Mitt Romney's Hospital Comment 'Frightening' To Uninsured Woman

[Lakhota]

By Arthur Delaney

Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney says that thanks to hospitals, Americans who lack health insurance don't have it so bad.

"We don't have a setting across this country where if you don't have insurance, we just say to you, 'Tough luck, you're going to die when you have your heart attack,'" Romney told The Columbus Dispatch on Wednesday, explaining why repealing President Obama's health care reform law would not result in catastrophe for sick people who can't buy insurance.

"No, you go to the hospital, you get treated, you get care, and it's paid for, either by charity, the government or by the hospital," Romney continued. "We don't have people that become ill, who die in their apartment because they don't have insurance."

Lianne Valenti said she finds Romney's comment "frightening."

Valenti, who is 47 and lives in Long Beach, Calif., knows what Romney's talking about better than Romney does, thanks to firsthand experience. She lost her job last year, and her health insurance along with it. In the fall, she started feeling mild chest pains. Researching online, she figured the problem was gallstones. She tried cheap alternative remedies instead of going to the doctor.

The spasms of pain got worse and worse, until one night in January it became unbearable. "I was sitting here in my chair and it lasted for two hours," Valenti told The Huffington Post at the time. "It was all I could do to breathe. I couldn't open my eyes."

She had a friend take her to the hospital, where she said doctors told her she'd suffered a heart attack and almost died.

"If I had had my insurance I would have gone to the doctor in October," Valenti said. "The pain was unbearable. I've never had pain like that, and I've had three children."

She received a $79,000 bill, but she said the hospital has negotiated reasonably -- meaning it will eat some of the cost of her emergency treatment, and some of the cost will be passed along to other patients in the form of higher prices.

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[Lakhota]

Mitt Romney, On 60 Minutes, Cites Emergency Room As Health Care Option For Uninsured

 

[Political Junky]

Mitt Romney, On 60 Minutes, Cites Emergency Room As Health Care Option For Uninsured

In one of Willard's earlier incarnations he knew that the emergency room was the most expensive form of care.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

Lianne Valenti said she finds Romney's comment "frightening."

Valenti, who is 47 and lives in Long Beach, Calif., knows what Romney's talking about better than Romney does, thanks to firsthand experience. She lost her job last year, and her health insurance along with it. In the fall, she started feeling mild chest pains. Researching online, she figured the problem was gallstones. She tried cheap alternative remedies instead of going to the doctor.

She had a friend take her to the hospital, where she said doctors told her she'd suffered a heart attack and almost died.

An example of the republican ‘let them die’ healthcare ‘plan.’

 

[Obamanation]

I'm pretty sure it was Joe Biden who frightened women. All tho lastast polls are showing undecided female voters running to the right after Nasty Joe's debate.

 

[California Girl]

The Huff Puff.... see, this is why Lacking is stupid. It thinks the Huff Puff is credible.

 

[ScienceRocks]

When did the government start giving out free shit? What constitutional mandate. George Washington never presided over such.

 

[editec]

When did the government start giving out free shit? .

Back LOOOONG BEFORE you were probably born, Matthew.

The Hill Burton Act, which funded so many new hospitals back in the early 50's came included with provisions demanding that hospitals provide EMERGENCY SERVICE to people who need it regardless of their ability to pay.

So what you seem to be ascribing to creeping socialism came into being under the TRUMAN in 1946 and. please note that NOBODY IN THE RPUBLICAN PARTY complained that it was SOCIALISM until recently.

So what has really changed, Matt?

America or the GOP?

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

Mitt Romney's Hospital Comment 'Frightening' To Uninsured Woman

Romney’s idiotic comment should be frightening to everyone.

 

[Stephanie]

good grief, stupid

 

[RDD_1210]

The Huff Puff.... see, this is why Lacking is stupid. It thinks the Huff Puff is credible.

What's Huff Puff? If you don't spell out the full name correctly, your entire post is worthless.

Right?

 

[California Girl]

The Huff Puff.... see, this is why Lacking is stupid. It thinks the Huff Puff is credible.

What's Huff Puff? If you don't spell out the full name correctly, your entire post is worthless.

Right?

If you're too stupid to know, perhaps the discussion is too intelligent for you. Just sayin'.

 

[RDD_1210]

The Huff Puff.... see, this is why Lacking is stupid. It thinks the Huff Puff is credible.

What's Huff Puff? If you don't spell out the full name correctly, your entire post is worthless.

Right?

If you're too stupid to know, perhaps the discussion is too intelligent for you. Just sayin'.

That's a perfect response. Thank you. Maybe you could tell that same thing to this person who decided that the best reason she could come up with to ignore the question being asked was that her full name wasn't spelled out.

Hypocrites in action

Do you ever get tired of being exposed as a complete and utter hack? Why do you even post? You offer nothing and get trounced everytime you open your hypocritical mouth.

 

[California Girl]

What's Huff Puff? If you don't spell out the full name correctly, your entire post is worthless.

Right?

If you're too stupid to know, perhaps the discussion is too intelligent for you. Just sayin'.

That's a perfect response. Thank you. Maybe you could tell that same thing to this person who decided that the best reason she could come up with to ignore the question being asked was that her full name wasn't spelled out.

Hypocrites in action

Do you ever get tired of being exposed as a complete and utter hack? Why do you even post? You offer nothing and get trounced everytime you open your hypocritical mouth.

You apparently pay far more attention to me than I do to you. How sad for you. Personally, I rarely bother using the media - left or right - as 'evidence' of 'facts', because, it's not 'fact', it's opinion. You're welcome to carry on having your opinions fed to you by others, I prefer to think for myself.

And that's why I couldn't give a rat's ass what you 'think' of me, or whether you claim I get 'trounced'... it's fucking laughable that you do.

 

[Mad Scientist]

By Arthur Delaney

Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney says that thanks to hospitals, Americans who lack health insurance don't have it so bad.

"We don't have a setting across this country where if you don't have insurance, we just say to you, 'Tough luck, you're going to die when you have your heart attack,'" Romney told The Columbus Dispatch on Wednesday, explaining why repealing President Obama's health care reform law would not result in catastrophe for sick people who can't buy insurance.

"No, you go to the hospital, you get treated, you get care, and it's paid for, either by charity, the government or by the hospital," Romney continued. "We don't have people that become ill, who die in their apartment because they don't have insurance."

Lianne Valenti said she finds Romney's comment "frightening."

Valenti, who is 47 and lives in Long Beach, Calif., knows what Romney's talking about better than Romney does, thanks to firsthand experience. She lost her job last year, and her health insurance along with it. In the fall, she started feeling mild chest pains. Researching online, she figured the problem was gallstones. She tried cheap alternative remedies instead of going to the doctor.

The spasms of pain got worse and worse, until one night in January it became unbearable. "I was sitting here in my chair and it lasted for two hours," Valenti told The Huffington Post at the time. "It was all I could do to breathe. I couldn't open my eyes."

She had a friend take her to the hospital, where she said doctors told her she'd suffered a heart attack and almost died.

"If I had had my insurance I would have gone to the doctor in October," Valenti said. "The pain was unbearable. I've never had pain like that, and I've had three children."

She received a $79,000 bill, but she said the hospital has negotiated reasonably -- meaning it will eat some of the cost of her emergency treatment, and some of the cost will be passed along to other patients in the form of higher prices.

More: Mitt Romney's Hospital Comment 'Frightening' To Uninsured Woman

Reads like the typical fake planted story. A similar narrative is used in those "Oppressed Illegal Alien" stories.

 

[RDD_1210]

If you're too stupid to know, perhaps the discussion is too intelligent for you. Just sayin'.

That's a perfect response. Thank you. Maybe you could tell that same thing to this person who decided that the best reason she could come up with to ignore the question being asked was that her full name wasn't spelled out.

Hypocrites in action

Do you ever get tired of being exposed as a complete and utter hack? Why do you even post? You offer nothing and get trounced everytime you open your hypocritical mouth.

You apparently pay far more attention to me than I do to you. How sad for you. Personally, I rarely bother using the media - left or right - as 'evidence' of 'facts', because, it's not 'fact', it's opinion. You're welcome to carry on having your opinions fed to you by others, I prefer to think for myself.

And that's why I couldn't give a rat's ass what you 'think' of me, or whether you claim I get 'trounced'... it's fucking laughable that you do.

I always notice when people are raging hypocrites and completely full of themselves. Plus with amount of times you post it's impossible to ignore you.

I love that you "think for yourself" but have never once offered an original thought. You're the gift that keeps on giving.

 

[bitterlyclingin]

Mitt Romney frightens every member of the 47%. "We want our free stuff!!!!"
Their ancestors landed on these shores in answer to Liberty's siren call:
"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.."
But for some reason, once here, their children, and their children's children, metamorphosized into only a huddled mass yearning instead for a benevolent master.
Barack Obama was keenly aware of their burgeoning size and desires as early as 1998 at Loyola University when he said "The people receiving welfare and other forms of government largesse, along with the working poor, constitute a critical mass that if manipulated properly, could lead to the installation of a Liberal (read that as Communist, since Mr Obama's political leanings almost since birth have been well documented) at the head of Government and maintain him there for a considerable time."
Julius Caesar may have meant well when he conspired to consolidate Rome's power into his own hands, but his actions only succeeded in paving the road of inevitability to the rise of rulers like Nero and Caligula as well as Rome's eventual downfall. Likewise, with Mr Obama, who is by his own design with the current day's manifestations of bread and circuses, food stamps, cell phones, and contraceptive devices, paving America's road to an existence under the rule of similar tyrants and despots and its eventual destruction as well. The timeline to destruction may very well be different this time, since Attila has already placed members of his tribe of Huns into positions of power in our government.

 

[Noomi]

By Arthur Delaney

Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney says that thanks to hospitals, Americans who lack health insurance don't have it so bad.

"We don't have a setting across this country where if you don't have insurance, we just say to you, 'Tough luck, you're going to die when you have your heart attack,'" Romney told The Columbus Dispatch on Wednesday, explaining why repealing President Obama's health care reform law would not result in catastrophe for sick people who can't buy insurance.

"No, you go to the hospital, you get treated, you get care, and it's paid for, either by charity, the government or by the hospital," Romney continued. "We don't have people that become ill, who die in their apartment because they don't have insurance."

Lianne Valenti said she finds Romney's comment "frightening."

Valenti, who is 47 and lives in Long Beach, Calif., knows what Romney's talking about better than Romney does, thanks to firsthand experience. She lost her job last year, and her health insurance along with it. In the fall, she started feeling mild chest pains. Researching online, she figured the problem was gallstones. She tried cheap alternative remedies instead of going to the doctor.

The spasms of pain got worse and worse, until one night in January it became unbearable. "I was sitting here in my chair and it lasted for two hours," Valenti told The Huffington Post at the time. "It was all I could do to breathe. I couldn't open my eyes."

She had a friend take her to the hospital, where she said doctors told her she'd suffered a heart attack and almost died.

"If I had had my insurance I would have gone to the doctor in October," Valenti said. "The pain was unbearable. I've never had pain like that, and I've had three children."

She received a $79,000 bill, but she said the hospital has negotiated reasonably -- meaning it will eat some of the cost of her emergency treatment, and some of the cost will be passed along to other patients in the form of higher prices.

More: Mitt Romney's Hospital Comment 'Frightening' To Uninsured Woman

Over here, her treatment would have been free. She wouldn't be burdened with a huge medical bill, and wouldn't have had to worry about anything at all.

 

[Cecilie1200]

By Arthur Delaney

Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney says that thanks to hospitals, Americans who lack health insurance don't have it so bad.

"We don't have a setting across this country where if you don't have insurance, we just say to you, 'Tough luck, you're going to die when you have your heart attack,'" Romney told The Columbus Dispatch on Wednesday, explaining why repealing President Obama's health care reform law would not result in catastrophe for sick people who can't buy insurance.

"No, you go to the hospital, you get treated, you get care, and it's paid for, either by charity, the government or by the hospital," Romney continued. "We don't have people that become ill, who die in their apartment because they don't have insurance."

Lianne Valenti said she finds Romney's comment "frightening."

Valenti, who is 47 and lives in Long Beach, Calif., knows what Romney's talking about better than Romney does, thanks to firsthand experience. She lost her job last year, and her health insurance along with it. In the fall, she started feeling mild chest pains. Researching online, she figured the problem was gallstones. She tried cheap alternative remedies instead of going to the doctor.

The spasms of pain got worse and worse, until one night in January it became unbearable. "I was sitting here in my chair and it lasted for two hours," Valenti told The Huffington Post at the time. "It was all I could do to breathe. I couldn't open my eyes."

She had a friend take her to the hospital, where she said doctors told her she'd suffered a heart attack and almost died.

"If I had had my insurance I would have gone to the doctor in October," Valenti said. "The pain was unbearable. I've never had pain like that, and I've had three children."

She received a $79,000 bill, but she said the hospital has negotiated reasonably -- meaning it will eat some of the cost of her emergency treatment, and some of the cost will be passed along to other patients in the form of higher prices.

More: Mitt Romney's Hospital Comment 'Frightening' To Uninsured Woman

i have no intention of basing my vote on the emotions of self-destructive dumbfucks. you can, if you want.

 

[Annie]

By Arthur Delaney

Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney says that thanks to hospitals, Americans who lack health insurance don't have it so bad.

"We don't have a setting across this country where if you don't have insurance, we just say to you, 'Tough luck, you're going to die when you have your heart attack,'" Romney told The Columbus Dispatch on Wednesday, explaining why repealing President Obama's health care reform law would not result in catastrophe for sick people who can't buy insurance.

"No, you go to the hospital, you get treated, you get care, and it's paid for, either by charity, the government or by the hospital," Romney continued. "We don't have people that become ill, who die in their apartment because they don't have insurance."

Lianne Valenti said she finds Romney's comment "frightening."

Valenti, who is 47 and lives in Long Beach, Calif., knows what Romney's talking about better than Romney does, thanks to firsthand experience. She lost her job last year, and her health insurance along with it. In the fall, she started feeling mild chest pains. Researching online, she figured the problem was gallstones. She tried cheap alternative remedies instead of going to the doctor.

The spasms of pain got worse and worse, until one night in January it became unbearable. "I was sitting here in my chair and it lasted for two hours," Valenti told The Huffington Post at the time. "It was all I could do to breathe. I couldn't open my eyes."

She had a friend take her to the hospital, where she said doctors told her she'd suffered a heart attack and almost died.

"If I had had my insurance I would have gone to the doctor in October," Valenti said. "The pain was unbearable. I've never had pain like that, and I've had three children."

She received a $79,000 bill, but she said the hospital has negotiated reasonably -- meaning it will eat some of the cost of her emergency treatment, and some of the cost will be passed along to other patients in the form of higher prices.

More: Mitt Romney's Hospital Comment 'Frightening' To Uninsured Woman

Reading comprehension, Romney is right. The woman was wrong, though I can understand very well where she is coming from.