Today, the Supreme Court gave us the absurd spectacle of our enormous, complex, and inefficient federal government deciding the precise composition of your health plan. Did you think you would get a choice in deciding the composition of your health plan? Silly you. No, actually, you are not able to make that choice. The federal government will decide which procedures your health insurance plan must or must not include. It's best that they make that choice for you. You see, it's much more efficient for the federal government to tell the insurance company what to do...who then tells your doctor what to do. So elegant and simple!
Today's ruling is a lovely reminder that our government is getting all up in your health care. The multiple health insurance bureaucracies that we have enjoyed for so many years are now to be coupled with a government bureaucracy. Surely this will lead to cost-savings...SURELY! There's nothing better than the melding of one bad system onto another bad system. Two negatives equals a positive...am I right, math teachers?!?
Imagine, instead, a system where you directly paid a doctor for routine medical care, WITHOUT the involvement of an insurance company. Then, if something went really badly, you would use your health insurance to pay for that (this is the definition of insurance, before it came to mean "paying for everything"). We have built a system that has an enormous number of people involved in your health care. Far too many people. And each of those people take a cut...and we wonder why health care is so expensive.
And guess what, if the insurance industry and government were removed from the equation, your birth control would be a lot cheaper.
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