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Want to Play by Insurance Company Rules?

Posted by Brave New Films, CitizenTube at 3:12 PM on July 24, 2008.


A humorous take on our not-so-funny health care system.

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This week, HeathCareForAmerica’s YouTube channel released “Insurance Company Rules,” a video that takes a humorous approach to an issue that many people don’t find funny. Filmed and put together by the comedy ensemble the Public Service Administration, the video argues that when it comes to health care, there are two sets of rules: the ones that apply to health insurance companies, and the ones that apply to everyone else.

“We decided to create the video because we wanted to highlight the outrageous practices of the insurance industry,” Levana Layendecker from Health Care For America told Citizentube. “Insurance companies get to make the rules that maximize their profits. Their profits are skyrocketing at the expense of our health. …We don't think the American people should be left alone to fend for themselves in the unregulated, bureaucratic health insurance market.”


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Insurance company rules
Posted by: Lauren on Jul 24, 2008 3:31 PM   
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I think that is what I encountered today. AT&T has a huge office building in Oakland. THEY can listen to all my private phone calls, but I can't even go in their front door. It feels like terrorism to me. Who do they think they are?

I told the door man he works for Big Brother. Everyone who works for that company is taking a check from a terrorist organization.

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Our Sick Care Maybe system....Demand Health Care
Posted by: lenioui on Jul 27, 2008 7:17 AM   
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This video is hilarious. I'm definitely passing it on.

I, my sister, friends, even strangers, have all lived thru the unjust practices, the horrible treatment of insurance companies towards their "plan members". Not even to mention the millions without insurance.

I am not recounting those stories here. Just acknowledging that our healthcare industry is truly not healthy. It is sick. Corrupt.

And for those of us who are demanding more and better changes, what a welcome relief it is seeing this video.

Health involves laughing.

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