oh historic moment! i actually agree with both peter and kendall on the same issue. this obviously was not thought out or i do not completely understand it one. 


--- On Fri, 8/29/08, Kendall D. Corbett <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> From: Kendall D. Corbett <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Great ad, and McCain Adviser on the uninsured
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Friday, August 29, 2008, 1:19 PM
> Peter,
> 
> McCain has distanced himself and the campaign from the
> comments by saying
> that Goodman is not a paid campaign staffer (John Goodman,
> president of the
> National Center for Policy Analysis).
> 
> The thing that made me almost fall out of my chair was his
> statement that it
> wouldn't "cost a cent!"
> 
> I wish I had figures on the number of emergency rooms that
> have closed
> because they can't afford to provide indigent care, or
> the number of people
> who have died or gotten sicker because ER's are so
> overcrowded.  When Bush
> and the conservative Republicans wanted to cut Medicare and
> Medicaid
> reimbursement by 10%, the largest group of family practice
> physicians in my
> state was going to stop seeing Medicare and Medicaid
> patients!  Which would
> have sent a lot of these people to the ER for primary care!
>  And both of
> Wyoming's Senators voted to sustain the veto!!  It gets
> worse, too.  Our
> newest senator is an MD (orthopedic surgeon) from the same
> town where the
> family docs practice.
> 
> On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 11:02 AM, Peter Hunsberger <
> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
> > >
> > >
> >
> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/28/mccain-adviser-there-are_n_122095.html
> > >
> >
> > I can't believe anyone in their right mind would
> attempt to spin the
> > US health insurance situation in such an completely
> inane way!  Do
> > they really think that having (supposedly guaranteed)
> emergency room
> > access is somehow equivalent to having health
> insurance?  Let's see
> > how this would work in reality; can't afford your
> digitalis medication
> > because you have no health insurance?  Don't worry
> about it; the
> > emergency room treatment will be free when you have
> the heart attack
> > it was supposed to prevent...
> >
> > This is just about the most stupid and insulting
> position on health
> > insurance I have ever heard (and being in the business
> I've heard a
> > lot)!
> >
> > --
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> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> 
> Kendall
> 
> An unreasonable man (but my wife says that's
> redundant!)
> 
> The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the
> unreasonable one
> persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
> Therefore, all progress
> depends on the unreasonable man.
> 
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