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Jewish World ReviewJuly 23, 2009 / 2 Menachem-Av 5769Take two
aspirin and call me when your cancer is stage 4By Ann Coulter
All the problems with the American health care system come from
government intervention,
so naturally the Democrats' idea for fixing it is more
government intervention. This is liketrying to sober up by having
another drink.
The reason seeing a doctor is already more like going to the
DMV, and less like going to theApple "Genius Bar," is that the
government decided health care was too important to be left tothe
free market. Yes the same free market that has produced such a
cornucopia ofinexpensive goods and services that, today, even poor
people have cell phones and flat-screen TVs.
As a result, it's easier to get your computer fixed than your
health. Thanks, government!
We already have near-universal health coverage in the form of
Medicare, Medicaid, veterans'hospitals, emergency rooms and
tax-deductible employer-provided health care allgovernment
creations.
So now, everyone expects doctors to be free. People who pay $200
for a haircut are indignantif it costs more than a $20 co-pay to
see a doctor.
The government also "helped" us by mandating that insurance
companies cover all sorts ofmedical services, both ordinary which
you ought to pay for yourself and exotic, such as
shrinks, in vitro fertilization and child-development
assessments which no normal personwould voluntarily pay to insure
against.
This would be like requiring all car insurance to cover the cost
of gasoline, oil and tirechanges as well as professional car
detailing, iPod docks, and leather seats and thoseneon chaser
lights I have all along the underbody of my chopped, lowrider '57
Chevy.
But politicians are more interested in pleasing lobbyists for
acupuncturists, midwives andmarriage counselors than they are in
pleasing recent college graduates who only want toinsure against
the possibility that they'll be hit by a truck. So politicians at
both the state and
federal level keep passing boatloads of insurance mandates
requiring that all insurance planscover a raft of non-emergency
conditions that are expensive to treat but whosepractitioners have
high-priced lobbyists.
As a result, a young, healthy person has a choice of buying
artificially expensive healthinsurance that, by law, covers a
smorgasbord of medical services of no interest to him orgoing
uninsured. People who aren't planning on giving birth to a slew of
children with restlessleg syndrome in the near future forgo
insurance and then politicians tell us we have anational emergency
because some people don't have health insurance.
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