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Article: HMO PROVIDERS CLAIM BLUE CROSS COMPETES UNFAIRLY
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- August 18, 1989
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Is Blue Cross merely playing hardball or is it throwing an
illegal spitball?
That was the question yesterday at a hearing called to
investigate charges that the state's largest health insurance
company is engaging in a variety of marketing practices that are
either illegal or unfair. The umpire -- the Division of Insurance
-- made no ruling, but that did not stop the two sides from going
at each other hard. The division did not say when or if it would
come down with a finding.
A parade of Blue Cross-Blue Shield competitors and customers
filled Gardner Auditorium in the Statehouse to attack the company
for using its size to gain unfair advantages in the marketplace.
"They are using ...