Mandatory Max
Do we need more proof?

Mandatory Max
    is overwhelming evidence
Of what a private health insurer
    gets for his two cents.

The price for Max? A relatively
    paltry half a mil,
For that all uninsureds must pay
    though coverage guarantees are nil.

Exhibit B: the Baucus Bill –
    Bipartisan it's not.
So why'd it take so long to get
    the horror Baucus got?

He chose to give Republicans
    more time to silence Snowe
While praying public plan opponent
    noses wouldn't grow.

It lacks a Patient's Bill of Rights –
    Rescission's not a crime –
Max only fines the uninsured –
    There's no insurer prison time.

All of which is dandy
    with the health insurer clan.
They're getting what they paid for.
    Max Baucus is their man.

So why limit jail to underwriters
    and their CEOs
When Mandatory Max mandates
    insuring future embryos?

Bob Carlson
www.politicalboondoggles.com
9/19/09

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