Netroots Nation, which recently wrapped up in Austin, TX, is something I really, really hoped to go to, but alas. Good things are popping out of there, however, including this stitch of a video, Insurance Company Rules. It’s from Health Care for America Now!, a grassroots campaign to achieve universal affordable health care.

Insurance company bureaucracies are notoriously abusive. Anyone who has ever had a go ’round with an insurance company will identify. The industry motto, “Pay as little as late as possible,” serves the interests of lining pockets from the misfortunes of others. Remember the character of the insurance exec in the movie, The Incredibles? (The movie was worth it just for that, even without all the other cool stuff.) This video is born of that same type of experience with insurance companies.

Disclaimer: I do not intend to cast aspersions on the many fine people who work for insurance companies. Most of them know how true all this is, too. Nor do I mean to suggest that every insurance company acts abusively all the time. Some act the way they should, some times or even most of the time.

Here’s the video:

Check out Health Care for America Now Their grassroots model is one of the successful strategies for changing bad bureaucracies.

Peace.

Deborah Alicen