BCBS monopoly

U.S. Rep. Walter Jones had the audacity to send me an email wanting to know whether my health care premiums were going up as a result of Obamacare. His cronies, the governor and the legislature of this state decided not to use $78 million of federal aid and set up a state exchange, opening this state up to competitive pricing for health care insurance.

In essence what the governor did was to create a monopoly, where Blue Cross can in the absence of any competition charge whatever it wants for premiums. As a result, BCBS increased premiums. Now Jones wants to use this result to justify his part in the shutdown of the federal government in this nation. Only in North Carolina.

C. F. Pittenger

New Bern