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Mr. Soptic is telling me that he lived above his means, and had no significant savings. If he couldn't afford insurance, then he didn't save enough to buy a Cobra or catastrophic insurance to cover significant and unexpected medical costs.
Also, since his company was in distress for 8 years, he didn't pay attention to the writing on the wall and do something about it.
Democrats keep crowing about Barack Obama's "commanding" electoral college lead (it's a less than a mile wide and an inch deep), but for all their apparent cockiness, they strangely continue to go thermonuclear on Mitt Romney. This ad from Obama's SuperPAC doesn't seem desperate at all:
When Mitt Romney and Bain closed the plant, I lost my healthcare, and my family lost their healthcare. And a short time after that my wife became ill ... And she passed away in...
It just doesn't happen.
My relative blew his gallbladder recently and received 200k in FREE care.
He had NO Insurance whatsoever!
You are correct. Anyone can get medical care.