Wednesday, October 30, 2013

'scuse me while I begin transitioning you

Every time the gubmint screws up, it's usually a bonanza for word mavens and collectors of euphemisms. We have a beautiful one here:
Insurance companies aren't sending out cancellation letters, they're helping people "transition" into Obamacare, according to a top Democrat.

"If [the companies] changed [the insurance plans] then they have to notify the people who have to have the opportunity to have another policy," said House Ways and Means Committee ranking member Sander Levin, D-Mich.

In fact, according to Levin, the "so-called cancellation notices" merely "help people transition to a new policy."
We've now transitioned the word transition into a verb. I suspect this will be a very useful euphemism. There are so many ways to transition someone:





2 comments:

W.B. Picklesworth said...

I'd like to "transition" a bunch of pols and bureaucrats to small, concrete cells.

3john2 said...

Say hello to my little friend.