Sick jokes
Did you hear the one about the flu vaccine that doctors everywhere have been recommending? Turns out the flu strain that's going around this year is a different kind, so those flu shots are only partially effective.
And how about this one: the Senate will vote in the next 24 hours on a bill that New Jersey Sen. Frank Lautenberg says "has no 'care' in it." The title makes people think it would give them Medicare prescription drug coverage. Instead, millions of retirees nationwide would lose the coverage they now have from their former employers, coverage they earned and bargained for as workers. Instead, not only would Americans no longer be able to import or reimport drugs from Canada at a fraction of the inflated prices in the U.S, but Medicare wouldn't even be allowed to bargain with drug companies for group discounts, as the Veterans Administration does to great effect. But what about prescription drug coverage -- doesn't it include that? Uh-huh: Beginning in 2006 there'd be some coverage for some prescriptions under Medicare, but how much and for which drugs? Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton put it bluntly: "That's a pig in a poke."
Have you contacted your Senator yet? If not, the joke may be on you.
posted by Janet Dagley Dagley @6:13 PM
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