Eloquent and amusing as usual. One only has to look at one's own
experience, the experiences of friends, the satisfaction ratings by
independent groups, and the list of companies banned by the State
Insurance Commissioner to know that the insurance industry has as
many crooks, hucksters and liars as any other industry. To pretend it
is otherwise and to scold because you happen to work in it...
Well, never mind.
Winsor
Long Beach, California, USA
On Sep 9, 2005, at 8:18 AM, Walt Wayman wrote:
> I was perhaps a bit harsh yesterday in my comments about the
> insurance business. Blame it on my perspective. The vantage point
> from which we observe anything influences and affects how we
> perceive and judge it. By the time any issue makes it into court,
> events and discussions precedent thereto involving the matter
> obviously have not gone well, to say the least.
>
> I might compare the different views of the industry expressed here
> to the parable of the three blind men examining an elephant. Bill
> Barber, an insurance agent, could be the man in front, holding onto
> the trunk, feeding the beast peanuts and marveling at its clever
> dexterity and appetite.
>
> Tom Scales, whose actual connection with the insurance industry is
> not real clear to me, though I suspect it has to do with massive
> number-crunching or some sort of computerized activity, might well
> be the man at the side of the elephant, with arms outstretched,
> leaning against the behemoth, feeling its great mass and astounded
> by its size and obvious strength.
>
> My vantage point would be like that of the guy in the rear, holding
> onto the tail, standing knee-deep in dung, and breathing elephant
> farts.
>
> Apologies to those my opinions may have offended.
>
> Walt
>
> --
> "Anything more than 500 yards from
> the car just isn't photogenic." --
> Edward Weston
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