Cartoon Saturday

I wish I'd kept the receipt for this week so that I could exchange it ...

The White House has announced that Der Furor is suffering from a chronic vein condition that Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt described as "tissue damage from frequent handshaking;" singer Connie Francis, the first woman in history to top the Billboard Hot 100 chart, died at 87;  an Israeli shell struck the only Catholic church in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, killing three people and wounding 10 others, including the parish priest; Congress has approved and sent to Der Furor for approval legislation to claw back billions of dollars previously approved for public broadcasting that conservatives believe does not support their agenda; and in Rockland, Maine, a Vermont man was arrested and charged with a long list of offenses after he followed a woman into the police station parking lot where she'd gone for help, crashed into a police cruiser, fled the scene, and resisted arrest.

This week, as we anxiously wait to see what happens to our health care now that Congress has decided we need to pay more for it, a collection of cartoons about medical care ...

Don't you love the wall-to-wall advertising of drugs?

My doctor told me something like this the last time I saw her ...

You didn't believe that voice-over in the ad that said, "If you can't afford your prescription, (insert name of pharmaceutical company here) may be able to help" did you?

This is the one authorized for Medicaid patients ...

I think we can all expect the same thing ...

Yes. Yes, they do ...

My doctor told me this, too ...

This is the EKG you'll be getting when the originalists write your insurance policy ...

This is exactly how it works, isn't it? ...

That's how the system actually works ...

And that's it for this week, as we attempt once again to show that laughter is the best medicine ... which is a good thing, as it's the only one Medicaid will probably pay for going forward.

Have a good day and a great weekend. Stay cool and stay dry, if you can. More thoughts tomorrow, when Poetry Sunday returns. 

Bilbo