Say What?
In case you're wondering here are Mr. Romney's exact words about the uninsured:“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.”
Yes, you can go to the emergency room. Just don't expect to get dialysis. Of course, you can always go to there if you have a hankerin' to die of neglect.
The sad fact is that 26,000 to 45,000 people die each year from a lack of health care. The Affordable Care Act will help to reduce that but not if Mr. Romney gets his hands on it.
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Kerry Lauerman
Joan Walsh
Salon.com
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You can't even get an appointment to see a doctor without insurance - shit, they ask you on the phone BEFORE you get an appointment!
Shit, we wouldn't see daylight if sunshine cost the wealthy something!
:-) . r
Here's the best part, though - guess how much power President Romney would have to repeal the ACA?
It's about the same power he would have to randomly repeal any law currently on the books - ZERO.
(your cartoon was funny, though.)
the republicans don't have to win every election. winning half is good enough to achieve their goals. which is why america still doesn't have universal health cover.
ya know...'cause obama is a shitty public speaker and horrible at motivating people with his oration.