Confusion is everywhere, with this Obama plan. It is apparently all in the name of “help.”

So what happens to the patient who is in the middle of some sort of treatment, and now has to be re-diagnosed by a new doctor and re-approved by a new insurance company? And what if the treatment is not covered under the new, cheaper policy, and the victim — er — patient has to pay out of pocket for treatment?

Aren’t these problems the exact reason why We the People want to be able to have the freedom to choose our own policies — or even whether we want to contract and associate ourselves with an insurer in the first place?

This “wonderful” benefit that the Democrats have bestowed upon us keeps getting worse and worse, each descent into worstness being a surprise (why are we surprised that this happens?).

(Please note, all of these questions are rhetorical. Of course I think that the patient gets screwed and that we have lost valuable freedoms, and that we may be terribly foolish for continually being surprised that the government has found newer and more creative ways to screw us — it is not “all in the name of help,” because screwing us seems to be their favorite pastime, and they obviously have a lot of time on their hands to pass.)

On the other hand, even the insurance companies can mess up doctor choices. I once went to a doctor that was on my then-insurer’s list, but when I tried to collect the reimbursement, I was told that he was not an approved doctor (this was in the days when this newfangled inter-webby thing was new, and everything was on months-old paper). It ended happily, though, because the guy on the phone could approve the payment, but only if he read to me the rules (read: riot act) over the phone. (Needless to say, I chose another insurer at the next open enrollment, but only because I foolishly thought it would solve the problem.)