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Drug Company Profiteering & Waste

Prescription drug expenditures have consistently been one of the fastest growing components of health care spending. Over the last decade, prescription drugs costs have increased at double-digit rates each year. Employers offering drug coverage to workers or retirees have been forced to increase co-payments and deductibles. As a result, consumers, whether insured or uninsured, are facing skyrocketing out-of-pocket costs for their prescription drugs....read more

On Blue Cross Rate Increases in Wake of Wellpoint-Anthem Merger

On behalf of Blue Cross of California enrollees, the FTCR calls on the Department of Managed Health Care (DMHC) to use its full authority to investigate Blue Cross rate increases following the companyıs merger with Anthem Inc. and to require refunds of unfair rate increases....read more

Pat and Dave Parkers' Second Letter To Schwarzenegger

Regarding Anthem's Acquisiton Of Wellpoint
Since December we have been waiting for the phone call from you that your staff promised us when we tried to hand delivered a letter explaining our situation during your $10,000 per-skybox fundraiser at a Laker's game....read more

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