A Lying Sack of Shit doubles down: ‘We Don’t Have People Who Die Because They Don’t Have Insurance’

[trailmonkee]

...and the people of our country think this is so awesome.... we might just elect him President?

from an article this morning:

Mitt Romney doubled down on his suggestion that uninsured Americans can find the care they need in emergency rooms, telling The Dispatch that people will always receive the treatment they need, and do not die or suffer because they can not pay for care. He pointed to federal law that requires hospitals to admit emergency patients, repeating his advice that patients rely on the most expensive form of care reserved strictly for emergencies. Romney told the Columbus Dispatch:

  “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,” he said as he offered more hints as to what he would put in place of “Obamacare,” which he has pledged to repeal.

“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.”

the article here: http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/10/11/990281/romney-uninsured-hospital/

[porphyrian]

1. Someone that out of touch clearly should not be our President. n/t

[OldDem2012]

2. What a stupid SOB...he has absolutely no clue how the real world works. nt.

[Scuba]

3. Yeah, except for the 26,000 a year that do...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/101632686

[MadrasT]

4. Oh my God this makes me angry.

How in the name of FUCK can he be that clueless?

[City Lights]

5. How can one propose solutions when one doesn't understand the problem?

He should be called out on this every time one of his spokespeople appears on teevee. Smack him down. Hard.

[Johonny]

6. This is so delusionally mean and out of touch it is hard to believe

At least W would lie to you in a nice friendly way. Romney is such an *.

[reformist2]

10. Our economic system rewards these kind of sociopaths... that's why we're even talking about him.

[reformist2]

7. Wow. This is how Mitt got rich in a nutshell... by being a complete a*******.

[TwilightGardener]

8. WTF? It's not "paid for" when you have no insurance and go

to the hospital anyway. YOU pay for it with the funds you may or may not have, you stupid lying jackass. Does he think that just because the hospital will treat you, that you end up not having to pay the bill? Does he understand how health care works?

[99Forever]

9. And in other breaking news...

... water is wet.

[meadowlark5]

11. Sure, you can go to the ER with a heart attack - that's an emergency

But what about cancer? It's not like a person with cancer without health insurance can go to the emergency room for chemotherapy treatments. No doctor or health facility is going to take on the treatment of cancer without financial reimbursement.

That is the STUPIDEST thing anyone could say! A heart attack is one thing, cancer, autoimmune disease like MS or Lupus are far different and not emergency situations that can be treated in an ER.

[The Magistrate]

12. Roughly Forty Thousands A Year, Sir, Die Of The Consequences Of Lacking Insurance

That is about a hundred and ten to a hundred fifteen of our fellow Americans each and every single day....

"Romney loves America like a tick loves a dog."

[HopeHoops]

13. Yo, Mittster, you want to pick up the tab for my hospital bills in collections?

[treestar]

14. Mittwit does not appear to even know that the bill is still there

and is a frequent cause of bankruptcies.

We all then pay for it indirectly, since the hospitals know this is going to happen.

At least Obamacare would keep track of it and account for it.

[frostfern]

15. ugh

According to repuke's needing "government healthcare" to prevent you from dying of cancer is akin to needing government to buy you a big screen TV. Health care is a commodity to be bought and sold on the market, just like a big screen TV. If you're poor and are mad that rich CEOs and corporations don't want to pay to keep you alive you're "entitled".

It's funny how the confucks have turned that word into such a negative. Seems to me it has no rational merit and is just a tool meant to humiliate and deride people and tell them "stay in your place" even if it means dying. After all, in the repugnican mind there is no bigger insult to the ego than to be "dependent on government". I think a lot of liberals don't really understand that repugnican propaganda message is all about pride and ego. I see a lot of duped timid people gravitate towards the republican way of thinking because they don't want to be labelled "dependent on government" or be thought of as a "free-loader". It's a slave/submission mentality. Of course there are the actual greedy selfish fucks who really don't care one way or another, but I don't think these are the majority of repuke voters. Most are just scared and have a slave mentality where they are shamed into voting against their interest. That's the only way you can explain how a decent "47%"er can vote for a assholes like Mittens and Ryan who disparage them and call them "victims who think they are entitled to things".

So there you have it. Poor repugnican voters are basically bullied by real-life trolls like Mittens and Ryan. Only instead of being angered by the bully they submit and join forces to save themselves from an injured ego. Thinking you have the right to live is an insult and a source of shame. Poor repugnican voters are terrified of being labelled "free-loaders" and thus respond by supporting our inhumane system and just tell themselves if they are honest and work hard they will one day have enough money that medical bankruptcy or other circumstances beyond their control can't destroy their life. Unfortunately they will not change their thinking until bad shit happens to them.