{"id":8552,"date":"2025-11-20T15:36:31","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T21:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/interestingauthors.com\/blog\/?p=8552"},"modified":"2025-11-20T15:36:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T21:36:31","slug":"health-insurance-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/interestingauthors.com\/blog\/experience\/health-insurance-corruption\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Insurance Corruption in Illinois"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Health insurance corruption in Illinois is really gobsmacking. I thought with <a href=\"https:\/\/capitolnewsillinois.com\/news\/ex-speaker-madigan-reports-to-west-virginia-prison-to-begin-7-%C2%BD-year-sentence\/\">Madigan going to jail<\/a> we were had reached the end of machine politics and corruption. Nope. Open enrollment has shined a bright light on it. I&#8217;m not alone in believing when an insurance company gets a license to issue health insurance policies in a state they have to issue them in every square inch of the state. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is corruption that is trying to thwart Obama Care. Lots of people are being screwed by the crooked politicians down state. No county should have the ability to block a state licensed insurer and a mandatory requirement of getting a license must be to issue a policy in every square inch of the state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Consider Kankakee County<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"378\" src=\"https:\/\/interestingauthors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/insurance-kankakee-001-1024x378.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8554\" srcset=\"https:\/\/interestingauthors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/insurance-kankakee-001-1024x378.png 1024w, https:\/\/interestingauthors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/insurance-kankakee-001-300x111.png 300w, https:\/\/interestingauthors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/insurance-kankakee-001-768x283.png 768w, https:\/\/interestingauthors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/insurance-kankakee-001.png 1239w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Keyed in my doctor, drugs, and pharmacy. 71 policies. Many of which cover all. A few would screw me on Jardiance and another few my doctor doesn&#8217;t take.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"632\" src=\"https:\/\/interestingauthors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/insurance-kankakee-002-1024x632.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8555\" srcset=\"https:\/\/interestingauthors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/insurance-kankakee-002-1024x632.png 1024w, https:\/\/interestingauthors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/insurance-kankakee-002-300x185.png 300w, https:\/\/interestingauthors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/insurance-kankakee-002-768x474.png 768w, https:\/\/interestingauthors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/insurance-kankakee-002.png 1220w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>You will note Cigna has three very reasonably priced gold plans.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"810\" height=\"458\" src=\"https:\/\/interestingauthors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/insurance-kankakee-003.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8556\" srcset=\"https:\/\/interestingauthors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/insurance-kankakee-003.png 810w, https:\/\/interestingauthors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/insurance-kankakee-003-300x170.png 300w, https:\/\/interestingauthors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/insurance-kankakee-003-768x434.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 810px) 100vw, 810px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Cigna even has a gold plan that is cheaper than BlueCross Blueshield&#8217;s cheapest bronze plan. In fact there are about half a dozen vendors. Yes, this blog has <a href=\"https:\/\/interestingauthors.com\/blog\/experience\/paid-more-for-covid\/\">written about health insurance before<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Woe Be to Bastard in Ford County<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Health insurance corruption becomes self evident for the poor bastards who live in one county and get all of their medical services from a different county. In Ford, there is exactly one vendor, BlueCross BlueShield. I just have to say I&#8217;m in Kankakee county. I don&#8217;t have to move. Everything I use is there. A gold plan is a thousand dollars per month cheaper.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"517\" src=\"https:\/\/interestingauthors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/insurance-ford-001-1024x517.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8557\" srcset=\"https:\/\/interestingauthors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/insurance-ford-001-1024x517.png 1024w, https:\/\/interestingauthors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/insurance-ford-001-300x152.png 300w, https:\/\/interestingauthors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/insurance-ford-001-768x388.png 768w, https:\/\/interestingauthors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/insurance-ford-001.png 1334w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Hell, if I lie and say I&#8217;m in Kankakee county, a gold Cigna plan is cheaper than any of these, yet has more coverage.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/interestingauthors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/insurance-ford-002-1024x329.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8558\" srcset=\"https:\/\/interestingauthors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/insurance-ford-002-1024x329.png 1024w, https:\/\/interestingauthors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/insurance-ford-002-300x96.png 300w, https:\/\/interestingauthors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/insurance-ford-002-768x247.png 768w, https:\/\/interestingauthors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/insurance-ford-002.png 1264w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>I guess BlueCross BlueShield has to recoup that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bcbssettlement.com\">$2.67 billion settlement<\/a> somehow. How a company could pay a settlement that large and still have a license I will never know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More importantly, <strong>how come insurance companies aren&#8217;t forced via license to issue insurance policies across every square inch of the state?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That has got to be tied to some serious corruption. It allows the children of a lesser god living in the not financially affluent counties to be raped.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health insurance corruption in Illinois is really gobsmacking. 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