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Bozita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-13-09 07:28 PM Original message |
Mich. regulators OK Blue Cross (22%) rate increase deal |
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Schema Thing (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-13-09 07:30 PM Response to Original message |
1. Well that should really encourage small business. |
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valerief (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-13-09 07:32 PM Response to Original message |
2. Who in America wouldn't want insurance like that? |
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MadMaddie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-13-09 07:34 PM Response to Original message |
3. We need to put these companies out of business |
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earthboundmisfit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-13-09 07:34 PM Response to Original message |
4. I hope this gets a lot of exposure |
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Grinchie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-13-09 07:46 PM Response to Original message |
5. Ah yes, Insurance in Name Only, or the Illusion of Insurance. |
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nc4bo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-13-09 07:49 PM Response to Original message |
6. damn. Freeptards: " We just love our health insurance companies." |
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katsy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-13-09 07:49 PM Response to Original message |
7. Last week, they got a 20% increase in CT |
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babylonsister (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-13-09 08:01 PM Response to Original message |
8. What?? Michigan?? Doesn't seem prudent. nt |
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dixiegrrrrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-13-09 08:04 PM Response to Original message |
9. News reports of Blue Cross CEO pay increases: |
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xchrom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-13-09 08:25 PM Response to Original message |
10. huh -- wow -- what's the unemployment rate in michigan again? nt |
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quakerboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-13-09 08:28 PM Response to Original message |
11. Wait.... |
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bkkyosemite (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-13-09 08:50 PM Response to Original message |
12. Bastards! |
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BeatleBoot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-13-09 09:15 PM Response to Original message |
13. Mike Cox (R) is running for Governor in Michigan |
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high density (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-13-09 09:17 PM Response to Original message |
14. So were all the teabaggers out in front of BCBS celebrating this rate hike? |
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dflprincess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-13-09 09:18 PM Response to Original message |
15. And this is one of the outfits the President and Congressional dems |
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Lagomorph (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-13-09 09:39 PM Response to Original message |
16. Another report |
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Lagomorph (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-13-09 09:47 PM Response to Original message |
17. More... |
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scentopine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-13-09 09:52 PM Response to Original message |
18. Someone's gotta pay for those CEO and exec bonuses- nt |
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harmonicon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-13-09 10:05 PM Response to Original message |
19. fucked right up |
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DRoseDARs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-13-09 10:40 PM Response to Original message |
20. Oh goody. Is that what I get to look forward to come April here in Nevada? |
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WriteDown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-13-09 10:41 PM Response to Original message |
21. Who the HECK are these regulators?! nt |
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glinda (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-13-09 11:53 PM Response to Original message |
22. My mouse just about flew off my table when I spazed at reading that becasue |
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Doctor_J (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-14-09 02:13 PM Response to Reply #22 |
30. I had BCBS in MI |
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moonbatmax (290 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-14-09 12:33 AM Response to Original message |
23. *SIGH* |
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OneBlueSky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-14-09 01:40 PM Response to Original message |
24. Reason #759: Why we need universal single payer healthcare . . . |
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Orsino (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-14-09 01:43 PM Response to Original message |
25. Now THAT'S the America I grew up in! |
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leftynyc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-14-09 01:47 PM Response to Original message |
26. Just in time for the President's Town Hall |
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alfredo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-14-09 02:02 PM Response to Original message |
27. Blue Cross just helped Obama's cause. |
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undeterred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-14-09 02:03 PM Original message |
Whose side are they on anyway? |
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undeterred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-14-09 02:03 PM Response to Original message |
28. Maybe this will change some more minds. |
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Doctor_J (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-14-09 02:11 PM Response to Original message |
29. Right in the middle of the health care debate |
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glinda (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-14-09 11:16 PM Response to Reply #29 |
35. They do this so that when it passes and they have to lower it 20% they will still be ahead. |
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merwin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-14-09 08:22 PM Response to Original message |
31. Our Regence Blue Shield has gone up 40 percent |
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lovuian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-14-09 08:28 PM Response to Original message |
32. today 22 % tomorrow 44% the next day 64% |
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ellie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-14-09 10:05 PM Response to Original message |
33. Hey! |
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roamer65 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-14-09 10:33 PM Response to Original message |
34. I am sure my company will drop the PPO with these rate increases. |
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Bozita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-14-09 11:35 PM Response to Original message |
36. A RW MI small store owner in a dying stripmall told of $1500/mo for family plan last year. |
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