I sense another out of touch ad coming:
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.”
So the guy who crafted John McCain’s health care plan is saying that effectively, everyone is already insured, and the way to eliminate the “uninsured” is to just stop counting them as uninsured.
Well, isn’t that nice. While we’re at it, we can eliminate poverty just by stopping counting poverty figures, and we can eliminate job losses by refusing to record the unemployment rate too.
