Steele’s health plan:"Do the deal. It’s not that complicated"."Hello?! Am I missing something here?"

[sarah553807]

While hosting Bill Bennett’s radio show this morning, RNC Chairman Michael Steele fearmongered about a government-run “health police” that would force Americans to get their annual physicals. The way to solve the health care crisis, Steele said in another portion of the show, is “not that complicated”: All we have to do is “figure out who” doesn’t have access to health care, “and give them access!”

STEELE: So if it’s a cost problem, it’s easy: Get the people in a room who have the most and the most direct impact on cost, and do the deal. Do the deal. It’s not that complicated.

If it’s an access question, people don’t have access to health care, then figure out who they are, and give them access! Hello?! Am I missing something here? If my friend Trevor has access to health care, and I don’t, why do I need to overhaul the entire system so I can get access he already has? why don’t you just focus on me and get me access?

This man is a blithering idiot


http://thinkprogress.org/2009/06/19/steele-health-hello/#comments">Thin Progress

[rockymountaindem]

1. Sounds like he's advocating for single-payer

Otherwise, the thing he's missing is the fact that if the "free market" solution could find a way to make a profit off the currently uninsured, they would be doing it already. Since they can't find a way to make money off of those people, they get bupkis.

[Raine1967]

3. He doesn't know what he is advocating.

He wouldn't know single payer from the the public option -- he really has no clue about ANY of it. The man was rambling on with NO idea what he was talking about.

Steele, much like the entire GOP -- are advocating nothing. They have no idea what they are talking about, Because, quite simply, they like things just the way they are.

[Kingofalldems]

2. Health Savings Accounts? Repubs love those totally useless

plans. I would imagine some fake Democrat blue dogs like them also.

[LiberalFighter]

6. That's because it was advocated by a Hoosier scumbag insurance guy named J Patrick Rooney.

United Health bought out Rooney's Golden Rule.

[Arkana]

4. What if you can't afford your friend Trevor's health care, Mr. Steele?

[Rosa Luxemburg]

5. Keep it coming Mr Steele!

the man is clueless