Ridiculous Health Care Story of the Day

How hard are the power-that-be trying to convince us that nationalized health care is the only hope for the country? Try this story in the Washington Post:

Jon and Kate Plus Health Care

Would better insurance have saved this marriage?

Poor Jon and Kate. Their marriage is over, their show on hiatus, their domestic ordeal entering a new phase of acrimony. Possibly nothing could have saved this marriage, but one thing would have made it less fragile: a mandate for health insurance to cover in vitro fertilization.

If the Gosselins, whose efforts to raise eight kids have been chronicled over five seasons on cable television, had enjoyed, and availed themselves of, ready access to IVF -- the most sophisticated, controlled and expensive form of fertility treatment -- they almost certainly would not have had six children at once. "Just one more baby," is how Kate described their goal after twins. Without the added stress of sextuplets, they would have had a fighting chance at not fighting nearly as much as they did.

Yeah, it was the cost of health care that messed up their marriage.

Unless Obama's plan can include insurance that compensates husbands for overbearing, naggy wives, or wives for philandering husbands, it isn't health care insurance that's gonna fix a bad marriage.