An insurance company that does good?

Want to go to Lourdes but can't afford it? Then it's time to move to the Netherlands and get medical insurance from the Dutch company, VGZ.

Nightline reported last night that VGZ sends a plane full of clients to the healing holy site every year. It's an all-expense paid trip, with VGZ employees volunteering as helpers.

This may seem hard to believe for Americans, who are more used to insurance companies squeezing every cent of the copay out of us than giving us all-expense paid trips to France, but the company apparently finds in valuable beyond just the bottom line.

"It's not a mathematical thing. It's not a thing where you can scientifically prove where effectively it reduces costs of health care. It has a salutary effect on people, a sort of healing effect," said Erik Lelieveld, the company's spokesman and a volunteer wheelchair-pusher on this trip.

They aren't counting on miracles, but the trip can still be healing for clients. One woman said she might need less treatment for her arthritis after the visit. Still, another man suggested clients may live longer and cost the insurance company more money! At any rate, the Nightline story points out that it is good publicity.

Now if they'd only expand to the United States!