 | Blogs > jeffpilot > I Am Not The Barber Of Seville > McCain advisor's plan to reduce the number of uninsured Americans: Stop calling them "uninsured." |
|
|||
jeffpilot
8/28/2008 1:45 pm |
Nobody should be surprised by this. But the real news here is that inexplicably the great genius Goodman hasn't proposed using this measure to instantly reduce the number of American troops who have died in Bush's Iraq disaster to zero. That's right.... Stop calling the dead ones "dead." ------------------------------------------------- McCain Adviser's plan to reduce number of uninsured Americans: Stop calling them "uninsured." BUZZFLASH NEWS ALERT by Amy Weiss Not only are we a "nation of whiners" in a "mental recession," as McCain economic advisor Phil Gramm says we are, but also according to a different McCain adviser, those of us without health care coverage are NOT uninsured. John Goodman (not the dad on "Roseanne"), president of the right-wing think tank National Center for Policy Analysis and an architect of McCain's health care plan, thinks the health care problem in America is the Census Bureau's fault. The Dallas Morning News reported: 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." According to Mr. Goodman, only people who are denied care are truly uninsured -- everyone who gets care is effectively insured by some mechanism. "So instead of producing worthless statistics that people fling around in vacuous editorials and pointless debates, the Census Bureau should produce meaningful numbers, identifying all of the sources of funds people will draw on if they need medical care," he said. His comments came in anticipation of a report by the Census Bureau stating that 45.7 million Americans, or 15.3% of the population, were uninsured in 2007. On his blog, Mr. Goodman negated his own argument by insisting the McCain health plan would reduce the number of uninsured: "[T]he McCain plan would reduce the number of people who lack health insurance by more than half..." But nobody "lacks health insurance" because they can just go to the emergency room, so what's the point of McCain even having a health care plan? And better yet doesn't that make Goodman's job obsolete? If Liberals really hated America, we'd all vote Republican. |
||
8/30/2008 10:24 am |
Newday has it right. If you cannot pay at the E room the bill of an insured is padded. The end result is that hospitals have been closing E rooms and trama centers are vanishing. The end result is that our children will have to deliver newspapers to save up for their own eyeglasses. Here in California people are lining up around the block at clinics to qualifor for eyeglasses, false teeth and innoculations that used to be delivered to the poor in Mexico and India. What a shameful mess. Good blog JeffPilot.
| ||
8/29/2008 11:15 am |
ERs are for emergencies and an inefficient and expensive way to provide for anything else. Access to health care regardless of means, speaks to 'standard of living' and I wonder why this isn't a priority in a country that has one of the highest standards in the world.
| ||
8/29/2008 7:31 am |
It has amazed me for years that Americans aren't storming the Whitehouse and the Capitol Building over health care. Every other industrialized nation has universal health care that costs less per capita, and delivers better outcomes.
| ||
8/29/2008 12:48 am |
"Mental recession" is right...have to give the man credit for that...even if it does start with him. He obviously thinks it's a wonderful idea though...and some people...the ones who'll believe anything, rather than be bothered to think for themselves, will agree with him. I know there are still some sane people left in America, but are there enough?
| ||
 8/29/2008 12:44 am |
I think McCains economic advisors needs hire themselves advisors. I know people that have had to emergency room for treatment, and the hospital sends them a bill-health insurance or not.. If payment isn't made it turned over to a collection agency.. Special cases can taken care of by hospital or State government, and yes, it passed on to paying people.. Somebody going to have to pay for health care, nothing is free.. Peace and happiness+Positive attitude Treasure what you Have.
| ||
8/28/2008 6:06 pm |
straight talk express vs bullchit express, fasttalk express? either way you look at it ,,,your wallet's gonna bear the brunt
| ||
8/28/2008 4:40 pm |
since shrub's underlings have been manipulating and lying about the unemployment figures for years, this would come as no surprise...
| ||
8/28/2008 3:14 pm |
Jeff: my biggest fear is vote fraud....again....
| ||
8/28/2008 3:12 pm |
And those emergency room bills are passed on to all Americans who have health insurance, while the health insurance companies keep raising premiums and lowering benefits to compensate for nonpayment of the emergency room bills. People who cannot afford health insurance can't afford to pay a $5000.00 visit to the emergency room. Soon, health insurance companies and hospitals will be bankrupt and every American will just go to the emergency room and it will all be free, right? 
| ||
 |
 |
 |
| Become a member to comment on this blog | ||
 |
