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Tell WellPoint to Stop Fighting Reform
  1. Signatures
    205 out of 1,000
    Petitioning
    1. President of WellPoint (Angela Braly)
  2. Created By
    Timothy Foley
    New York, NY
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Why This Is Important

WellPoint is a company who saw its profits jump 34% in 2006, saw its president, Angela Braly, earn $14 million in compensation in 2007, and yet whose premiums jumped 30-40% for most of its customers on individual plans in California this year.  They have been fined millions of dollars for their unfair claims denial processes again, and again, and again.

It's little surprise that WellPoint, operating as Anthem Blue in California, fought Governor Schwarzenegger's universal health care plan in 2007.  Now they're trying to do the same for national health care reform, unleashing 3 million robocalls to customers in a single week.

Tell Angela Braly to stop spending money trying to thwart health care reform and start spending money on better care for her customers.

Recent Signatures

Stop fighting health care reform

Dear Ms. Braly,

I learned through an article in the Sacramento Bee that your company has engaged in over 3 million robo-calls with the intent of gauging your customers' support for health care reform and whether they can be mobilized to voice objections to the efforts in Congress to bring about quality, affordable health care for all.

One of your spokespersons was quoted saying, "The public is not always well informed."

I beg to differ.  If anything, we're too well informed.  We see WellPoint for what it is -- a company who saw its profits jump 34% in 2006 and over $600 million in California alone as Anthem Blue.  We saw the tidy $14 million in compensation you received.  We also saw how premiums for Anthem Blue in the individual market jumped a reprehensible 30-40% this year.  We also see a company who has been fined millions of dollars for their unfair claims denial processes again, and again, and again.  And we won't get fooled again.

The $2 million you spend defeating reform in California worked, but the millions upon millions you'll spend fighting reform won't work on the national level.  People are hungry for change, we've seen the folly of letting insurance companies make obscene profits by denying care, cutting benefits, and charging whatever they want for premiums. 

I suggest you save the ungodly sums you're preparing to spend to fail to fly in the face of the demand for quality, affordable health care for all and use the money instead to make your company more efficient and the care you give to your customers better.

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