Sunday, September 26, 2010

An Rx for Death

For now, insurers can’t withdraw
Your plan if you or yours get sick
From some past biologic flaw.
You’d think they should have cared a lick
Until you realize their goal:
Net income not disease control.

As well, they can’t place lifetime caps
On how much money they’ll pay out
If chronic sufferers relapse
So much that actuaries shout.
And, heretofore, their sway was such
A life was only worth so much.

For now, I say. The GOP
Has pledged to kill the health reforms,
And let the separate states decree
How U.S. medicine performs.
If it prescribes this poison pill,
The law’s not all it’s going kill.

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