# World's Greatest Healthcare Plan of 2017 **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 8, 2017, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-greatest-healthcare-plan-of-2017/781712 "2017-03-08T18:34:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2017, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-greatest-healthcare-plan-of-2017/781712/1 "2017-03-08T18:34:26Z")
[World’s Greatest Healthcare Plan of 2017](https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/1275?q=%7B). Yes, that’s what it’s called. This was named and introduced by some clown whom people have actually chosen to be their advocate and leader in government. I know it’s the content that matters, and not silly things like titles, but I like to think our leadership is interested in at least the pretense of being smart, informed and rational when it comes to, you know, legislating for hundreds of millions of people. But I guess it’s all just a joke. “Well, Senator Sessions, what did you do this week?” “I introduced the ‘World’s Greatest Healthcare Plan’. Suck on that you underachievers!” So we have 5th graders running the country (I know, I know, add this to the mountain of evidence). ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2017, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-greatest-healthcare-plan-of-2017/781712/2 "2017-03-08T18:41:09Z")
That appears to be a different Sessions; however, the point remains that that is the stupidest name ever given to a piece of legislation, and obviously came to him after he scanned the room frantically and saw the coffee mug from his grandchildren. ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2017, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-greatest-healthcare-plan-of-2017/781712/3 "2017-03-08T18:44:21Z")
I can almost hear Strongbad saying it… ---
**Author:** ![oft\_wears\_hats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7993a0/32.png) [@oft\_wears\_hats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oft_wears_hats)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2017, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-greatest-healthcare-plan-of-2017/781712/4 "2017-03-08T18:52:13Z")
Well, to be fair, have you _seen_ any other health plan proposals this year? ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2017, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-greatest-healthcare-plan-of-2017/781712/5 "2017-03-08T19:21:13Z")
That should be “The World’s Greatest Healthcare Plan of the **Second Week of March** 2017,” 'cause I’m sure there are soon going to follow new plans weekly for at least the rest of this year and maybe the next 3-4 years. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2017, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-greatest-healthcare-plan-of-2017/781712/6 "2017-03-08T19:23:26Z")
Good God, Republicans. It just gets stupider and stupider. Take a a bow, jokers. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2017, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-greatest-healthcare-plan-of-2017/781712/7 "2017-03-08T19:43:35Z")
There IS a bill called the “World’s Greatest Healthcare Plan of 2017,” but it is NOT the main GOP bill that is being pushed by Paul Ryan, and that has been the topic of so much conversation over the past couple of days. The “World’s Greatest Healthcare Plan” is a separate, competing bill introduced by Texas Republican idiot Pete Sessions. He also introduced a bill last year called the “World’s Greatest Healthcare Plan of 2016.” ---
**Author:** ![August\_West](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/august_west/32/18069_2.png) [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2017, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-greatest-healthcare-plan-of-2017/781712/8 "2017-03-08T20:10:43Z")
At least it’s not another one of those inane backronym titles like the mother-sneezing USA PATRIOT Act. Which, as any moron could instantly comprehend, stands for Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism . ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2017, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-greatest-healthcare-plan-of-2017/781712/9 "2017-03-08T20:47:05Z")
I thought you had to ask the Guinness Book of World Records people to authenticate any claim to the “world’s greatest” _anything_. Edited to add, just in case **[doorhinge](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=20051208#post20051208)** is reading this, the previous sentence was intended as a “joke.” ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c57346/32.png) [@Little\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Pig)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2017, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-greatest-healthcare-plan-of-2017/781712/10 "2017-03-08T21:08:56Z")
If I wasn’t depressed enough, I just learned that this fucking jagg-off was [born the same day](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Sessions) I was. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2017, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-greatest-healthcare-plan-of-2017/781712/11 "2017-03-08T22:06:27Z")
[~Appropriate Musical Interlude~](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4RHZ1ssCBA) ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c57346/32.png) [@Little\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Pig)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2017, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-greatest-healthcare-plan-of-2017/781712/12 "2017-03-08T22:16:06Z")
> [@Count\_Blucher](#): > > [~Appropriate Musical Interlude~](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4RHZ1ssCBA) 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2017, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-greatest-healthcare-plan-of-2017/781712/13 "2017-03-08T22:28:46Z")
> [@Little\_Pig](#): > > 😛 Thank you! “Mr Speaker! I propose cotton candy, popcorn, and peanuts be available at a reasonable price to visitors in the gallery while this bill is considered in the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions committee-ring to my left and the House Committee on Ways and Means in the ring to my right. I am quite sure that this will be a long session.” “I Object Sir! I Say, I Object Sir! The Ways and Means Committee? Why, No Member Of This House… I say no member… plans on paying for Any of this, do they…?” ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2017, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-greatest-healthcare-plan-of-2017/781712/14 "2017-03-08T23:39:01Z")
I like the name. In view of its history I might humbly suggest that it could also have been named “World’s Greatest Healthcare Plan – New and Improved! Even Greater in 2017!”, but basically it captures the essential idea that if you’re going to introduce a piece of regressive idiotic legislation that sets up access to health care as a money-making proposition for commercial enterprise, it needs to have the kind of catchy name that you’d hear on a late-night infomercial or maybe on the Shopping Channel, where all sensible people look for health care. Other countries are, sadly, infested with Communism, and they just give out health care to everybody on the basis of legislation with extremely boring names like “The Health Care Act”. Who needs socialist bullshit like that when you can have The World’s Greatest Healthcare Plan? ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2017, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-greatest-healthcare-plan-of-2017/781712/15 "2017-03-08T23:54:19Z")
> [@Count\_Blucher](#): > > [~Appropriate Musical Interlude~](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4RHZ1ssCBA) Beauty! > [@VinylTurnip](#): > > … and obviously came to him after he scanned the room frantically and saw the coffee mug from his grandchildren. Beauty beauty! ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2017, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-greatest-healthcare-plan-of-2017/781712/16 "2017-03-09T00:15:02Z")
> [@Little\_Pig](#): > > If I wasn’t depressed enough, I just learned that this fucking jagg-off was [born the same day](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Sessions) I was. :smack: Heh. I like how somebody snuck “bigly” into that article, though. ---
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2017, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-greatest-healthcare-plan-of-2017/781712/17 "2017-03-09T00:24:54Z")
A window into Trumps policy making: [Spaceballs - playing with your dolls again? - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMxTFqPET5I) ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2017, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-greatest-healthcare-plan-of-2017/781712/18 "2017-03-09T14:52:50Z")
> [@mhendo](#): > > There IS a bill called the “World’s Greatest Healthcare Plan of 2017,” but it is NOT the main GOP bill that is being pushed by Paul Ryan, and that has been the topic of so much conversation over the past couple of days. > > The “World’s Greatest Healthcare Plan” is a separate, competing bill introduced by Texas Republican idiot Pete Sessions. He also introduced a bill last year called the “World’s Greatest Healthcare Plan of 2016.” Well, he can’t be that much of an idiot. I mean, at least he got the years right. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2017, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-greatest-healthcare-plan-of-2017/781712/19 "2017-03-09T20:34:25Z")
It’s the world’s most greatest healthcare plan in town! ---
**Author:** ![ckalli1998](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a3d4f5/32.png) [@ckalli1998](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ckalli1998)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2017, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-greatest-healthcare-plan-of-2017/781712/20 "2017-03-09T20:36:01Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > It’s the world’s most greatest healthcare plan in town! No, it isn’t, only a libtard would think so [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-greatest-healthcare-plan-of-2017/781712.md?page=2)