From today’s Columbus Dispatch:
Romney minimized the harm for Americans left without health insurance.
“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.’ 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.”
From Kaiser Family Foundation:
- Uninsured people are more likely to have advanced stage cancers and twice as likely to die of their cancers
- Uninsured people with heart attacks are much more likely to die of their heart attack
- Uninsured people with pneumonia are much more likely to die of their pneumonia
- Uninsured people are more likely to die, period
I could go on, but you get the picture. Could someone provide the Governor with correct information?
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October 11, 2012 at 9:16 pm
Sheri Hewitt
Uninsured people do not go to the doctor or take their children to the doctor until they think it is ‘really serious’…by then it probably is.
October 11, 2012 at 9:58 pm
FP Doc
“The immediate goal is to make sure there are more people on private insurance plans. I mean, people have access to health care in America,” he said. “After all, you just go to an emergency room.”
George W Bush
Sound Familiar ?
October 12, 2012 at 2:09 am
Joshua Freeman
re: Mr Romney’s running mate in the debate tonight:
Why not, asks Martha Radetz, not gradually raise the Medicare eligibility age, say by 2 years as Congressman Ryan suggests?
Can I take that, Martha?
Because every day, both as a doctor and a person who has friends and neighbors, I see people who are 63 and 64 holding on and hoping they don’t get too sick before they turn 65 and get Medicare. And sometimes, of course, it doesn’t work. Like my neighbor, who at 64 years and 9 months, ended up with a bad urinary infection from an enlarged prostate that led to sepsis and a stay in the intensive care unit, and a heck of a hospital bill which cut into his retirement plans. If we raise Medicare eligibility to 67, we’ll have more people, holding on for longer, and not making it, and getting sick, and maybe dying or maybe going broke.
I have a better idea, Martha. Let’s lower the Medicare eligibility age. To, say, 0. Birth. Everyone in. Everyone covered. And everyone with a stake in making sure it stays solvent and provides high quality and reasonable cost.
Let’s try that.