Comment Re:All or nothing (Score 1) 903
Contraception is something that allows you to manage the unexpected.
> In the olden days, by which I mean pre-Obamacare, you could indeed "pick and choose" what procedures and medications your policy would cover.
In other words, there are no standards and no concept of consumer protection. Corporations are just free to run roughshod over you. This could be your fundie employer or your crass insurance company that has an obvious conflict of interest.
You have no clue about Guilded Age you seem to long for so much.
Every state has a regulator for insurance products. If there are problems and you want to address them, that should happen as close to the people as possible, not in a one-size-fits all central bureaucracy that believes it can control all. And of course, back in the guilded age I lived thru but am clueless about, the INDIVIDUAL had the ultimate power: one could ditch the fundie employer and/or the crass insurance company. Not so easy now. Some markets (and I use that word loosely) have but a single insurer.
Obamacare is ultimately going to prove unworkable, as evidenced by the ad hoc and chaotic delays, changes, and demands that the Obama administration is making almost on a daily basis. The only question is how much suffering and expense is it going to take before that's acknowledged, and what's going to replace it.