Instapundit calls them “dick panels.” They work this way:
Public health officials are considering promoting routine circumcision for all baby boys born in the United States to reduce the spread of H.I.V., the virus that causes AIDS.
Fine, you say. Let them. They put warning labels on lots of things. So put them on uncircumcised members.
Under ObamaCare . . . when the government starts paying more and more of the health-care tab, they will point to ambiguous cost savings down the road in this and other cases, decades down the road to pressure Americans into surrendering their choices now.
So. For uncircumcised deliveries you expect reimbursement from Daddy Health Care? Sorry, fellows and girls. You made your bed, lie in it. No snip-snip, no payout. It’s how it works, don’t you know?
As Hot Air explains:
The advocates of ObamaCare insist that medical decisions will remain between doctors and patients and not involve mandates from government. However, the same people also cheer the idea of government coaching doctors to adopt practices, and to back up those choices with pressure from payment schedules, [Italics added here] which will result in de facto [not here] diktats, especially when it evolves into a single-payer system.
This they will do “in the name of AIDS prevention even though the risks are manageable and the effect less than certain.”
Because they know what is best for you.
Blithe Spirit 