Family Feud, who do they survey?

Why is the country underinsured?

I cannot work it out.  Once a year I get my teeth cleaned and checked.  While it is not pleasant, it is necessary for my health, and so I lay back in the dentist chair (nobody ever buys a second hand one to watch the football in) and wonder if the suction tube is ever going to be put in the right spot, or how you get out of bed each day and rummage around other people’s mouths for a living.

While wondering about these important questions, I also get to allocate 5% of my attention to watching Family Feud, an early morning favourite of the hygienist.  I can never get the top answers correct and always wonder who they actually survey?  I have never been called, have you?

This year, every advertisement break (will we have these in 5 years’ time?) featured a life insurance or funeral insurance ad.  No long forms, no medicals, and a discount if you stay insured for more than 12 months.  Cancel it mate, I have decided I am not departing this year.  Or is it like your car, and you just opt for third party?

Here is the issue.  As your GP looks at that spot on the wall behind your head and prepares to give you the bad news, that perhaps you should not have ignored those little signs, or maybe you should have endured the forced weight loss program and had that Colonoscopy just in case.  At that very point, sitting in the chair, waiting for your GP to speak, are you hoping to hear cancer but early stage, tumour, some form of lymphoma, perhaps gout, something hereditary that you did not know about as all your forebears never made it this far?  Survey says…….

I also think it is right at this point, while you are trying to work out the original paint colour on the wall that you are thinking, I am glad I phoned up, did the short application, over the phone, avoided the health checks, no provision of family or medical history.  Lodging a successful claim will be a doddle.  Happy days.