Cuccinelli on Uninsured Going without Healthcare: “Human Beings Will Adjust”

How many times have you heard this argument: the United States doesn‘t need health insurance for all Americans because if the uninsured get sick, they can just go to the emergency room? Short-sighted at best; heartless at worst.

But Virginia gubernatorial hopeful Ken Cuccinelli (R) has an especially “interesting” take on the issue. Cuccinelli offers quite a strange vision in this video clip. Struggling American families shouldn‘t have access to subsidized insurance; they shouldn‘t be able to rely on emergency rooms in a crisis; and, if they do show up at an ER, they should make sure bill collectors can hound them later for getting sick in the first place. But don‘t worry, Cuccinelli assures us, “Human beings will adjust.”

This has to be one of the more ridiculous things I‘ve heard regarding the poor and the ER.