Yesterday the the federal government decreed that all but a few religiously-exempt health insurers will have to cover birth control, without even a copay. It’s interesting to watch as the government assumes complete control over healthcare to see where its priorities are, and what will come next.

Forget finding the best doctor, Obamacare is reducing healthcare to who has the best lobbyist.

And it won’t end there. The pattern is set. Special interest constituencies will continually demand ever more; e.g. coverage for illegal aliens, coverage for abortion, coverage for IVF, etc. etc. etc. At the same time, powerless people will be offered ever less, e.g., imposition of futile care theory and health care rationing against the morbidly elderly, the dying, and people with severe disabilities. See, these groups have no powerful political constituency groups grabbing pieces of the pie for them. They will matter little in the emerging corrupt system of exchanging health care benefit spoils in return for political support, which is the essence of Obamacare.

And NPR is naive to pretend that that the coverage will be “free.”