Preserved Topic: JOKE

Two doctors and an HMO manager are killed in a train wreck and line up at the pearly gates for admission to heaven.Saint Peter asks them to identify themselves.
One doctor steps forward and says, "I was a pediactric spine surgeon. I helped hundreds of kids overcome their deformities."
Saint Peter says, "Enter."

The other doctor says, "I was a physiatrist. I helped rehabilitate thousands of people."
Saint Peter nods and invites him into heaven,too.

The third applicant steps forward and says, "I was an HMO manager. I helped countless people get cost-effective health care."
Saint Peter says, "You can come in, too."

As the HMO manager walks by, Saint Peter adds, "But you can only stay for three days. After that you can go to hell."

*scratches head*

..?

heh.. she said hell..

damn canadians and their stupid health care... you just wouldn't understand the way us americans do business i guess, hehe.

cheers.mikey.milker

Don't get it...What's HMO?




Pretty...What do we blow up first? - Unknown

HMO is our Health Insurance Company/Carrier

They/Most say when we need to go to the emergency room or how long is too long in a hospital or even what test a doctor runs are needed or not. They suck to to put it mildly and this is a joke about that. It's funny if you understand our system. Our government now feels they run our health and are doctors it seems ~sigh~

On that subject... I find this stupid not to mention....they run/govern the ABC stores and all sales of tobacco and liquor....they sell it to you then tell the companies they can't advertise...but the kicker is...they then put you in jail when you drink or in public drunk and then open up rehabs and have judges send you there....what a vicious circle

Well, of course your taxes pay for all this



[This message has been edited by Shiiizzzam (edited 02-01-2001).]

I think the real joke is that people PAY to get drunk, get arrested, spend time in jail, rehab, hospitals... Basically, the government is profiting off of peoples' stupidity. Makes sense to me. Survival of the fittest and all that.

LOL Shii, and don't worry, I'm sure someone besides me will get the joke. Thanks for the laugh.

kinda like the lottery...

the lottery is a tax for people who are bad at math...

they don't realize that 1 in 6,439,542,235 is so close to 0 in 6,439,542,235 that NOT buying a lottery ticket virtually guaranties you the same chance of winning as buying one..

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Wait...... you mean lottery tickets aren't a sure thing!? And all this time I just thought I was just unlucky.

On a completely unrelated topic... Well, its related, just not to HMOs.

What do Michael Jackson and McDonald's have in common?

They both stick a 40 year old piece of meat between 8 year old buns.

he he he

Why did MJ rush to JC Penny?

He heard they had little boys pants half off.

ha ha ha

When the pope heard about what MJ did a few years back what did he do in response?

Gave him his own parish. *ducks to avoid flying bibles*

that was pretty lacking in taste krets.

petskull: yeah, ive heard lotteries described as a surcharge tax on stupidity.

on that lottery thing. That is a neet way to look at it.

1/6,439,542,235 as a number = 1.55e-10 = .0000000000155
In my comp science classes we were taught .0001 was close enough to 0 to throw a division by zero exception.

So yeah, it is zero...

I liked the joke, rung a bell here.

::sigh::

HMO's suck!

What ever happened to the days when Doctors and the patients decided what was needed? Now we have lawyers and CEOs deciding. Sad really, HMO's are crippling the medical field.

I got the joke Shi ... i just wonder why St Peter let the HMO manager in! It would have been far funnier if he said "Sorry your afterlife plan doesn't inlcude Heaven."

Oh and about the lotto,

Sure, odds are extremely against you but hey, ya never know! Someones gotta win I suppose, not that I've ever bought a lotto ticket, nor am I old enuff to buy one ...

Oh, I am lacking taste for poking fun at a known child molester? Well I am so sorry.

Theres an HMO comic at the Drug store,

Its a picture, ill try to decribe it.

A man is lyign in bed and the docter is standing in front of him, and it says.

Im positive you need a Quad. bypass, but your Hmo says all you need to do is rub this 13$ tube of salve on your chest.