Aetna to exit California's individual insurance market

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(Reuters) - Aetna Inc said on Saturday it has notified California's insurance regulator that it plans to stop selling health policies to individual consumers in the state at the end of 2013.

The company will continue to offer health insurance to employers and Medicare beneficiaries in California, as well as dental and life-insurance products, Aetna spokeswoman Anjie Coplin told Reuters. But people with individual health coverage with Aetna will have to find alternative coverage by year's end.
Aetna had informed California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones of its decision to exit the market, Coplin said, but it was still in the process of notifying members and brokers.

The move comes as California, the country's most populous state, prepares for the fall launch of a state health exchange authorized by President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act.

The exchange establishes new standards for health insurance products sold to individuals in the state, whether or not they are offered through the exchange.
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http://news.yahoo.com/aetna-exit-californias-individual-insurance-market-184916425.html
 
jclay2 said:
I still don't know how they slammed that legislation down our throats. They had negative to positive support ratios of 10:1 when that stupid legislation was getting passed. uggh.
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The ole Christmas Eve trick. BTW Reid is attempting to ram the Immigration bill through right before July 4th.
 
Fucking shame.

I had Aetna insurance in Maine for a while, paid for out of pocket.

Was one of the best damn health plans ever.

Until the assholes in Disgusta decided that insurance companies must pay for whole slew of new items, if they were going to do business in the state.

They pulled out, rather than comply.

Within three years there were only three companies in Maine you could get insurance through, one of which was some state run disaster.

I'm not sure what the situation is now, this was over ten years ago.
 
Anti Federalist said:
Fucking shame.

I had Aetna insurance in Maine for a while, paid for out of pocket.

Was one of the best damn health plans ever.

Until the assholes in Disgusta decided that insurance companies must pay for whole slew of new items, if they were going to do business in the state.

They pulled out, rather than comply.

Within three years there were only three companies in Maine you could get insurance through, one of which was some state run disaster.

I'm not sure what the situation is now, this was over ten years ago.
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Acupuncture, eyelifts, pedicures. These liberal fucktards are going to get what's coming to them X1000 with this monstrousity.
 
All according to plan.

When "corporate greed" drives insurance companies to withdraw service rather than comply with new regulations the only way to guarantee your "right to affordable healthcare" will be with a "common sense" government insurance program to "provide" everything you need, "for free."
 
VanBummel said:
All according to plan.

When "corporate greed" drives insurance companies to withdraw service rather than comply with new regulations the only way to guarantee your "right to affordable healthcare" will be with a "common sense" government insurance program to "provide" everything you need, "for free."
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One problem. They need major taxpayer resources to implement and run a single payer system, unless price controls are implemented, which would in turn destroy the medical industry permanently. They're done anyway you look at it.
 
AuH20 said:
Acupuncture, eyelifts, pedicures. These liberal fucktards are going to get what's coming to them X1000 with this monstrousity.
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That's exactly what it was, a whole slew of shit just like that.

And you could not, legally, sell a policy in Maine without having those items, and whole lot more, covered.

But they don't care.

Never ever forget, this whole monstrosity is designed to fail, so that after struggling with its stupidity for a few years, Boobus will get on the "single payer government healthcare" bandwagon.
 
VanBummel said:
All according to plan.

When "corporate greed" drives insurance companies to withdraw service rather than comply with new regulations the only way to guarantee your "right to affordable healthcare" will be with a "common sense" government insurance program to "provide" everything you need, "for free."
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Yup.
 
AuH20 said:
One problem. They need major taxpayer resources to implement and run a single payer system, unless price controls are implemented, which would in turn destroy the medical industry permanently. They're done anyway you look at it.
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Endgame.

Puts that, "forced population reduction conspiracy theory" in a whole new light.

Make no mistake, the ruling class will get all of the top notch medical care it needs, regardless.
 
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Anti Federalist said:
Endgame.

Puts that, "forced population reduction conspiracy theory" in a whole new light.

Make no mistake, the ruling class will get all of the top notch medical care it needs, regardless.
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Offshore medical facilities. You watch.
 
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Yet another failure of the free market. The government really needs to step up and do something about this. It's the only way ...
 
This is nothing. The new immigrants are going to be demanding (and voting for) 'free' dental and full health coverage. America is on the road to a complete socialized system
 
AuH20 said:
One problem. They need major taxpayer resources to implement and run a single payer system, unless price controls are implemented, which would in turn destroy the medical industry permanently. They're done anyway you look at it.
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What will become of the massive student loan debts taken on by physician specialists who are no longer being paid under Government Rationed Healthfraud
 
Next step: make it illegal for insurance providers to choose which states they do business in.
 
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