So, Mitt says.."Uninsured can go to the emergancy room." Same as George Bush..

[Stuart G]

What a bunch of fools and selfish assholes..The single most expensive way to care for people, and they suggest it. Why?
To help the poor insurance comanpies. Single payer is so much more efficent and less expensive . And single payer will save lives and catch diseases long before the emergancy room.
.. Let Mitt go to the emergancy room. These people don't care about anyone but themselves. This defines it.

[tanyev]

1. Yeah, they do a great job of treating cancer in the ER.

[sarge43]

5. Right. The local ER did a bang up job fixing my crumpling hip joints.

Couple of aspirin, razor blade and chain saw, some re-bar and tennis balls, back on the streets.

As only Tommy Lee can do it.

[gollygee]

2. They still bill you if you go to the emergency room

They have to accept you if you can pay or not, but even if you can't pay, they'll bill you, and at expensive emergency room rates, and that debt will follow you forever. Not a good solution.

[Brickbat]

3. When/where did he say this?

[sammytko]

4. On 60 Minutes interview

[spanone]

6. mourning joe showed a clip of romney on their show saying exactly the opposite....not long ago

this man has no position on any subject

or i should say he has many positions on any given subject

[annabanana]

7. disgusting. . . . .n/t

[SammyWinstonJack]

8. Are there no workhouses? Are there no prisons? Let them die and decrease the surplus population.

The Rmoneys are vile creaturesl.

[HopeHoops]

9. I've GOT insurance (fairly good, too) and I STILL get the bills for emergency room visits.

And they turn the damn things over to collections if you're 30 days late. Insurance and health care should NOT be for-profit industries!

[bluethruandthru]

10. Exactly! No one's health care should be viewed through the "for profit" looking glass! n/t

[HopeHoops]

18. What really pisses me off is the quotas for tests (like MRIs) to cover the cost of them.

There's so much unnecessary testing because of that ROI thing. If one hospital gets a fancy machine, the one down the road has to get one too. Wouldn't it be cheaper just to run an ambulance shuttle down to the one that already has the machine? (In best John Belushi voice) "But NOOOOOOooooo". The irony is that most MRI and CT tubes are operated by the same people in multiple locations and sublet by the same company in multiple hospitals. I know because I look closely at the bills. But the hospitals have to pay for the equipment and they can only do that by using quotas.

And people wonder why healthcare is so expensive. I think it's rather obvious.

[Courtesy Flush]

11. Wait! I can get a new prosthetic leg in the ER?

That's certainly great news. I'm an amputee, and I've been buying insurance all these years for naught!

Even better news: My wife can just drop into the ER to get her cancer treatment. And my father was diagnosed with lung cancer in August, and will have half his lung removed next week. I didn't realize he could have just gone to the ER. Thanks Mitt!

And that's just me and my family.

[Courtesy Flush]

12. Will they provide a dressage horse in the ER?

I'm asking for an MS patient I know.

[uponit7771]

13. You can NOT get kemo treatments in the ER nor back decompression or shit like that...

...I wonder why the people who ask these questions don't have a well thought out response to this BS

[progressivebydesign]

14. Not mention the Taxpayers and Insured pick up the costs for that!!

It should piss the republican voters off, because this is why our premiums are so damn high. people don't have access to regular care, so they wait until it's worse and then they have to go to ER OR they use it like a primary care doctor taking their kids in for earaches.. to the tune of thousands of dollars. The visits are paid for by everyone else. Romney is such an idiot. the media should be all over that.

[99Forever]

15. AS Alan Grayson so elegantly put it:

""If you get sick in America, this is what the Republicans want you to do: If you get sick America, the Republican health care plan is this: Die quickly," he said. "That's right, the Republicans want you to die quickly if you get sick."

[Stuart G]

16. Yep...Republicans hate people who dont have insurance..as they hate us.

Grayson said it all. These people are selfish beyond belief. Going to the ER can be the worst idea, especially if it is preventive care..
You just wont do it. Preventive care gets puts aside, if you have no insurance, then problems can become acute, then it is too late..

..It is their fall back place..go to ER..nothing else...Fuck You to those uninsured.
Exactly the same as the 47% statement..

[sabrina 1]

17. You get an even bigger bill if you go to the ER. Republicans always try to make it seem

that the ER is free. It is NOT free. Not to mention that all they can do there if you have no coverage, is stabilize you. Then you are on your own only with a bill you didn't have before going there. Which is why many people put off going to Emergency, because they do not want a bill they cannot pay.

This adds to the cost of HC as people who could be treated early end up becoming more sick and needing far more treatment than they would have in the beginning.

We definitely do not need someone whose math is this bad, running our economy.