When a cartoon cuts this close - laughing is all but impossible

[Mira]

[Warpy]

1. Horsey gets it again.

Editorial cartoonists and comedians are the only ones left who are able to tell the truth in media.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. I cannot laugh either, my dear Mira...I want to scream or cry or something...

It is So Good, so True.

[madamesilverspurs]

3. It goes everywhere.

One of my doctors gave me some samples of a new medication to try; it did what we hoped it would, so he wrote a prescription. Pharmacist just shook his head as he advised me that my Medicare D provider wouldn't pay for it as they don't consider it a medication, they say it's a "supplement". Way too expensive, no way I can get it out of pocket. And it's still months away from when I can, yet again, shop for a better provider. Yuck.

[BlueManFan]

17. I need a medication for people who have had their pancreas removed. No small issue, but

managable with Pancrease. Here's the funny thing, ha ha I'm laughing out loud here, the drug company stopped making the generic, and my prescription plan won't cover the formulary. $200 per bottle, and I have to take it for the rest of my life. When I appealed, the &%%#%$^ CVS Caremark (*uck youCaremark-sue me if you want) told me that since there was a generic, no go on paying for mine. I offered to pay the highest copay. Still no. I hope there's a special layer of hell for these insurance companies and the executives who loot them for their salary while denying life giving medication to people who HAVE PAID for them.

[malaise]

4. K & R

Too close to the truth

[etherealtruth]

5. Kicking for more exposure

[Bernardo de La Paz]

6. That toon is spot on. nt

[bvar22]

7. Tick...Tock....Tick...Tock... 2014 approaches.

Unless it gets delayed, THAT is when The Mandate kicks in,
and The Exchanges open for business.

How will it go?

*Will 40 Million - 70 Million uninsured Americans (projected # of uninsured Americans by 2014) embrace their Mandatory "Bronze" Health Insurance bought from "private" Corporations without complaint?

*How many $DOLLARS$ will those Americans have to cough up out of their empty pockets to pay their part of the subsidy,
it they qualify for one?

*How difficult will it be to convert their "Bronze" Insurance into actual Health Care?

*How many will complain that the IRS was a bad choice for The Hammer if they choose not to pay?

*Was Leaving this Up-to-the-States,
50 different Exchanges, 50 different rates, 50 different sets of rules, and 50 different levels of oversight such a good idea?

Believe me when I tell you that the vast majority of The Uninsured have absolutely NO idea what will be required of them in 2014.


How smoothly The MANDATE goes into effect may determine the future of the Democratic Party for many years.
We live in interesting times.

[azureblue]

8. and how many

will make posts like this one, without bothering to read the ACA,and look at how it has affected the costs of health care i states where it is enacted? The info is there for those who do not have reading comprehension problems

[heaven05]

9. +1000

good for you.

[Fumesucker]

11. What part of this do you disagree with?

How smoothly The MANDATE goes into effect may determine the future of the Democratic Party for many years.

[bvar22]

12. What part of...

"Believe me when I tell you that the vast majority of The Uninsured have absolutely NO idea what will be required of them in 2014"

...did you NOT understand?

Do you have anything to say about the things I pointed out?
or would you rather argue about things that nobody has said?

[spanone]

10. k&r...

[1StrongBlackMan]

13. Mrs. 1SBM's 84 yr. old Aunt ...

got a letter this week from a Insurance Company denying a portion of her claim. She had her Thyroid removed 3 years ago and stayed one night to recover. The insurance company is denying the hospital stay as "medicalto her ly unnecessary." She appealed an initial denial ... the letter she received was notifying her that the appeal had been denied.

Why? Because ... nothing bad happened during her overnight stay. I kid you not! They said since she didn't experience much pain, no infection or excessive bleeding, and she was able to eat ... she could have done that at home and rushed back to the hospital if something bad had happened.

I'm writing her second appeal and I struggling not to write just one word: :Really?"

Any medical folks out there? Please PM me ... I have some general, non-diagnostic questions regarding adverse home recoveries.

[JohnnyRingo]

14. K&R

In the business of making money.
Patients just get in the way, what with their petty ailments and such.

[Brigid]

15. Oh, snap!

House himself could not have done better.

[Little Star]

16. I love your sig line Mira!