My regular readers know that I have a significant mental illness. Tom Tancredo got a deferment from serving in Viet Nam due to depression. That illness is basically all that he and I have in common.
I initially thought that it was a cheap shot for Kos to mention the reason for Tancredo's deferment until I saw (via a comment to the original story) that Tancredo had voted against a law that would require insurance companies to treat mental illness the same way as they treat physical illness.
I guess that it was ok for him to stay out of the war due to mental illness but not ok to have people with mental illness treated in the same manner by their insurance company as people with any other chronic (or acute) condition.
Dumbfuckery of the highest order.
> Tancredo had voted against a law that would require insurance companies to treat mental illness the same way as they treat physical illness.
ReplyDeleteDisgusting. A diagnosis of depression was good enough to keep him out of Vietnam, a war he publicly supported, but not good enough to count as a "real" disease.
As I fellow person diagnosed with the mental illness of depression, I cannot fathom such callow and craven behavior as Tom Tancredo demonstrated.