Healthcare Funnies

There was so much funny healthcare news this past week, I thought I might post of a whole series of healthcare poems, but most of the news turned out to be funnier in itself than anything I could say about it.

I did come up with one piece, based on Fox’s refusal to admit it had made a mistake by reporting that the individual mandate had been struck down.

Believe It

Our job is to share the news as we learn it. As we were hearing it, and as we were reading it, we let our viewers know about it.

–Michael Clemente, Fox Executive Vice-President of News-Editorial,
quoted by Paul Farhi, Washington Post

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Larry McCarthy and How to Stop Him

Larry McCarthy is the racist sleazeball who masterminded the “Willie Horton ad.” In the 1988 presidential campaign between George H. W. Bush and Michael Dukakis, McCarthy made the image of a scary black criminal the difference in the election. And yes, he’s still working on behalf of the Republicans…and Mitt Romney.

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