You almost have to feel sorry for Romney. I remember a reporter asking him what he said on an issue some weeks back and what exactly he said and Romney replied, " I don't remember what I said but whatever it was I agree."

Now I get it. His name isn't Willard, it's Wrewind.

There is a far cry from being seen in emergency rooms of hospitals for real emergencies and those individuals in society that utilize the emergency room to access non emergent care, including if they have Medicaid the use of ambulances to provide their transportation. I believe Romney made a world of sense when he answered the question of what about the millions that don't have "health care" when he discussed the fact that were different ways different states deal with that, but no one is denied care, and in real emergencies, like a heart attack for example, emergency care is provided, whether one has insurance or not in this country. And Romney made a world of sense earlier when he stated that emergency room care for non emergent medical needs was the least cost efficient and least effective way to go.

There is only a problem in weak liberal minds that can not grasp the simplest nuances, and naively seek an all encompassing but unwieldy and extremely costly government intervention in our Medical Care delivery system known as ObamaCare, or the (Un)affordable Care Act which we can not afford, but then they can't see the world has shades of grey, but only black and white from their childish viewpoint. Nice try though, Little Lying Larry O'Donnell, I'll give you this though: you certainly do know your audience!

By going to emergency rooms we are paying MORE than under ObamaCare. This is one of the nuances of the Care Act - to diminish the need for emergency care by getting preventive care.

NBC/MSNBC/"Today" have once again misrepresented Romney's statements, this time regarding emergency health care. He did not make contradictory statements. The uninsured do have access to the ER as will those covered under Obama care and those presently covered under Romney care. But using the ER is not the most cost effective means of delivering health care. The taxpayers ultimately pay for this care so what type of government would one call it?

the uninsured receive less preventive care, are diagnosed at a more advanced stage and, once diagnosed, tend to receive less therapeutic care and have a higher mortality rate

Mitt Romney must have really liked the idea of Obamacare, because he enacted it while he was governor of Massachusetts. Romneycare. Today 98% of the states citizens have insurance. And everybody likes it. Now he says it was good enough for Massachusetts citizens, but not good enough for the rest of the country. But in a July 2009 op-ed in 'USA Today', Romney thought the President could learn a thing or two from the plan he signed into law in Massachusetts, including using the individual mandate as an incentive for people to buy insurance. Mitt Romney's Advice For ObamaCare: Look At RomneyCare. Mitt Romney once touted his plan to Obama as a model for health care reform. He didn't mention keeping it at the state level. "Our experience also demonstrates that getting every citizen insured doesn't have to break the bank. First, we established incentives for those who were uninsured to buy insurance. Using tax penalties, as we did... encourages "free riders" to take responsibility for themselves rather than pass their medical costs on to others." Just another episode in the continuing flip flop saga of Mitt Romney. Remember, Romney doesn't need health coverage. He can just purchase the hospital.

36 countries have some sort of universal healthcare. The U.S is the only "westernized country without it. Afghanistan, Argentina Austria, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Cuba, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ira, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Oman, Portugal, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Sweden, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom. It is ironic that Iran & Afganistan both have universal healthcare coverage provided by the U.S. war funding, yet we can't have even single payer here.
One of the great advantages of Universal Healthcare that I never hear talked about is that it takes the cost and responsibility away from the corporation as well as the small businesses. Corporations move overseas because they find the cost of labor too high in the U.S.. Think about it. Healthcare costs these businesses on average $1200 PER EMPLOYEE. Remove this labor cost and watch how fast business comes back and jobs are created.
The United States spends far more on health care than any other country at 17.9 percent of GDP compared with the OECD average for advanced countries of 9.5 percent. And yet dollar for dollar it gets results that are consistently in the bottom third of developed countries along with Mexico or Hungary, as measured by average health outcomes.

From Fareed Zakaria:

America's health care system is broken. Our healthy life expectancy, the standard measurement, ranks only 29th in the world – behind Slovenia. Our infant mortality rate ranks 30th – more than twice that of Sweden and Japan. And for this sub-par care, we pay more than any other nation in the world. Almost one out of every five dollars spent in America is spent on health care.

Twenty years ago, Switzerland had a system very similar to America’s – private insurers, private providers – with very similar problems. People didn’t buy insurance but ended up in emergency rooms, insurers screened out people with pre-existing conditions, and costs were rising fast. The country came to the conclusion that to make health care work, everyone had to buy insurance. So the Swiss passed an individual mandate and reformed their system along lines very similar to Obamacare. The reform law passed by referendum, narrowly.

The result two decades later: quality of care remains very high, everyone has access, and costs have moderated. Switzerland spends 11% of its GDP on health care, compared with 17% in the U.S. Its 8 million people have health care that is not tied to their employers, they can choose among many plans, and they can switch plans every year. Overall satisfaction with the system is high.

The Mitt Romney of Interviews Past has struck again, this time on the issue of healthcare.

In an interview with 60 Minutes that aired Sept 25, 2012. Romney talked up emergency room care, as part of his case that even if we repeal Obamacare, the uninsured will still have access to healthcare.

60 Minutes/CBS
Q. Does the government have a responsibilty to provide healthcare to the 50millions Americans who don't have it today?
A. "Well we do provide care for speople who doesn't have insurance.If someone has a heart attack, they don't sit in their apartment and—and die," Romney said. "We pick them up in an ambulance, and take them to the hospital, and give them care." And different states have diofferent ways of providing for that care.

But in an interview on Morning Joe in 2010, Romney defended his own universal health care bill in Massachusetts and spoke against emergency room care, saying “it just doesn’t make a lot of sense.”

Morning Joe?MSNBC March 3, 010
Q. Do you believe in Universal coverage?
A. "Oh sure, look it doesn't make a lot of sense for us to have millions and millions of people who have no health insurance and yet who can go to an emergency room and get entirely free care for which they have no responsibility, particularly if their people who have sufficient means to pay their own way."

And in 2007, Romney went further, calling emergency room care “socialism,” because taxpayers end up paying for it.
"When they show at the hospital they get care, they get free care paid for by you and me. If that's not a form of socialism I don't kow what is."

“Romney now is turning himself into a pretzel because he can’t admit that that’s what he did in Massachusetts and that’s what he used to think was a perfectly good idea,” The New Republic’s Jonathan Cohn said.

It is only a lie if you do not believe in what you are saying. Not sure who said that line but Mitt is taking it to heart. In fact he most likely has it framed and hanging on his wall somewhere. One minute he is for something, then he is against it. Seriously Mitt just make a list of each issue, write your opinion on each one down and read off of it whenever you speak. It will not matter if you have to read it off a card or teleprompter but at least you will be consistent. It is OK if some people do not like you or what you stand for but that is normal.

People should vote for you because of who you are, what you stand for, and your ability to address the issues the country faces. We do not need to hate Obama to vote for you!! Just stop speaking in circles and tell us the truth on the issues and let us make our own minds up. It it is not a popularity contest lol.

Going to the emergency room for non emergent care instead of a clinic or a medical practitioner is wasteful, but the huge and unaffordable expansion of Medicaid and subsidizing very expensive Washinton DC designed all the bells and whistes health insurance policies will not stop the irresponsible from accessing the inner city hospital emergency rooms for their non emergent care. In fact, they will still be apt to call for ambulances to access that ER care once insured for it, as has been found to be the case with those on Medicaid presently in our urban settings. The solution of ObamaCare will just create more problems.

And with the attempts to keep the new entitlement program from bankrupting the nation, and subsuming along with Social Security and Medicare all of our tax revenue and then some beginning in just 2016-2024 time period, the cost cutting on fee reimbursement to medical providers and hospitals along with the utilization review commission that will set in motion the rationing of medical care in the US will increase the rate at which medical providers are refusing to take into their practices Medicaid and now new Medicare patients. So its back to the ER folks, after all the sound and fury!