One of my loyal readers wrote recently to share an amusing (yet deadly serious) anecdote that shows how ingrained into the culture is society's suspicion of the insurance industry. Click ahead to read the tale, and see if that doesn't convince you of how poor the industry's reputation really is these days.

From my reader:

This weekend, my wife and I were playing some board games with a few other couples after dinner. None of our friends work in the insurance industry. We were playing a game similar to the TV game show “$20,000 Pyramid.” You give clues and your team must guess the secret word.

The word that the other team had to guess was INSURANCE. What do you think was the very first clue their team captain gave? And which prompted the correct answer right away?

“Something you continuously pay for but can never get anything in return.”

Ha he ha he!

And the industry wonders why it has a bad reputation among consumers!

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That's priceless!!! Thanks for sharing.

Want another example? How about the cartoon on my New Yorker calendar on Jan. 22, which showed a doctor examining a patient. The caption read: “Uh-oh, your coverage doesn't seem to include illness.”

Do any of you have similarly funny (and yet not so funny) jokes or war stories at the industry's expense??? Feel feel to share them here.

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