Blue Shield of California Blue Shield Blue of California Blue Shield scamming subscribers into higher rates San Francisco California

 Received a letter directly from Blue Shield claiming I contacted them to initiate a change to my policy. This change, according to the letter, is going to result in higher insurance rates for my healthcare insurance. The letter further says, that due to a system issue, I would not see the high rate until the next billing period. Very strange that they could send me a notice about a cost increase, but conveniently their "other" system had an issue.

 The facts are simple, I nor anyone in my household ever contacted Blue Shield about any changes to our policy. This whole thing is a scam to arbitrarily increase our rates under the completely false claim that I, the subscriber, initialed a change.  I can only assume this letter went out to thousands or tens of thousands of Blue Shield subscribers in an attempt to pad Blue Shields pockets with millions more dollars.

 We contacted Blue Shield and called them out on it. They were very vague with answers but finally conceded that we, in fact, did not contact them nor did we request any changes to our policy.  If we hadn't gone through all of this effort to expose this scam, we would be getting even higher bills from Blue Shield. 

  We also received another notice from Blue Shield that they are arbitaruly raising our rates next year. We have been paying in almost $1000 per month for a plan with virtually no benefits to my family. We have barely even used the policy. And yet they have decided to raise our rates. I guess they didn't like being caught with their hand in the cookie jar.