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Healthcare Public Option Will Kill Off Competition

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2009-07-15 17:06|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 "Healthcare Public Option Will Kill Off Competition"

That's the idea.... :-(

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2009-07-15 21:40|| 2009-07-15 21:40|| Front Page Top

#2 Gotta argue a little bit about his analysis of Citizens in Florida.

In my old county (Brevard), you literally could not buy a policy from anywhere else for a while. It didn't matter if your house had successfully ridden out several hurricanes without damage, was on high ground for the locality, had never been flooded (and that includes the deluge that Melbourne had last year....over 18 inches in 24 hours from Fay), and was up to current post-Andrew construction codes. You couldn't get a policy from anywhere else at any price. They simply refused to issue new ones.

And if you did happen to have an old policy, the companies kept trying to find ways to cancel you without making it official (70% + hikes in the rates each year, even if there were absolutely no hurricanes within hundreds of miles). It got so bad that Florida had to suspend Snake Farm, oops, State Farm from issuing any kind of policy at all (auto, personal liability, etc.) for a while because their cute tricks were even too much for Tallahassee.

I now am able to buy a policy from another insurance company. This one is a local one based in Florida. I'm paying pretty much the same rates that I did with Citizens (Citizens wasn't that much cheaper, even though this guy swears it was dirt cheap in comparison). But for a couple of years there, no way in hell could I have gotten coverage from anywhere else.

Yeah, I know, what do I expect from some California dude but a slam against the Sunshine State.....enjoy your state IOU's, pal.

Posted by Cornsilk Blondie 2009-07-15 23:55|| 2009-07-15 23:55|| Front Page Top

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