# Sheesh Docs You Went to School for 9+ yrs Can't You Make a Bill People Can READ?

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [August 20, 2001, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sheesh-docs-you-went-to-school-for-9-yrs-cant-you-make-a-bill-people-can-read/77141 "2001-08-20T14:52:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![pldennison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc29f/32.png) [@pldennison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pldennison)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2001, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sheesh-docs-you-went-to-school-for-9-yrs-cant-you-make-a-bill-people-can-read/77141/21 "2001-08-21T12:46:25Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Kimstu \*  
> \*\*Yeesh. Single-payer health insurance is looking better and better all the time. \*\*

Knowing the government, I don’t know if that would make the bills **easier** to read. I picture something like those notes at the beginning of the tax instructions:

Estimated time to read your bill – 45 min.  
Estimated time on hold waiting for someone  
to explain your bill – 30 min.  
Estimated time kicking couch in frustration  
over not understanding explanation – 5 min.  
Estimated time just writing the damned  
check – 2 min.

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**Author:** ![lno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2001, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sheesh-docs-you-went-to-school-for-9-yrs-cant-you-make-a-bill-people-can-read/77141/22 "2001-08-21T13:10:57Z")

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> \*Originally posted by pldennison \*  
> Estimated time to read your bill – 45 min.  
> Estimated time on hold waiting for someone  
> to explain your bill – 30 min.  
> Estimated time kicking couch in frustration  
> over not understanding explanation – 5 min.  
> Estimated time just writing the damned  
> check – 2 min.

Resolving to reform the health care system of our nation, running for public office, eventually being elected to President, and being brought down in a scandal involving three interns, a tub of K-Y jelly, and a donkey – priceless.

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**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2001, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sheesh-docs-you-went-to-school-for-9-yrs-cant-you-make-a-bill-people-can-read/77141/23 "2001-08-21T16:04:40Z")

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Wildest Bill went to a “doctor”? ooooooooh, I know what _that_ means!

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