A Healthcare Ransom Note

Cover of National Lampoon #7. Photograph by Ronald G. Harris

"Leave $60 billion in unmarked bills with the lobbyist. If you don't follow his instructions, we'll kill 278,000 jobs. We ain't foolin'!"

AHA: Medicare cuts to cost 278K hospital jobs

Is this where the kid who killed his parents throws himself at the mercy of the court because he's an orphan?