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Old 10-21-2010, 02:28 PM   #1
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YA OFF YA EFFIN ROCKER

MASS HEALTH INS RATES

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@@$%$!!@~@ Wtf $#@#!@1`!!! damn^&!@!@!@## whores#$$@#%^~@#!

25% increase. !!!! Health insurance is now as much as my entire house mortgage.

Renewal 12/5 goes from 836 to 1050 family on harvard pilgrim.

Nice health care legislation SNOWBAMA %$%$%$%$ the middle class again.

AZZHOLES.
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Old 10-21-2010, 02:34 PM   #2
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Ouch! Thats insane!!! What the hell are they doing to the middle class is right?!?!?!

Almost time to get our fish on!!!
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Old 10-21-2010, 02:40 PM   #3
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Hmmm... Tufts tried to increase our premiums 15% or something like that and the state declined their request.

Who ya got?
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Old 10-21-2010, 03:03 PM   #4
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Insurance companies profit margin may be to low which may be the reason for the increase. If the profit is below a certain percentage then the state takes control of the company. The increase is due to the doctor and hospital cost that jeopardizes the insurance companies from being taken over from the state.
Compain to your doctor to lower his cost because your rates are going up.
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Old 10-21-2010, 03:55 PM   #5
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Yea I already have rsoxt. It don't go anywhere he says he don't make much on hmo's. sure.

Johnny it's Harvard Pilgrim Best Buy 2000 family, 2000/4000 pcy deductible
$20 office copay $100 ER
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Old 10-21-2010, 04:04 PM   #6
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Compain to your doctor to lower his cost because your rates are going up.
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Complain to the doctor??

Complain to the government for not enacting tort reform. Complain to the scum bag lawyers trawling for any excuse to sue someone in the medical field ("Are you taking Yaz and have suffered an injury due to a blood clot? You could be entitled to a large sum of money"). Complain to the idiot judges and juries that award million dollar settlements because "that's why they have malpractice insurance". Complain to the people that cause malpractice insurance to be up to half of a doctor's salary.

There are two types of people in any medical field, those that have been sued and those that haven't worked long enough to be sued yet.
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Old 10-21-2010, 04:06 PM   #7
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Don't even use the damn stuff. I pay this crap every month for nothing. State shoved prescription drugs down our throat 2 years ago. Nobody in the family has had any prescriptions for over a year.

grumpy stuff
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Old 10-21-2010, 04:10 PM   #8
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10 minutes on hold. The friggin department closed at 5. It's now 5:08pm.

Form letter says 7:30

amazing.
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Old 10-21-2010, 04:18 PM   #9
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There should be deductions like that of auto insurance.
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Old 10-21-2010, 04:30 PM   #10
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and how many other ins companies have you gotten quotes from?

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Old 10-21-2010, 04:40 PM   #11
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Tufts is for profit

BC is none profit, with a min. and max profit range. BC profit min profit must carry out 2 weeks or so if they shut down today
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Old 10-21-2010, 05:38 PM   #12
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My girlfriend is still under her parent's insurance and is on a plan like that. $2000 deductible, be it appointments, ER, prescriptions, you name it. After $2000, I think they have a $20 copay for any service after.
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Old 10-21-2010, 06:23 PM   #13
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Who was the person here who said somewhere they were in the health insurance business?
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Old 10-21-2010, 10:03 PM   #14
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Who was the person here who said somewhere they were in the health insurance business?

I think Redlite is doing it.

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Old 10-22-2010, 03:36 AM   #15
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Thanks i'll shoot him a email

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Old 10-22-2010, 09:21 AM   #16
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good luck man, that really sucks.

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Old 10-22-2010, 10:51 AM   #17
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question for someone

emergency visits recently went from $50.00 dollars
to $150.00 dollars with our blue cross blue shield health care

co- pays went from 15 bucks to 20 bucks

now WHEN? health care goes up a predicted 25 percent
how will that affect those current values (costs)?
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Old 10-22-2010, 11:40 AM   #18
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They're just going to keep climbing. I hope no one was under the illusion that costs to the middle class would decrease.

My Co-pay is $10 for scheduled visits, $50 for emergency care.
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Old 10-23-2010, 07:38 AM   #19
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United Healthcare(RI) just raised the copays.

Office went from $20 to $30.
Specialist went from $40 to $60.
They added a new copay called Urgent Care(walk-in) and its $100.

But the real winner here is Emergency Room:
It went from $100 to $250!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Old 10-23-2010, 09:15 AM   #20
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United Healthcare(RI) just raised the copays.

Office went from $20 to $30.
Specialist went from $40 to $60.
They added a new copay called Urgent Care(walk-in) an d its $100.

But the real winner here is Emergency Room:
It went from $100 to $250!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah, I love Urgent Care, if you call that day, it's urgent care.
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