March 5, 2010

This is what Mitt Romney said about emergency rooms on a TV show, March 4, 2010:

“Oh, sure. Look, it doesn't make a lot of sense for us to have millions and millions of people who have no health insurance and yet who can go to the emergency room and get entirely free care for which they have no responsibility, particularly if they are people who have sufficient means to pay their own way. “

http://www.end-on-end.com/post/426613078/oh-sure-look-it-doesnt-make-a-lot-of-sense-for

http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/mitt-romney-calls-emergency-rooms-entirely

Must Romney be excused because he is rich or just plain dumb?

All emergency rooms bill for their services... they bill you when you arrive, get it from the government or write it off as a loss. In the end, everyone pays for expensive ER care.

It is better to create a system that allows everyone to see a regular doctor and not the one in an ER. This will keep costs down and open up ER beds for those who have a condition requiring emergency care.

People like Romney can pay their way and don't understand because of ignorance, willful or otherwise. They see the ER situation as a simplistic and one dimensional problem and don't see how and why ER visits are part of what drives up health care costs for everyone because there is no free health care.

They don't care because they can afford any type of care they want while everyone else picks up the tab in higher insurance premiums.