My favorite commercial

I first saw this commercial last year when I first moved to Missouri. I thought it was terrible then, and then I never saw it again. I could only assume that whoever was in charge of it decided is was so asinine, ( an observation I arrived at the first time I saw it) that they decided to pull it. It is a commercial by one of the big local hospital systems here, peddling their own insurance programs. Let me set it up for you. Two women are talking. The conversation is about healthcare. One woman is confessing to the other that she is going to have to drop her health insurance for her, her husband and her kids due to the rising costs of everyhting, not just health insurance. The other woman of course is shocked by this, as she should be, and proceeds to tell her to call said hospital system, as they have their own in house insurance plan, which she assures patron #2 is very affordable and easy to get a quote. All this is good and fine, what floors me is the overall context of the commercial. The two women are sitting and having lunch. This lunch is in a fancy italian restaurant, and both women have meals in front of them. Not only that, but they also both have a glass of wine. So I am monday morning quarterbacking from couch and thinking. Okay, italial food for lunch 7-8 dollars, glass of wine 4-5 dollars, plus tip, roughly 12-13 dollars for lunch. This is the part that is so hilarious to me and depressing at the same time. I rarely eat out for lunch, once, maybe twice a month, sometimes not even that and I have never spent 13 dollars. Furthermore, if you are drinking wine at lunch, I am not sure what kind of job you are going back to, probably none. This commercial epitomizes a lot of the problems in america. I can't afford health insurance for my family, but I can afford 15 dollar lunches because " I deserve it" or whatever other ridiculous reason people use to justify their own severe lack in judgment or responsibility. If my wife is ever telling me that we need to drop our health insurance due to finances, and I find out abuot 15 dollar lunches, someone is going to be in a timeout of the serious kind. But, I know she would never do anything even remotely akin to that level of stupidity, far from it. I am just making a point. And, so continues my growing disappointment and contempt for big business/mass media/commercialism.