Yay, Olympia Snowe! Anthem/BCBS-Maine proposes 22.9% health insurance plan rate increase

[Bluebear]

PORTLAND — Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Maine has proposed a 22.9 percent rate increase for two health insurance plans targeting individuals.

The filing comes as Anthem awaits a judge's ruling on an earlier rate case. Maine Insurance Superintendent Mila Koffman last spring denied Anthem's proposed 18 percent rate hike for its individual insurance plans. Instead, she approved a revised request for a 10.9 percent increase, which provided for a zero percent profit margin.

The new filing focuses on the same two products that provide coverage for 11,066 Mainers.

Greg Howard from Maine Changes That Works, which advocates health care reform, says it "boggles the mind" that Anthem would file for another increase before the last one was settled.

http://updates.pressherald.mainetoday.com/updates/anthem-seeks-229-percent-rate-increase-in-maine

[tabatha]

1. Anthem is shit!

They tried to double-bill me with a higher amount.

[Bluebear]

2. 22.9 percent!!! Cough....choke....

You need health insurance before reading headlines like that!

[tabatha]

6. That was three years ago.

I don't have health insurance with them now.

[DJ13]

3. Im wondering how long it will be before politicians realize

that the corporations they're doing favors for always turn around and bite them in the ass in the pursuit of ever more profits.

The corporate campaign money isnt going to do someone like Snowe any good when her constituents know she's sold them out.

No amount of lying ads in a reelection will soothe the voters anger from getting screwed over.

[rwheeler31]

4. That is disgusting.

[jwirr]

5. Okay Senator Snow are you ready to vote with us now?

[Captain Hilts]

7. I thought she was president there for a while. She got a LOT of White House time. nt