{"id":530186,"date":"2010-04-16T13:05:12","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T17:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10004641"},"modified":"2010-04-16T13:00:48","modified_gmt":"2010-04-16T17:00:48","slug":"worst-company-in-america-elite-8-ticketmaster-vs-anthem-bcbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/530186","title":{"rendered":"Worst Company In America Elite 8: Ticketmaster VS Anthem BCBS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/03\/header_final-thumb-652x136-38534.png\">         <\/p>\n<p>Here we go: <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2009\/12\/speak-out-against-ticketmaster-live-nation-merger-at-ticketdisasterorg.html\">Ticketmaster is merging with LiveNation <\/a>to produce an uber monopoly on live events. Anthem BCBS raised rates and <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2010\/02\/california-ag-investigating-7-insurance-companies-for-illegal-rate-hikes.html\">made everyone in California <\/a>angry enough that the company had to<a href=\"http:\/\/articles.latimes.com\/2010\/apr\/13\/business\/la-fi-anthem13-2010apr13\"> agree to postpone the rate increases.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Which one shall taste your wrath?<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"http:\/\/static.polldaddy.com\/p\/3064985.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<noscript><br \/>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/answers.polldaddy.com\/poll\/3064985\/\">Which Company Is Worse?<\/a><span style=\"font-size:9px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/polldaddy.com\/features-surveys\/\">Market Research<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<\/noscript> <br \/>\n<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>Here we go: Ticketmaster is merging with LiveNation to produce an uber monopoly on live events. Anthem BCBS raised rates and made everyone in California angry enough that the company had to agree to postpone the rate increases. Which one shall taste your wrath? Which Company Is Worse?Market Research This is a post in our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-530186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530186","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\/4513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=530186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}