B-Rant

- submitted by . on 11/03/2009

  

A New Approach To Health Care Reform... Play Lotto?

Not sure exactly what to make of this image. A medical clinic that sells lotto tickets. Finding creative new ways for patients to pay for medical services.... Could open the way to all kinds of out-of-the-box approaches -- partnerships between medical clinics and Off Track Betting Parlors (won the Tri-fecta?...awesome, you've got your kidney transplant surgery)...Clinics offering slot machines or casino services (blackjack!...time for that prostate exam.)

We don't know if this image presages life if health care reform of some kind doesn't pass...or if health care reform does pass. (OK, it probably presages nothing; but we do like it, think it's pretty funny, odd.) But here it is... At least at this medical provider, no more need to get your yearly physical, then schlep all the way downtown to buy your lottery ticket. Convenience: there is no substitute.

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This is funny and sad, guess

- submitted by Anonymous on 11/03/2009

This is funny and sad, guess that's OK, a lot like life!


I'll have 20 lotto tickets

- submitted by Lara on 11/03/2009

I'll have 20 lotto tickets with my flu shot, please.


absurd! Next we'll be having

- submitted by Anonymous on 11/03/2009

absurd! Next we'll be having gardeners providing medical services


this is our world

- submitted by maranatha on 11/03/2009

and we adamantly demand the right to enjoy it! How sad.


bingo!

- submitted by londra on 11/03/2009

bingo!


Idiocracy

- submitted by Anonymous on 11/04/2009

The slot machines in the hospital foyer has already been predicted in the surprisingly accurate movie "Idiocracy".


Photoshopped, which can be

- submitted by Anonymous on 11/04/2009

Photoshopped, which can be confirmed in about a minute of "hard" searching.

The storefront at 4714 S. Cicero, Chicago, IL. Google Street View shows you the storefront itself, which *actually* says "CROSSTOWN MEDICAL-MATEL PHARMACY." So getting a lotto ticket there is the same as getting one at CVS or Rite-Aid. Big deal.


i want my lotto!

- submitted by Anonymous on 11/04/2009

i want my lotto!


I kjnow crosstown medical,

- submitted by drtoo on 11/04/2009

I kjnow crosstown medical, it's a medical clinic, wtf are they doing? Lotto?


Lottery tickets are probably

- submitted by Anonymous on 11/04/2009

Lottery tickets are probably best way most of us are going to get quality medical care in the future, I'm all for it. also craps, blackjack, spitting into the pot


Ya this is a great idea!

- submitted by Anonymous on 11/04/2009

Ya this is a great idea! NOT! 


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