Obama ignores AfghanistanFollow

The wonderful thing about Obama is that he gets **** done without being all showy about it, until the time is needed. No "mission accomplished" banners with him.

So while everyone ******* about him not doing anything, in the meantime he's letting people do their jobs, and focusing on his.

Seems fairly pernicious to me.

True that.

You don't see how denying health insurance coverage can cause harm? You're really that stupid?

sure, but that's really not what people are talking about.

Trying to play the "OMG one phonecall in 70 days!" thing up as though Obama is out of the loop regarding McChrystal is just politics. As I predicted, word is going through the appropriate channels to the appropriate places.

What you don't seem to be willing to cram through that thick skull of yours is that insurance companies aren't paying for covered losses. They are finding ways to weasel out of everything.

"What was that? You need a $6,000 drug to fix your illness? And you've been a client of our company for ten years? Well, guess what? We just wrote a new law into our company policy that says that drug is not covered for that illness. SO SORRY! Even though we paid for it the first two times, it will no longer be covered. Oh, what? You have to have this drug every other week, and you can't afford to spend $12,000 a month on it? Gosh, that's too bad. But our hands are tied, really! Now, since you happen to now have an illness, we are also raising your premium to over $1,000 a month. Oh, and your lifetime limit is going to be dropped. Oh, what's that? You're about to reach your lifetime limit because of an illness you got while you were covered with us, and you want to know what other policies are available to you? Oh, none. Not here. You see, now you have a pre-existing condition."

And I'd love to hear you try to tell me that the above doesn't happen. Because that's pretty much exactly what has happened to more than one of our clients.

Now, Varrus. Tell me again about how wonderful these companies are? Tell me again how everything is peachy and we don't need to fix anything? Tell me again how TORT REFORM on MALPRACTICE is the only way out of this mess?

Tell me again who the ******, trailer trash is who can't seem to grasp the situation as it stands?

Anyone with the slightest bit of moral sensibility and compassion for his fellow man can understand how that is pernicious.



Causality can mean many different things. Denying coverage does, absolutely, cause harm, by at least two notions of causality that I can think of, and I could perhaps think of more if I cared to think for more than five seconds.

Edited, Sep 28th 2009 6:31pm by Pensive

That's funny, W & Rumsfeld did NOT listen to their commanders on the ground during the initial invasion of Iraq & overthrew their government with many, many less troops than were recommended.

Now, in hindsight those "missing" troops would have been very useful for the whole "securing the country" thing, but the winning "the war" for Iraq with so many less troops than were recommended was an accomplishment in & of itself.

"More troops" is pretty much the answer to any military situation, but at some point you've got to make do with what you have. Which, in fact, Marines are trained to do.

Army? Not so much.

More air strikes, obviously.