NC insurer says timing of mailings unfortunate

[skipos]

RALEIGH, N.C. —Even Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina acknowledges that its timing on two recent mailings was unfortunate.

The News&Observer of Raleigh reported that customers first learned their rates will rise by an average of 11 percent next year.

Then they got a flier urging them to send an enclosed preprinted, postage-paid note to Sen. Kay Hagan denouncing what the company says is unfair competition that would be imposed by a government-backed insurance plan. Congress is likely to consider that public option as it debates the health care overhaul....

Indignant Blue Cross customers, complaining that their premium dollars are funding the campaign, have called Hagan's office to voice support for a public option. They've marked through the Blue Cross message on their postcards and changed it to show they support the public option, then mailed the cards.

http://www.reflector.com/news/state/nc-insurer-says-timing-of-mailings-unfortunate-923783.html

Did a DUer start this pro-public option postcard revolution?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6853620

[hvn_nbr_2]

1. It's not the "timing" that's unfortunate, asshats. nt

[HopeHoops]

2. Notice how they never apologize for anything? It is just "unfortunate timing"

What they are really saying is that they are NOT sorry about WHAT they did. They are just sorry that it caused a public relations problem.

[zazen]

3. fellow NC folks--is the PR firm Capstrat responsible for this?

And yes, I think a DUer may have gotten this going. It's certainly how I heard about it before I saw it in the N&O. Regardless, you have my praise.

I know Capstrat is doing BCBS's other work. I just hope it's not true that they were responsible for this mailing. The company was launched and is owned by a former chair of the NC Dem Party. I really don't want to believe he would stoop so low.

[Lex]

4. What is unfortunate is their legalized extortion of North Carolinians.

Bastids.

[Toucano]

5. Bad timing? Oh, yeah. Like when you're doing that Cha-Cha and step in a pile of your own shit.

That's just bad timing.

[surrealAmerican]

6. I love it.

I guess assuming that your customers are all idiots doesn't work out so well.