“I heard him say we shouldn’t take our kid to the ER for an asthma attack.”
I don’t think that is accurate. What I thought I heard him say is that people should not HAVE to take their kid to the ER for an asthma attack [because they should have regular insurance coverage that would enable them to have a doctor of their own].
I missed the part about fining if you don’t insure your emplyees. Can you give me more details?
One of my friends here at college, who happens to have severe asthma, called BS on Obama on this. When you need to go to the ER, you need to go.
I am sure the underlying message was, you should have health insurance and do preventative care for your asthmatic kids so they don’t end up in the ER with every asthma attack.
But what he said implied that we should not take our kids to the ER for asthma attacks. He illustrated that, should the government be in charge of health care, THEY would be deciding what we should or should not do at any given time. We lose our freedoms when we take the handout.
There was a question about whether health care should be treated as a commodity. McCain went first, and at the end of his segment, encouraged the audience to listen for the amount of the fine Obama planned to set for those of us who don’t have health insurance for our own kids or our employees.
Obama took his turn.
When he was done, McCain had a one-liner about how he still didn’t hear the amount of the fine.
I believe that I have the RIGHT to pay cash for my and my family’s health care if I so choose. As contrasted to a RIGHT for some government mandated health insurance.