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I've just been informed that the premiums for my Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Michigan plan -- which does not cover office visit charges -- is going up 29% this year. This was not a negotiation, it was a unilateral price increase. The rationale given in the letter is that it's the fault of the State of Michigan for requiring BCBSM to cover people rejected by other insurers for pre-existing conditions. As if that wasn't true the previous year.
All I know is that I didn't get consulted on this price change, that it will have no direct effect on the quality of my coverage or health care vs. 2008-09 rates, and that it's utterly ridiculous. No other good or service in our economy saw a 29% price increase.
Time for single-payer national health care.
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We need to keep on writing or emailing or calling our congressmen to let them know we want reform---single payer. They need to keep hearing from us. And we need also to let them know that we object to the financial community on wall street being able to rob us stupids just because they can.
Scot, interesting because our Blue Cross Advantage supplemental insurance to Medicare went from $60
per month for each of us to over $100 per month.
Apparantly the bastards set rates artificially low to suck in GM salary retirees last year and now we pay for it.
Now, let me take thia a step further.
The only solution to this health care mess is free basic coverage for every one.
How we get there from here is a challenge, but the public option would be a good start. Any legislation without the public option only makes things worse.
Why can't people realize that the paradigm of employer provided health care is killing our manufacturing companies competitiveness in the world economy????
Seems like all the proposed plans will put more of a burden on employers, which makes further eliminating of jobs the best way to stay solvent.
Health care costs are a big part of what brought General Motors down --- am I the only one that remembers that?
Pursuing a good job with benefits was a great motivator when jobs were plentiful, but what about now, when people are losing their jobs to the economy through no fault of their own? Do they deserve to left without health care?
No one should ever have to be afraid to go to the doctor.
Universal basic coverage is the only humane solution.
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