Believe it or not, I have occasionally been accused of "liberal media bias."

It doesn't happen all that often, largely because I'm not famous enough for most news media consumers to complain about. People seem to have a lot more fun hurling those accusations at people like Keith Olberman and Rachael Maddow.

At the same time, it's curious — isn't it? — that you never hear about "conservative media bias." It's as if that sort of slant in journalism is somehow okay.

But I digress.

Given those occasional accusations, it was a somewhat surreal experience for me to listen to Congressman Lou Gohmert, Republican from Texas (that bastion of left-wing ideology), talking about our health care system at last week's House Small Business Committee Hearing.

Here's what he said:

I also think, for those who want to be entrepreneurs, since health insurance has taken off so well, you could do the same thing with gasoline. The price is up, it's down. Tell America: ‘You pay us a big wad of money every month, and we'll give you a co-pay and a deductible, and we'll pay your gasoline bill every month.'

It's the same type thing, it's not insurance as much as it is management.

And so I would love to see us get back to the place where we were when I was younger, when you could have catastrophic care — insurance did a phenomenal job of taking their monthly payments, depositing them, making them grow and then covering catastrophic events instead of managing health care. I'd love to see us get back to a doctor-patient relationship that we don't have anymore.

You'd almost think Congressman Gohmert has been reading The MicroEnterprise Journal, wouldn't you?

It is to be hoped that eventually more policy makers recognize how silly it is to be debating how best to pay insurance companies when we really need to figure out how best to pay doctors.

In the meantime, I will bask in the knowledge that Congressman Gohmert and I agree on something.

Which only goes to show that, in the realm of public policy, truly anything is possible.