McCain adviser says uninsured don't exist

The McCain campaign appears to be hell-bent on living a life of delusion (as Joe Walsh might say). First, Phil Gramm (who McCain had foolishly hired as an economic adviser) said the recession was a hoax. And now this.

John Goodman, a health care adviser for McCain's faltering campaign, absurdly claimed that everyone in the U.S. already has health insurance. (Incidentally, this is not the actor John Goodman.)

What's Goodman's basis for this claim? He says nobody is uninsured, because everybody has access to a hospital emergency room.

He says an ER is the same as insurance? Does he really believe that? If you have to go to an ER, and you have no insurance, you can go broke later just paying for the visit. And are people supposed to run to the ER when they have better medical options? It sounds like Goodman is saying everyone should just clog emergency rooms when they should be just as well served by a nonemergency appointment.

After Bush issued an illegal executive order to gut EMTALA, does everyone still even have access to an ER?

Goodman also heads the National Center for Policy Analysis, a right-wing stink tank funded by ExxonMobil. This organization focuses largely on attempting to privatize America.

What's Goodman's "solution" for the health care crisis? He says the President ought to sign an executive order barring the Census Bureau from categorizing people as uninsured. "Voila! Problem solved," he declared.

Yes, he's being serious. He's actually saying that denying that the health care crisis exists will solve it.

Man, the Republicans really have gone bugfuck insane, haven't they?

Now the McCain camp is denying that Goodman is an official adviser. Too late, geniuses!

(Source: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/08/28/mccain-adviser-everyone-in-us-has-some-health-coverage)