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Letters
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Business New Haven
11/2/1998
By: BNH
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Hitting 'Em Where It Hurts
Susan Banfield's HMO cover story in the October 19 issue of Business New Haven (“Rethinking Health Care”) reaches the wrong conclusion.
Contrart to the rate-increase predictions presented in Banfield's article, my current providers (ConnectiCare and Anthem Blue Cross & Blue Shield) are quoting 1999 rate increases in excess of ten percent and 20 percent, respectively. These proposals follow 1998 rate increases of 12 percent and 24 percent, respectively.
It is even more disturbing when executives from health-care provider organizations generalize an employer's ability to absorb these rate increases.
- Robert P. Wentzel
President
Entoleter Inc.
Hamden
Correction
ðDue to a reporting error, an interview in the September 7 TECHNOLOGY section with Alex Richardson, president of Lexitech Inc., mistakenly reported that Travelers sells both personal and commercial insurance online. While Travelers does sell personal insurance online, the company sells commercial insurance only through its agent and broker channels.
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