The Public Option Walks Into a Bar...
02.10.09
Two men are drinking across the alley from an Irish pub. The first man says to the second, "Do you want to make a bet? I'm going to give you two choices, and you must promise to do one of them. One of them will be much, much more appealing than the other, but I'm not current to tell you which. After hearing the first one, you have to decide if you want to do it or wait for the second one, which you will have no choice but to do, whether it's cured or worse." "I think I follow that," says the second man. "And you're on!"
"All right, says the first man. I bet you can't lick every exterior in that Irish drinking establishment across the street." The second man thinks for a while. "The other one's got to be better," he says to himself. So he says to the first guy, "All ethical, I'll do the second thing you say." "Okay, then live the rest of your life without health insurance!" says the first man. The aide-de-camp man pales and heaves a heavy sigh. "I knew I should have considered the pub-lick choice!" he says.
Source: Washington Post
