Democrats are proposing parity for insurance coverage of mental health. Basically, they want to make a law out of something health insurance companies should have been doing in the first place–and bloody well know they should have been doing–by making policies treat mental health claims in the exact same way as they would any other claim.

What kind of asshole would oppose giving Americans coverage for the number one leading disability in this country?

Oh, that’s right: Republicans!

I was watching it on CSPAN. The whole shebang. It’s times like these that they show their true colors as corrupt, sell-out, corporate hacks.

No, really! Yearly, we have thousands of suicides, hundreds of thousands of deaths due to substance addiction, not to mention people suffering with depression or severe conditions such as bi-polar disorder and, need I even mention it, people with conditions that lead them to shoot up their schools. The Republicans were grasping at straws trying to fight this one off. Why?

Obviously, because it’ll cost their financiers money. But the reasons they actually stated were as follows, with debunking responses:

1. It’ll cost untold billions of dollars. Wrong. I believe the actual month increase in cost to the company (or, through deductibles, the insured. I don’t remember which) would be a fraction of a percent. About enough to buy a really cheap cup of coffee each month.
2. Businesses might cancel their health insurance benefits altogether! Wrong. In states that have already passed similar bills, there has been no such evidence of businesses abandoning healthcare benefits for their employees. In fact, it has grown.
3. It could be used to force health insurance providers to pay for abortions as part of treating someone’s mental health. What the fuck? This is what I meant when I said they were “grasping at straws.” First off, an abortion, which is a physical medical procedure, is by definition and laws of nature mutually exclusive from treating someone’s mental health, which consists of counseling and medication. The Dems’ response? “There’s nothing about abortion in this bill.”

How do these scumbags get re-elected? My hat’s off to Patrick Kennedy and Jim Ramstad, one of the few Republicans who doesn’t deserve to be deported, for authoring the Wellstone bill.

All you people out there who are affected by mental health conditions or know someone who suffers from something like BPD or addiction, keep this in mind when going to the polls this November.

A few months ago I made a prediction.  I was listening to Rush Limbaugh–yes, you read that right;  it’s good to know what the enemy is thinking–railing against John McCain.  Rush didn’t like him back in 2000, and he sure as hell doesn’t like him now.  I know he’s not a sucker.   Hell would freeze over, the Cubs would win the World Series, and the dollar would be outpaced by the peso before Rush would vote for anyone but the Republican nominee.  But Rush didn’t like him, so all his listeners didn’t like him.  That’s the way it works.

I knew my prediction would come to pass when I heard Ann Coulter saying she was going to campaign for Hillary Clinton after John McCain became the front-runner.  This was not the typical Ann Coulter brand of insane batshittery we’re all used to.  This, like Rush’s continuous badmouthing (which he lies about by denying later), is calculated.

The four-state primary happens yesterday.  Clinton, who had lost 11 states in a row and is doing poorly in numerous polls suddenly beats Barack Obama in 3 of the 4 contested states, overcoming all statistical probability to help narrow the gap between them.

My prediction?  Republicans, having found their nominee, would vote in the Democratic primaries to sabotage the results by choosing someone they thought they could beat:  Hillary Clinton.  Turns out I was right.   They’re even bragging about it.

This is not a new tactic.  The Republicans whine,”but they came over to sabotage our primaries by voting for McCain!”  I don’t know about you, reader, but this makes Republicans seem very, very stupid.  This democratic primary is one of the most hotly contested ever.  One part of us desperately wants Obama.  The other desperately wants Clinton.  Not a single Democrat who has a serious stake in this election has wasted it on John McCain, unless their horse dropped out of the race.  That, Mr. Limbaugh, is indeed “subverting democracy.”

What we arrive at is this:  Republicans know they’re going to lose this election.  They know they deserve to lose this election.  Yet still they feel the need to continue ruining America.  How do they sleep at night?

If Clinton were any kind of patriot, she’d drop from the race this very instant…  she hasn’t?  Color me unsurprised.

Reader, do your country a favor and punch a Republican today.  Make them have to use the gouging, crooked private health insurance industry they’re so adamant about keeping.