NC Health Insurer Being Probed For Campaign Against Public Option

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http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/11/nc_health_insurer_being_probed_for_campaign_agains.php?ref=fpblg

BlueCross BlueShield of North Carolina is being investigated by the state's attorney general for a recent mailer and spate of robo-calls in opposition to the public option, according to a company spokesman.

In October, TPMmuckraker reported that the insurance company had sent a mailer to millions of its customers asking them to urge the state's Democratic senator, Kay Hagan, (D-NC) to oppose a public option. The insurance company also deployed a related robocall.

Today, a group of 20 state legislators asked Attorney General Roy Cooper and Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin to probe whether BCBS violated laws restricting robo-calls, as well as whether it engaged in political advocacy using the premiums of its customers.

But the probe the lawmakers are calling for appears to be underway already. "We received an inquiry from the AG's office a couple weeks ago," about whether the campaign violated laws, Lew Borman, a spokesman for BCBS of North Carolina, told TPMmuckraker. "We don't believe we broke any laws," Borman added.

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1. The m_____ f_____ers are guilty. I received one of the fliers because they administer the state

health PPO




edited to tame my temper

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2. Of course they did- the teabaggers were just an illusion of size

we all knew that the baggers were just cover for the money to come pouring in... and this kind of behavior