Dick Morris Says Those Without Health Insurance Don’t Want It

September 19, 2007
News Hounds

Hannity & Colmes continued their “Republicans only” streak for those discussing Hillary Clinton’s health care proposal. Monday night, it was Newt Gingrich as the lone guest. Last night (9/18/07), it was Dick Morris. Once again, Morris was disingenuously introduced as “former Clinton advisor.” Alan Colmes didn’t even get to the topic; he spent his time with Morris discussing the all-important issue of the student who got tasered at John Kerry’s speech. That left Morris and Sean Hannity, only, offering their viewpoints last night. So when out-of-touch Morris made it sound as though the only people without health insurance are wealthy people who don’t want it, nobody disputed it. With video.

Morris dubiously claimed that Clinton’s health plan would charge healthy people more in order to charge sick people less. Of the approximately 50 million Americans who are uninsured, he said, “Their median income per capita is higher than that of the American public. These are not poor people. Poor people are covered by Medicaid. Old people by Medicare. These are for the most part young, single people who don’t want health insurance and haven’t bought it because they don’t want it.”

In reality, while those without health insurance may not be poor enough to qualify for Medicaid, they are hardly rich. As the non-partisan Center for Budget and Policy Priorities reported in August, 2006, lack of insurance is much more common among lower income people. (P. 2) And as a September, 2007 report from the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured noted, “In contrast to children, however, public coverage is not generally available to adults, even at low incomes. As a result, nearly half the growth in uninsured adults was among those with incomes below 200% of poverty.(P. 6) …Because public coverage is not typically available for adults, the loss of employer-sponsored coverage translated to a corresponding increase in their uninsured rate.” (P.7)

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:grr:

But we know Morris don't know Dick.

Mostly because it's real hard to get when you're a part time student and a part time pizza guy. I was lucky, and got by without it.

That's one of the big problems with Hillarycare - if it was mandated that I had insurance, I'd have had to give up something else, like eating. OTOH, if I was too poor to afford it, my employer would cover me by mandate, and would have to then cut expenses elsewhere to do so, like in employing me. Of course, he could get a tax break, but unless that tax break was equal to the cost of the insurance, either he or I would have to take the hit to make up the difference. BECAUSE THE INSURANCE COMPANY IS GOING TO GET ITS CUT OFF THE TOP, NO MATTER WHAT.

If Dickless Morris hates Hillary so much, why would he be touting her 'plan'? Maybe because he knows it would be an unmitigated disaster which he would love to lay right in her lap?

As a middle-aged working student, I could not afford health insurance. Hillary's plan would have been useless to me. It would have been a huge burden. Paying for health insurance would have prevented me from going back to school. Her plan is just awful. It costs a lot, perpetuates the worst injustices of our current system. It's only plus is that it placates the insurance companies and pharmaceuticals. I guess that is good for them. It is bad for us. Hillary needs to rethink it. And she needs to return the donations from the health care industry before she proposes a different plan.

I trust the sycophants of O'Reilly and Hannity for my news.

3 years back stating emphatically that the violence in Iraq was only temporary and situation was going to soon improve.

If it comes from the toe sucker, then there is a better than even chance it is wrong.

I haven't had insurance since I quit working in 2001. Would I like to have it? Damned straight! Am I willing to pay more per month than I pay for rent? No freakin' way! For most of the people I know, the question is more like how much can I do without to pay for it? I'm lucky, I don't have any medical conditions that require care and I hope that continues. What frosts me even more is the fact that if I do need medical treatment, I could be charged as much as three times what an insurer would pay! That's just effin wrong.

Oh, yeah, you dick -- I really didn't want any medical help back when I was in school and slipped on the ice, and dislocated my hip. :eyes:

It was a real joy having to crawl back through the snow (it was during a break, and no one was around) forcibly snap it back in myself (which was excruciating), and then hopping around on my good leg for weeks. And, thankfully, I still have regular flare ups of pain in that hip due to my poor self-care.

Fuck you.

:sarcasm:

And homeless people really like sleeping in a card board box under a bridge.

afford to get h. insur.

I hate blops like morris