I am having entirely too much fun with the Affordable Care Act. The next item I would like to review is the list of Essential Health Benefits. I have entitled the posting “Pablum for the Masses.”
Pablum is an entendre on several levels: it means bland or insipid, which this Act most certainly is. It is a bland soft cereal for infants, and our government is certainly treating its citizens as infants by the passage of the act. Finally, it may mean simplistic writing, speech, or conceptualization, and the act is simplistic to the point of absurdity. [Read more…]