Thursday, August 28, 2008

The Dallas Morning News by way of TPM:

McCain's campaign seems to think that the easiest way to make sure everybody has health insurance is to tell the census department to stop listing people as "uninsured," because at the end of the day they can always go to the emergency room:

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


Why stop there? It seems like we could solve lots of problems this way. Eliminate the penal code, and the crime rate drops to zero! End welfare benefits, and nobody's on welfare anymore! Don't publish a "poverty line" and nobody's poor!

Voila! Problems solved.

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