Bungee Jumping Insurance
Ensuring future bailouts

For bungee jumpers bungee jumping's
    big kicks magnified
Until their final jump when they
    find their cord has been untied.

So Anthem Blue Cross has to love
    what Harry Reid is doing,
Giving them what now appears
    to be a royal screwing.

If private health insurance
    can be made obligatory,
With bungee jumping coverage
    for Bush Sr. mandatory,

The nation's bungee jumpers
    all can rest assured
That they, too, will be covered
    while their insurer's skewered.

Who cares if their cord's too long
    and suddenly kersplat?
They won't have to hear Blue Cross
    say, "We're not paying; you're too fat..."

And Anthem Blue Cross CPAs
    won't have to thin their ranks
Of sickly members worrying,
    "What if another Blue Cross tanks?"

With healthy jumper numbers down
    they'll stay in their downward spiral
And qualify for big bailouts,
    for, as with A.I.G., it's viral.

Bob Carlson
www.politicalboondoggles.com
2/21/10

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