Republican Talking Point: All Americans Have Health Care

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http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/7/21/755955/-Republican-TP:-all-Americans-have-health-care.(Rant-ON)

MR. GREGORY: Do you think it's a moral issue that 47 million Americans go without health insurance?

SEN. McCONNELL: Well, they don't go without health care. It's not the most efficient way to provide it. As we know, the doctors in the hospitals are sworn to provide health care. We all agree it is not the most efficient way to provide health care to find somebody only in the emergency room and then pass those costs on to those who are paying for insurance

[KharmaTrain]

1. Pruneface Needs To Spend A Night In An Ambutol...

or any other ER where the uninsured get their "quality" medical care. He should spend a night at County (not Stroger) Hospital in Chicago and see all the very sick people who wait for the few doctors who can treat them, but not much else.

Yep, Mitchie, doctors are required to care for the sick...it's called the Hypocratic Oath...but the Hospitals don't. This is called the Hypocrisy Oath. Once these people are treated...many stop-gap...they're shown the door only to return in worse condition...and whose paying for that Mitchie? Surely not the rushpublicans whose tax breaks to the rich under boooshie all but killed public funding on the local level for health care. It sure isn't the inurance companies who throw millions at his tobacco stained fingers...who will find reasons NOT to insure.

47 Million people need to see this bullshit and get them pissed off. For a decent healthcare package to become a reality, we're going to have to push back against the lobbyists and get in our Congresscritters faces...early, often and repeat.

Cheers...

[Warpy]

3. Don't knock the county hospital

I chose to go there 2 weeks ago because I knew I was in real trouble. My care was great by a unionized staff and I'd certainly go there again. The bill for a couple of days in ICU and a couple of days in a stepdown is not great, but nobody will write me an insurance policy so I'm stuck with it.

However, had I not inherited wisely 3 years ago, I'd now be saddled with a crippling debt and possibly be facing a lien on my home and/or garnishment of my wages.

Yes, we uninsured can get health care, but the price we pay for it is the loss of every single thing we've worked for. It really is highway robbery, "your money or your life, sucker." Sadly, people decide to die at the rate of 20,000 a year rather than push their families into desperate poverty over medical bills.

That's the problem, a terrible "choice" between getting care and remaining financially viable and that's what fat, rich GOP Congressmen will never get.

[Wapsie B]

2. Yeah Mitch, instead of the evil guvmnt taxing to pay for healthcare

we already pay for it in the form of skyrocketing premiums.

[roseBudd]

4. ERs are required to stabilize, they are not required to treat

[zbdent]

5. and weren't Repugs against making the Drs. being sworn to provide health care?

[Sparkly]

6. So people can go in for check-ups and get, say, meds for cholesterol and high blood pressure

No -- but they can go in once they've had a heart attack. How cost-savingly efficient, not to mention moral.