I take a quick glance at all the bills that are introduced in Congress to make sure you’re getting the very, very best information from WashingtonWatch.com. (And maybe I’ve got a touch of OCD.) As I do, I often stumble across bills that stand out just for something in their titles. The bed bug bill was one.

Then there are the bills whose titles promise too much. You know it’s too good to be true.

I’ve created a special category for these kinds of bills called “. . . and a pony” because they’re like what you’d ask Santa Claus for after you finished with the stuff you thought you might actually get.

Tonight’s bill is H.R. 6444. Now, it doesn’t have one of those made-up titles like “The Everyone Will Be Happy From Now On Act,” but it’s close. (It might later; they’re sometimes added.) It just has a brief summary of what the intent of the bill is. And H.R. 6444’s intent is “To provide affordable, guaranteed private health coverage that will make Americans healthier and can never be taken away.” And a pony.

All these things are good, and I think a competitive system for private health coverage would help control costs and make people healthier, or at least leave them with more money to have fun with before they die – which is inevitable, y’know (and that’s OK).

But “guaranteed” health insurance that “can never be taken away”? Hey! If I’m in an insurance pool and other people in it have taken up parachuting and base jumping because their methamphetamine habit just isn’t interesting enough – I want them OUT of my insurance pool! I want their insurance taken away! Because they’re raising my rates!

So the first inductee into the “. . . and a pony” insurance pool is H.R. 6444, “to provide affordable, guaranteed private health coverage that will make Americans healthier and can never be taken away.”

Here’s the current voting on the bill: click to vote, comment, learn more, and edit the wiki article: