On Friday, a State Farm agent wrote in to rebut some remarks a reader made about feeling extorted. We posted his letter, which started off a dig at competitor Progressive by noting that its CEO, Peter Lewis, was a marijuana proponent.
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Like a Good Neighbor, State Farm is There With a Rebuttal
By 3.31.06
Back in February, Harry wrote a complaint about feeling extorted by State Farm.
Geico is a Snob?
By 3.22.06
GEICO was accused Monday of tying education and occupation to auto insurance rates, a policy that may discriminate against minorities and lower-income workers.
Like a Good Neighbor, State Farm is There With a Helping Hand and a Hatchet
By 2.23.06
Harry writes in a tale of what he describes as extortion by State Farm Insurance.
BobSandler.com: Kicking Ass and Taking Names
By 2.3.06
This is certainly one way to garner the attention of an insurance company: Register a domain with the name of the company’s Chairman. BobSandler.com is the home of “21st Century Claim #286788,” where the story of a Jaguar S-Type, practically ruined by the penetrating front end of a Hummer H2, is told. Rather than total the car as requested, 21st Century chose to repair the vehicle.
Wellpoint Says Anesthesia Unnecessary in Colonoscopies
By 12.30.05
We’re posting this not simply because it involves the wistful dream of the CEO of a major medical insurance company taking it up the can, but also for the remarkably vivid lead-in: “Mr. Insurance Company CEO … when you get your colonoscopy, are YOU going to go without the sedative?”
Health Care Plans to Kill You
By 12.19.05
In less than five paragraphs, Stay Free Magazine’s “How Hip Health Plan Breeds Superbugs” chillingly describes the nightmare plutopia in which we currently live—a world where not only are you chipperly reamed for twice the cost of your sinus medication, but are also softened up like veal for the slurping protuberances of a hyper-immune race of super bacteria.
No, the reason HIP covers less than a full supply is because it wants two co-payments out of me. At $30 each, that makes the drug $60. This not only makes the drug unduly expensive, but it encourages patients not to take their full course of antibiotics…. which, if you know anything about antibiotics, is dangerous from a public health perspective, because it can lead to drug-resistant bacteria.
Which, of course, is HIP’s entire insidious plot. A pallid, gel-like population of wheezing mouth breathers ridden through the streets by antibiotic junky bacteria jonesin’ for a fix. And who are these superbugs? As any reader who is familiar with the direct-to-video oeuvre of Brian Yuzna in the early 90’s will be quick to realize, these are the board of directors of HIP Healthcare itself.
Consumerist Research Team Assemble: LowerMyLease.com
By 12.19.05
t find. Any wiser minds than mine able to figure this out? Is this a case for Consumerist?
We’re already digging, but feel free to chime in with your wisdom.
