Matt Miller writes in the Washington Post, The Missing Contraception Question, 2/22/12.

Excerpts:

It’s important not to let this contraception clash pass without understanding the true source of the problem. It’s not President Obama’s debauched liberal drive to shower teens with condoms and morning-after pills. It’s not the bishops’ urge to enforce a moral code from which most of their flock dissents. A sane America would never deny women who work for Catholic employers access to the contraception that every other health plan offers — but it also wouldn’t force Catholic employers to offer coverage that violates their beliefs.

Instead, a sane America would solve this whole problem by moving into the 21st century and making sure people can buy group health coverage on their own and not tied to their employers.

Most people know how crazy the current system is — how it locks people into jobs they’d rather leave for fear of exposing their family to ruin from costly illness; how it hurts entrepreneurship as a result; and how it gives big companies (which can afford ample coverage) an unfair advantage in the war for talent over the newer, smaller firms that drive innovation and job creation.

HKO comments

There is a need for basic reforms to assure a market for everyone including those with pre-existing conditions and allowing insurance companies to cross state lines. The current system is distorted by government mandates, and tax policy that allows deductions for employers but not individuals. Our current system is a bastardized basket of cronyism, government control, micromanagement, and other government interference that assures us the worst outcome at the highest price. The answer is not centralized control; it is to finally free the individuals to exercise their own free choice.

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