Some people marry for love, some for companionship and others for status or money. Now comes another reason to get hitched: health insurance. In a poll released this week, 7 percent of Americans said they or someone in their household decided to marry in the past year so they could obtain health-care benefits via their spouse.

THIS IS FROM A DETROIT NEWS STORY.

In our Handbook on State Health Reform, we created vignettes to show how much better life would be in a reformed health care system.  The Commonwealth Fund liked our idea so much they copied it for Karen Davis' Message in the latest CWF Annual Report.  (Minus my writing panache and witty sense of humor, of course.)  

The big difference: In the CWF vignettes there are no economic incentives, no patient power, no doctor power, no markets, no entrepreneurs and certainly no capitalists.  In Karen's world, supervised by benevolent government bureaucrats who always make the right decisions, good things just happen to good people.  Why didn't I think of that?