Uncensored Thursdays: It’s Time To Rename Health Insurance For What It Really Is

It’s time once again to check in with irreverent mind behind Uncensored Interview’s blog The Shark for another installment of Uncensored Thursdays…

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Raise your hand if you don’t have health insurance. Don’t be embarrassed, as ripped, handsome, suave, debonaire, swashbuckling, and successful as I am, I can’t afford it either (Of course, I do spend over $1000 a month on gym memberships and supplements). But would you believe that a band as buzzworthy and, well, fabulous (there, I said it) as Tilly and The Wall are uninsured too?

First of all, I have a major problem with the name Health Insurance. When you buy a home, you get fire insurance and flood insurance. When you lease a car, accident insurance and collision insurance. Fires, floods, accidents, collisions – all bad things that can happen to you, makes the need for coverage seem more dire, right? Yet we tag probably the direst, most necessary form of insurance with the most anemic name – Health. Sounds neutered, doesn’t it? Health is a good thing in my book. I’m not buying insurance in case I stay healthy, I’m paying $400 a month in ridiculous premiums in case a bus smacks into me and I somehow catch cancer in midair. You want to get the people really fired up about this? Change the name of it to “Cancer Polio Bubonic Plague Pnemonia Axe In My Forehead Insurance” or “Oh Shit We’re Fucked Insurance”. Make the symbol the same giant skull and bones that they put on those giant bottles of poison (why they make such giant bottles of tasty-looking poison, I’ll never know).

Now that’s what I call a Call To Action.

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