Al Franken (D.Minn) has suggested an amendment to the healthcare bill now being debated in the Senate. The amendment would mandate that 90% of the billions of dollars slated to support the health insurance companies, under the new bill, would have to go to health care itself. Only 10% would be allowed for "administrative" costs (still many billions of dollars). Good idea.
Good idea, but I'm a bit disappointed. There's nothing at all funny about Al's amendment. I was hoping that when Franken was elected, we'd finally get some laws that were intentionally funny. A former comedian, I'm sure he's still a very funny guy. Perhaps a law, patterned after American Idol, that would make all the insurance company execs compete in a gigantic, round-robin farting contest. Or Topless Tuesdays in insurance offices. Funny hats? I don't know. If anybody's reading this maybe you can suggest a funny law or two and we can send them all in. You never know.
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