Robert Greenwald: WellPoint sued an ENTIRE STATE (Maine) to increase profits

[babylonsister]

E-mail I received...


Robert Greenwald <[e-mail]>

Subject: WellPoint sued an ENTIRE STATE to increase profits
Date: Oct 5, 2009 1:18 PM

Netting $2.5 billion in profits last year wasn't enough for WellPoint, the nation's largest insurance company.

Now, WellPoint's affiliate, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, is suing the state of Maine for refusing to guarantee it a profit margin in the midst of a painful recession.

As if Mainers didn't have enough to worry about just struggling to put food on the table, WellPoint is intent on forcing them to cough up 18.5% higher premiums on their insurance policies.

While WellPoint lobbies against granting Americans the right to affordable coverage, it's claiming that it has the right to a guaranteed profit margin, paid for by struggling working families. Mainers are outraged, and they're fighting back.

Do you know anyone who lives in Maine? Ask them to sign up for our Maine WellPoint Watch list to make sure WellPoint doesn't get away with it.

http://sickforprofit.com/?utm_source=rgemail#maine

Yours,
Robert Greenwald
and the Brave New Films team

[Nikki Stone1]

1. Get this to greatest page, people

For those who don't get it, this is WHY we need a public option.

[Mr Generic Other]

4. to hell with a public option

this is why we need single-payer, government sponsored, universal health care coverage.
americans will never get a good deal while working with for profit insurers.
this example should be the rally call for all americans to throw the insurance industry under the bus.
they do nothing for us we could not do better for ourselves (that is if we had a decent and honest government).

[PuraVidaDreamin]

2. K&R n/t

[Fresh_Start]

3. Do you think Snowe and Collins will take notice?

No, they are too used to denying the facts of insurance companies perfidy.

[babylonsister]

5. They might if they hear about it. I don't know what kind of bubble they're in. nt