For once, I agree with Mitt:
"I don't want the people who ran the Katrina cleanup to manage our health care system."
The GOP was in charge of the Katrina recovery effort. As expected, they did a horrible job: when someone openly claims they don't trust the government to work, it makes little sense to put them in charge of running it.
What's more, Romney said something else equally prescient:
"No more free rides," he said. "Everybody pays what they can afford."
Right. I sure think insurance companies could afford to pay for more "medical losses" (e.g., necessary medical procedures). Let's start with them.
But in all seriousness, props to the Edwards campaign for the rapid response, ripping apart Romney's pathetic excuse for a healthcare fix:
Edwards said in a statement released by his campaign the tax cuts proposed by Romney would primarily benefit the wealthy and the healthy, and that "taking money away from emergency rooms is downright dangerous."
"Mitt Romney's cure is worse than the disease," the former North Carolina senator said.
Every weekend, I work in a blood pressure and diabetes screening clinic. I know what it's like for people not to have insurance: It's downright depressing to see the same poor and sometimes homeless people come to our clinic to get their blood pressure and blood sugars checked. Most of the time they are coming not so much for the blood pressure/sugar measurements, but for the free food or to talk to the attending doctor about some completely unrelated health problem they have. If you can hardly afford your next meal, a tax break isn't going to do squat to get you health insurance.