Several years ago, Romney was criticizing the propensity of people with no health insurance to fill emergency waiting rooms to get medical care for all kinds of non-emergency matters.
In a recent interview, when confronted with the fact that the Republican plan for health insurance would leave over 50 million people without health insurance, he said no, they can get medical treatment. All they have to do is go to the nearest emergency room.
That kind of flip-flop?
Well, seems to me his opinion hasn't changed.....people still can get health care without buying insurance. It seems you like giving people a hard time for being honest. Don't you think Mitt tried to insure as many as possible? He was simply stating a fact. Romney's primary complaint was that too many were using this option rather than paying for it through health premiums.
However I don't think victimizing every special interest group on the planet except white males and then trying to make hay off of the fact that Romney thinks 47% can't be persuaded to vote for him with promises of lower taxes is smart.
My point is this:
By declaring all of the sudden that nobody at his rally is a victim is the ultimate in opportunism and is absolutely dripping with irony.
Apologies for going off on a tangent, but you raise an interesting point here. Have you had to go to an emergency room lately? If you try to do that in the Los Angeles area (and, I would assume, just about any other major, urban area throughout the country), you will find the waiting room packed with people. Hardly any of them have health insurance. Hardly any of them are there for a geuine emergency. Most of them are bringing their sick kids in to be seen by a doc and given medicine.
This has been one of the major criticisms of the former (pre Obama plan) health care system. Oh, there were lots of other criticisms, but this was one of the main ones. Once you have been subjected to a four-hour wait when you have a genuine emergency, while sick kids are being given aspirin and sent home, you will hate this practice with all your heart.
OK - Romney at one time, quite properly, was very critical of a system that spawned a problem like this and he made public statements denouncing crowded emergency waiting rooms filled with uninsured people. Now, during his run for the presidency, he is saying that uninsured people will be taken care of by going to emergency rooms. That is a 180-degree change of opinion.
They ALL flip flop to some degree. All of them. Politics is a dirty, slimy business. The people who practice this "art" are intelligent, well-educated men and women who are very good at what they do. Unfortunately, they are also ambitious and opportunistic and will say pretty much whatever they think they should say in order to get what they want.
I am REALLY looking forward to the circus during the next two months. Pull up a chair.
