Wellmark Blue Cross & Blue Shield is planning on raising premiums a good 38-43% in the next year for about 30,000 of their customers. While explaining the premium increase, 10 percentage points were attributed to the cost of a single, extremely complicated patient whose severe genetic disorder is costing $1 million per month!! Find out more here. (Source: David Anderson, Balloon Juice, 5/16/16)
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