Costs Going Up In Politics of Economics

[bootsy]

http://www.answers.com/topic/cost-allocation

I looked this up because I've been saying "cost-allocation" but suddenly I mean "cost distribution". What happened is this. The League of Women Voters is discussing the fact that Health Reform has caused increase in cost of Health Maintenance. Huh? I asked exactly how.

I was shocked by the answer: Forcing people to buy health insurance is causing THOSE people to have an increase in cost. I know all about health maintenance in Europe. It's great. Children get paid (with our corporate tax free dollars) to take care of their parents.

Now I ask you... I'm now HOPEless and HELPless. It's not the fault of the LWV. It's the fault of We the People. How many of you would ask the LWV this before you even have a discussion? Obviously not the wealthy folks and their tribes who probably are "Europeans..

I see no difference between this and the impact the 2008 law laid down by the Pope. Ban YHWH. For goodness sakes, I'm a YHWH Jew, not an ADWNY Jew. My eyes and my mouth are in sync. All 6000plus times. In addition, just take the ancient Egyptian BOOK OF THE DEAD and replace every single god name with YHWH and see what you get. I did it here with Spell125 and one responder seemed to see how well it works. Given that I'm ignored, one response is better than none

It's all the vocabulary of costing. Very biblical.

[bootsy]

So wanted to see what's it all about? Is this what's it all about? Wikipedia WellPoint:
"Health care reform
In August 2009, WellPoint’s Anthem Blue Cross unit, the largest for-profit insurer in California, contacted its employees and urged them to get involved to oppose the Democratic Party-led Congress' plan for health care reform. "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," Anthem said in a company e-mail last week. 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." Consumer Watchdog, a nonprofit watchdog organization in Santa Monica has asked California Atty. Gen. Jerry Brown to investigate its claim that WellPoint Inc. pushed workers to write their elected officials, attend town hall meetings and enlist family and friends to ensure an overhaul that matches the firm’s interests. According to Consumer Watchdog, California's labor code directly prohibits coercive communications, including forbidding employers from "tending to control or direct" or "coercing or influencing" employees' political activities or affiliations. "WellPoint has not been contacted by the California attorney general and has not seen any complaint; therefore, we cannot respond to any questions at this time,” a company spokesperson said.[7]

The former Vice President for Public Policy and External Affairs at WellPoint, Elizabeth Fowler, is currently the Senior Counsel to Max Baucus, the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee and leading opponent of the "public option" in healthcare reform.[8]

Premium increases
In 2009, Anthem Health Plans of Maine, a WellPoint subsidiary, sued the state of Maine for the right to increase premiums further.[9] Since Maine licenses insurance companies through its Department of Insurance, Anthem would need the state's permission to raise rates. The company argues that they needed an 18.5% increase to maintain a 3% profit margin, while the state only approved a 10.9% increase. The state is arguing that the company makes enough profit, and that it should employ cost-cutting measures in a recession. Wellpoint's premiums have increased 400% since the company was made private in 1999. The case was presented on October 7, 2009 in the Courts of Maine.[10]

In February 2010, WellPoint announced that its Anthem Blue Cross unit would raise insurance rates for some individual policies in California up to 39%. This announcement released a firestorm of public criticism. The US Federal and California government regulators are investigating this.[11]

Giving for uninsured
In 2007, WellPoint pledged to spend $30 million over three years, through the company's charitable foundation, to help those who lack health coverage. In March 2010, the Los Angeles Times reported that WellPoint's tax records and website showed that the company gave only $6.2 million. The company disputed that, saying that the foundation did fulfill its $30-million commitment by mid-2009, but declined to provide any financial details to support its position.[12]
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Can someone from the LWV tell me?