This summer, as part of a series of financial concessions from the Oregon Symphony’s musicians, the Oregon Symphony Association discontinued its contract with HealthNet Health Plan of Oregon and transferred all of its employees to one of two available Kaiser Permanente health plans. The reason? Out of control health care cost increases. It’s a problem that employers and employees and individual purchasers are having to deal with across the country. In today’s Oregonian there was a story about the state’s insurance regulatory board and its practice of rubber-stamping insurance company rate increase requests. It’s good to know that the state is looking out for you, isn’t it?
