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To: Kevin Rose who wrote (165079)	3/28/2010 12:09:00 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Respond to of 173976

The most amazing thing about the health-care bill? It's a 3-foot-high document from D.C Beyond that, more is unknown than known about the massive legislation. Thanks to my usual sources, some little-known provisions of the health-care mandate: 1. Saving a step and cutting out all middlemen, patient co-pays can be made directly in Chinese yen 2. New rule: Doctors, after prescribing the wrong meds and nearly killing you on their way out of town, have to apologize upon returning from quarterly vacation in Cabo. 3. Free government-provided Heimlich maneuvers for people who get boiled wiener chunks lodged in throats while booing congress persons. 4. Overdressed, drug-pushing pharmaceutical pimps living in clinic waiting rooms now have to share those nifty drug-logo pens, clocks, wrist bands, notepads and shoulder bags with everybody. Not pictured in the giddy, Democratic Party love fest in the White House upon signing of the health-care legislation: The legions of slimy health-industry lobbyists whose future fortunes have been guaranteed by the majority party. Short Quiz: The warning that "Abnormal behaviors may include aggressiveness, agitation, hallucinations or confusion" refers to: A) people who take the sleep drug Lunesta; B) teenagers in general; or C) the House Ways and Means Committee. Answer: All of the above