TOP TEN INDICATORS THAT YOUR EMPLOYER HAS CHANGED TO OBAMACARE

[Catshrink]

This is an email from my freeper BIL. Of all people, they should be grateful for reform given my sister's inability to get insured. They had insurance, the insurance company went bankrupt, and due to a pre-existing condition, she couldn't get any insurance. And she had many hospitalizations that nearly bankrupted them -- some of them were forgiven by the hospital because they couldn't pay. He couldn't wait to sign up for Medicare when he turned 65 and suddenly remembered he was a veteran and had an old injury (from the 60's!) he sustained while in the military -- and managed to get the VA to pay for a double knee replacement. Anyway, this email is fairly mild for him.

TOP TEN INDICATORS THAT YOUR EMPLOYER HAS CHANGED TO OBAMACARE:

(10) Your annual breast exam is done at Hooters.

(9) Directions to your doctor's office include "Take a left when you enter
the trailer park."

(8) The tongue depressors taste faintly of Fudgesicles.

(7) The only proctologist in the plan is "Gus" from Roto-Rooter.

(6) The only item listed under Preventive Care Coverage is "an apple a
day.."

(5) Your primary care physician is wearing the pants you gave to Goodwill
last month.

(4) "The patient is responsible for 200% of out-of-network charges," is not
a typographical error.

(3) The only expense covered 100% is "embalming."

(2) Your Prozac comes in different colors with little M's on them.

AND THE NUMBER ONE SIGN YOU'VE JOINED OBAMACARE:

(1) You ask for Viagra and they give you a Popsicle stick and Duct Tape.

[Sanity Claws]

1. Is there a reason for publishing this at DU?

If I want to see stuff like that, I'd hang out with Freepers.

[Cresent City Kid]

2. I'm for reform, but some of that was funny

(5) Your primary care physician is wearing the pants you gave to Goodwill
last month.

Not piss your pants funny, but a little funny.

[Catshrink]

3. A little funny....

That's about it. Just a mild example of what's going around in freeper world. I think stuff like this can lure in those who aren't sure about HCR and aren't particularly up on things, not news watchers, etc. It's actually more dangerous than the really rabid stuff because it doesn't seem so bad.

[napoleon_in_rags]

7. I gotta admit, that got a chuckle out of me too.

The right wing Jon Stewartry doesn't bother me, its when the jokes start getting taken seriously...

[Cresent City Kid]

9. There is a limit, but I can laugh at myself, and by extension my party

There was the occasional Clinton joke I found clever and amusing even before his cheating was official and I was hoping it was all another lie.

[Kerrytravelers]

4. Your BIL is confused. This is the GOP plan to do nothing and keep things the same.

No wonder he is a Republican.

[Catshrink]

5. You said it.

If Bush had proposed reform he would have gone for it -- he wasn't 65 then and needed insurance. Now he's got Medicare so screw everyone else. Oh, and he doesn't want government run healthcare. :rofl:

[JohnnyLib2]

6. Funny, and I'd rather be forewarned.

I'll probably get it from both brother and BIL.

:banghead:

[KittyWampus]

8. How about this version- Top Ten Indicators You're Being Hosed By Medical Insurance Companies:

10. your annual breast exam shows a lump but the insurance company calls it a pre-existing condition
9. your oncologist schedules you for various diagnostic testing but your co-pay exceeds your paycheck
8. you don't remember what your medicine tastes like, you can't afford it cause your policy was just canceled
7. closest you'll get to a proctology exam is getting fucked up the ass by Insurance executives
6. the only Preventive Care you get without insurance is called "trip to the emergency room"
5. your primary care physician called, he just had a lovely meal in a 5 star restaurant courtesy of a Pharma co.
4. "The patient is responsible for 200% of out-of-network charges," is not a typographical error.


Idiots

[PA Democrat]

16. You were much more creative than I was. I came up with only 2:

bankruptcy and death.

[SmileyRose]

19. Your knee replacement was denied b/c you fell off your bike when you were 5yrs old

you break your wrist and your doctor sends you home with a coupon for 35 cents off an ace bandage at Walmart.

[DRoseDARs]

10. Yeah, this has been rebranded from one that's been circling since at least July 2000

...probably much earlier. I figure it got it's start during the Clinton Healthcare Reform debacle.

One dated example:
http://www.spruance.com/medical.htm
"Category: Medical
Advertisement:
Date: 7/8/00
Joke: SIGNS YOU'VE JOINED A CHEAP HMO

9. Your annual breast exam is conducted at Hooters.
8. Directions to your doctor's office include, "Take a left when you enter the trailor park."
7. The tongue depressors taste faintly of Fudgesicles.
6. The only proctologist in the plan is "Gus" from Roto-Rooter.
5. The only item used under Preventative Care coverage is"an apple a day..."
4. Your "primary care physician" is wearing the pants you gave to Goodwill last month.
3. "The patient is responsible for 200% of out of network charges" is not a typo.
2. With your last HMO, your prozac didn't come in differentcolors with little "m"s on them.

1. AND the number 1 sign you've joined a cheap HMO: You ask for Viagra; you got a popsicle stick and duct tape...."



An example that this rehashed email was just a sampling of the original, no date on entry (site running from 1998 to at least 2008):
http://www.jokecenter.com/jokes/Medical/1407.htm
"Top 30 Signs You've Joined a Cheap HMO

Joke submitted by: Anonymous

Top 30 Signs You've Joined a Cheap HMO

1. Pedal-powered dialysis machines.
2. Use of antibiotics deemed an "unauthorized experimental procedure"
3. Head-wound victim in the waiting room is on the last chapter of "War and Peace"
4. You ask for Viagra. You get a popsicle stick and duct tape.
5. Annual breast exam conducted at Hooters.
6. Exam room has a tip jar.
7. You swear you saw salad tongs and a crab fork on the instrument tray just before the anesthesia kicked in.
8. "Will you be paying in eggs or pelts?"
9. Tight budget prevents acquisition of separate rectal thermometers.
10. "Take two leeches and call me in the morning"
11. The company logo features a hand squeezing a bleeding turnip.
12. Tongue depressors taste faintly of Fudgesicle.
13. Covered postnatal care consists of leaving your baby on Mia Farrow's doorstep.
14. Radiation treatment for cancer patients requires them to walk around with a postcard from Chernobyl in their pocket.
15."Pre-natal vitamin" prescription is a box of Tic-Tacs.
16. Chief Surgeon graduated from University of Benihana.
17. Directions to your doctor's office include, "take a left when you enter the trailer park"
18. Doctor listens to your heart through a paper towel tube.
19. Only item listed under Preventive Care feature of coverage is "an apple a day."
20. Only participating Physicians are Dr. Fine, Dr. Howard, Dr. Fine.
21. Only proctologist in the plan is "Gus" from Roto-Rooter.
22. Plan covers only "group" gynecological exams.
23. Preprinted prescription pads that say "Walk it off, you sissy."
24. To avoid a time consuming and expensive throat culture, the doctor just French kisses you.
25. Recycled bandages.
26. You can get your flu shot as soon as "the" hypodermic needle is dry.
27. Your "primary care physician" is wearing the pants you gave to goodwill last month.
28. 24-hour claims line is 1-800-TUF-LUCK
29. Costly MRI equipment efficiently replaced by an oversized 2-sided copier.
30. Enema? The lavatory faucet swivels to face upward."

[donco6]

12. I thought I recognized some of that shit. n/t

[Catshrink]

13. Doesn't surprise me.

[nadinbrzezinski]

11. This is a classic

by the way the other day I went to pick some food... older gentleman (70s) was railing against this socialism and communism and his interlocutor gave up.

So I butted in.

Sir, how do you like your MEDICARE?

I love it, why?

That's Government run, when are you turning in your card?

Lips flapping.

You are old enough for service in the military. how do you like your VA?

Well, I earned it.

Not the point, that too is comunism, so when are you turning your card in too?

By this point the guy he was talking wiht, in his forties, was laughing so hard it wasn't even funny. He thanked me.

So older man said, what is your solution then?

As you said, communism like the one you have. I want medicare for all. At this point he completely lost all color. I guess I connected a few dots... and I don't mind doing that.

Oh and I closed with the ever so popular, define socialism for me? He couldn't. I advised him to go find a dictionary of political terms and to stop using words Rush and the rest of the boys use and they don't know the meaning of the term either... oh and the cold war has been over for over a decade... time to stop falling for McCarthy like Commies under the bed tactics. After all it his choice to be a mouse or a man... (reference to a classic book of the 19th century, but I doubt he even got it)

His interlocutor thanked me. I got to him in five minutes, while he'd been trying for days.

[AuntPatsy]

17. I can't wait to utilize the very same if you don't mind?

[nadinbrzezinski]

18. Go for it, I got it here from another Du'er

they need to be reminded they are on the guv'ment tit.

:evilgrin:

[PA Democrat]

14. Top 10 Indicators Your Employer Has Dropped Covering Health insurance due to out-of-control

Premiums:

1. You're bankrupt trying to pay for health care on your own.

2. You're dead.

[lame54]

15. I laughed - that was good - especially # 8

[SmileyRose]

20. That one I would not mind.

:)

[NYCGirl]

21. And the #1 sign that you're a far right winger...

YOU NEED VIAGRA.