New Health Care

 

 

The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, 

'Hello.' 'Mrs. Sanders, please.'

 

'Speaking.' 

'Mrs. Sanders, this is Doctor Jones at Saint  AgnesLaboratory. 

When your husband's doctor sent his biopsy to the lab last week,

a biopsy from another  Mr. Sanders arrived as well.

We  are now uncertain  which

one belongs to your  husband. Frankly,  

either way the results are not too good.' 

'What do you mean?' Mrs. Sanders asks  nervously. 

 

'Well, one of the specimens tested positive  for Alzheimer's

and the other  one tested positive for HIV. We can't tell which  is  which.'

 

'That's dreadful! Can you do the test again?'  questioned Mrs.Sanders. 

 

'Normally we can, but Medicare will only pay for 

                                            these expensive tests one time.' 

'Well,   what am I supposed to do now?' 

 

'The folks at Medicare recommend that

you drop  your  husband off somewhere in the middle of town.

If he finds his way home, don't sleep with him.'