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Will Patients Beat Blue Shield Again... This Time With the First Online Ballot Petition for Rate Regulation?

Jamie Court | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Insurance Rate Hikes, Health Insurance, Blue Shield, Ballot Initiative, Consumer Watchdog, Health Insurance Reform, Video, California Justify Rates, Politics News

Shouldn't the CEOs of health insurance companies like Blue Shield have to sign under penalty of perjury that their rate hikes are justified? Californians will vote on that proposition in November, and are almost sure to approve.

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New Hire Mr. Potter Brings Blue Shield Into The New Year

Lorraine Devon Wilke | Posted 03.03.2012

Read More: Rebates, Blue Shield, 2% Pledge, Old Mr. Potter, Medical Industry, Rate Hikes, It's a Wonderful Life, Big Insurance, Extortionary Practices, Henry Potter, Business News

Is it just me or is there something inordinately mean about sending out medical insurance rate hike packages in time for the very last day of the year?

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Nonprofit Insurers: Reaping Profits at the Expense of the Consumer

Wendell Potter | Posted 08.27.2011

Read More: Health Care Reform, Consumers Union, Blue Shield, Kaiser Permanente, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Business News

Nowhere are health insurers working harder to thwart reforms that could save consumers billions of dollars than in California, where a proposed bill that give state regulators the authority to reject rate increases that were excessive or discriminatory.

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Blue Shield of Calif. To Return $167 million To Policy Holders

AP | TOM MURPHY | Posted 08.07.2011

Read More: Blue Shield of California Ceo, Ceo Bruce Bodaken, Health Care Reform, Blue Shield, Blue Shield of California, Bruce Bodaken, San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles News

One of California's biggest health insurers will cap its earnings and credit some policyholders if it exceeds the limit as part of an emphasis on poli...

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Nurse Protest Prompts Blue Shield to Delay Rate Hike

Rose Ann DeMoro | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Labor, Blue Shield, National Nurses United, Nurses, Afl-Cio, California Nurses Association, Guaranteed Healthcare, Healthcare, Home News

People power works, and not just in Egypt. Blue Shield of California today announced a 60-day reprieve for the unconscionable rate hike of up to 59 p...

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Will Black Sheep Blue Shield Bring Down American Health Insurance?

Jamie Court | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Blue Sheld Rate Hike, Blue Shield, Health Insurance Premiums, Public Option, Health Reform, Los Angeles News

Blue Shield's rate increases are giving California reformers the ammo to go to the legislature for proposals that give regulators the power to say no and to create a public insurance option in California. What starts here will spread.

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Blue Shield Hikes Rates, Disses Insurance Commissioner in California

Jamie Court | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Blue Shield, Premium Hikes, Barack Obama, Politics News

After Blue Shield shocked the nation with 59% premium hikes in California last week, the company just refused a request from the elected insurance commissioner to stop the increases for 60 days.

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Weekly Pulse: Giffords Shooting Reveals Flaws in U.S. Mental Health Services

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Adele Stan, State, Violence, Repeal, Rate, change.org, Arizona, Medical Loss Ratio, Dc, Lawsuit, California, Alternet, Insurance, Guttmacher Institute, Legislature, Autism, Disability, Health Care, Abortion, Mmr, Conflict of Interest, Blue Shield, Shooting, Brie Cadman, Chamber of Commerce, Rachel Gold, Care2, Choice, Kristina Chew, Vote, Suzi Khimm, Health Insurance, Andrew Wakefield, Gabrielle Giffords, Mental Illness, Elizabeth Nash, Rhetoric, Home News

By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) was shot in the head at a constituent outreach event in a supermarket...

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Officials Vow To Fight New Round Of Massive Blue Shield Rate Hikes

AP | By SHAYA TAYEFE MOHAJER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Blue Shield Rate Kikes, Dave Jones, Blue Shield, Anthem Rate Hike, Kathleen Sebelius, Los Angeles News

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Blue Shield Of California Seeks Rate Hikes Of As Much As 59 Percent For Individuals

LA Times | Duke Helfand | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Blue Shield, Blue Shield Rate Hike, Health Insurance, Health Care Reform, Health Care, Blue Shield Insurance Rates, Business News

Another big California health insurer has stunned individual policyholders with huge rate increases -- this time it's Blue Shield of California seekin...

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Judge Denies Denies Health Insurers' Injunction: Massachusetts' Block On Rate Hikes Stands

The Boston Globe | Robert Weisman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Insurance Premiums, Blue Shield, Deval Patrick, Insurance Commissioner, Blue Cross, Health Insurance Companies, Courts, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Premiums, Massachusetts, Health Care, Politics News

Suffolk Superior Court Judge Stephen E. Neel today denied a request by six health insurers to allow them to implement double-digit premium rate increa...

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My Blue Shield Experience Embodies Our Stupid and Wasteful Health Insurance System

Wendy Block | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cobra, Blue Shield, California, Health Insurance Bureaucracy, Health Care Reform, Waste, Single Payer, Saving Money, Lewin Group, Politics News

Recognize this melody? If you're a Blue Shield of California member, you hear it pretty much every time you call and end up holding till an actual person answers. A few days ago I heard it for half an hour.

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Health Insurance For Dummies!

Richard Walden | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Healthcarecosts, Congress, Republicans, Blue Shield, National Health Insurance, Scared Democrats, Politics News

If the current legislation fails to curb costs or vastly increase access to care, it should be scrapped and a full on national, or even state by state, health care plan substituted in its place.

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You Can Fight City Hall

Michael Sigman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sony Reader, Don Quixote, Health Care Reform, Blue Shield, Whittier, Richard Nixon, Politics News

The massive corporatization and mind-boggling technological advances of the past couple of decades have produced a vast network of forces that thwart reasonable inquiries and protests.

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Swine Flu and Britain's "Socialized" Approach

Richard Walden | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Medically-Uninsured, Blue Shield, Health Insurance, Single Payer, Blue Cross, National Health Service, Autism, Health Care, World News

Wanna have a good cry? Take a look at Britain's National Health Service website.

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Lyme: Emerging Disease or Hidden Epidemic?

Michealene Cristini Risley | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Politics, Cure Unknown, Blue Shield, Thomas Gray, Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, Infectious Diease Society of America, Lyme Disease, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Health-Insurance-Industry, Western Medicine, Supression of Diseases, Healthy Living News

Many people who have Lyme disease have sounded the alarm, yet the medical establishment is not listening. Why are there so many disbelievers in Western medicine?

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