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In the discussion thread: Anthem Blue Cross seeks to raise individual policyholders' rates (18% average) [View all]

Wed Nov 28, 2012, 07:43 PM

5. I wonder

What the insurance companies would do if everybody in the country dropped their insurance at once.S_ _ t the bloomers would be my guess.

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Anthem Blue Cross seeks to raise individual policyholders' rates (18% average) [View all]	Newsjock	Nov 2012	OP
Denied.	Panasonic	Nov 2012	#1
Ain't this great! We don't need any F'en national healthcare system, it just works so	RKP5637	Nov 2012	#2
Private insurance needs to be removed from the system. Nt.	Warren Stupidity	Nov 2012	#3
a never ending shrinking pool of individuals buying insurance	madrchsod	Nov 2012	#4
I wonder	donnasgirl	Nov 2012	#5
Oh yeah. Millions more people dying, tens of millions yanked into utter poverty.	jtuck004	Nov 2012	#6
Sorry my friend	donnasgirl	Nov 2012	#8
Not my answers. History and human behavior.	jtuck004	Nov 2012	#16
jtuck004	donnasgirl	Nov 2012	#17
Oh yeah. I haven't given up hope <G>. One never knows... n/t	jtuck004	Nov 2012	#21
So the insurance regulators do not have authority to regulate?	enlightenment	Nov 2012	#7
Only for health insurance.	KamaAina	Nov 2012	#29
That's insane.	enlightenment	Nov 2012	#32
This kind.	KamaAina	Nov 2012	#33
Figured as much.	enlightenment	Nov 2012	#34
They can regulate what services insurers provide, but they cannot regulate the price	Freddie Stubbs	Nov 2012	#37
When I worked in the Health Insurance industry	Diego_Native 2012	Nov 2012	#9
Makes no sense! Prices are supposed to come down, not go up.	Pterodactyl	Nov 2012	#10
Don't think premiums are going down anytime soon until the system is changed.	Hoyt	Nov 2012	#15
Yeah, I hope the costs go down soon.	Pterodactyl	Nov 2012	#23
This is why we got insurance thru the nonprofit AARP. It ain't cheap but it's better than this!	CTyankee	Nov 2012	#22
Individual policy holders	KT2000	Nov 2012	#11
I thought that all the "Blues" are not for profit?	question everything	Nov 2012	#12
I think only Blue Shield is non-for-profit, Blue Cross and many Anthem companies are for-profit.	NickP	Nov 2012	#13
Originally they were, but that has changed	csziggy	Nov 2012	#24
For more than 15 years I had individual policies	question everything	Nov 2012	#28
Anybody under 50 should likely move to another country.	ErikJ	Nov 2012	#14
Non starter here	DiverDave	Nov 2012	#26
I wish!	We are Devo	Nov 2012	#27
Not for EVERYONE	rcmooney	Nov 2012	#18
Welcome to DU!	hrmjustin	Nov 2012	#20
Welcome to DU!	JimDandy	Nov 2012	#25
Fuck	sakabatou	Nov 2012	#19
What have I gained?	Steerpike	Nov 2012	#30
I had Aetna as self-insurance.	AngryOldDem	Nov 2012	#31
Thieves...	SoapBox	Nov 2012	#35
Got the letter yesterday - spent the afternoon in tears	CrawlingChaos	Nov 2012	#36

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