Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for April 29, 2011

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    comicgos  over 13 years ago

    Nah! - that rate is WAY to LOW!

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    EarlWash  over 13 years ago

    Things to come.

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    x_Tech  over 13 years ago

    And your Family Planning Consultant is just down that alley.

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    Ernest Lemmingway  over 13 years ago

    Looks like a bad neighborhood.

    “I’m not going out there without a bulletproof couch!” Sidney Friedman, MASH

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    magnamax  over 13 years ago

    My kind of shrink. Sidney, that is.

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    Mouthbone  over 13 years ago

    Wiley makes me laugh out loud, sometimes explosively!

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    roctor  over 13 years ago

    If private sector insurance is so good and affordable. Why dosen’t everybody already have it?

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    ImaginaryFriend  over 13 years ago

    So, if you mix this strip with the royal wedding, and throw in a few tornadoes …

    Ok, I did not come up with anything either…

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    lewisbower  over 13 years ago

    Had the same insurance for 40 years. When I was young it was a rip off. Now that I’m old and need doctors, the investment is paying off. Like any other investment, sometimes I lose. But without that investment, could I beg my friends and neighbors to pay my medical bills because I hadn’t bothered to invest in my future? Daddy taught me better than that.

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    Sandfan  over 13 years ago

    If he’s only charging $25, he’s getting a large subsidy from somewhere.

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    rockngolfer  over 13 years ago

    The corner couch and Walgreens cover 100% of what you need.

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    Boots at the Boar Premium Member over 13 years ago

    Psychologists are little more than paid close friends. Not all prostitution is illegal.

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    pdchapin  over 13 years ago

    I’m also from MA and what RCMinor forgot to mention is that state regulators are continually shooting down rate increase requests. We’d be paying a lot more without the state protection. Of course, the requests are probably unreasonably high since the companies know they’re going to knocked down. You don’t open with your best offer.

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    Potrzebie  over 13 years ago

    Huzzah RCMinor!!!

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    steverinoCT  over 13 years ago

    …not to mention the “race to the bottom” where interstate competition is allowed, and states attract business by minimizing their regulations. See: Credit Cards, Delaware. Without some controls, we’d get screwed. Heck, with controls…

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    OneDayAtATime  over 13 years ago

    If mental health counseling is what you’re looking for, it’s a lot cheaper, and probably just as effective, to buy a six pack of beer and whine at your buddies about how screwed up the world is.

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    Tuner38  over 13 years ago

    Private health care is what brought us to the premier level we have seen. Bumbling government intervention has deteriorated the industry. You want proof. I have a receipt for my birth costs. $38.00 in 1938.

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    Superfrog  over 13 years ago

    He can charge that rate because he has no overhead.

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    benbrilling  over 13 years ago

    At first glance I thought those bags in the alley were a sleeping elephant.

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    Bogy Premium Member over 13 years ago

    RCMinor, isn’t Massachusetts the state for RomneyCare? The model for ObamaCare? Thanks for letting us all know how well it works.

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    Can't Sleep  over 13 years ago

    IF Private Sector insurance is sooo good –

    Why don’t Congressmen use it?

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    VernonC  over 13 years ago

    Presidents and members of Congress become millionaires feigning interest in our problems.

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    bmonk  over 13 years ago

    @NightShade09–they don’t use it in Congress, because they can get the taxpayer to fund their own plan.

    Rather ask if their plan is so affordable, why don’t they open it to the rest of us?

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    wesleym81 Premium Member over 13 years ago

    $25? All these years I’ve been doing it for free. I could have made some money.

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    sleepeeg3  over 13 years ago

    Private insurance, pff! Stealing money from your neighbors is the way to go! That’s the way us incompetent people and illegal immigrants roll.

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    yuggib  over 13 years ago

    For “bmonk” and Nightshade09,”

    I do not know whether gocomics has a policy against do this, so, in my ignorance, I am posting a link for those that insist that Congress is exempt from the Health Care Reform Act of 2019. They (Members of Congress) are in the same boat as the rest of us, they gotta BUY their own health care, too!

    http://www.snopes.com/politics/medical/28thamendment.asp

    The information is at the bottom of the Snopes page. (I am getting sooooo tired of folks mouthing off without checking their facts!)

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    bmonk  over 13 years ago

    yuggib, I never said that Congress is exempt, only that their benefits plan is rather nice. A few moments with google led to a variety of articles, including the first one I checked, which basically says that, yes, Congress has nice benefits, and that they can’t really be extended to the rest of the citizenry, since we couldn’t afford it.

    Is this article plausible? Since it’s in the LA Times, I rather doubt it is from a highly conservative view, so I tend to believe its claims. Furthermore, as I said, other articles I checked also agree with the points. I stand by my comment.

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