I wonder why the Obama Campaign hasn't made health care an issue yet. Maybe they're saving it for the final two months - or much like the McCain "I don't know how many houses I have gaffe" they're just looking for the right time to pounce.

Revealing and embarrassing, yes, but it's a lot easier to throw an unpaid so-called advisor overboard than Phil Gramm.  Watch for the splash.

This is the McCain-Bush health plan!

Bush last year: "I mean, people have access to health care in America. After all, you just go to an emergency room."

http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/11414.html

There you have it, the proposed domestic policy of the McCain Campaign, "don't tell us about lies or damn lies, we have statistics!" I'm already imagining the revolutionary new ways he'd use to solve unemployment, income disparity, discrimination, educational underachievement, heck - even incarceration rates!

I suddenly realize how McCain will balance the budget... he'll just have the GAO filled with hacks who cook the books and then lay off the rest of the federal branch. Oh, except for Homeland Security and the Military... he'll need them to keep down social dissidents (aka pinko commie liberals).

As a surgeon, I can tell you that the care you receive on an emergency basis in an emergency room is not the same as real medical insurance. There's no such thing as emergency chemotherapy, for instance, or emergency mammograms. There's no emergency health screening, or emergency vaccines. Patients without insurance get palliative care, not health care. If you show up to the ER with cancer, you get pain pills.

I see... so instead of addressing the problem we sweep it under the carpet by ignoring and suppressing the statistics. Fascinating. Either claim there isn't a problem (economy) or hide it. McPTSD's lunacy must be contagious, because everyone around him is nuts too.

"All of the funds" - as in, if you have to go on your bended knees to your in-laws or some other family member and beg for help? That counts - ?

Holy shit - that has to have pissed off Parkland Memorial Hospital more than I can say - that's our county hospital in Dallas and it is slammed with people using it as a clinic.

Slammed.

Holy f#ck!

I get what he's trying to say -- that if someone with high blood pressure falls on the floor with a heart attack, they'll be taken to a hospital somewhere -- but the fact that someone would seriously articulate this in response to a question about healthcare is mindboggling. It's not just the lack of preventative care driving up health care costs for the entire nation (which is a very valid criticism). It's the fact that anyone who's hospitalized without health insurance may as well sign over the deed to his house and car to that hospital. Medical costs are the leading reason for bankruptcy in this country. Not to mention that health care is so costly that many small businesses simply can't afford to offer it to their employees.

The only reasons that these guys wouldn't get this is because they're very happy with the quality of healthcare that they can afford, and could give a damn about the rest of the peons in this nation. Just more countryclub economics. Of course, that's not elitism as long as it's coming from a Republican.

Oh, my f*cking god.

Obama's going to win.