Wednesday, June 25th, 2008...9:01 am
…And The Hungry Can Always Dumpster Dive
Here’s one cribbed from the Yellow Sheet. John Shadegg was speaking at a cocktail reception put on by the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest. The group that claims to be searching for new ideas in health policy, but from what I’ve gleaned from the website, they are yet another big money group that doesn’t want any sort of publicly financed health care. I’d tell you a bit more about who is behind this group, but the link on the website to tell you that doesn’t work. Could it be? Naw.
Anyway, here is the money quote from the Yellow Sheet:
It’s important to note, Shadegg said, that contrary to what many believe, no one in this country goes without health care. “We’re covering them in the emergency rooms and paying a very, very high price to have them walk into the emergency room with a cold or flu.”
Yep, no one actually goes without health care, ’cause we have emergency rooms. At least he acknowledges that it is a rather expensive way to go. The idea, I suppose, is to be sick with a condition that will eventually land you in an emergency room. By the way, this is the guy that voted against SCHIP three times.
11 Comments
June 25th, 2008 at 11:04 am
As his fellow Republican candidate for Congress, I am shocked that Rep. Shadegg would say this. Why does he seem to care whether poor people get medical care? Why are taxpayers “paying a high price” for these leeches? They are probably sick because they didn’t take care of themselves properly. And most of them are illegal anyway.
June 25th, 2008 at 9:04 pm
And don’t forget they all probably came from unwed mothers to begin with.
June 25th, 2008 at 9:24 pm
The emergency room is not expensive for those who don’t pay their bill, it’s free. The expense is for those of us who pay for both ourselves and those who don’t pay. I don’t see how government run health care will make it any less expensive. All we will be doing is paying for another layer of bureaucracy.
June 26th, 2008 at 3:43 am
Yes, that’s true. Right now we’re paying absolutely nothing for the wonderful bureaucracy of our terrific insurance companies. Viva the free market!
June 26th, 2008 at 3:44 am
Oh, excuse me for saying “Viva.” I didn’t mean it!!! I’m a Republican!
June 26th, 2008 at 6:55 am
Mr. Grayson seems to think of himself as a comedian. His candidacy is a laughable joke but his posts are getting old and boring.
June 26th, 2008 at 11:43 am
Bill Payer is apparently unaware that the federal bureaucracies running Medicare, Medicaid, the Veterans Administration, and Social Security are among the most cost efficient providers of service administration in the world, operating at a cost of about 3%. Compare this to your “free enterprise” health insurance/care providers, which average administrative costs over 20%, and this of course does not include the office staff and equipment expenses of hospitals and doctors attempting to navigate the complexities of multiple providers with constantly changing rules and fee structures.
June 26th, 2008 at 9:17 pm
In 2005 (couldn’t find a later date), the CEO of United Healthcare made $125 million. In one year.
Let’s say he’s a really good CEO and gets paid $10 million — I think that’s a healthy salary. How many prescriptions would the remaining $115 million take care of?
Applying free market fundamentalism to healthcare is beyond disgusting.
June 27th, 2008 at 6:47 pm
Shadegg thinks the housing crisis can be abated by letting people take money out of their 401ks to pay their mortgages too. He’s a plutocratic assmonkey.
June 29th, 2008 at 7:47 am
I can’t believe Shadegg would want to allow people to use their 401k to keep from losing their home or to refinance and lower their payment. Doesn’t he know that control of that money belongs to the government. The thought of people having control of their own money makes me sick.
June 30th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
Actually Mr. Marx, families and individuals using money they are saving for retirement is wrecking a long term solution for a problem to solve a short term problem.
Yes the mortgage crisis needs attention but not by using people’s retirements when that simply will punt that particular problem to the future.
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