Moran: 2 – 1 = 3 (Yes, you read that right)
If legislative term limits ever needed a poster child, it would be Jim Moran (D-VA 8). It seems like each term he gets elected to makes him dumber. In a recent interview, Moran says:
The fact is that when you cover another 40 million people so that we and localities and so on don’t have to pay for uncompensated care — we pay for more than $100 million of uncompensated care through tax bills just in the 8th district alone — the fact is that when you cover another 40 million people, that’s hundreds of thousands of new jobs in the private sector for health professionals.
First of all, neither Moran or the website provides a source for the numbers. They both name “data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services” without regard to a URL or even a report title. I spent about an hour trying to locate any report with these numbers in them. If you have a link to the ACTUAL report (not a summary or a news report quoting the report, please provide it in the comments).
Second, this statement fails the logic test. If $100 million of uncompensated care is paid through tax bills, why would we even need healthcare reform? Insurance companies, hospitals, doctors…pretty much any person within the healthcare profession have complained that the reform will cause costs to rise. In fact the Government Accountability Office has released several reports stating that health care costs will rise!
Third, you ask any doctor what their largest costs in business are. They will say two things: insurance and insurance. It costs doctors thousands of dollars to file insurance claims. Furthermore, doctors pay even more in malpractice insurance because the United States is the tort capital of the world.
What Moran and his like-minded drones do not realize is that health care is not a right! ACCESS to health care is a right, but services are not. No one should be denied the right to access a doctor or a hospital, regardless of their sex, religion, creed, etc. But the very fact that health care is a limited resource, it cannot be given away. It must be acquired.
It’s funny how Moran or the 111th Congress never took up tort reform. It’s probably because lawyers gave him $119,000 during the last election, making them the third largest donor category (for the purposed of categorization, I combined all defense related categories).
Unfortunately, Moran is so entrenched in his office that the only way he’ll get out of the 8th district is if he retires. Too bad basic math isn’t a requirement to be elected.
ZeMilkman
February 8th, 2011 at 11:50 pm #
It appears to me, that you are a moron.
But the very fact that health care is a limited resource, it cannot be given away. It must be acquired.”"
Are you mentally retarded?
mike
May 5th, 2011 at 10:36 am #
I love how ZeMilkman doesn’t really provide any sort of factual arguments.