One Education Under Obama
Somewhat lost in all of the ballyhoo over health care was a provision snuck in late in the process. Did the Democrats add some language to provide some relief to doctors against excessive lawsuits? Maybe they snuck in an allowance for insurance companies to be allowed to sell health care insurance across state lines and spread the risk? How about a provision to allow more use of health savings accounts that accumulate throughout your lifetime? What about loosening requirements for insurance plans to cover everything from addadicktomies, to botox injections (sorry Ms. Pelosi), to counselling when someone is mean to you? I know they added a provision to make health insurance more portable?
Sorry this is not a baseball post. Those of us living in Pittsburgh with the hapless Pirates; holders of the longest losing streak of all professional sports (17 years and counting) don’t talk about much about professional baseball. Our president gave his first pitch at a State of the Union speech and apparently did not hit the strike zone. I confess to not watching as I could not bear to see Ms. Pelosi popping up every 30 seconds, Obama’s use of the words “I” or “me” a gazillion times or his 