California's Anthem Blue Cross -- the largest insurer in the nation's largest state -- recently told nearly a million customers that, next month, they'll face premium increases up to 39%. Even those who have come to expect private health insurance companies to tighten the screws on their customers were taken aback. An LA Times editorial noted, "Anthem's actions offer the best argument yet for Congress to complete work on a comprehensive bill without delay."
Politicians need to represent their constituents instead of blindly following the corporations while attacking the Government they are apart of. An example, Maine residents are in for a huge increase and Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins could care less. No reform, not even an up-or-down vote in the Senate.
Tired party rhetoric will not help anyone or change the impending problem.
We are on a road of increased costs due to healthy people not affording health insurance dropping out of the insurance pool, driving up the percentage of riskier, unhealthy people. To keep profits, the insurance companies will just drop your coverage.
How do you stop this obvious cycle? Get everybody covered.
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