Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling for March 01, 2018

Now for the hard part, which one of those is NOT true?

It stops being a satire, when it is just too true and just too accurate.

I once heard a comedian describe life insurance thus: “You’re betting them that you’re gonna die. And you’re hoping they win.”

17 years and NOT A DAMN THING HAS CHANGED!!!

Insurance does way more for you BEFORE you buy than AFTER you buy it.

Panels #1 and #3 are really funny because, there’s definitely, more than a modicum, of truth to them !

The basic thing to understand is that if you have a serious claim, they are likely paying out more than you paid in. If they are a business, it is then in their interest to deny your claim, and in the Old Days claim adjusters would get bonuses based on the value of claims denied. The ACA was in part an effort to put a lid on that and make it more fair. People denigrate gov’t bureaucrats, but if I’m a G-7 I DGAF about profit; my pay doesn’t depend on it; and I can decide the case on the merits. Mostly. Take the profit incentive away, and things should get better. Unless you are an insurance company.

Insurance is the art of sharing the huge expense of serious illness with strangers who don’t get sick…

Insurance wasn’t the first industry to use the ol’ bait-and-switch, but they did perfect it.

Just you wait until Amazon starts providing prescription drugs and then health insurance! (For Prime members only.)

Thank goddess we’ve finished embodying and renovating our vacation home. We are semi retiring and moving in this summer. On Vancouver Island in a civilized country.