Defending Health Care the Way It Is...!

And now, entering into the health care debate is a new two-minute public service video being sent around that makes the case against changing what's been effective for so long. For standing up for the forgotten, too-criticized voice in all of this, the insurance companies.

"I'm a working mom," we're told. "The health care plan I get at the auto plant is great."

As serious and well-meaning as the video begins, it soon becomes clear that something is off. And then very off.

"Good thing I can be sure that job's not going anywhere," the smiling working mom later tells us.

It turns out that the video is a sly piece of skewering coming from Rob Kutner, Emmy-winning former writer of The Daily Show and writer of The Tonight Show - and Sheryl Zohn, who has written and produced Showtime's Penn and Teller: Bullsh*t and CNBC's Dennis Miller.

It appears that you're watching just another of those talking head spots with a cross-section of Real Americans, intoning explaining in deep seriousness their issue of the day. But soon these include the insurance executive explaining how his industry is touching people, only to keep having to refer to his data sheet to describe one particular "Caucasian." And then "Female." Or the elderly lady making her strong case against making change too fast - defending her point case by explaining all the great moments of change she's proudly lived through. The video even includes its heart-tugging moment, as the uninsured "Phil" nearly breaks down when describing his hope for freedom.

(Kutner, who I've met, is also the writer of the book, Apocalypse How, a guide to surviving the end of the world.)

Take a look:

Comments

[PlaceboStudman]

While I won't, and can't support Health Care Reform that has nothing whatsoever to do with Health Care, as this so-called Health Care does not, I can not defend the status quo either.

It is my personal humble opinion that the people who should have had the loudest most influencial voices in Health Care reform are the people who use health care the most, the disabled and critically and terminally ill.

Had anyone thought to give the people who use health care the most the loudest most influencial voices, this entire health care debate might have had a completely different tragectory. We might even actually do something to reform medicine and technology

It's just sad that Obama waited until just now to announce the $5B infusion to the NIH that is in the headlines. If that had been done before insurance reform, this whole debate would have gone differently