{"id":256,"date":"2012-04-05T11:09:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T15:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=256"},"modified":"2012-04-05T11:09:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-05T15:09:00","slug":"down-the-insurance-rabbit-hole-nytimes-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=256","title":{"rendered":"Down the Insurance Rabbit Hole – NYTimes.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

Down the Insurance Rabbit Hole – NYTimes.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Justice Antonin Scalia subsequently expressed skepticism about forcing the young to buy insurance: \u201cWhen they think they have a substantial risk of incurring high medical bills, they\u2019ll buy insurance, like the rest of us.\u201d<\/p>\n

May the justices please meet my sister-in-law. On Feb. 8, she was a healthy 32-year-old, who was seven and a half months pregnant with her first baby. On Feb. 9, she was a quadriplegic, paralyzed from the chest down by a car accident that damaged her spine. Miraculously, the baby, born by emergency C-section, is healthy.<\/p>\n

Were the Obama health care reforms already in place, my brother and sister-in-law\u2019s situation \u2014 insurance-wise and financially \u2014 would be far less dire.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But, if Republicans have their way, even this is in danger, from Matther Yglesias via Slate<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not concerned with the very poor. We have a safety net there,\u201d Romney told CNN<\/a>. \u201cIf it needs repair, I\u2019ll fix it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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There’s a certain logic to that position. Except that if you read Romney’s policy agenda<\/a> what he appears to think about the social safety net for the poor is that it should be drastically curtailed. He proposes the following five points:<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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