Healthcare Debates Gifts

'On this 'public option' thing... Can it be optional?'

An Arm and a Leg.

The 5th wave

"What do you mean 'sitting is the new smoking'? I thought fat was the new smoking?"

This is not the time to be restructuring the NHS in the middle of a pandemic Mr. Hancock!

"Welcome to Mars. We assume you're all up to date on your vaccinations?"

'Have you heard about the new Medicare drug plan called plan C? Medicare gives you $30 for a bus ticket to Canada!'

'I'll see your Social Security Supplement and raise you Medicare and a Canadian pharmacy ID.'

Profits for Big Pharma

US bishops given contraception lifeline.

'And you say your face after you looked at the bill I sent you for your last visit.'

'Legislature' doctor scratching his head over a syringe marked 'Free market Principles' with those marked 'Regulations' in the bin

Joe Lieberman rehearses the Filibuster dance.

'I'm holding firm against any government health plan.'

Doctor's profits match a patient's scar.

"I hope that you're not refusing free dental care for ideological reasons."

'In order for the new Health Care Bill to pass, we'll need to remove the option of Health and Care, and give taxpayers the bill.'

Warning: Birth control pills carry a history of heart attack or stroke....

Advertisements for 'Brother Marsh- faith healer and Deacon 'Speed' Alton- emergency room'.

"A terminal illness? That's seen as a weakness in my business."

'Take two aspirins and call Obama in the morning!'

'No, I'm not the famous heart surgeon, but I charge exactly what he charges...'

The devolution of the NHS

The Republican View of Healthcare

"I'd offer you a tissue, but I'm afraid your insurance won't cover it."

"You first."

'The Doctor will see you now...'

I've got Extreme Partisanship Syndrome? Is there such a thing? It's going around. It's acute anxiety caused by someone one the other side of the aisle. Feels like a heart attack. Absurd. That's what the right wing says about universal health care. Universal care is absurd?! I rest my case. Heart seizing! Can't ... breathe ...

'You'll never convince me that phone masts aren't a health risk.'

Be Right There

'The good news is we can still get abortions.'

"The budget wouldn't stretch to a gastric band."

Obama Clinic and Republican Clinic

"Well, thanks for coming over with the soup and the subtle condemnations of my use of Western medicine."

The Politics of Masochism