Dr. Seuss’s Prescription for Healthcare Reform
August 16th, 2009
In response to Mike Barden comment on Huffington Post blog on Sarah Palin’s anti-death panel victory that to make healthcare reform understandable to the Birther/Deather crowd it would have to be written by Dr. Seuss. So, here goes.
Our health care system isn’t good.
Should we fix it? Yes, we should.
Better for patients like you and me,
Not just for the insurance company.
If you’re a health insurance company, what can stop you
From dropping a sick patient? Oh, they’ll drop you!
If the government doesn’t stop it
They’ll drop you to increase their profit.
And what happens
When you reach their ceiling?
They’ll cut you off
With no ounce of feeling.
If you change your job
You’re in a bad position
Because now everything’s
A pre-existing condition.
They’ve got a solution
If you can’t pay your bill.
Just borrow and go bankrupt
Like many others will.
Get in an accident?
Need emergency care?
Too bad the ER’s overflowing
With uninsured waiting there.
Our system now is great for Big Health.
It lets them do as they please.
Of course they designed it themselves
Via Republican proxies.
The public option?
Big Health wants to stop it,
Because it might
Reduce their profit.
Do they want competition
Or just to keep their monopolies?
If you think it’s the former
Just ask Harry and Louise.
“But the Government can’t do anything right,”
Says the regularly wrong Radical Right.
What confidence does the VA system inspire?
Its costs are lower and quality higher.
Republicans have no ideas of their own
So they just incite terror
Of death panels run
by a Kenyan-born dictator.
Isn’t it funny how their logic works?
They say someone who sasses a cop should be arrested.
But when Teabaggers are asked not to scream insults at Senators
Their God-given rights are being contested.
How about that bugaboo,
Rationed health care?
Sorry Harry and Louise,
But we’re already there.
But instead of government officials
Whose job is to help us,
Care is “managed” by insurance bureaucrats
Who make cuts for a bonus.
America is a great country
But it won’t stay that way
If we let Big Health and the Radical Right
Win the day.
So please, don’t be fooled
By hateful nonsense from Rush and Glenn.
Don’t let Big Health
Kill healthcare reform again!
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