Common Sense Makes a Comeback

Now, here's a good piece of proposed legislation that really makes sense: alleviate some of the burdensome coverage requirements placed on insurance companies that drive up the cost of health care for everyone in Massachusetts.

Just a couple examples of some of the 37 treatments insurance companies are required to cover here in Massachusetts are infertility and chiropractic treatments.

Certainly no one wants to eliminate basic procedures and life-saving treatments. What will be accomplished is eliminating inefficient government regulations that do more damage than anything else.

The manner in which this reform is accomplished will most likely be at the center of the debate, but let's just hope that our legislature will have meaningful debate and not turn this into a partisan issue that will be buried by the supermajority on Beacon Hill.