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Every family needs a little help sometimes. This one is asking for yours.

Since 1891, the family has looked after your health, your bills and your benefits, so that you would never have to. It has read every claim, so that you would never have to understand one. It has stood between you and the price of your care, so that you would never have to see it. And in all that time, it has never once asked you for thanks.

Today it asks for a little more. Your gift, of any size, goes straight to the family, and the family never forgets a gift.

Give as generously as the family gives: $1, $5, $10, or an amount of your own.*

The last gift is yours to name, just this once. Whatever you choose, it is received with the same gratitude.

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Plainly: each button buys a link to nowhere, as advertised. It is a purchase, not a donation: not a charity, and not tax-deductible. The money goes to the house.

The family’s gifts to the world

The family credits its first inventions to its boys, and the trusts that followed them too: Boys will be trusts.

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  Leaded gasoline, how we took the lead

  Observe: leaded gasoline, from the same man who gave us the refrigerant.*

  *It made engines run smoothly and put lead in the air, the dust, the soil and the children. It sold for the better part of a century: this country stopped selling it for cars at the end of 1995, and the last of the world in 2021. The family has never once run out of gas.

  For your convenience: a man in a bright shirt explains what we would rather not · The real answer

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  The non-stick pan, how nothing sticks to us

  Seen here: the non-stick pan. Nothing sticks to it.*

  *Its coating comes from a family of forever chemicals, and they stick to everyone else instead: nearly everyone in the country has them in their blood. Nothing has ever stuck to the family.

  For your convenience: a man in a bright shirt explains what we would rather not · The real answer

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  The light bulb, how we plan ahead

  Observe: the light bulb, our bright idea.*

  *In 1924 the family met its friends in Geneva, and soon a bulb lasted 1,000 hours. Any of us whose bulbs lasted longer paid a fine. You have been buying bulbs ever since. We called it quality.

  For your convenience: a man in a bright shirt explains what we would rather not · The real answer

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  Insulin, how we name our price

  Seen here: insulin. Its discoverers sold the patent for a dollar, so that no one could make a monopoly of it.*

  *A dollar was their price. The family has had a century to think of others. The law now caps what Medicare’s members pay for it, at $35; the rest of you are welcome to call us.

  The real answer

Remember what the family has given you

• Your birth, for $30,000, and your child’s, for more. When the family has a hard year, more money is printed for it, and the price of being born goes up again. The magazines call it inflation.
• Your bill, which says it is not a bill, and explains nothing else.
• Your benefits, which never leave the network, even when you have to.

Seen here: your donation, at work.*

*It has been at work since 1891.