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People Don't 'Die In Their Apartment Because They Don't Have Insurance'
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, who has pledged to repeal Obamacare, says that people without health insurance don't have to worry about dying as a result.
"We don't have people that become ill, who die in their apartment because they don't have insurance," Romney said in an interview with the Columbus Dispatch's editorial board on Wednesday.
In fact, more than 26,000 Americans died prematurely in 2010 because they lacked health insurance, according to a recent report by Families USA.
"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 added in the interview. "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."
Romney took a similar stance in an interview with CBS' "60 Minutes" in late September, when he said: "We do provide care for people who don't have insurance. If someone has a heart attack, they don't sit in their apartment and die. We pick them up in an ambulance, and take them to the hospital, and give them care."
Roughly 4 in 25 Americans, or nearly 49 million Americans, had no health insurance last year, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Repealing Obamacare would deny access to health insurance to about 30 million uninsured Americans who would have received it under health care reform.
Letting so many people go uninsured ultimately can cost both individuals and society. When people lack health insurance, their health worsens, and their health treatments become more expensive, research has found. People without health insurance also are in danger of facing massive medical bills, debt, and bankruptcy if they get sick or injured.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/11/mitt-romney-health-insurance_n_1957419.html
"We don't have people that become ill, who die in their apartment because they don't have insurance," Romney said in an interview with the Columbus Dispatch's editorial board on Wednesday.
In fact, more than 26,000 Americans died prematurely in 2010 because they lacked health insurance, according to a recent report by Families USA.
"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 added in the interview. "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."
Romney took a similar stance in an interview with CBS' "60 Minutes" in late September, when he said: "We do provide care for people who don't have insurance. If someone has a heart attack, they don't sit in their apartment and die. We pick them up in an ambulance, and take them to the hospital, and give them care."
Roughly 4 in 25 Americans, or nearly 49 million Americans, had no health insurance last year, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Repealing Obamacare would deny access to health insurance to about 30 million uninsured Americans who would have received it under health care reform.
Letting so many people go uninsured ultimately can cost both individuals and society. When people lack health insurance, their health worsens, and their health treatments become more expensive, research has found. People without health insurance also are in danger of facing massive medical bills, debt, and bankruptcy if they get sick or injured.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/11/mitt-romney-health-insurance_n_1957419.html
Trying to Minimize a Crisis:
The Myth That the Uninsured Estimate is Overstated
http://news.wustl.edu/Documents/Uninsured-Myth.pdf
Describes who the uninsured are in this country.
The Myth That the Uninsured Estimate is Overstated
http://news.wustl.edu/Documents/Uninsured-Myth.pdf
Describes who the uninsured are in this country.
I was just thinking.If what Mitt Romney is saying is true, why did he pass Romneycare requiring all residents of his state to buy health insurance?
I'm not sure how they come up with those statistics. I would imagine the same way they come up with 47%. Its really not hard to imagine when you think how they even have statistics for how many sperm whales there are in any given location... They have statistics for absolutely everything these days.
In fact, more than 26,000 Americans died prematurely in 2010 because they lacked health insurance, according to a recent report by Families USA...How is it even possible to come up with this stat? So they have to intrview a family member who says, "he/she didn't go to the Dr because they didn't have insurance." People are unreliable.
The problem is as I see it when a person is ill they are not able to think clearly enough or muster the energy necessary to jump through the hoops of applying for charity care, getting referrals, finding the resources. They are sick and they often just stay sick and get sicker and die. The cost of the emergency interventions and bankruptcy etc, I believe would be higher than a health care plan.
I don't know what the statistics are on that but the ER's are full of people who are in critical need-someone is paying already, why not have a more efficient plan in place?
I don't know what the statistics are on that but the ER's are full of people who are in critical need-someone is paying already, why not have a more efficient plan in place?
He's so out of touch.
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