Wizard of Id by Parker and Hart for August 24, 2002

Yep, that’s the way insurance SHOULD be. Maybe they’d start curing people instead of just maintaining disease with drugs; in other words, just hiding the symptoms so they show up somewhere else. One eternal round with the drug companies. Attack one symptom with a drug, so when the symptom shows up somewhere else, they can attack that symptom with a drug. In fact, that’s why drugs contain so many, often lethal, “side effects”—they have drugs for all those “side effects”, except for death, of course. But that’s the chance you take when you go the drug route.