N.C. investigating Blue Cross’ robo-calls
November 25th, 2009 by John Grooms in Boomer with an Attitude
You remember earlier this month when Blue Cross Blue Shield of N.C. (BCBSNC) sent out a ton of postage-paid cards urging people to send them to Sen. Kay Hagan and urge her to oppose health care reform? And no one can forget all those cheery, welcome robo-calls about the evils of reform and all the anti-business socialists who are out to getcha! Lots and lots of people were upset about BCBSNC’s blatant politicking, and now somebody’s doing something about it. Yesterday, state Attorney General Roy Cooper’s office said it is investigating BCBSNC’s robo-calls, adding that a preliminary review shows that some of the calls violated the law.
The Attorney General’s investigation follows a complaint by 20 state lawmakers who asked him, as well as Insurance Wayne Goodwin, to look into the robo-calls and mailers. It’s unclear how long the investigation will take, or how much BCBSNC would be fined if the AG finds the insurance company broke the law. As reported by NC Policy Watch, however, “a group that made unlawful automated phone calls to North Carolina voters before the 2008 primary was ordered to pay a $100,000 penalty.” That’s not too much, really – maybe BCBSNC honcho Bob Greczyn can shake out that much in pocket change from the $4 million salary he earned from raising his customer’s rates again.
BlueCross CEO Bob Greczyn: he's laughing now . . . .
November 25th, 2009 at 3:10 pm
As long as they were talking to their customers only it will be hard to get them into trouble. Its interesting how Obama’s buddies just get Obama to fire an AG that gets in thier way. I assume this will not happen in this case since BCBS is threatening Obama’s precious health care fiasco.
November 26th, 2009 at 5:47 am
A black guy was beaten by six white thugs. Why is this not being reported on?
http://www.kmox.com/Charges-filed-in-Carnahan-health-care-forum-fight/5760101
Where is Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton on this? Where is Jackson’s new side kick Obama on this? Where is the ACLU?
The black guy happens to be a conservative and the white guys happen to be SEIU thugs sent to harrass Town Hall Protesters. The victim was called a Ni*** and stumped on. The charges by the DA are for an ordinance violation and not assault. There was also no mention of the beloved hate crime laws. This was a high profile case and yet the DA has finally charged the bad guys and only with the weakest charges she could get away with. This appears to be politically motivated.
I do not think we will hear much about this case in the Lame stream media or CL. If the party IDs were reversed I ammuse this would all be common knowledge to everyone by now.