Healthcare Discussion Gifts

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

"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!

'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.'

US bishops given contraception lifeline.

"Are you sure that cutting them up will make him better?"

Profits for Big Pharma

An Arm and a Leg.

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

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

"I've been living vicariously through a really boring person."

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.'

"I'm trying to determine if the aches and pains are from an injury or just my new normal."

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

RFK Jr Anti-Vax

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

"You first."

The devolution of the NHS

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

Be Right There

The Republican View of Healthcare

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

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

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

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 ...

'Doctor, I will tell you the whole history of my disease.'

'The Doctor will see you now...'

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

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

"Why is it when Jane Austen describes everyday events, it's literary genius, but as soon as I start talking about my gall bladder, your eyes glaze over?"

"We're incompatible. . . He's anti-mask and I'm anti-vax!"

The Politics of Masochism