Mitt Romney on Healthcare

[ericadawn16]

Mitt Romney's own website says
Prevent discrimination against individuals with pre-existing conditions who maintain continuous coverage

http://www.mittromney.com/issues/health-care

Now, if the continuous coverage part is confusing, he cleared it up on The Tonight Show

LENO: So you would make the law stand for children and people with preexisting conditions.

ROMNEY: People with preexisting conditions — as long as they’ve been insured before, they’re going to continue to have insurance.

LENO: Suppose they were never insured?

ROMNEY: Well, if they’re 45 years old, and they show up, and they say, I want insurance, because I’ve got a heart disease, it’s like, 'Hey guys, we can’t play the game like that.' You’ve got to get insurance when you’re well, and if you get ill, then you’re going to be covered.

LENO: I know guys at work in the auto industry, and they’re just not covered ... they’ve just never been able to get insurance. And then they get to 30, 35, and were never able to get insurance before. Now they have it. That seems like a good thing.

ROMNEY: We’ll look at a circumstance where someone was ill, and hasn’t been insured so far. But people who have had the chance to be insured — if you’re working in an auto business for instance, the companies carry insurance, they insure all their employees — you look at the circumstances that exist. But people who have done their best to get insured, are going to be able to be covered. But you don’t want everyone saying, 'I’m going to sit back until I get sick and then go buy insurance.’ That doesn’t make sense. But you have to find rules that get people in that are playing by the rules.

That's right, if you were born into a pre-existing condition, developed one before starting your first job like I did or developed one with insurance and/or job that dropped you...

Romney says you don't deserve insurance like everyone else. You don't deserve to have that piece of mind.

I'm a 29 year old female with Epilepsy. Under his plan, I will NEVER be insured until/if I reach the age for Medicare.

Comments

[mercystars.livejournal.com]

oh, that just sucks.

[blaze7the7cat.livejournal.com]

I'm asthmatic, autistic, and have a metabolic disorder. I could NEVER get coverage. Not with THIS Health Care system.

[gillianinoz.livejournal.com]

That's pretty scary! At this point ( from the other side of the world) it's hard for me to see why any person who needs insurance would vote Republican, or why any woman would either.

Every day (especially as I get older) I am grateful to live in a country where I am entitled to free hospital and bulk billed (free) GP's. Not to mention the subsidised medicine! And every time I fill a prescription or get a rebate from Medicare I think about you guys and wonder how on Earth you manage.

My finances have been on a knifes edge this year, but without Medicare & the PBS I would be completely screwed.

Sending you hugs and hopes things get better.

[ericadawn16.livejournal.com]

I don't understand it either.

[gonzo21.livejournal.com]

Of course you're also a woman, so he really doesn't think you deserve any rights at all, let alone the right of access to medicine.

[author-by-night.livejournal.com]

He completely misses the point, or maybe he refuses to acknowledge it, that some people can't afford it until a certain point. Not all jobs offer it. Can you get your own? Sure, if you can afford it on your own.

[flamingo-bandit.livejournal.com]

Does he . . . does he not understand that people are born with conditions sometimes? I just . . . I am completely baffled by this man. BRB g2g bang my head against the wall.

I do still prefer him to Santorum, but that's one of those "Death is not an option" choices. I'm sticking with my beloved Eeevil Communist Mooslim, thanks.

[ericadawn16.livejournal.com]

I just wish he was a little more of the Socialist they make him out to be...

[flamingo-bandit.livejournal.com]

Me, too, but in our Commie-phobic society, any steps towards socialism are still something like a miracle.

[cp.livejournal.com]

It's all pretty ridiculous, for sure. Above all it's ridiculous to me that we remain the only first-world nation that hasn't adopted some form of universal health care. And it's yet another instance where conservatives use their emotional buzzwords like freedom and privacy and 'death panels' and what have you in order to get their voting base to agitate against their own best interests. It just makes sense to me that health care should not be something that you have to be able to afford--it should be available to everyone, anytime, and that includes the preventive care that so many skip due to lack of insurance, which then just drives them into the system later, when they can no longer be cured quickly or cheaply.

It's not looking good for the Affordable Care Act, but you know, I'm actually sorta hoping it does get tossed out. Because then our only options will be the private system that most everyone acknowledges is broken, and a national, public healthcare system like every other first-world nation has. If only we could count on the populace (and Congress) to move in that direction.

[ericadawn16.livejournal.com]

Above all it's ridiculous to me that we remain the only first-world nation that hasn't adopted some form of universal health care.

YES

I still hope that could happen someday. However, it's not just the cost scaring people off but our system of using drugs over traditional or less invasive methods of curing disease.

For example, almost all Diabetes Type 2 can be cured with exercise and a change of diet but do people want to do this? Do they feel they can afford the time or effort required to do this?

No, so they take the drugs.

We have to change our whole society away from corporate control.

[sea_thoughts]

But you don’t want everyone saying, 'I’m going to sit back until I get sick and then go buy insurance.’ That doesn’t make sense.

They do that because they can't AFFORD the insurance when they're well, let alone when they're sick, you IDIOT. And heaven forbid people develop chronic conditions like diabetes or epilepsy.

[zoaster-toaster.livejournal.com]

Fuck Romney. Fuck the entire Republican primaries. They're getting so fucking stupid.