Saturday Night Live incorporates the week's news into its skits. In that light I offer:
Two women and one man are trapped inside a basement. Close examination shows the women to be HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebellius and White House Health Czar Nancy-Ann DeParle. The man is Dr. Jonathan Gruber, a health economist at MIT. He is examining a ticking bomb.
Kathleen Sebellius: It's a Republican health care stink bomb, DocGruber. 30 seconds. Can you disarm it in time?
DocGruber: I think so. Did you bring the check?
Nancy-Ann DeParle (rooting through her pocketbook): Here it is.
DocGruber: This one's to big pharma. Where's mine?
Kathleen (getting anxious): Time is running short!
DocGruber: I can't run my "stink bomb neutralizing" computer model without the money.
The bomb ticks in the background
Nancy-Ann (pulling out a stack of checks): Will these do?
DocGruber (flipping through them): Medical device makers, health insurers, for-profit hospitals, electronic records software, long term care, corporations, unions: Where's my $392,000!
Nancy-Ann: I found it! DocGruber, you can run the model and save the bill.
Kaboom! The Republican stink bomb explodes.
DocGruber!
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