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			10-21-2010, 02:28 PM
			
			
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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.   
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			10-21-2010, 02:34 PM
			
			
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		Ouch! Thats insane!!! What the hell are they doing to the middle class is right?!?!?!   
		
		
		
		
		
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			10-21-2010, 02:40 PM
			
			
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		 Hmmm... Tufts tried to increase our premiums 15% or something like that and the state declined their request. 
 
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			10-21-2010, 03:03 PM
			
			
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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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			10-21-2010, 03:55 PM
			
			
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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  
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			10-21-2010, 04:04 PM
			
			
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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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			10-21-2010, 04:06 PM
			
			
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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.  
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			10-21-2010, 04:10 PM
			
			
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		 10 minutes on hold. The friggin department closed at 5. It's now 5:08pm.  
 
Form letter says 7:30 
 
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			10-21-2010, 04:18 PM
			
			
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		 There should be deductions like that of auto insurance. 
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			10-21-2010, 04:30 PM
			
			
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		 and how many other ins companies have you gotten quotes from? 
		
		
		
		
		
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			10-21-2010, 04:40 PM
			
			
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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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			10-21-2010, 05:38 PM
			
			
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				There should be deductions like that of auto insurance. 
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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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			10-21-2010, 06:23 PM
			
			
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		 Who was the person here who said somewhere they were in the health insurance business? 
		
		
		
		
		
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			10-21-2010, 10:03 PM
			
			
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				Who was the person here who said somewhere they were in the health insurance business? 
			
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I think Redlite is doing it.  
		
		
		
		
		
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			10-22-2010, 03:36 AM
			
			
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		Thanks i'll shoot him a email 
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			10-22-2010, 09:21 AM
			
			
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		 good luck man, that really sucks. 
		
		
		
		
		
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			10-22-2010, 10:51 AM
			
			
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		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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			10-22-2010, 11:40 AM
			
			
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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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			10-23-2010, 07:38 AM
			
			
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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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			10-23-2010, 09:15 AM
			
			
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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: 
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Yeah, I love Urgent Care, if you call that day, it's urgent care.  
		
		
		
		
		
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