Steep Health Insurance Increases for Individual Policyholders
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I sympathize with John Meyer regarding Blue Cross increases. I am a single person, age 61, and healthy (no claims in several years). My premium rates have been raised over 30% in 1988 and another 43% starting in July. My premium is now $675 per quarter, $1,000 deductible.
I would like to ask the state Board of Insurance why the individual rates have increased and not the group rates--is that discrimination or not? I was under the impression that California wanted to reduce the number of uninsured; by the latest premium raise the state will find thousands more to add to the 5 million already uninsured.
Blue Cross spokeswoman Jeannette Hartman made a statement that the average increase was approximately 17%. I would like to know how she arrived at those figures. If I can have enormous increases, what kind of increases must people have who made claims for significant or insignificant illnesses?
When will the ordinary hard-working people get fair treatment?
YVONNE P. HIGGINS
Sierra Madre
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