INSURERS GET COLD SHOULDER AFTER WOMEN'S CANCER TREATMENT LEFT OUT IN THE COLD

The Santa Barbara Independent, bless their hearts, recently discovered that when women face the brutal reality of breast cancer treatment and want to avoid looking like a plucked chicken, insurance companies often draw the line at covering scalp-cooling technology. This groundbreaking exposé, sure to win them zero Pulitzers, details how these soulless algorithms deem such self-respecting measures 'cosmetic.' Who knew that looking human after chemotherapy was merely an aesthetic preference, not a vital part of mental and emotional recovery for someone battling a life-threatening illness?

One might wonder how it is that these mighty medical-industrial complexes, overseen by countless layers of 'compassionate' government regulation, consistently find new and exciting ways to deny care. Could it be that the same political class that insists on dictating every cough and sniffle of American life has somehow overlooked the basic human dignity of those facing cancer? Or perhaps, and this is truly a wild thought, the endless bureaucracy and bloat we’ve allowed to fester in our healthcare system thrives on precisely this kind of arbitrary denial, allowing bean counters to play God while patients suffer.

Our angle here at The Whipping Post, which the Indy never quite seems to grasp, is that showering healthcare with more layers of governmental 'oversight' and 'mandates' doesn't make it more humane; it just makes it more expensive and less responsive. Every time a new 'solution' is proposed by the very types who created the problem, it only creates another loophole for insurers and another hurdle for patients. Maybe, just maybe, if we stopped handing over our healthcare decisions to panels of unelected experts and returned control to patients and their doctors, we'd see fewer women begging for basic care denied by some nameless, faceless committee.