wellpoint sued an ENTIRE STATE to increase profits
March 17th, 2010 |
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Netting $2.5 billion in profits last year wasn’t enough for wellpoint, the nation’s largest insurance company. Now, wellpoint’s affiliate, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, is suing the state of Maine for refusing to guarantee it a profit margin in the midst of a painful recession. Forward this video to a friend in Maine! sickforprofit.com
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March 17th, 2010 at 14:27
@LinLao Americans actually like some Socialism: Fire departments (read about the horrors when fire departments were privately run), Police, agencies that guarantee safe food and medicine, Social Security, and Medicare, which even Republicans dare not attempt to dismantle now. Expanding Medicare to all to include younger healthier members would be a natural avenue to explore. The program already exists & the reasons Insurance companies gave for hikes are younger members are dropping coverage.
March 17th, 2010 at 14:37
Blue Cross Anthem…failed to fool the public this time around! These dirty bastards need to be hung with piano wire! ….This company is running scared of health care reform! and robbing us of everything until health reform comes to the rescue. Stockholders need to be imprisoned for a minimum of 50 years with no
medical care should they become sick while in prison! ….I never dreamed in all my years on earth that humans could be so heartless for people who become sick !
March 17th, 2010 at 14:54
Call me ignorant or whatever you want…but I don’t know what SOCIALISM means. All I know is that I’m an average American who makes $45,000 a year and probably bring home around $36,000 after taxes. And each month, I pay $870 for health insurance, $210 for car insurance, $150 for life insurance, $90 for flood insurance and $160 for home ins.
And if I have any health problem, I have to pay 20% of the bill plus my deduct. IF that doesn’t lead to bankruptcy, I don’t know what else will? HELP!
March 17th, 2010 at 15:08
What the fucks wrong with socialism then.
March 17th, 2010 at 16:05
Seems ironic. Health care premiums for the past years have risen to a rate of 10-12% per year out pacing inflation rate of 3 plus percent. Since Obama took office, health care premiums jumped across the board to a 30% plus increase last year. Now insurance companies are planning to do the same this year.
March 17th, 2010 at 16:13
Are you saying the health care professionals who say the system needs to change are socialists. They are on the front lines, they see the carnage from people dealing with their health ins. co. Perhaps they understand that health care reform has to happen. That currently more than 17% of our GDP spent on health care is too much. People are standing up. Watch the people who want the health care system to change march today across the nation. No longer will people be slaves to their health ins co.
March 17th, 2010 at 16:33
We are responsible. The purpose for this film was not to just get my story out, it was to help other people as they struggle against health care bills. The ins co are now complaining too many healthy people are dropping their policies. So they have to raise rates. And yet, raising their rates is forcing people to drop their ins. The fact is that health care should not depend on a money-driven system. This idea is costing us as a nation.
March 17th, 2010 at 17:17
Currently, our choice for health ins is one company. I am happy you have so many choices, because many people do not. Especially when the smallest health care problem labels people as uninsurable. Millions of people are being effected by the health care system. It costs us more for people not to be treated. What happens when the cost of doing business with health ins companies increases the GDP spent on health care services more than it already has. When there is no money for other services.
March 17th, 2010 at 18:15
You say that it is my problem when in fact it is thousands of peoples’ problems in particular and millions generally. You do not understand and it is some fallacy to come on here and pretend you do.
If you want a nation of no regulation, go live there. Deregulation of the banks is what led us to the financial crisis we have now. Their greed set us up for a financial collapse. The increase in health ins. premiums contributed to the American auto companies’ problems.
March 17th, 2010 at 18:47
@backpain13 –
Whether you like it or not, the views you hold are from the SOCIALIST DOCTRINE. If you practice catholic views, people will call you catholic. If you practice socialism, then you will be called a SOCIALIST.
The main premise in socialism is that all the power for decisions for the Collective rests with the CENTRAL government and it’s bureaucrats….that the Central government has the right to redistribute the wealth in a manner that is best for society. That’s Socialism
March 17th, 2010 at 19:14
If a CRIME was committed, you need to get your but down to the DA’s office and file a Criminal Complaint. If you are getting bad service, you need to FIRE them and hire someone else.
If you had over 900 choices for Health Insurance, you could have picked from a much larger and more comptetitive group of suppliers. Imagine if you only had a few Grocery stores in your state. There would be long lines, high prices and fraud. Competition keeps everyone honest. The Medicare act is to blame
March 17th, 2010 at 19:27
@backpain13 –
I’ve been screwed by insurance companies and banks. I file a lawsuit against them. Not all lawyers are expensive. AGAIN – It is not an ENTIRE NATION’S JOB TO FIGURE OUT THE SOLUTIONS TO YOUR PROBLEMS. If you have a good case, a lawyer will take it pro bono. Did the thought ever occur to you that you just don’t have that great of a case?? Who knows. Listen to me – People get killed every day…people lose their jobs, get raped, robbed, murdered and degraded.
March 17th, 2010 at 19:31
Listen – I didn’t say the world was a perfect place. What I’m telling you is that everyone in life has problems. These are YOUR specific set of problems that YOU need to deal with. AN ENTIRE NATION does not need to sacrifice their freedom to help you. You are beating the wrong drum about problems. I have bee dirt poor, seen unbelievalbe wealth, only to lose every penny of it due to corruption. I LOOKED IN THE MIRROR TO SEE WHO WAS RESPONSIBLE.
March 17th, 2010 at 19:47
Oyee Smart Pants
I am Serious
Americans are suck a wuss about violence protest…. I mean really We are not the only voilence protestor…
French are known good for that too….
That’s why their Govt shits their pants before doing anything wrong….
March 17th, 2010 at 20:09
We have super high medical bills to pay. We pay them all. We don’t have the super cable package. What can you say about the bankruptcy rate and medical bills? Foreclosures? Civil law suit? How? We don’t have the money. Do you have that kind of money? Maybe that is why you are not worried about the current health care system. One of Anthem/BC’s top execs is a lawyer and a medical doctor. They know they are laying waste to peoples’ lives. They do not care one iota.
March 17th, 2010 at 20:56
I get sick of that socialist crap. I am not a socialist. I want people to be healthy. That is now a crime? I know people who own their own businesses have problems with regulations and taxes. How would you feel if you had a cancer diagnosis and was then told their is a treatment but ins won’t pay for it? This is the reality. Would you undergo a surgery that only, for ex. has a 40-50% chance of success, while there is one that is at 80-90%? We have been cutting expenses all over the place.
March 17th, 2010 at 21:11
You really don’t get the point: We’re paying more for people who don’t get preventive care, that don’t get care in time. If you had some kind of health problem, like severe heart disease or cancer, you could be told by your ins co that they will not pay for your care. It happens all the time. For profit health care is not the way health ins should work. How the heck can people afford to sue the health ins co? Don’t you understand, you need around 45K or more to do that. This is a fact.
March 17th, 2010 at 21:36
People often do not get medical care because they don’t want to spend the money. They wait, and then it becomes a bigger problem. You sound like you are from the teaparty camp. Selling ins across state lines will not cure the hit to the GDP which is happening in this country. Costs are not going down, where do you get that idea? The threat of paying too much for individual health ins is driving people to drop their insurance or opt for a higher deductible, get less care. How’s this good for US?
March 17th, 2010 at 21:47
How do you know there are not 46 million uninsured or have no medical care? Actually, I think the number is much higher. Have you considered the number of homeless there are? People who have lost their job and cannot afford Cobra? We were on Cobra a few times, more than a thousand dollars each month, with no money coming in that is difficult to pay each month. Jobs are not that available, if you have looked around.
I am not the exception, I am not the “extreme” case. I am the norm. .
March 17th, 2010 at 21:48
@backpain13 –
I don’t know about those cases. What I DO know, from owning a business, is that it is IMPOSSIBLE to get through a single day without breaking numerous laws. As I type this memo, there are over ONE MILLION Laws that apply to business.
It’s set up that way. Each individual person should file a civil case. This is not the role of government. Furthermore, if they opened competition across state lines, CA residents would have over 900 options. That’s why homeowners is so cheap
March 17th, 2010 at 22:19
From today’s paper (2-23-10), Business section :
California’s Insurance regulator said Monday that his office has found more than 700 violations by the state’s largest for-profit health insurer, including late payment of claims, giving misleading information to consumers and failing to cooperate with regulators. Anthem Blue Cross faces a maximum $10,000 penalty for each violation, Ins. Commissioner Steve Poizner said. His office said the violations occurred from 2006 to 2009.
March 17th, 2010 at 22:40
Class – This is what a KOOK looks like.
I think it was a guy like this who flew a plane into the IRS.
Very smart solution.
Keep up the good work
March 17th, 2010 at 23:11
Thank GOD for the protesters who have safe guarded my freedom from Socialist thinking.
March 17th, 2010 at 23:46
@rcshouldis –
Health care COMPANIES are not greedy and they only problem is massive government interference. All medical procedures NOT covered by the thousands of pages of legislation are falling in price. Just like Computers and Cell phones, the Free market drives these procedures lower in cost and higher in quality. We already have a public Option. It’s Called Medicare and it is the SINGLE LARGEST ECONOMIC FAILURE IN THE HISTORY OF MANKIND.
March 18th, 2010 at 00:23
@beancube2010 –
I’m not a republican….so what “trick” am I using??
Class – beancube is what we call an uneducated socialist. I can guarantee you that beancube hasn’t read the constitution and doesn’t understand what it means.
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