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		<title>Insurance Company Rules</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2008 18:33:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Alicen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;s from Health Care for America Now!, a grassroots campaign to achieve universal affordable health care. Insurance company bureaucracies [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Netroots Nation</strong>, 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, <strong><em>Insurance Company Rules</em></strong>. It&#8217;s from <a title="Health Care for America Now" href="http://healthcareforamericanow.org/site/content/about_us/" target="_blank"><strong>Health Care for America Now!</strong></a>, a grassroots campaign to achieve universal affordable health care.</p>
<p>Insurance company bureaucracies are notoriously abusive. Anyone who has ever had a go &#8217;round with an insurance company will identify. The industry motto, &#8220;Pay as little as late as possible,&#8221; serves the interests of lining pockets from the misfortunes of others. Remember the character of the insurance exec in the movie, <em><strong>The Incredibles</strong></em>? (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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the video:</p>
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<p>Check out <a title="Health Care for America Now!" href="http://healthcareforamericanow.org/site/content/about_us/" target="_blank"><strong>Health Care for America Now</strong></a> Their grassroots model is one of the successful strategies for changing bad bureaucracies.</p>
<p>Peace.</p>
<p>Deborah Alicen</p>
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