Ted Rall - Friday January 10, 1997 Comic Strip Licensing and Permissions

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Lately we in the H.M.O. biz have been accused of skimping on patient care in order to raise our profits. Nothing could be further from the truth! For instance, we at physicians health services have decided not to cover the removal of warts, thus saving buckets of cash without killing anyone! Until recently Americans thought nothing about having their warts frozen off. All because they were a little ugly. no wonder our medical costs were skyrocketing! Moreover, warts are casued by a living virus. Clearly the hippocratic oath prohibits doing harm to these little parasitic friends! Just think: with all the money we save on wart removal, our researchers can buy luxury cards to get them to their labs on time- to work on real diseases

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