The Death Ticket: Mitt Romney's Emergency Room Lie Outed By The Mitt Romney Campaign
by Tommy Christopher
On Saturday morning's Up with Chris Hayes, titular host Chris Hayes laudably focused on a story that's been inexcusably buried by the political media this week: Republican candidate Mitt Romney's contention that no one dies from a lack of health insurance because there are Emergency Rooms. In his "Now We Know" segment, Hayes simultaneously called Romney out and gave him too much credit, saying "Mitt Romney doesn't know what he's talking about with respect to the deadly consequences of being uninsured."
Mitt Romney knows, and I can prove it. Whether or not he cares is another matter.
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Romney actually made a remarkably similar statement in a 60 Minutes interview last month, right down to the “apartment” that he imagines the uninsured must live in, but in that interview, he stopped short of explicitly saying that nobody dies from a lack of health insurance.
To paraphrase my friend Cenk Uygur, of coooourse people die from a lack of health insurance. Lawrence O’Donnell did an excellent segment last night on Romney’s most recent iteration of his ER health care plan, along with Sister Simone Campbell, giving examples of people who have done just that, and pointing out the many other things that are wrong with what Romney said (it’s not free, or even pad for by charity, etc: they will sue you into bankruptcy). O’Donnell also had some tape of Romney’s old nemesis, Mitt Romney From The Past, explaining the folly of such a system, but in economic terms.
Chris Hayes also pointed out how wrong Romney is, citing a study that puts annual deaths due to a lack of health insurance at 45,000, but really, in a moral society, that number ought to be zero. However, he also made the mistake of crediting Mitt Romney with being merely ignorant (if willfully so), and not a soulless monster:
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/the-death-ticket-mitt-romneys-emergency-room-lie-outed-by-the-mitt-romney-campaign/
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