4.12.2012

Healthcare Reform for NeoConservatives





Humpty Dumpty
sat on a wall,
When he last had medical coverage, he could not recall,



He noticed a small crack,
seemed like nothing at all...


With money or coverage,
he’d have given that doctor a call,
And they might have taped
or glued up that small crack,
so that old Humpty
could get right back on track,
Or better yet prevented it with a good coat of shellack!


But poor old Humpty had neither money
nor coverage to attend to his needs,
So he went about his business and hoped for the best,
Each effort, each movement put that crack to the test,
But feeding his family left him no time to give it a rest.


It started to spread
and some albumin was expressed,
Though he was neither stupid
nor lazy as some might suggest,
Poor Humpty still thought he dare not be seen,
Cause he knew what such a visit might mean,
Some day he might get coverage
and this visit would be eyed with suspicion,
Being an egg, he feared it might be labelled a preexisting condition.


One day it was too late to fix that dread fissure,
He fell off that wall with a loud crack!
And Old Humpty's future faded to black,
Then King’s men and King’s horses rushed him to the emergency room,
Where you’d think there’d be little to do other than get out the mop or that broom.


But modern medicine has come far,
from the time this story was first penned,
So yolk and shell fragments isn’t necessarily the end,
One month then, two in the ICU,
followed by weeks of rehab,
He slowly recovered but ran up a huge tab.



And on that day when the bills finally arrived,
he wondered if it was truly better that he had survived,
He might now be more fit, and certainly more healthy,
but to pay off his debt he had to sell himself off,
as an omelet to one who was wealthy.


Think that this tale is a fantasy with no relevance to you,
That this is but typical left winger skew?
When those bills start piling up, see how each of you reacts,
Cause next time it may be YOUR nest egg that cracks.



Hope this is simple enough for even a judge or legislator to ken,
And they’ll have enough sense this fate for others to allay,
But I hope they do it soon and don’t dare delay,
Cause soon even all the King’s horses and all the King’s men,
won’t be enough to put the healthcare system back together again...

10 comments:

Pliny-the-in-Between said...

Based on the level of sophistication of some of the Court's questions and statements by the some lawyers, I thought we should start slowly...

pboyfloyd said...

I know. Seems to me that they're so intent on painting Obama a fucking Commie that they run to the right, but there's no right there in some cases.

For example everyone knows that Obamacare is a Romneycare knockoff but somehow Obamacare is communism and Romneycare, well that is, apparently just wrong 'cos it had the bad luck to be copied by the Obama administration.

How the fuck can something be communism 'cos one person does it, the perps ought to be lined up and shot for it, kind of thing, yet that same thing might have actually been a model for the country if Obama had been against it?

That's not running to the right, that's running to the ridiculous, the nutz, the crazy, the IN-fucking-SANE!

Why is it that now everything that a Rep. legislator says now doesn't have to contain any truth at all, these days?

"This was not intended as a factual statement.", "If anyone quotes me, they're lying.", "He was talking from the heart.", and so on.

WTF? Seems to me that half the people are totally brainwashed into thinking that 'free' means 'the same as me', and that the opposite of 'free' is 'unAmerican'.

I'm honestly worried that they might start impounding you guys for 'bad-think' (thinking) soon.

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Pliny-the-in-Between said...

One problem we are facing is that America's strength for a long time was that it grew on narcissism. Unfortunately that's not a sustainable business or social model.

Saint Brian the Godless said...

Republicans are going to close a lot of loopholes!

List of loopholes:
Pell grants
Medicare
Medicaid
Social Security
Anything for the poor...
Anything for women...
Anything that might help gays...
And so on.

Pliny-the-in-Between said...

Hey B - long time no see!

FYI - I don't think you ever checked out the link to the right called 'Inconceivable' It will sound very familiar...

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Dani Walker said...

Excellent points and so true. We've experienced the bill piling up. Did you also create the humpty dumpty? If so, would you allow use in a book along with credit to you? Thanks

Dani Walker said...

Excellent points and so true. We've experienced the bill piling up. Did you also create the humpty dumpty? If so, would you allow use in a book along with credit to you? Thanks

Pliny-the-in-Between said...

Dani, the Humpty Dumpty was a composite character - some was original and some of it was pieced together. That might make it too 'iffy' for your purpose.