To hell and back
Thursday, March 19 2009
Tim Foley hones in on the crux of the veteran’s benefits kerfuffle:
Put another way, according to the Wall Street Journal, the New York Post and many others, it’s an unconscionable breach of trust and a betrayal for our veterans to have to deal with the normal business practices private, employer-based insurance – the same insurance companies that the enemies of reform will tell us shouldn’t be reformed, regulated, “crowded out,” or subject to the “unfair advantages” of cost-control and efficiencies of a public competitor.
I have the utmost respect for our military – including the several members of my extended family who served and are serving. But I have to stifle a laugh at the notion of the brave men and women who faced down the Wehrmacht, Kamikaze, Red Chinese, Viet Cong, Republican Guard, Taliban, and AQI now quailing at the thought of bloodthirsty insurance executives managing their health care.
I’m sure this will make a tough chapter in the next Call of Duty game: “Aw, hell, sarge – we’ve run into a battalion of Jerry’s insurance adjusters.” “Save a bullet for yourselves, boys – you don’t want them to catch you alive.”
