Rick Callahan, writing for the Associated Press, has an article entitled “Health-care fears loom large in gay marriage cases.” The article discusses how health care benefits can be a strong motivating force for gay partners who want recognition of their relationship as a marriage which entitles them to their partner’s health care benefits.
Yesterday, Tony Cook, writing for the Indianapolis Star had an article on Seema Verma, an individual who works as a health care consultant for the State of Indiana, designing the “Healthy Indiana Plan” while working as a vendor for that plan.
No time to comment, but it’s unfortunate that health care protection can be so variable even while it’s so important to our lives, meanwhile it’s hard to escape the suspicion that the system is corrupt, and we’re chumps enriching some privileged few who have gamed the system.
“No time to comment,” yet your brief comment that follows is perfectly stated and exactly right. It’s a system whose lifeblood is profit, not health care, and rightly described in other nations as obscene or worse.