This is why I cant write about politics every day

Just read this New York Times story. Or don’t. It’ll make you ill. One of America’s biggest, bluest-chip companies, Aetna, sells health insurance to its fellow Americans, that covers room and board, but does not cover much of anything else. So you’re fine if you check in for a rest, but you are completely screwed if you actually need anything like an operation or medicine. So the people in this story go bankrupt because their worthless policy doesn’t cover the important things.

This product is marketed as a “limited benefit” policy. I haven’t seen an application, but no doubt the unpleasant details are in at least 8 point type and no farther than 10 pages from the front page.

Who do you suppose came up with this little innovation? Must have been an illegal alien, or maybe one of those homosexuals that wants to get married. Or maybe some small town, gun loving, church-goer. These are about the only people who make the news - -except when a celebrity croaks.

Surely the shameless cad wasn’t an upper middle class, polite, properly-dressed, good-school, regular-voter citizen? One of the people who never makes the news because they just have no pizzazz? Matt and Katie are too busy talking to bloggers who specializes in Michael Jackson pharmacology to dig into something this unsexy, un-American, exploitive and evil.