{"id":506112,"date":"2010-04-02T14:55:03","date_gmt":"2010-04-02T18:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10004046"},"modified":"2010-04-02T11:33:25","modified_gmt":"2010-04-02T15:33:25","slug":"worst-company-in-america-anthem-bcbs-vs-assurant-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/506112","title":{"rendered":"Worst Company in America: Anthem BCBS VS Assurant Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/03\/header_final-thumb-652x136-38534.png\">         <\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s hope this battle doesn&#8217;t require hospitalization for either opponent. In one corner you&#8217;ve got Anthem, which <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2010\/02\/anthem-blue-crosswellpoint-makes-early-bid-for-worst-company-in-america.html\" >needs a 35% rate increase in California, despite making billions in profits<\/a>. In the other corner is Assurant, who <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2010\/03\/insurance-company-intentionally-targeted-dropped-hiv-patients.html\" >targeted and subsequently dropped HIV patients<\/a> from its insurance rolls.<\/p>\n<p>Which of these two insurers has you trying to fake a Canadian passport?<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"http:\/\/static.polldaddy.com\/p\/2996387.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<noscript><br \/>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/answers.polldaddy.com\/poll\/2996387\/\">Which Company Is Worse?<\/a><span style=\"font-size:9px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.polldaddy.com\">survey<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<\/noscript><\/p>\n<p><em>This is a post in our Worst Company In America 2010 series. The companies competing for this honor were chosen by you, the readers. Keep track of all the goings on at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.consumerist.com\/tag\/worst-company-in-america.\">consumerist.com\/tag\/worst-company-in-america.<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2010\/03\/behold-the-2010-worst-company-in-america-bracket.html\">Print the bracket, here.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s hope this battle doesn&#8217;t require hospitalization for either opponent. In one corner you&#8217;ve got Anthem, which needs a 35% rate increase in California, despite making billions in profits. In the other corner is Assurant, who targeted and subsequently dropped HIV patients from its insurance rolls. Which of these two insurers has you trying to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5519,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-506112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5519"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}