Health Care Reform Is a Woman’s Issue

Last week Michelle Obama gave a powerful speech explaining why health insurance reform was a woman’s issue. Her arguments were subsequently dramatized by a  telling exchange between Senator John Kyl, a Republican from Arizona, and Senator Debbie Stabenow, a Democrat from Michigan, last Friday in a Senate Finance Committee meeting.

Senator Kyl articulated the view that the federal government should not tell private health insurance companies what benefits they should offer. For instance, he does not think he should be required to pay premiums to help finance maternity costs, since he has never needed maternity care.

As Senator Stabenow calmly observed, “I think your mom did.”

(great read all the way through, you can find it here at the NYT; thanks Maricar)