William Pitt suck the big ****

[dutch508]

Will backs down. 

WilliamPitt (56,627 posts) http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024767541

An Apology to DU
I hope you will forgive one last me-me-me-me thread, but I owe this community an apology:

To everyone who was offended by my vulgar use of language toward President Obama, I am sorry.

To everyone who felt compelled to rise to my defense after my use of that vulgar language, thank you, and I am sorry for the hassle.

And to everyone caught in the middle, who really didn’t give a crud one way or another but had their experience here disrupted and dismayed by thread after stupid thread spawned by my vulgar language, I am sorry.

For the record, and one last time: I went to the exchange. They delivered me to Anthem BCBS in New Hampshire. I signed up for the Super-Extra-Ultra-Gold plan (which I am now paying more than $800 a month for) because it allegedly covers everything my wife’s MS needs…

…but before we signed on the dotted line, the very first question I asked was, “Will you cover my wife’s medication?” Her medication was not on the formulary, so we needed to find out if they would accept a drug that wasn’t on the list. They said, “Yes, we will, just get her doctor to approve it in a peer-to-peer review,” which her doctor did, twice. Then they strung us along for weeks, refusing to refill the scrip, before finally turning us down altogether on coverage for that medication.

They lied to us, period…and I snapped. Out loud. This was President Obama’s Big Thing, and it screwed my family, because the friends he chose to make – the insurance industry his legislation delivered us to – lied to me, took my money, and then turned us down on medication my wife needs. It’s as simple as that. It is not the president’s fault that Anthem decided to be a bastard, but to say that the president’s signature legislation had nothing to do with my experience is to deny the existence of gravity.

Skinner said, in one of those monster threads, that I would never apologize for my use of language because it would make me appear weak. That’s not the reason for the duration between the incident and this apology. When I posted the “Obama go f%$& yourself thread,” I was on fire. I still am, but asshole though I may be, my blood pressure has settled enough to recognize that I acted like a damned fool by using the language I did, especially in this place.

Note well: I am still pissed about this law that delivered us into the warm embrace of the health insurance industry. 7 million new enrollees, many of whom are about to have the same experience I had, and mark my words, the so-called “horror stories” we’ve heard about the government will very soon shift to horror stories about insurance companies granting coverage (for a fee) while denying coverage for necessary treatments and medications.

Maybe that’s a good thing, in the long run. Drag their practices into the light and shame them into actually helping people instead of scalping them. Regardless, a bill that basically lets the insurance companies run wild doesn’t strike me as the yippee! event we’re supposed to take it for, but that’s just my experience. Your mileage may (hopefully) vary.

While we’re on the subject, I’ve come to believe that the reason my family got so bollixed up is because, when we signed up, pretty much only people with pre-existing conditions were signing up as well. That was a huge hit to the insurance industry’s bottom line, so of course they’d trim where they could. They didn’t have to lie to us to get that first check from me, though. If they had said “We will never cover this” instead of “Sure, come on in,” we would have pursued other options…so I devoutly hope the fact that 7 million people have signed on will mitigate their greed.

In any event, I apologize to this community for the language I used, and for the disruption it caused. I do not in any way, shape or form apologize for my feelings and opinions on the matter…but it was my wife. OK? It was my wife, in deep distress. I hope you can understand that.

I have aggravated a large number of people here, to the point that I can’t post a thread stating the sky is up there without getting an avalanche of anger in response. That is deserved, so I think it best if I take a little break and let cooler heads prevail. This is not a GBCW post – I’m a DU addict, just like you – but a little space is for the best.

Once more, so we’re clear: For what I said and how I said it, and for the trouble it caused, I am sorry.

Cheers. See you in a bit.

 

[USA4ME]

Not surprising.

The funniest thing in this whole episode to me is that if you claim obamacare is wonderful then all praise and glory to Dear Leader. But, if there are any problems you run into, it's not Dear Leader's fault.

Kim Jong-un doesn't have it this good.

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[Carl]

Pitt is still a washed out drunk with pedophile connections (from public pictures scatman has posted and the close geographical locations would think they would be best friends) who has made the DUmp a public laughingstock more then once.
What is funnier is that Skins needs him there!

[BlueStateSaint]

Pitt is still a washed out drunk with pedophile connections (from public pictures scatman has posted and the close geographical locations would think they would be best friends) who has made the DUmp a public laughingstock more then once.
What is funnier is that Skins needs him there!

Hey, neighbor--ain't it called "the company you keep," or something like that?

[Carl]

Hey, neighbor--ain't it called "the company you keep," or something like that?

When Will the Drunk is the closest thing you have to a mainstream public celebrity,waking up in the morning must give David a migraine.  

Wonder how Steve the stupid lesser feels since he is on TV but Pittstain overshadows him?  

[SarasotaRepub]

I was nearly 100% certain he'd cave like that. It's too bad, it was
funny watching Pitt get beatup for any post.

Now that's a lesson to you DUmmies, conform or die!!! There aren't
too many in DUmmieLand that could have survived this event for this long
and even Pitt was forced to surrender.

[Delmar]

I'm willing to give credit where credit is due.  Thanks Pitt, for coining POS used car salesman as a nickname for Barry.

[jukin]

I'm beginning to think that pittstain is lying. In Peoples Republic of Kalifornia BCBS (only provider on glorious socialist health care website) has four plans: Bronze (super crappy never available before glorious Obama-democrat Care), Silver (pretty crappy insurance that is worse than previous plan), Gold (crappy insurance that is not as good as evil employer provided), and Platinum (standard employee insurance).

[JohnnyReb]

Does crow taste like chicken?

[lastparker]

Not surprising.

The funniest thing in this whole episode to me is that if you claim obamacare is wonderful then all praise and glory to Dear Leader. But, if there are any problems you run into, it's not Dear Leader's fault, it's a LIE. There are no problems, never have been and never will be. Any stories claiming otherwise are manufactured by the BFEE.

Kim Jong-un doesn't have it this good.

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FIFY

[BlueStateSaint]

Does crow taste like chicken?

Ptarmigan.

[Wineslob]