The Medical Insurance Industry: An Analogy
It came to me, like a whack upside the head with a two by four. This paradigm wherein we pay exorbitant rates for medical coverage which may be withdrawn if we forget to cross a 'T' or dot and 'I' on our application. This insurance for which we pay a significant portion of our income with the idea it will protect us when calamity strikes, but which can be withdrawn should we lose our job or get sick. It's like that distant relative, or friend from our past who came to stay for a week, but never left.
He's still sleeping on the couch. Drinking our milk, and gad forbid, our liquor. Pays no rent. Can you remember when it was he last did the dishes? Now he wants us to front some cash, so he can lay some money on Saturday's game. Why would he get an honest job as long as we keep taking care of him? WTF? Are we crazy? Time to show these slackers the door.
He's still sleeping on the couch. Drinking our milk, and gad forbid, our liquor. Pays no rent. Can you remember when it was he last did the dishes? Now he wants us to front some cash, so he can lay some money on Saturday's game. Why would he get an honest job as long as we keep taking care of him? WTF? Are we crazy? Time to show these slackers the door.
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Excellent analogy. (Hopefully, as 'he' exits - the door delivers a swift, hard and painful whack on his backside!)
Rec'd.
June 24, 2009 10:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
Forgive me; I am cross-posting this in every related blog; it is really big:
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/06/moveons-feinstein-ad-news-flash-senator-we-dont-expect-you-to-lead-just-on-the-easy-issues.php#comment-3508421
June 25, 2009 10:36 AM | Reply | Permalink
No forgiveness required CVille. Thanks for the link. It's encouraging to see this kind of testimony coming from an insider to the insurance industry. I'm sure that the industry is scrambling to paint Wendell Potter as a malcontent with psychological issues, harboring personal grudges as we speak.
June 25, 2009 11:15 AM | Reply | Permalink
I know this guy. What's worse he thinks he's a great cook and insists on making dinner every night. He thinks he's doing you a great favor by heating up the kitchen, dirtying every pot and pan making the unhealthiest slop imaginable and then slathering it with lumpy gravy.
June 25, 2009 11:39 AM | Reply | Permalink
How did you meet my ex-brother-in-law?
June 25, 2009 12:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
He slept on my couch for a few months after he got fired for wrecking the company car his boss gave him. Left an old cap for an El Camino bed in the backyard we had to lug out the curb too. Ever had fish gravy? Ask him to make it for you CVille.
June 25, 2009 1:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
Fish gravy? Can't be the same guy. He only eats red meat,
Fish gravy? Now I've heard everything! bleaaaauuuch
June 25, 2009 5:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
It's like my former acquiantance (we'll call him asshat) who asked my friend to help him move out of his four story walk up one day. Asshat always took the lighter end of the furniture. Asshat didn't want to mass up his new truck, so he put the stuff in my friend's truck. Finally after the move is over, he turns to my friend and says let's go grab something to eat. Nice gesture after 5 hours of hard labor. They go to a pizza shop and he insists on putting pineapple on the pizza (that my friend picks off). The bill comes. Asshat says, man I'm totally tapped out of cash. You got the bill?
Hence why asshat is a "former" acquaintance.
Kick the freeloaders to the curb.
June 25, 2009 12:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
Is there any industry more averse to risk than the insurance industry?
June 25, 2009 1:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
I like your attitude Miguel, but I do not think you went nearly far enough with your analogy.
These S.O.B.'s are doing more than being slackers, sucking down our money. Far more. They are killing us.
As in literally.
Being one of the 50 million without any health insurance, I can tell you that I do not go to the doctor. Ever. I have no idea if I am developing colon cancer. I have no idea if I am developing diabetes (my grandfather and mother both had it).
I am not getting the kind of basic preventive health care to avoid the worst of a nasty disease, should such develop. And God forbid I should get sick.
For then my live savings, and that of my family would quickly be swallowed whole by these fiends.
No, these parasites are doing far worse than slacking off on our couch. They are slowly sucking our life's blood, and yes, they intend to profit - handsomely - by my illness and subsequent death, and without ANY thought to me or my family.
Slacker? No, my friend. They are legion, and they are evil.
June 25, 2009 2:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
Exactly. What could be more evil than profiting off of the unnecessary deaths of other people? Because we have this "system", the Institute of Medicine put the number of avoidable deaths at 18,000 per year. A school in London put the figure at 101,000 per year. If the former is closer to the truth, that's like a new "9/11" attack every two months. If the latter is closer to the truth, it's a new attack every two weeks. Except the attacks are entirely inflicted by these greedy parasites, and by their ownership of our government.
June 25, 2009 5:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
And why does that fat turd have my senator on speed-dial?
June 25, 2009 4:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yes, we ARE crazy and yes, it is certainly time to show them the door.
Good post!
June 25, 2009 4:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
Has this guy got an extra smoke, Miguel?
June 25, 2009 4:36 PM | Reply | Permalink