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Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant: 'There is No One who Doesn’t Have Health Care in America'
During an interview with Kaiser Health News Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant (R) said he opposes Obamacare because every single American already has health care.
Bryant refuses to expand Mississippi’s Medicaid program, which would extend health coverage to an additional 200,000 low-income residents.
Bryant echoed former President George W. Bush and GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney who both said that uninsured people should simply use the emergency room for primary care. However, not one major medical organization advocates this.
Bryant said: "There is no one who doesn’t have health care in America. No one. Now, they may end up going to the emergency room. There are better ways to deal with people that need health care than this massive new program."
In the interview, Bryant complained that Obamacare is "a law that would causes taxes to go up," but failed to mention that emergency room care is very expensive and has to be paid for by taxpayers.
Additionally, emergency rooms do not have to care for an uninsured patient in a non-emergency situation.
Patients with chronic conditions that don’t require emergency care, such as the millions of Americans with diabetes, asthma or breast cancer, would not be able to access medical treatments per Bryant's advice.
Bryant also claimed that if people get on Medicaid they will go to the doctor because they have nothing else to do. "It’s clear once someone goes on Medicaid, the number of times they go to a physician doubles, quadruples ... I make the argument that it’s free. It’s free and you have nothing else to do."
Bryant promised to block the federal government from setting up an insurance exchange in his state per Obamacare, which is the law of the land. "Certainly I will if they try to expand the Medicaid population. If they say we are going to take this federal exchange and going to expand the Medicaid population, I will try to seek legal relief from that using the Supreme Court decision that said they are not allowed to do that."
The Census Bureau estimates that nearly 49 million people were uninsured in 2011. More than 20 percent of working Americans don’t have health care, and 40 percent of the people living in poverty were unable to visit a doctor in 2010, reports ThinkProgress.org.
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Everyone has healthcare?
Everyone has healthcare? HUH????
Why would you go to the emergency room, for a routine prescription for your allergies, and pay possibly hundreds of dollars for a medication, that you would pay $5-$10 at a CVS Pharmacy? For example, with healthcare, Advair (asthma inhaler costs $10) without healthcare going into an emergency room, costs, $330!!
Who in their right mind would pay $330 (as if they had it), when an affordable healthcare plan would allow you to buy it for significantly less??
People, especially in Mississippi, have to choose between food, rent and medication. How do these assholes keep getting elected in a pre-dominantly black state like Mississippi?
Again, republican's math is idiotic.
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Everyone has healthcare? HUH????
Why would you go to the emergency room, for a routine prescription for your allergies, and pay possibly hundreds of dollars for a medication, that you would pay $5-$10 at a CVS Pharmacy? For example, with healthcare, Advair (asthma inhaler costs $10) without healthcare going into an emergency room, costs, $330!!
Who in their right mind would pay $330 (as if they had it), when an affordable healthcare plan would allow you to buy it for significantly less??
People, especially in Mississippi, have to choose between food, rent and medication. How do these assholes keep getting elected in a pre-dominantly black state like Mississippi?
Again, republican's math is idiotic.
What the law requires
What the law requires hospitals to do for patients that have no way to pay for their care is stabilize them so that they are not in life-threatening danger - nothing more.
The most expensive way to receive medical treatment is through the emergency room - so the "governor" of Mississippi complains about the cost of having people get insurance and receive treatment through the less expensive alternatives to the emergency room (like, you know, not waiting for something to become life-threatening in the first place) and instead wants everyone funneled into the most expensive and far less survivable method of treatment. Because let's face it, your chances of surviving something like cancer or a heart attack are better if you seek treatment for it early, as opposed to waiting until it becomes a life-threatening emergency. The ER doesn't, and can't, treat everything.
Since almost no one that doesn't have insurance can afford health care, that means that all of their expenses get passed on to the taxpayers (if we don't want hospitals to close due to bankruptcy) in a fashion that the government hasn't been saving up for - there's no fund set aside specifically for paying for people's unpaid ER bills. If people had insurance, there would be funds set aside in advance to pay for these bills, and many of these life-threatening conditions would be headed off early, while it costs 10% or less to treat them.
> "It’s clear once someone goes on Medicaid, the number of times they go to a physician doubles, quadruples ... I make the argument that it’s free. It’s free and you have nothing else to do."
I reject your argument as the fantasies of a morally corrupt and possibly mentally handicapped buffoon. I don't know anyone that would rather spend time at a doctors' office than a public park or library when "they have nothing else to do," and such places are also free. People go to the doctor when they feel there is something for them to go to the doctor for - of course they are going to seek treatment when there isn't a financial barricade in the way.
And, finally, the most convincing argument that this governor is completely wrong and deserves the public scorn of all Americans: Ross agrees with him.
cityboy - Jan 25 2013 -
cityboy - Jan 25 2013 - 12:32pm "...Since almost no one that doesn't have insurance can afford health care, that means that all of their expenses get passed on to the taxpayers (if we don't want hospitals to close due to bankruptcy)..."
How so? Unless someone is on Medicaid, taxpayers shoulder none of the burden, unless by "taxpayer" you mean everyone who has insurance or actually pays cash. The hospitals make up for operating at a loss by raising prices. The government doesn't pay them the difference.
Many middle class Americans
Many middle class Americans have no or inadequate health insurance. Also, millions of homeowners are on medicaid. the face of medicaid and the uninsured is not what you have been brain washed to believe.
Don't make the poor assist in
Don't make the poor assist in paying their own healthcare, just send them to the ER where the taxpayers will have to pay 100% of that expensive treatment. No wonder healthcare has been a mess for decades. And now we see why Mississippi is the worst managed state in the union. They still have people living in shacks without indoor toilets & they have the worst adult literacy rating in the nation, but then who else would vote for their idiot politicians like Bryant?
gem - Jan 25 2013 -
gem - Jan 25 2013 - 12:54am "Don't make the poor assist in paying their own healthcare, just send them to the ER where the taxpayers will have to pay 100% of that expensive treatment..."
Like I said above, how so? Unless someone is on Medicaid, the taxpayers don't pay for any hospital treatment of "the poor". The unpaid bills are made up for by raising prices, just like retailers compensate for shoplifters.
"...They still have people living in shacks without indoor toilets..."
Mississippi is not alone in that, and that is no measure of how well managed a state is.
What do you know, libtards
What do you know, libtards get all pissy over the truth, again.
This coming from a pissy
This coming from a pissy conservative, right wing, republican? geez...hey, Ross, when you retire, live in Mississippi. I have friends there, and a few relatives, all trying to get out before they retire. That state has the higest dropout rate, highest per capita expenditure on medicaid expenses from the YOUNGER population than any other state, has the highest teenage pregnsncy rate in the country, has the highest # of children beaten in schools per capita, highest dropout rate per capita, lowest graduation rate of high school students, and, drum roll please, highest % of young people jailed (under 25)for violent crimes. This governor talks through his ass, has little common sense, got elected ONLY because the state is full of idiots like YOU. Grow a brain and common sense, Ross. He is the worse governor in the US, and his people and his state have to suffer because of his continued incompetence!
And unless the hospitals are
And unless the hospitals are involved in patient dumping like Michelle Obama in Chicago, people still get seen in Emergency Departments. You quite clearly make my argument. Medicaid covers so much that it would be impossible to say that there is no coverage or treatment. BTW, I do live in the south. I moved there to not have to listen to people who make false arguments about topics that have little to do with the point at hand.
People with emergencies get
People with emergencies get seen in emergency rooms. If you do not have an emergency, they send you packing after evaluating you. If you have medicaid or insurance, if you do not have an emergency, you will get a bill from the insurer. If you don't have insurance, the hospital will send you a bill and pursue collections (emergency or not).
It's very easy for most
It's very easy for most people to make situations seem to be at least questionably an "emergency". Too many symptoms of non-emergency ailments are also symptoms of more serious illnesses. Because healthcare providers fear being sued, they don't turn them away, instead running many unnecessary tests. Happens all the time.
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What Republicans are doing, now, finally, is just so recognizable as both sour grapes and the concomitant pouting, and, yes, racism. See my comment on this site (link below) about the alleged eye rolling at Boehner that pouting and racist Republicans accused before the president's inauguration day had even ended.
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