Private for Profit Corporate Criminals
Public, not for Profit!
Blue Cross is raising rates in California by as much as 39% ! And they are reserving the right to raise rates more than once a year! Some people had big rate increases already last year. This is insane. Could this be coming to New York soon? These private for profit health insurance companies (which shouldn’t exist) are robbing us blind. They have enormous influence in Washington, hence the failure of single payer advocates. They have enormous influence over our media, hence the brainwashed masses, including our local government.
What to do?
Let’s privatize our EMS! Yeah, that’s it. Charge those bastards every time our ambulance rolls. That’ll teach ‘em. They won’t raise their rates will they? We won’t actually be giving them a chance to profit off of our formally single payer EMS, will we?
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/feb/04/business/la-fi-insure-anthem5-2010feb05
We have the golden opportunity to vote for change in the Village elections this March. Trouble is, there isn’t one single candidate, that I’m aware of, that wants to change course on this most important issue in the election. Not one of them has voiced opposition to privatizing our Trumansburg Ambulance.
WTF?
By the way, this Anthem Blue Cross Corporate Criminal posted a 2 billion dollar profit last quarter. I’ll bet some of that profit came from people who rode in California ambulances. I would also bet that some Californians that didn’t call 911 when they should have, because they couldn’t afford to keep paying the outrageous rates, are now dead.