You know the Monty Python skit where John Cleese walks into a cheese shop, asks Michael Palin for dozens of different kinds of cheese, only to find there’s actually no cheese?
MOUSEBENDER:
Have you in fact got any cheese here at all?
- WENSLEYDALE:
Yes, sir.- MOUSEBENDER:
Really?(pause)
WENSLEYDALE:
No. Not really, sir.
Well, apparently the Romney administration is to health care what that cheese shopkeep is to cheese. Health Care for All reports that in spite of the administration’s plan to offer cut-rate insurance to the uninsured at the low low low prices, there’s no there, there: No insurer has come forward to offer such a plan.
In any event, such plans are a mere fig leaf, since they will doubtless involve high deductibles and co-pays, severely diluting the effect that they would actually have on health. Conservative magic: It’s health insurance without health care!
So let’s get this straight: The Romney administration has a health insurance plan without health insurance, and health insurance without health care. That’s like trying to divide by zero, twice. Like, whoah.
Eventually, the cheese shop owner comes clean:
- WENSLEYDALE:
… I was deliberately wasting your time, sir.
Agreed…and the latest Lowell Sun health-care-comparison article totally sucked. I hope someone at the Sun reads my shakedown of them today – I did like three posts lambasting them.What a bunch of hacks…It would be really cool, in like a year or two, to get as many or more hits on my weblog than their stupid ugly website. Ha!