Male Senatorial Health Care Logic: “I don’t need maternity care”
[Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ)]: I don’t need maternity care, and so requiring that to be in my insurance policy is something that I don’t need and will make the policy more expensive.
[Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI)]: If I could just interject once with my colleague — I think your mom probably did. (LAUGHTER)
KYL: Over 60 years ago my mom did. (LAUGHTER) You notice I wasn’t too specific with regard to that.
Sen. Kyl is right. He has not and never will require maternity care. What’s not right is that he was using that logic to attempt to legislate that the federal government could not tell insurance companies that they had to cover maternity care, or any other specific condition. In other words, Kyl wants health care reform to leave insurance companies free to say “sure, you can buy this affordable coverage. Of course, it doesn’t include maternity, cancer, heart attack, stroke, or being hit by a bus.”
That is exactly the way to legislate. Senators should just pass bills that will offer protection against things they personally might someday face, and say “screw everyone else. If they want the government to do anything for them, they should’ve been born more like me.”
Tags: health care reform, Jon Kyl
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