Here's my public option plan -- Only if you're 5 foot three, age 50 to 53 and have red hair and.....

[Armstead]

were born on May 30.

If you don't fit that criteria, tough luck. You have to feed the coffers of the insurance industry at jacked-up rates or go to jail.

That's no worse than these smokescreens and evasions that are currently bounncing around Washington and being called "public options" and "reform."

[saracat]

1. No kidding.

[saracat]

2. I am only 3 inches too tall and 8 days off that Bday and description Damn

[Armstead]

3. Sorry -- No exceptions.

[saracat]

4. That was what I figured. Maybe I can get shorter if I cut my legs off?

Works about as well as the suggestion that I should "move" to another state to get health care.

[Armstead]

5. No, then you'd have a pre-existing condition

[mascarax]

6. Can those born on May 29 get a trigger?

I don't know what that might mean exactly, but...ya know...seems like the thing to recommend.
(When is Olympia Snowe's birthday? Can that count?!)

[Armstead]

7. Only in a leap year

[woo me with science]

8. But I'm a Capricorn! nt