So, regarding the ACA, we all know the Republicans are mostly agin' it. They whooped. They hollered. They spread disinfo. They tried to repeal it something like 40 times, now. And you know what? They're still losing. But it doesn't stop them trying. Just recently, FreedomWorks, one of the big mahoff Tea Party groups, decided it would be brilliant to encourage young people to just abstain from getting any health insurance, in defiance of the mandate, on the grounds that the premiums would be more onerous than any penalties (you know, except for the whole being uninsured and needing healthcare thing, which is pretty pricey). And Heritage's very own Jim DeMint was just saying how emergency rooms were fine and dandy health care, never you mind how the whole idea of "emergency care" is that it's the kind of care you get when something very wrong is happening to you. Oh, and it's the most expensive kind, and if patients can't pay, the costs are, well, socialized.
But emergency rooms are required to treat patients who need care. Unless, for some reason, that changes. Here's VA Gubernatorial hopeful Ken Cuccinelli with his speculations:
Human beings will just have to adjust to not getting health care, sometimes. Oh, they might need it. They might have been told it was noble to forgo health insurance by one set of jackasses, and then told there's always emergency rooms by another set of jackasses. But did they ever suspect that behind hospital curtain number three was a grinning clown offering a faceful of cold seltzer asking them to "adjust"?
Huh. How do you like that?
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