Last Gasp, Business as Usual, or Something Else?

Stinky The Clown

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Fri Aug-28-09 05:04 PM
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Last Gasp, Business as Usual, or Something Else?

Maybe it is simply my own hypersensitivity. Maybe not.

I seem to be seeing more teevee ads for all manner of health insurance. Everything from "mainstream" policies to those worthless dental "discount" plans. If there are, indeed, more ads than we usually see, the next question is "why?"

Can it be that Big Ins knows it is going down and trying to hook people now and squeeze what premiums they can before everyone bolts to Medicare-For-All? Can it be that they know everyone will be forced to buy, there will be no public option, and they're simply trying to hook the suckers now.

Or ..... maybe its just me.

Any thoughts?

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DJ13

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Fri Aug-28-09 05:06 PM
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1. Not your imagination, Im seeing more as well

Maybe its a "look how nice we are, we'll give discounts so you dont need a public option" campaign?

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Stinky The Clown

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Fri Aug-28-09 05:16 PM
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2. To be sure, there are some of those ads on now, too

Not just directly from insurance companies, but from these bogus advocacy groups.

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monmouth

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Fri Aug-28-09 05:17 PM
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3. As a Senior I'm being bombarded. Lots of mail from people who

want to insure me, cremate me, plot me and medicate me. I'm a hot marketable item right now and am getting lots of attention. These people call me more than my sons do. Go figure.

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Stinky The Clown

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Fri Aug-28-09 05:56 PM
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4. That sort of marketing will only intensify as the boomers move through the system

We're still a holy grail marketing demographic .... at least for that stuff.

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Greyhound

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Fri Aug-28-09 06:33 PM
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5. Now, why would anyone unrec this thread?

Merely making an observation and looking for verification and attendant thoughts...
:wtf:

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