Last week, we reported that Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina, the state’s largest health insurer, was under investigation for a campaign of robocalls and mass-mailings urging residents to lobby U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan against the public option.
Now a local SEIU chapter has launched a site that keys off the news to push back on the insurer. The site blames BCBS’s “monopoly” for “skyrocketing” health-care costs, and urges visitors to send a petition to Hagan telling her to “stand strong” and support the public option.
Meanwhile, DailyKos notes that the North Carolina incident is part of a larger pattern, pointing to similar mailings in North Dakota and Illinois. These other mailings, like the one we reported in Kansas City, don’t appear to have attracted the attention of the authorities, as the North Carolina campaign did. But they do seem to be provoking a backlash among some recipients.