Don't like the facts? Change the counting method!
In an article from the Dallas Morning News which discusses Texas's high number of citizens who have no health insurance, a McCain adviser says:
. . .the numbers are misleading, said John Goodman, president of the National Center for Policy Analysis, a right-leaning Dallas-based think tank. Mr. Goodman, who helped craft Sen. John McCain's health care policy, said anyone with access to an emergency room effectively has insurance, albeit the government acts as the payer of last resort. (Hospital emergency rooms by law cannot turn away a patient in need of immediate care.)"So I have a solution. And it will cost not one thin dime," Mr. Goodman said. "The next president of the United States should sign an executive order requiring the Census Bureau to cease and desist from describing any American – even illegal aliens – as uninsured. Instead, the bureau should categorize people according to the likely source of payment should they need care.
"So, there you have it. Voila! Problem solved." (Emphasis mine)
Jeepers. "We don't like what the numbers tell us, so we need to redefine what the numbers are." If that's not the perfect example of the Republican thought process, somebody find me a better one.
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