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Okla-homey
9/29/2009, 07:28 AM
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According to Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina's Annual Report, claims in 2008 reached $10.7 Billion - half the entire budget for the state of North Carolina.

Claims increased nearly three times the growth in health plan members. Claims also cost the State Health Plan more than $200 million over that budgeted. Politicians had believed that preventive wellness and managed care in the State Health Plan, administered by BCBSNC, would save the state money.

Participants in the State's Health Plan pay more out-of-pocket expenses for medical care than those in any other major health plan in the state, and that's about to go up even more for some of them. They believed that wellness care and healthy lifestyle benefits were free.

Employers will now perform random tests of employees for evidence that they've smoked outside of work and will weigh employees in the workplace and report their BMIs to the state. Employees deemed noncompliant with the State Health Plan's employer wellness initiative, will pay one-third-more for health insurance.

Employers believed that eliminating smokers and fat people would lower health costs.

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