PM
Response to Original message |
|
Nevermind the bill collectors who will hound you to death. Then they garnish your wages, so you can't afford your house payment. Then they repossess your home or if your a renter they kick you out. Of course, there is always the tried and true coffee can on the grocery store counters, asking for donations. Your family can have a bake sale.
This is the greatest health care system in the world according to the pukes.
Oh and BTW, McSame better not talk about healthcare since he's had government healthcare his whole freakin' life.
|
mzmolly
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Thu Aug-28-08 06:30 PM
Response to Original message |
13. Likely source of payment? Is Cindy McCain planning to pay for those without insurance? |
DU
AdBot (1000+ posts) |
Sun May 05th 2024, 09:01 PM
Response to Original message |