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If you have to ask, you can’t afford it

Is there one single solitary action flowing from the Campaigner-in-Chief in the White House, just one, which is a plain old good thing? You know, just good. No gotchas. No gimmes. No ha-ha-fooled-ya.

So, one feature of this new health care law which is Obama’s “signature issue” and “major accomplishment,” which is grinding toward implementation at the speed of a globally-warmed glacier, one feature was going to be better information.

At long last, we have the new improved format. Not the information, yet. But the format has been achieved. Woo-hoo!

The rules set the designs for easy-to-understand forms that describe health insurance benefits. The forms are intended to provide the same details on all policies using the same plain-English terms — defined in an accompanying glossary — so consumers can compare policies easily. The law also mandates that the forms give examples of specific coverage, explaining how much a plan pays on average for common medical conditions.

Excellent. What more could one want?

Well …

But the bottom line — a policy’s price — is missing from the requirements issued Thursday because the goal of the health law was coverage and benefits….

Bwahahahaha.

Of course. Coverage and benefits have nothing to do with price. Silly me. They’re for people with enough money to make it an irrelevant detail.