Thread: Health Insurance Companies Urge Staff to Fight Reforms

Quote: Originally Posted by jimzmum From reading the article, I think it must not be legal in California. It's legal in every state to ask employees to write or call. The Watchdog Group is trying to make the argument that the way they are doing it is intimidation. Which may or may not be a good legal argument but UHC will look bad if they gave out misleading information or pressured them to write. Not that they care.

Quote: Originally Posted by Sal Monella Ours didn't work like that. There were cocktail parties so you saw some of the other people who gave (I did) but if Joe from Accounting wasn't there it didn't mean he didn't give. I don't think there should be lists that everyone can see. You can see the list on opensecrets.org

From reading the article, I think it must not be legal in California.

Of course being in the union we get a list of candidates that the union would like us to back but they don't even mention donations.

We've gotten two prewritten, pre-paid post cards from BCBS to send our senator against health care. I assume they all do it. United Health Care's coverage is so poor that one of the main hospital groups here refuses to accept it.

There was a guy they showed on the news in August that was at a town hall meeting and he still had his shirt on with the insurance company he worked for. If I remember correctly it might have been BCBS. These employees have a right to their opinions but maybe it would be more believable that the opinion was theirs if they offered that opinion without having their employer's shirt on? LOL