"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.)" 

Remember when Dubya said the same thing?  George the Shrub stated that "The immediate goal is to make sure there are more people on private insurance plans. I mean, people have access to health care in America. After all, you just go to an emergency room." 

Now the McCain campaign is trying to lie its way out of its adviser's interview and statement as ThinkProgress states: "Yesterday, McCain health care architect John Goodman told the Dallas Morning News yesterday that there are no "uninsured" people in America because Americans have access to emergency rooms, which is a radical view of health care in this country. Now, the McCain campaign is trying to distance itself from Goodman, telling The New Republic’s Jonathan Cohn that “he is not an advisor“:

Although the Morning News article reported Goodman as a McCain advisor, the McCain campaign says he is NOT an advisor. That's obviously a big distinction so I've corrected the item, which described Goodman as part of the campaign, as well as the update below. I apologize for the error.

"But in July, when Goodman wrote a WSJ op-ed praising McCain's health care plan, he was labeled "an unpaid adviser to the McCain campaign" by the paper.