Yet another unbiased and accurate contribution from a blog dedicated to the dissemination of truth and the American Way.
Cigna did not exactly "do everything it was supposed to do." I don't know why right wingers make so light of the importance of a separate disability insurance policy. Without an income from employment, it becomes a nightmare to pay the medical bills not covered by a medical insurance policy and/or just plain cover the bills to exist. Of course, such hair splitting on the part of Tea Party sympathizers should come as no surprise, since the TP'ers are avid to balance the budget at the expense of low income disabled and elderly. The kindest thing that one can say about the conservative insistence that all safety net programs for the most vulnerable members of our society be dismantled in the name of balancing the budget, is that the Tea Party is sadly lacking in members with the ability to perform arithmetic at the 5th grade level. As I have stated elsewhere, dismantling programs which assist the low income disabled and elderly to survive in the name of balancing the budget is akin to picking up 3 grains of sand on the beach and announcing that all the sand has been swept away. This hypocrisy that the right is so persistent indulging in has to be one of the most grievous policies proposed in the current budgetary/health care debate - that all entities, both governmental and private, should consign the elderly and the disabled to perdition.
I await the day when the Tea Party canonizes Adolf Hitler for making the disabled his first target for Germany's grand plan of world-wide eugenics. Long before the Jews were rounded up, long before the gypsies and the Poles and other undesirables were sent off to the camps, the disabled people of Germany and Austria were taken from hospitals and institutions and sent to the very first camps whose purpose was genocide. The Nazi's refined their techniques on the disabled long before the first Jew was subjected to the first whiff of poison gas. It's time people started calling a spade a spade. God knows, society will need quite a few of them if the Tea Party attitude toward the most desperate members of our society becomes the law of the land.