Al,
Could you find some really good cartoons or photos of the OPEC meetings with all the headgear and stuff. Now, I don't want to be seen as doing anything the least bit racist here; Some of our best friends and collueges hail from such parts of the world and practice such religions, I really couldn't give a hoot, god bless them one and all.
BUT it finally dawned on me that the insurance industry with its Anti-Trust waiver, that controls and restricts our free access to our own end-retail customers of our services, is really just a legislatively created "CARTEL"!!! And so I would really love to start portraying them as such, using the cartoons and humor from the original oil crisis of the 1970's. This is all they really are... anti-free trade, protected by our bought and paid for government cartel.
It goes back to my having John Cleese do a ministry of messing up freetrade and healthcare routine. You couldn't make this more F'ed up if you intentionally tried. Give the large corporate side that naturally has lots of power simply in its wealth and access, an anti-trust waiver while maintaining and very actively enforcing and creating newer and even more restrictive anti-trust laws against the smallest of businesses, small and solo practictioners of healthcare who by their very small business nature have very little leverage in relation to the large corporate interests.
They are such a cartel that even very large employer groups have very little real leverage to negotiate good prices when they offer up thousands of covered lives in exchange for their business. We need to actively say it and paint them as such each and every chance we get... To the strongest cartel in the nation if not the world, the insurance industry which has our government, its enforcement agencies, and the courts in its hip pocket. CARTEL, CARTEL, CARTEL!!!
Good Night and Good Luck,
Paul
