Obama: Health Insurers Must Now Provide "Free" Services

Yesterday Obama laid out new rules intended to begin the elimination of private health insurance altogether. The rules require health insurers who sign up new members to provide "free" services to its members.

For adults, the list of covered services includes mammograms, colonoscopies and other cancer screenings, diabetes screenings, counseling for tobacco use and certain types of pre-natal care. For children, it includes pediatric visits, vision and hearing screening, developmental assessments, immunizations and obesity screenings.

Insurers say the changes won't be free to consumers since plans will have to raise premiums overall to offset the cost of covering these services. The Obama administration estimates that the changes will increase the cost of premiums by an average of 1.5% a year.

My question is, why stop there? Why not require them to give away all health care for free?