From: gray asphalt on
$100/month higher starting in June,
Blue Cross/ Blue Shield. I wouldn't
mind as much if I thought more sick
and injured people were really going
to get medical help.


From: BAR on
In article <dwEun.305739$OX4.17064(a)newsfe25.iad>, dontwrite(a)gmail.com
says...
>
> $100/month higher starting in June,
> Blue Cross/ Blue Shield. I wouldn't
> mind as much if I thought more sick
> and injured people were really going
> to get medical help.

You should write a thank you note to Reid, Pelosi and Obama.
From: dene on

"gray asphalt" <dontwrite(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
news:dwEun.305739$OX4.17064(a)newsfe25.iad...
> $100/month higher starting in June,
> Blue Cross/ Blue Shield. I wouldn't
> mind as much if I thought more sick
> and injured people were really going
> to get medical help.

I have a couple of hundred people to call about their rate increase. Some
of it has to do with BC/BS not wanting to have the shiniest apple when the
mandate requiring they cover all children without underwriting comes into
play.

But.....the root cause of rate increases are due to the insured paying the
medical bills of the uninsured. Obamacare addresses this and in a few
years, premiums will stabilize when the insured pool stabilizes.

Until then...fun..fun..fun.

-Greg


From: Dinosaur_Sr on
On Apr 6, 1:41 pm, "dene" <d...(a)remove.ipns.com> wrote:
> "gray asphalt" <dontwr...(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:dwEun.305739$OX4.17064(a)newsfe25.iad...
>
> > $100/month higher starting in June,
> > Blue Cross/ Blue Shield. I wouldn't
> > mind as much if I thought more sick
> > and injured people were really going
> > to get medical help.
>
> I have a couple of hundred people to call about their rate increase.  Some
> of it has to do with BC/BS not wanting to have the shiniest apple when the
> mandate requiring they cover all children without underwriting comes into
> play.
>
> But.....the root cause of rate increases are due to the insured paying the
> medical bills of the uninsured.  Obamacare addresses this and in a few
> years, premiums will stabilize when the insured pool stabilizes.
>
> Until then...fun..fun..fun.
>
> -Greg

In general, however, the root cause of the increase in health care
costs is the tremendous increase in both the quality and availability
of health care in the US. This happened in a more or less free market
because people want it. Specifically, people will pay more for better,
more available care, and IMHO, if polled, would not want to pay less
and get lower quality, less available care.

An absolute fact is that you cannot get anything other than lower
quality and lower availability if you pay less.

An absolute lie is the claim you can maintain the increase in quality
and availability that people want and are willing to pay for without
paying more for it....regardless of the impact it has on the govts
desire to provide entitlements.
From: gray asphalt on

"dene" <dene(a)remove.ipns.com> wrote in message
news:8219pnFen4U1(a)mid.individual.net...
>
> "gray asphalt" <dontwrite(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:dwEun.305739$OX4.17064(a)newsfe25.iad...
>> $100/month higher starting in June,
>> Blue Cross/ Blue Shield. I wouldn't
>> mind as much if I thought more sick
>> and injured people were really going
>> to get medical help.
>
> I have a couple of hundred people to call about their rate increase. Some
> of it has to do with BC/BS not wanting to have the shiniest apple when the
> mandate requiring they cover all children without underwriting comes into
> play.
>
> But.....the root cause of rate increases are due to the insured paying the
> medical bills of the uninsured. Obamacare addresses this and in a few
> years, premiums will stabilize when the insured pool stabilizes.
>
> Until then...fun..fun..fun.
>
> -Greg

I've still got one question ... what's to keep a bunch of
us from forming our own insurance company, sort of like
credit unions vs. banks?