Sick of Blue Cross

The guys behind It's OUR Health Care just launched a new site called Sick of Blue Cross designed to expose the campaign Blue Cross is waging against reform. They have a letter you can sign to Schwarzenegger and your legislature to tell them to stand up to Blue Cross.

There is a page full of horror stories from consumers of Blue Cross, like this one from Kristina in San Jose:

I went to the hospital a few times for a routine treatment and everything was fine, until I got the bills. The hospital said I didn't have insurance, even though I did. When I called Blue Cross, they told me they would "take care of it." The next thing I know, the bills for those visits were sent to collections.

Now, to add insult to injury, Blue Cross refuses to pay for my daughter's bills. They claim that she does not exist on my policy. I have been trying to fight this for years now, but I've gotten nowhere with them. Blue Cross refuses to pay for the bills, and they claim the "window frame" of responsibility for them has now passed. So now not only is my credit ruined, but so is my daughter's and she's only a minor.

I thought Blue Cross was supposed to protect me when things went wrong, not make things worse.

Go poke around the site. Use their tools to write a letter to the editor. Watch