Santa, in Happier Times
WC was saddened to learn yesterday that Santa has filed bankruptcy. It’s true. One of WC’s less pleasant tasks involves bankruptcy court. WC was reviewing the paperwork in a bankruptcy case and there, in Schedule I, where it asks, “Occupation,” was written in, “Santa.”
Santa's Schedule I
It was medical expenses that did the old boy in. Like a lot of us, he had trouble getting affordable medical insurance, and didn’t qualify for Medicare. When the various laboratories, clinics and radiologists started suing, Santa was left little choice but to file for Chapter 7.
WC asks all of the Teabagger, right wing politicians who are frothing at the mouth over health care reform, to keep Santa’s story in mind. To paraphrase T.S. Eliot, in his poem “The Wasteland,” at Part IV:
Oh, you who rail on health care
And act like windbags
Remember Santa, who was once as healthy and happy as you
The bankruptcy trustee reports no decision has been made on the fate of the sleigh or the reindeer.
Wickersham's Conscience 
WC, you must try to get this on HuffingtonPost!
This could go viral. Humor is such a great way to make a serious point! This is a great post!
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WC, I highly recommend that you read Neil Davis’s excellent book, Mired in the Health Care Morass, for more on health care and Medicare/Medicaid. Mr. Davis is an Alaskan who writes about a Fairbanks family entwined in the health care mess, due to a catastrophic illness. The book is a page turner (yes, really), and WC would like it. I bet WC would even give it a favorable review.
I am also wondering how Joe Miller got Medicaid. Didn’t he have to declare that he had no assets other than a house and a car? How does one get Medicaid when one has agricultural land and a trust with property in Wasilla? Are those assets allowed by Medicaid?
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