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"learned of instances of uniformed men and women purchasing insurance coverage they did not need or spending more money than necessary due to unscrupulous insurance agents." Yes Tom it has to be the sales people, you could never hold the troops responsible for their actions.
Why don't they check several alternatives for competitive rates? Why don't they ask their personnel dept if the plan sounds good, if the services offer a plan, etc.? They are too lazy or too dumb! And these are the guys calculating the savings for base closures but they cannot even examine insurance coverage.
Also Tommy, insurance is a state controlled issue and not a Federal issue why don't you stay out of it and notify the states involved?
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This kind of behavior is abhorrent and intolerable. These allegations should be thoroughly investigated, and any insurance agents or companies engaging in these practices should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Taking advantage of our military, especially unsophisticated young recruits, is disgraceful. What makes this even worse is the fact that this is occurring while we are at war with terrorists, and our service men and women are fighting and dying daily around the world, to protect us. The U.S. government should provide our military with adequate government issued insurance, so that these predatory private sector companies will be unable to prey upon our brave young men and women.
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Hey, don't worry, it is so much better now. As a junior officer in the late 80s I had my four star general in the Air Force try to sell me insurance. Seems like he used the command mailing list with titles to have his company, with his name displayed, try to sign us up.
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Sure seems to be a lot of problems with Mr. Davis' committees. Never fear the insurance industry has enormous amounts of money and lobbyists. Nothing will happen to the companies. This is just to make a public announcement of the problem and let you think Mr. Davis is doing something about the problem.
Business as usual from now on.
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