Oh what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practise to deceive!
~Sir Walter Scott
This is how it works when you campaign for the presidency without a single core conviction in one’s empty, soulless being.
When they show up at the hospital, they get care. They get free care paid for by you and me. If that’s not a form of socialism, I don’t know what is. So my plan did something quite different. It said, you know what? If people can afford to buy insurance … or if they can pay their own way, then they either buy that insurance or pay their own way, but they no longer look to government to hand out free care. And that, in my opinion, is ultimate conservatism.
Free emergency health care is a “form of socialism” and the individual mandate is “ultimate conservatism.” Got it.
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.
Okay. Mitt is keeping to his story. Emergency room health care: BAD. Personal responsibility: GOOD.
So let’s see what he had to say when asked the following question by 60 Minutes: “Does the government have a responsibility to provide health care to the fifty million Americans who don’t have it today?”
Well, we do provide care for people who don’t have insurance, people—we—if someone has a heart attack, they don’t sit in their apartment and and die. We pick them up in an ambulance, and take them to the hospital, and give them care. And different states have different ways of providing for that care.
And the web gets a little more tangled with each passing day.
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I am not in a swing state, but I try to keep up with the political ads. I am waiting for the “Romney Debates Romney” ad, where they play all these reversals of his. Or call it “The human Windsock” ad and give Mario credit…
It is stunning when you look at all the positions he has changed, not by nuance, but by 180 degrees. When I saw this interview last night I just laughed. The most expensive way to treat patients with no insurance is in the emergency room, dumbshit. That is why we need national healthcare.
The funniest part is that he doesn’t even know he is floundering.
Mitt Romney is the biggest embarrassment in the history of presidential candidates.
I enjoyed watching him squirm last night and try his best to put his best foot forward and not in his mouth.
He reminds me of a shifty, slick, snake oil salesman! LOL
Why in the world can’t more of the voters see through Romney’s shape shifting? With Bill Kristol and Peggy Noonan telling them they still won’t see it.
If after a trip to the ER, you are diagnosed with possible liver or kidney disease, or diabetes, cancer or another devastating medical illness, THERE IS NOT A DOCTOR IN THE WORLD WHO WILL TREAT YOU WITHOUT RECEIVING PAYMENT FOR HIS SERVICES. A emergency, they will take care of, an illness is a death sentence.
Cathy,
Mitt Romney is the biggest embarrassment in the history of presidential candidates
W Bush is the biggest embarrassment in the history of presidents
Republicans 2012 are the biggest embarrassment in the history of political parties.
Any questions ? Can we have a real conservative party that can work on a nonpartisan basis ?
A bunch of poets, and I didn’t even know it.
Mighty fine, very funny poem, Rebecca. I can’t wait to share it with my husband. I Love it!
And E.A. That was right on, too.
Also, we have 3 feral cats, and they are friends for life. But I still love dogs too.
:)
What? How did my comment post twice? My first comment never made it through, so I thought. My computer shows both comments, but separately. How did that work?
Janet, I only see two posts for you and they are different.
dinamic, well the two above are, lol. I did the first above comment on the second try. What’s weird is I show my actual first comment went through, but it doesn’t show here. It shows in the same blog post but without the poet and didn’t know it. How funny. I dunno, just weird.