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04-26-2012, 03:38 PM
Insurance Company Asking Consumers to Pay $100 Million More for Premiums While Reporting Profits of More than $800 Million-- In just the First Three Months of the Year!
This is a letter from Carmen Balber, Consumer Watchdog Campaign. She concisely states what, in my opinion, is what's driving the 99% of us to be so damned mad!
I already pay an amount greater than my car payment for health insurance every month. I know people who are paying more like a monthly mortgage payment for theirs. This insanity needs to stop. I'm mad as Hell! Will you spend three minutes to take some action?
"When an insurance company CEO criticizes your ballot measure to Wall Street investors, you know they’re worried about our signature gathering (https://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Wx9TVvE3te0vhqYuDhbLmfoaXri44sHn).
CEO Angela Braly, head of Blue Cross parent company WellPoint, told investors yesterday that California already has plenty of oversight of health insurance prices and doesn’t need our ballot measure. Tell that to the 600,000 customers of Anthem Blue Cross in California who will pay $100 million more when their health insurance premiums go up on May 1st.
These massive hikes come at the same time that WellPoint is reporting profits of more than $800 million for just the first three months of the year.
How can a company with that kind of profits justify raising rates on so many vulnerable Californians? It doesn’t have to justify anything! That’s the point of our ballot measure.
Click here to join the 500,000 Californians who have already signed the petition to stop these unjust and unfair rate hikes. (https://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=ziQ3coiAYuqNGhiYqf6zV%2FoaXri44sHn)
Our ballot initiative makes health insurance companies open their books and prove why they’re raising rates. If they can’t, they’ll be barred from making excessive premium increases.
Help us show Ms. Braly and Blue Cross that we won’t stand for year after year of double-digit rate hikes – Click here to download and sign the petition today! (https://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=x7Kjmk8qfBUNH8cVxrUMJPoaXri44sHn)
We already have the support of over 500,000 Californians for our initiative. But we need your signature today to make sure we reach the November ballot. Download and sign the petition today! (https://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=ZWwv1tAkD3nxteFO6NVH5foaXri44sHn)
We have two and a half weeks left to collect at least 250,000 more signatures. Will you join us by signing the petition (https://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=PoC876QTjugvqu0uvVA6TvoaXri44sHn) or spreading the word (https://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=%2FM3%2FqhCpfv8oYr63p%2BvwbPoaXri44sHn) today?
Thanks for all you do,
https://salsa.wiredforchange.com/o/6563/images/CarmenSig2.gif
Carmen Balber
Consumer Watchdog Campaign
PS. If you have already signed, please consider making a donation (https://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=7gqwRCTJuxwB9l2oeuLCJ%2FoaXri44sHn) to our efforts and letting your friends know about the movement on Facebook (https://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=UaaUGbuTECp6%2BSr5mHVXZfoaXri44sHn), Twitter (https://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=bhQ4%2FqACTeUz0G%2FUD5GDU%2FoaXri44sHn) and through email (https://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=8rgeFrKu18maoEUcE6vl7voaXri44sHn).
Paid for by Consumer Watchdog Campaign To Make Health Insurance Companies Justify Their Rates, a committee of consumer advocates with major funding by Consumer Watchdog Campaign Committee. Consumer Watchdog Campaign is a nonprofit consumer protection organization. Your contributions (https://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=fI2FPAwFD%2Be%2BOK68TbEe3%2FoaXri44sHn) are not tax-deductible.
This is a letter from Carmen Balber, Consumer Watchdog Campaign. She concisely states what, in my opinion, is what's driving the 99% of us to be so damned mad!
I already pay an amount greater than my car payment for health insurance every month. I know people who are paying more like a monthly mortgage payment for theirs. This insanity needs to stop. I'm mad as Hell! Will you spend three minutes to take some action?
"When an insurance company CEO criticizes your ballot measure to Wall Street investors, you know they’re worried about our signature gathering (https://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Wx9TVvE3te0vhqYuDhbLmfoaXri44sHn).
CEO Angela Braly, head of Blue Cross parent company WellPoint, told investors yesterday that California already has plenty of oversight of health insurance prices and doesn’t need our ballot measure. Tell that to the 600,000 customers of Anthem Blue Cross in California who will pay $100 million more when their health insurance premiums go up on May 1st.
These massive hikes come at the same time that WellPoint is reporting profits of more than $800 million for just the first three months of the year.
How can a company with that kind of profits justify raising rates on so many vulnerable Californians? It doesn’t have to justify anything! That’s the point of our ballot measure.
Click here to join the 500,000 Californians who have already signed the petition to stop these unjust and unfair rate hikes. (https://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=ziQ3coiAYuqNGhiYqf6zV%2FoaXri44sHn)
Our ballot initiative makes health insurance companies open their books and prove why they’re raising rates. If they can’t, they’ll be barred from making excessive premium increases.
Help us show Ms. Braly and Blue Cross that we won’t stand for year after year of double-digit rate hikes – Click here to download and sign the petition today! (https://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=x7Kjmk8qfBUNH8cVxrUMJPoaXri44sHn)
We already have the support of over 500,000 Californians for our initiative. But we need your signature today to make sure we reach the November ballot. Download and sign the petition today! (https://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=ZWwv1tAkD3nxteFO6NVH5foaXri44sHn)
We have two and a half weeks left to collect at least 250,000 more signatures. Will you join us by signing the petition (https://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=PoC876QTjugvqu0uvVA6TvoaXri44sHn) or spreading the word (https://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=%2FM3%2FqhCpfv8oYr63p%2BvwbPoaXri44sHn) today?
Thanks for all you do,
https://salsa.wiredforchange.com/o/6563/images/CarmenSig2.gif
Carmen Balber
Consumer Watchdog Campaign
PS. If you have already signed, please consider making a donation (https://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=7gqwRCTJuxwB9l2oeuLCJ%2FoaXri44sHn) to our efforts and letting your friends know about the movement on Facebook (https://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=UaaUGbuTECp6%2BSr5mHVXZfoaXri44sHn), Twitter (https://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=bhQ4%2FqACTeUz0G%2FUD5GDU%2FoaXri44sHn) and through email (https://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=8rgeFrKu18maoEUcE6vl7voaXri44sHn).
Paid for by Consumer Watchdog Campaign To Make Health Insurance Companies Justify Their Rates, a committee of consumer advocates with major funding by Consumer Watchdog Campaign Committee. Consumer Watchdog Campaign is a nonprofit consumer protection organization. Your contributions (https://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=fI2FPAwFD%2Be%2BOK68TbEe3%2FoaXri44sHn) are not tax-deductible.