We need a better nickname for the insurance industry--give your suggestions here!

[Ken Burch]

I mean, if the pharmaceutical industry is "Big Pharma"(and we owe a world of thanks to John Le Carre for giving us that one)the insurance industry needs a catchy slagging phrase of its own.

So far, All I've come up with is Big Deductible. I'm sure folks here can think of better.

[mdmc]

1. blood sucking vampires

alla Mahar

[Ken Burch]

2. Not bad-but needs to be punchier and catchier

Big Dracula, maybe.

[ControlledDemolition]

3. An oldy but a goodie... ' The Insurance Rackets!' n/t

[imdjh]

5. You're copying me.

[ControlledDemolition]

12. 'More Money in Treatment than in Cure Industry' n/t

[imdjh]

4. How about "The health racket." or "healthscammers"

[Ken Burch]

7. Possibilities

And I just thought of "healthscare" and "wealthcare".

[orleans]

33. oooh--i like healthscare.

that's catchy
and true.

[CrispyQ]

45. Healthscare - good one!

:thumbups:

Wealthcare's pretty good too, but healthscare really nails it.

[City Lights]

46. I like "healthscare."

:thumbsup:

[MarjorieG]

6. A lot of pimping and whoring here, to both the john patient and service provider.

Vampire still works as leaving a shell of the living dead.

[obliviously]

8. Parasitical industry

there are a few more I could add too.

[imdjh]

9. big death, big scam, big bribery

[Ken Burch]

10. Big Premium?

n/t.

[Naturyl]

11. ProfitCare?

I dunno... just a thought.

[Rabrrrrrr]

23. I like this one the best, but sadly, half the country would think it an honorable name

so it probably isn't the best one to go with.

[tavalon]

39. That is perfect

We Profit and We Don't Care, that's ProfitCare!

[ColbertWatcher]

13. Insurance Syndicate or Insurance Casino. n/t

[ControlledDemolition]

19. 'The Health Crap-shoot Racket!' n/t

[ColbertWatcher]

20. Step right up! Only three shots for $5!

My, my, you look like you can easily make this basket and win the giant teddy bear! (You got someone in mind for that gift? Why, I bet you got plenty of folks just knockin' down your door at all hours of the night, nudge, nudge)

Now, go right ahead and make your best shot ... oh! Well, no worries, you get two more tries!

Why just this morning, I had a little old lady come in--not much taller than four feet she was--hit all three baskets, with nary a blink!

Come on now, you're not going to let a little old lady do better than you at this silly game, now are ya!?

[ControlledDemolition]

24. ... and if I hit all three!!! Do I get some real health care coverage?

Or a fluffy bear stuffed with multi-colored pills?

[ColbertWatcher]

25. Well, let's see how well you do first.

There may be some pre-conditions that you failed to meet before spending your time and money.

[ControlledDemolition]

27. Well, I didn't disclose a bunion on my left elbow before the first throw! n/t

[ColbertWatcher]

31. Oh, I'm sorry, but that will cost you another $2,000 to continue to play! n/t

[tavalon]

40. Definitely the fluffy bear, filled with Lexapro and Valium

What else could you ask for?

[ColbertWatcher]

61. The bear is filled with coupons. n/t

[merh]

14. Thieves - Grifters

The plural of anyone of these:

bandit, burglar, cat burglar, cheat, clip, criminal, crook, defalcator, embezzler, heister, highway robber, hijacker, holdup artist, housebreaker, kleptomaniac, larcener, larcenist, lifter, moonlighter, mugger, owl, pickpocket, pilferer, pirate, plunderer, porch climber, prowler, punk*, purloiner, robber, scrounger, shoplifter, sniper, spider, stealer, stickup artist, swindler

[Historic NY]

15. Carnival Healthcare "step right up & take a chance" cause were a joke.

[ColbertWatcher]

21. I like your idea. n/t

[warren pease]

16. "Murder Incorporated"

Maybe "Greed Inc." is a little more accurate.


sf

[ControlledDemolition]

18. How about... ' Industrialized Death'? n/t

[ControlledDemolition]

28. "Skull and Bones Insurance"? n/t

[leftstreet]

17. Future Taxpayer Bailout Recipient #17 n/t

[JFN1]

22. "Insurascammers"

Seems to fit the facts...

[kentuck]

26. The Slumlords

They "rent" coverage to you... until you actually need it.

[BlueIdaho]

29. Deathcare?

[kitkat65]

30. Snake Oil Industry

[704wipes]

32. Private Insurance Bureacracy ??

nt

[armyowalgreens]

34. Murderers

[pnorman]

35. Bill Maher had described the For-Profit hospitals as: "Jiffy Lubes with bedpans"

Incorporating the phrase: "with bedpans" into the nickname, might be the way to go.

pnorman

[Senator]

36. Could Link Them Up Too: Big Pharma and Big Forma

It's the wretched forms that "come between you and your doctor."

Just a thought.

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[Ken Burch]

56. That's BRILLIANT! Thank you!

I think we've got a winner!.

[tavalon]

38. Bloodsucking Leeches is the one I've been using for a few years

My husband calls them legalized Mafia.

[intaglio]

41. Moneysuckers, Health Denyers, Death Watchers,

All seem good to me

[nightrain]

42. "health insurance extortion corporations"

[L. Coyote]

43. Big Pharma is the "Drug Mafia" and insurance is the "Pay or Die Mafia"

Gotta love monopolies and how they ensure their profits. Sooo Cosa Nostra!

[mmonk]

44. Ticks. (Actually, middle man is best)

But really, I've been using middle man. It seems to be more effective on others I've found. Most people out there have not even thought of the obvious, that medical insurance is a middle man ciphering off money for profit. They have been too busy with the ideology that business is more cost effective and "efficient" than government meme.

[rucky]

47. Medical Middlemen

[lunatica]

48. The I Got Mine Brigade

[GeorgeGist]

49. Big Phraud

[lame54]

50. The Kill Squad

[lunatica]

51. The Me Firsters

[Vinca]

52. Moneygrubbing Death-Promoting Organized Crime

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

53. Death Bettors - see quote

"Getting life insurance is like betting on a sure thing and hoping you lose." - Dick Gregory

[Catshrink]

54. Leeches - outdated medical procedure that sucked blood

Which is what they are -- outdated and blood sucking. Sucking off 30% of the health care budget for their paper shuffling and corporate profits.

[Sebastian Doyle]

55. Soulless Vampire Bastards Making Money Off Of Human Pain

- credit to Bill Maher, but I don't think he'd mind us using it.

[Mythsaje]

57. The Death Bug

The parasite that kills.

[omega minimo]

58. Didn't Michael Moore already peg it? "Sickos"

[DatManFromNawlins]

59. Blood Money Cartel

Insurance companies make their cash by the inevitability that someone, sometime will eventually get hurt, get sick, have their property damaged or destroyed, or die.

[Skidmore]

60. How is what the insurance industry really different than what Madoff did

other than it is allowed to carry on by the state?