Blue Cross/Blue Shield at it again
Submitted by fritzpardue on Wed, 03/02/2011 - 10:12am
On the verge of being screwed again, the NC public is facing a new health insurance exchange law that, according to the News & Observer, is being "orchestrated by Blue Cross/Blue Shield." The new law requires that the health insurance exchange board be made up of a permanent seat for BC/BS and also two other insurance company representatives, someone from the business community, someone from the state medical society, and someone from the hospital association.
No consumer groups or advocates will be included.
The law is getting fast service in the legislature who are again, swapping campaign dollars for dead people.
The real question .....
How in the world can they be stopped? This is obscene.
wafranklin
Thanks!
You beat me to posting this. I'm glad you asked what you can do.
You can write a letter to the editor saying that insurance companies serving on the board of the exchange would be an outrage. You can get your friends and family to flood the General Assembly with calls and emails.
You can contact me, Adam Linker, at the North Carolina Justice Center's Health Access Coalition. My email is adam.linker@ncjustice.org. We are fighting this as hard as we can but we need a lot of help.