Video: Mitt Romney Says Deny Coverage for Uninsured with Pre-Existing Conditions

I'm so sick of people on both sides of the political spectrum distorting what people from the other side say for the purposes of demonizing them! This must stop, people, or we will become more and more polarized and, eventually, our society will either break apart or become a totalitarian police state. Even though I am not a fan of his, it should be obvious that Mitt Romney would never propose that poor people not get healthcare. This would make him not only evil but stupid. He could never have been elected with this combination of qualities! (Though he probably could with one out of two!) Millions of people get healthcare today without insurance, though the system is badly in need of reform.

He is so done and there is no one else to take his place.

http://www.vaughns-1-pagers.com/medicine/pre-existing-conditions.htm gives a list of pre-existing conditions that can be used to deny medical insurance.

This is what you get, all you people who are "To DUMB TO VOTE" That would be the independents that elected this bunch of Tea Party Republicans.

Study's have shown that Democracy doesn't work when you have an ignorant voting majority.

This explains the Kansas syndrome, where the voters of Kansas always vote against their own self interests.

The democratic process relies on the assumption that citizens (the majority of them, at least) can recognize the best political candidate, or best policy idea, when they see it. But a growing body of research has revealed an unfortunate aspect of the human psyche that would seem to disprove this notion, and imply instead that democratic elections produce mediocre leadership and policies.

incompetent people are inherently unable to judge the competence of other people, or the quality of those people's ideas. For example, if people lack expertise on tax reform, it is very difficult for them to identify the candidates who are actual experts. They simply lack the mental tools needed to make meaningful judgments.

As a result, no amount of information or facts about political candidates can override the inherent inability of many voters to accurately evaluate them. On top of that, "very smart ideas are going to be hard for people to adopt, because most people don’t have the sophistication to recognize how good an idea is."

Why is this news? That's how insurance works.

Should people be able to get car insurance after they've wrecked the car? Of course not. When you get insurance, you're betting you'll need it, and the insurer is better you won't. Buying when you need it is just sticking someone else with the bill.

No one's talking about shutting down medicare or medicaid. We can find ways to help people other people pay for insurance. But healthy people will have to understand that getting insurance when you're healthy is the key to having it when you're not.

I wonder if the interview ever touches on the fact that even if you've maintained insurance for your whole life insurance companies often kick people off their roles for things like heart disease saying it's a "Preexisting condition". They don't just use the preexisting condition loophole to deny insurance, they also use it to deny coverage for treatment even if you've had their insurance for years.

Of course, Romney is making a perfect case for "Obamacare". Everyone should maintain insurance coverage for exactly that reason.

Voluntary insurance cannot cover pre-existing conditions -- that's why Obama-Care had to make coverage mandatory. If the Supreme Court overturns that provision, then we will have to choose between socialized medicine or lots of uninsured people.