Cooperative Medicine

In the wake of the national disaster called Obamacare, (fatuously named the Affordable Care Act, which is about neither affordability nor care), an increasing number of Americans are turning to healthcare co-ops:

Deirdre Folley is one of more than 600,000 people nationwide who is considered uninsured.

Yet when her daughter suffered a hairline fracture in her leg, requiring visits to an urgent care center, radiologist, and orthopedist, Folley and her family didn’t end up paying anything for the cost of her care even though charges totaled nearly $1,400.

That’s because Folley and her family of four are members of Samaritan Ministries, a health care sharing ministry with members who “share” in the cost of one another’s medical expenses.

The usual suspects -- Leftists and insurance carriers -- are crying foul, of course:

“The National Association of Insurance Commissioners has previously warned that health care sharing ministries are not insurance and therefore don’t have the protections of insurance.”

Oh, really? You mean like when Florida was wiped out by hurricane Andrew and all the major carriers declared an act of God, washed their hands and walked away without paying a dime to policyholders? That kind of “protection”?

The free market is responding, as it was designed to, in order to mitigate the impact of yet another government boondoggle. The statists who laughably call themselves liberals can't have that, of course; control is the goal. Cradle to grave, they wish to tell you how to live according to their ever-changing whims. These are people who are confused by their own genitals, yet they want to run the hospitals. Um, no thanks.