Do they listen to themselves?

[pecunium]

My previous political post is spinning off to a discussion of healthcare.

Which makes the comments of McCain's campaign advisor on healthcare in this article all the more fitting to the present..

But the numbers are misleading, said John Goodman, president of the National Center for Policy Analysis, a right-leaning Dallas-based think tank. Mr. Goodman, who helped craft Sen. John McCain's health care policy, said anyone with access to an emergency room effectively has insurance, albeit the government acts as the payer of last resort. (Hospital emergency rooms by law cannot turn away a patient in need of immediate care.)

"So I have a solution. And it will cost not one thin dime," Mr. Goodman said. "The next president of the United States should sign an executive order requiring the Census Bureau to cease and desist from describing any American – even illegal aliens – as uninsured. Instead, the bureau should categorize people according to the likely source of payment should they need care.

"So, there you have it. Voila! Problem solved."

It's so nice to know I was insured when I had a kidney stone and the hospital billed me $8,000. I wasn't actually facing bankruptcy... I was insured.

Moron. He's just annoyed that Texas is reported as having a economy which is growing, while the number of insured people is shrinking.

Lies, damned lies, and statistics.

Comments

[don-fitch.livejournal.com]

Excellent title for this post.

But Mr. Goodman didn't get where he is by being stupid, or a moron, so the only conclusion I can reach is that he knows what he's saying and is being deliberately and maliciously dishonest -- he's not fooling himself, but apparently thinks he can fool other people, or at least enough of them to get his Candidate elected. I can only hope he's as far from correct in this as he is with his idea that the use of Emergency Rooms is viable (economically or medically) for anything but Last Resort medication.

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

I leave open the possibility that McCain (or his handlers) intend to lose so that Obama can be stuck with the mess.

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

That's what Jerry Pournelle was saying last New Year's. Not Obama, but the Dems.

And that the stink of that would so taint them they couldn't be in charge again for at least fifty years.

Sigh. Because that means he's drunk the Kool-aid whole hog, and is blaming it all on Georgie, rather than seeing the systemic flaws in the present Republican Party.

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

I think being clever and smart, don't exuse him from being a moron.

Because saying the answer to the problem is to tell people they are insured, when; as rivka says they are only guaranteed not to die from immediate threat, is moronic.

It's not good for the country. 1798 taught these people nothing.