I have NO IDEA how that was your takeaway from my post. In relation ONLY to 0bamacare, we 'may have lost by winning'.
I don't think you'd find many military historians who think losing to win is a viable scenario, and you know Patton's motto, "Don't pay for the same real estate twice."
Yes, this is a war but in NO WAY SHAPE OR FORM is this a true military war with human life at stake. Therefore, "losses of real estate" are less grave in intermediate battles in order to win the overall war.
Well, sorry if I misinterpreted. Still, I don’t ever believe in winning by losing. Too risky, and always puts you in a hole. It’s like saying, “let the other team run the kickoff back for a TD so we will get serious.”
You have a technical point on the term "military" but you are flatly wrong that human life is not at stake. There will be thousands of needless deaths due to the provisions of the ACA as they go into effect and start destroying the quality of medical care available to the majority of Americans.
In fact they've already started, with the rationing of approved treatments and medications, and the decisions about those being arbitrarily determined by bureaucrats based on collective "program goals" rather than doctors' individual determinations of patients' needs. "Death panels" are already beginning; they just won't ever be acknowledged as such.