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   Rolling Block to Bill Steele   
   Re: Obamacare Insurer WellPoint Sees Dou   
   02 Jun 14 12:12:56   
   
   XPost: alt.california, ba.politics, alt.gossip.celebrities   
   From: car@bi.ne   
      
   On 6/2/2014 11:42 AM, Bill Steele wrote:   
   > On 6/1/14, 4:00 PM, Keith Olbermann wrote:   
   >> Obama's buddies are bellying up to the trough.   
   >>   
   >> Two months before health insurers must submit rate proposals for   
   >> 2015 to government regulators, WellPoint Inc. (WLP:US) fired a   
   >> surprising shot across their bow by predicting it may ask for   
   >> “double-digit plus” increases.   
   >>   
   >> Kathleen Sebelius, the U.S. Health and Human Services secretary,   
   >> said March 13 that while premiums for health plans sold on the   
   >> Obamacare insurance exchanges would rise next year, the   
   >> increases would be “far less significant than they were before   
   >> the passage of the Affordable Care Act.”   
   >>   
   >> Individuals who bought their own insurance in 2010 paid 13   
   >> percent more than in 2009, a Kaiser Family Foundation survey   
   >> found.   
   >>   
   >> http://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-03-25/obamacare-insurer-   
   >> wellpoint-sees-double-digit-rate-rise-in-2015   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>   
   > Only works if all the insurers collude.   
      
   You DO realize that it was Wellpoint that wrote the ACA...don't you?   
      
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