Crane Supports AG Biden’s Opposition to BCBSD/Highmark Merger While Karen Weldin Stewart is MIA
Via Mitch Crane’s Facebook:
While the media has concentrated on Attorney General Biden’s request that BCBSD reserves be used to help provide medical insurance coverage for uninsured Delawareans, attention should be focused on the Attorney General’s continued opposition to the proposed merger with Highmark.
While the request serves a need, the issue remains the negative consequences of the eventual loss of BCBSD to an out-of-state company. We also must not lose sight of the argument that Blue Cross needs the affiliation in order to “upgrade” its computer system and that the cost of such an upgrade seems to go up every time it is mentioned. Even if the cost is the nearly $100 million it is getting close to being, BCBSD can afford that expense out of its existing reserves, leaving a balance still far in excess of the minimum needed. These “reserves” are nothing more than excess premium dollars paid by consumers and transferred into a reserve account so that the company can remain “not-for-profit”
Citizens of Delaware must continue to oppose this merger as we near the day the day the Insurance Commissioner alone will decide whose interests she really feels the obligation to protect.
It seems to me that the question is, will Highmark be allowed to steal the premium money paid in by Delawareans? Biden and Crane say no, KWS says…. ?
Karen Weldin Stewart already said Yes!
Well I guess I’m playing catch-up. Is the IC’s decision coming before or after the primary?
That is good to know. Hope he wins the primary.
It was good to see the WNJ article on the hearings didn’t mention KWS at all. That she’s missing in action is no big deal because she’s too clueless to contribute anything of value anyway. Besides that, we already know what McDowell told her to do. Next November can’t get here soon enough. Go Mitch!
I heard that she’s in China or somewhere over there. Another foreign trip. How many does that make for her since she took office?
She travels in the US contantly and has gone to foreign countries at least five or six times. A trip to China really takes balls, though. She has no more business being over there than she does going to any other foreign country, That reminds me that Jacobson claimed in one of his sanctimonious posts on here during the 2008 campaign that she speaks Mandarin. Yeah, sure she does….
The April 2010 CRI report found that in the year and three months before the report was published she had already spent more on traveling with the large entourage she takes each time than any other IC before her during their entire term. Funny how she always accuses her opponents of doing the exact same thing she’s guilty of herself, like the convenient issue with Gene Reed’s allegedly illegal campaign contributions in 2008 immediately after she announced in August she was running for a third try at the office. He didn’t have much time to defend himself, which was precisely the point of her timing. I wish he’d opposed her dirty tricks more than he did.
I forgot to add to my prior post that Karen Weldin Stewart accused incumbent insurance commissioner Donna Lee Williams of traveling excessively when she ran against her in 2000. That department never saw “excessive” anything until incompetent impostor Stewart showed up. Running a dirty campaign full of lies about herself and her opponents is obviously her only skill.
http://blogs.delawareonline.com/delawareinc/2011/10/07/insurance-regulator-v-pit-bull/ Check the reader comment,too. No, the pit bull didn’t eat KWS. 🙁