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http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/14/us-abortion-oklahoma-idUSTRE73D05H20110414
Even more, legislators need to stop telling doctors what care they can provide patients and then forcing doctors and patients to comply by using health insurance as a punitive tool.
Y'all already know my opinion of health insurance - it needs to go away. It was a bad idea when it was born and has grown into a hideous chthonic beast, made worse by legislators.
Mind, I think some legislators really want to improve it, but they can't fix something as badly broken as healthcare by tweaking it here and there.
It needs to go away.
Completely.
The health industry will still be there. The need for patient advocacy will still be there. Medical malpractice will still be there. The need to oversee healthcare will still be there.
But it can't and shouldn't be done as a for-profit health insurance program.
People needing essential medical care will be denied it because it messes with the bottom line, and not because it would be a bad idea, medically speaking. We see so much of that already, and if health insurance gets the ability to deny even more claims by legal fiat, what glee they must have as they pad their wallets.
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