Posted on 12/08/2015 11:14:05 AM PST by DFG
Even Obamacare losses are bigger in Texas. So who’s to blame — Washington or ourselves?
About 10 million Americans, including 1 million in Texas, get health insurance through the exchanges created by the Affordable Care Act. Those customers, along with the expansion of Medicaid in most states, added $86 billion in annual revenue for insurers nationwide.
Unfortunately for them, most of the business has been a money-loser. And Texas’ largest insurer, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas, has been hit hard — over twice as hard, in fact.
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Texas government jobs are mainly BCBS.
Ourselves??? He's really asking if the people are to blame? I guess in one sense, he's right. If the people didn't vote in Obama and the Democrats and didn't give in to the temptation to want something for nothing, we wouldn't have Obamacare.
I worked for them, the call center where i worked was moving alot of texas people to other projects and ended up having to lay off a bunch of people.
Texas has no State exchanges nor did we expand Medicaid.
Blue Cross jumped right into the obamacrap all by themselves. Unfortunately, that is the insurance my employer has. My doctor wont take it, so I pay cash.
THe funny thing is that in the orientation video they showed on my first day, the CEO of the company was touting how she had closely worked with Obama on ACA.
And Texas is just short of California in the number of illegal alien Mexicans in its border. All getting registered by democrats to vote, to get health care, to get inside schools.
I'll have to disagree with you here. I worked at BCBSTX for years during the ACA crap when it was just a bill. I sat in on meetings with the executive board and the medical board. They fought against the ACA with all they had. None of them wanted it . . . doctors, HCSC (parent company) president, Texas division president, Illinois division president . . . none of them. This is all on Obama and the Dems that pushed it through without even reading the darn thing.
For real??!!! She actually said that? I remember when they sent groups to DC to fight it.
yes Pat Hemingway-Hall touted that as one of her major accomplishments as the head of HCS. There was even a photo-op type thing that showed her sitting right next to him going over some papers.
When the supreme court decision came down they yanked us all off the phones and gave us a scripted responses to questions. I was working the Texas small group insurance at the time, and then a couple months after the decision, we got told that the majority of us were going to be transferred to medicare supplement, Illinois small groups or Under 65.
I guess I shouldn’t be surprised . . . Pat had a knack for trying to paint everything rosy. Probably didn’t want to admit defeat.
What call center did you work at?
The one in Quincy, IL.
If I remember right, that was one of the big ones. That, and Marshall, TX.
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