WellPoint health insurance company, which has encouraged its employees to lobby against health care reform, is now cutting their benefits.
The insurance giant plans to raise deductibles and premiums for some of its employee health benefits.
“Like many employers in today’s economic environment, we are looking at all aspects of our business,” including benefits, “and making adjustments to ensure we can continue to operate competitively in the future,” wrote Chief Human Resources Officer Randy Brown.
WellPoint’s CEO, Angela Brady, made nearly $10 million in 2008.
WellPoint illegally pressured California employees this summer to fight health care reform, according to Consumer Watchdog. “Regrettably, the congressional legislation, as currently passed by four of the five key committees in Congress, does not meet our definition of responsible and sustainable reform,” said the company’s Anthem Blue Cross unit in a company e-mail. The proposals would hurt the company by “causing tens of millions of Americans to lose their private coverage and end up in a government-run plan.”
A House investigation found that WellPoint also rewarded employees for finding ways to drop policyholders who developed expensive conditions — a practice known as rescission.
Suppose those WellPoint employees might now want to switch to a public option “Medicare for all” health care plan? What goes around comes around.
Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/05/wellpoint-cuts-workers-he_n_309716.html
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YOU ARE IDIOTS.
Thank you Mary for your enlightening comment. Just in what way do you consider me or us an idiot?
I have Anthem Blue Cross/Blue Sheld only because they bought out UniCare, who I had originally, and BC/BS is now the ONLY choice for self-employed people where I live.
I loathe them. They continually raise the premium, and not only don’t they pay any of the bills submitted by my doctor, these crooks don’t even credit it towards my $2,000 deductible.
I wish I had moved to Canada 30 years ago when I had the chance. Now all I have to look forward to is lasting long enough to qualify for Medicare. USA-land is going down the tubes faster than all these crooked congressmen can pocket their payoffs. Government “of, by, and for the corporations” is that what the founding fathers said?
I hear you. What I can’t understand are the people that oppose the single-payer public option. Even Senators and seemingly most congressmen/women oppose single-payer. I am keenly aware that the health insurance industry has been shelling out some 1.4 million a day in their opposition to health insurance (or reform) in order to preserve their profits. And a lot of that goes to the campaign chests of those in Congress. But so long as voters continue to re-elect those people to Congress it will continue. I just don’t understand voters.