A Vicious Circle
Guess who gets bitten

A Blue Dog's main concern's extorting
    campaign funds from health insurers
While the insurer's main concern
    is finding sympathetic jurors
When claims exceed the predetermined
    totals they had planned to pay,
Necessitating a protracted
    and substantial pay delay.

Illegal? Yes, but who can quibble
    with no approved alternative?
Their business plans prescribe delays
    that they expect we won't outlive.
Without the profits so engendered,
    they realize there'd be no way
For Blue Dogs to get health insurance.
    Extortion, or they're DOA.

Bob Carlson
www.politicalboondoggles.com
8/1/09

To 'Blue Dog Democrats'
To 'Private Health Insurers'
To 'Industry Is Generous'