Washington, Oct. 12 (ANI): Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, who has pledged to repeal Obamacare, has said that people without health insurance don't have to worry about dying as a result.
"We don't have people that become ill, who die in their apartment because they don't have insurance," Romney said in an interview with the Columbus Dispatch's editorial board on Wednesday.
"We don't have a setting across this country where if you don't have insurance, we just say to you, 'Tough luck, you're going to die when you have your heart attack,'" the Huffington Post quoted Romney, as saying.
"No, you go to the hospital, you get treated, you get care, and it's paid for, either by charity, the government or by the hospital," he added.
According to the report, Romney had taken a similar stance in an interview with CBS' '60 Minutes' late September, when he had said: "We do provide care for people who don't have insurance. 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."
Roughly 4 in 25 Americans, or nearly 49 million Americans, had no health insurance last year, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
Repealing Obamacare would deny access to health insurance to about 30 million uninsured Americans who would have received it under health care reform, the report said.
According to the report, research has found that when people lack health insurance, their health worsens, and their health treatments become more expensive.
People without health insurance also are in danger of facing massive medical bills, debt, and bankruptcy if they get sick or injured. (ANI)
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