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Start-Up Health Insurance Co-Ops Vow to Compete with Commercial Insurers

They have rented offices and zero customers. All their capital is borrowed. They’re trying to sign the kind of expensive, chronically ill individuals that insurers have avoided for decades. In three weeks they face mighty competitors with a hundred times …

Blue Cross ‘Stores’ Offering Uninsureds Information on Obamacare Changes, Options

Just down from the Target and Gander Mountain big-box stores and between a nail salon and dental office in Morrisville, North Carolina’s largest health insurer opened its first retail store. It has some exercise offerings — step aerobics classes and …

Lawmaker: Every Michigan Resident Should Get $500 from Health Insurer

A Republican state lawmaker says Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan should pay $500 for every Michigan resident as part of legislation that would convert the company from a charitable trust of the state to a customer-owned nonprofit . Rep. …

Blue Cross Sues Over Running Nebraska Health Plan

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nebraska has filed a lawsuit to block the state’s planned switch to a new health insurance company, alleging improper lobbying on United Healthcare’s behalf. The Lincoln Journal Star reported that Blue Cross says the …