A poll of Massachusetts residents by Harvard’s School of Public Health and the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation found that regular people in Massachusetts are remarkably well informed about the primary reasons their health care is so extremely expensive compared to health care in other industrialized countries. According to the poll regular people [...]
Regular People Not “Experts” Are Right About Health Care Cost Problem |
| By: Jon Walker Monday October 24, 2011 9:23 am |
“Non-Profit” Insurer Gives CEO Massive Retirement Package |
| By: Jon Walker Wednesday March 2, 2011 8:00 am |
According to the Boston Globe, the CEO of the nonprofit Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts is going to get a retirement package worth $8.6 million after only six years on the job. From the Boston Globe: Cleve L. Killingsworth, who abruptly resigned last March as chief executive of the nonprofit Blue Cross Blue Shield [...]
Health Insurance Industry Doubles Down On Promise To Increase Premiums |
| By: Jon Walker Wednesday October 14, 2009 1:13 pm |
There is a new “study” [PDF] out today, this time paid for by the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association. It comes only days after the much talked about “study” from AHIP, and (surprise!) comes to very similar conclusions. The Blue Cross Blue Shield conclusion is that premiums would increase even faster with reform, unless we [...]


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