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Florida health insurance Premiums Soar as Competition Dwindles : Robin Williams Adams

July 3rd, 2009 · No Comments

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida, along with Aetna, controls more than half of the health-insurance market in the Lakeland-Winter Haven area, a microcosm of their dominance statewide.Increasing consolidation of health-insurance coverage – nationwide as well as in Florida – stifles competition and caused premiums in Florida to grow more than three times faster than wages from 2000 to 2007, a coalition of health care advocates said in a teleconference Wednesday. They released a report critici

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Florida health insurance Premiums Soar as Competition Dwindles : Robin Williams Adams

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