Leslie tries to throw a garage sale to help Jerry pay for his medical bills because the government insurance plan is so bad. She goes on to describe how the Pawnee Municipal Employee Health Care Plan is so bad that she was denied coverage on a sprained wrist because they believed having a wrist was a pre-existing condition.
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Leslie is trying to prepare for the correspondents’ lunch by testing her jokes on the Parks Department. While most of her jokes revolve around a local newspaper that has picked on Leslie in the past, she decides to ask her colleagues if they have any jokes she can use Ron decides to tell the gang a joke about efficient governments, but Leslie doesn’t find it all that funny.
See more: government intervention, government spending, inefficiencies, mandatory transactions, mutually beneficial transactions, rent seeking, role of government, tax revenue, taxes
Economics of Parks & Recreation 