Use it and lose it.

There’s been a lot of talk at our house about the various ways people want to “fix” health insurance, and the one thing that’s become perfectly clear from all of this is that all of them are designed to bring costs down by keeping people from actually using it.  One side wants to tax cheetos until nobody needs it, since we all know thin people don’t go to the doctor.  If that fails, they’ll put the government in charge of the whole shebang, so that you’ll die of boredom waiting on hold to get an appointment.  That’s cheap.

The other side is anxious to get a “free market,” which so far as I can tell means altering the regulatory structure of the insurance industry in such a way that anyone who might actually use insurance will be priced out of the market.  Oh, and fat people, too, natch, because everybody knows that thin people don’t go to the doctor.

So you can understand why I laughed so hard I that started to cry when I got the following from Jay, who had locked his keys in the truck and had to call AAA about a week ago:

As I made sure my keys were not in the truck when I locked and walkedaway from it, I was thinking that I should not be allowed to haveAAA, because I used it, and my using it cost the people who have it but don’t use it money. Heh.

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