Mitt Romney has an answer for the lame, the lost, and the last.  The damn emergency room, you fool.  After all, isn’t that what Jesus said to do?

Downplaying the need for the government to ensure that every person has health insurance, Mitt Romney on Sunday suggested that emergency room care suffices as a substitute for the uninsured.

“Well, we do provide care for people who don’t have insurance,” he said in an interview with Scott Pelley of CBS’s “60 Minutes” that aired Sunday night. “If someone has a heart attack, they don’t sit in their apartment and die. We pick them up in an ambulance, and take them to the hospital, and give them care. And different states have different ways of providing for that care.”

We have a county commissioner here in Fort Bend who calls himself a financial expert.  However, he is most often described as the only guy I know who will spend five dollars to save a dime.  So, now at least he’s not the only guy.  You can add Mitt Romney to that tinkered thinkin’.

Mitt, Darlin’, think this thing all the way through to the end, because saving a dime by not giving this guy blood pressure medicine makes us pay for a heart attack.  I don’t know this for a fact, but I’ve heard that heart attacks are way more expensive than Diovan.

I had occasion about a month ago to go to the emergency room of a local hospital on a Sunday night with some very frightening symptoms that, luckily, turned out to be a treatable condition.  I waited in a packed emergency room for 6 hours before seeing a doctor.  It was four hours before I even had my blood pressure and temperature taken.  Our emergency rooms in Texas are overwhelmed with the uninsured.

Mitt Romney does not have a clue how real life works.  When Mitt Romney needs health care, he just buys a hospital and then strips it down and sells it piece by piece when he gets well.

I think it’s real sweet that Mitt Romney wants Americans to get the most expensive heath care available – emergency rooms.  But, I think what they really want is the far cheaper thing called “health care.”