Posted on 09/24/2015 7:27:06 AM PDT by jimbo123
For the second time this week the McCain campaign tried to disentangle itself from embarrassing comments made by surrogates stumping for the Republican presidential candidate.
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Today the campaign tried to recover from a comment by Carly Fiorina, McCain's most visible woman surrogate and a possible vice presidential pick.
Fiorina, the former chief of Hewlett-Packard, left McCain speechless this week when she seemed to criticize health insurance companies for covering Viagra for men but not covering birth control for women -- a point made frequently by abortion rights groups.
"A real, live example, which I've been hearing a lot about from women: There are many health insurance plans that will cover Viagra but won't cover birth-control medication. Those women would like a choice," Fiorina told reporters at a breakfast talk Monday hosted by the Christian Science Monitor, adding, "Those women would like a choice."
It was a curious statement from one of McCain's top surrogates, considering the Arizona Republican has voted twice against mandating insurance companies to provide coverage for birth control, once in 2003 and again in 2005. Sen. Barack Obama supports forcing health insurance to include coverage for birth control.
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McCain/Fiorina 2008 would have been a disaster. Even Sarah couldn't carry him across the finish line.
Speaking of Sarah didn't Carly have so not so nice comments about her.
Viagra treats a medical condition. Fertility is not a medical condition, it is healthy functioning.
Fecundity is a natural state for most young women; it is not a medical condition that requires intervention.
Erectile dysfunction is a medical condition affecting middle- and late-adult males that can be treated effectively, at least to some extent.
Anyway, it’s always fun watching a McCain minion squirm.
In a free society nobody should be forced to pay for another's medicne.
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Exactly.
Can someone point me to a law or Federal reg *requiring* health plans to cover Viagra or anything similar? I don’t believe they exist, therefore, it’s at the option of the people who pay for the plan and the people who administer the plan ... IOW, it’s what’s technically called, “freedom”.
I can still remember when Billy Cunningham introduced him in Cincinatti,and made that Great Faux-Pas?He actually called Obongo “Barack HUSSEIN Obongo”???Billy “Got The Sack”for that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Exactly. Buying health insurance should have options just like anything else you buy. If you think you want/need something you pay extra for it, if you know you don't need it then you don't get it.
She can’t understand normal thinking.
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