Patriots Cancel Health Insurance in Cost-Cutting Move

 
    Faced with threat of having the team’s health care premiums increased because of the many mental ailments has suffered during the offseason, the Patriots cancelled the team's health insurance yesterday.             “Everyone on the Patriots knows that no one player is more important than the team,” said head coach Bill Bellycheck. “We feel sorry that the team is having depression or suffering from anxiety or whatever, but mainly because it’s starting to hit us in the wallet.” “The option was to provide the Pats with continued health care or save money.  Let’s just say it wasn’t a difficult decision,” said owner Robert Kraftt. “I mean, jeez – we pay millions of dollars playing in the NFL, so they should be able to pay for his own mental health care costs. Heck, they should consider themselves ... [link]

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