Lowden’s Campaign Chief: Everyone Has Health Care, Just Go To The ER

As if Republican Sue Lowden's chicken-bartering health care plan wasn't bad enough, her campaign chief is now suggesting that everyone in Lowden's state already has health care -- in the emergency room.

Robert Uithoven, the campaign chief for Nevada Republican Senate candidate Sue Lowden, said on journalist Jon Ralston's TV show that if you have an emergency -- like, say, a bullet hole in your chest -- you already have taxpayer-funded health care.

"Should everybody have access to health care in this country?" guest host Jeff Gillan asked.

Absolutely, they do," Uithoven said.

    Gillan: If you can afford it they do.

    Uithoven: They do. If I have a bullet hole in my chest, I can go down to UMC and I'm gonna get health care.

    Gillan: And then taxpayers pay for that.

    Uithoven: That's true.

As Greg Sargent points out: "UMC is the University Medical Center, the only publicly run hospital in Las Vegas."

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