Your Health Security

I am on a fixed pension. Blue Cross has increased my premiums an average of over $100 a year. It now consumes over 2/3 of my pension. I am lucky to have some savings to fall back on but when the insurance companies have that too, I guess my only recourse…

I am in good health and not disabled. When I first signed up for "Long Term Disability" insurance through CALPers 12 years ago, I selected a "fixed rate" of $405 paid quarterly ($1620/year). Now it is $814 paid 4 times a year ($3109.25/year). The way the insurance company hiked the rates…

Since 1982 my husband and I have been self-employed and have had to have an individual policy with Blue Cross. We have never been able to change because of pre-existing conditions, not that it would matter. Our daughters who are now adults have Blue Shield and Aetna respectively.The joke is that…