Romney: Uninsured have Emergency Rooms

Well, finally.  Romney talks about his health care plan.  It is not good news for pretty much anyone.
In his interview with CBS News’ “60 Minutes” that aired Sunday night, Republican  presidential candidate Mitt Romney pointed to emergency rooms as a form of health care for people without insurance.
“Well, we do provide care for people who don’t have insurance,” Romney told interviewer Scott Pelley. “If someone has a heart attack, they don’t sit in their apartment and — and die. We pick them up in an ambulance, and take them to the hospital, and give them care. And different states have different ways of providing for that care.”
OK.  Pretty much all of us would go to the emergency room in this scenario.
But what about your preventive care, so that you don't end up with a heart attack? 
Where should the uninsured get their stress test?  And exactly how would they pay for their meds?
The most expensive care in American is delivered in the ER, and in ways it is the worst care--both for the patient and the folks who are picking up the bill.  It is great if you have a gun shot wound or a stroke, something where getting competent care ASAP can literally mean the difference between life and death.
But for pretty much everything else, it is a terrible idea, for everyone involved.  Those who get the care and those that pay for it. 
So, is this how he would envision chemotherapy being delivered?  Diabetes care?  Mammograms?
That is your solution?  It is more of the same--nothing ventured, and surely nothing gained in the era of spiraling helath care costs and a rising deficit.  No one will accuse you of upsetting the apple cart, Mitt.

In the past, even Romney has said that people shouldn't seek health care in the ER--in 2010, when he told MSNBC that part of the impetus for the Massachusetts health-care law was to keep people out of the ER.
“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 the emergency room and get entirely free care for which they have no responsibility”.
When Romney and Ryan, the dynamic duo, propose to dismantle Medicare and issues vouchers that no one is obligated to take, and then the elderly will be in this position.  You and I. Unless we are able to man up and pay for our care.