October 1, 2012 | 11:59 AM |

Homer Simpson On ObamaCare

FILED UNDER: Insurance, Money, Politics, obamacare

Thanks to Sarah Kliff at Wonkblog for posting this great clip on Homer Simpson’s assessment of ObamaCare. (She also posted an excellent, vegetable-packed piece on how the ACA truly kicks in for hospitals today with new penalties for excessive readmissions and higher Medicare payments redistributed to hospitals delivering better care).

For now, here’s the lighter of the two posts:

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Blogger, CommonHealth Rachel Zimmerman worked as a staff reporter for The Wall Street Journal for 10 years, most recently covering health and medicine out of the paper’s Boston bureau. Rachel has also written for The New York Times, the (now-defunct) Seattle Post-Intelligencer and the alternative newspaper Willamette Week, in Portland, Ore., among other publications. Rachel co-wrote a book about birth, published by Bantam/Random House, and spent 2008 as a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT. Rachel lives in Cambridge with her husband and two daughters. View all posts by Rachel Zimmerman →