Up We Go

Apparently in an effort to salt the wound of health care reform, health care costs are going to go - up and go up real soon.

Call it unmitigated nose thumbing.

On might suspect that the ranks of the uninsured will grow or would that be grotesquely swell. But hey, according to the right and the ultra right, never quite sure what to call it these days, why mess with a good thing.

Sacramento Bee: Anthem Blue Cross executives grilled at state Capitol

...raise premiums by as much as 39 percent on hundreds of thousands of Californians.


"How much profit is enough?"


"Have you no shame?"


...about 15 percent of the company's more than 800,000 individual-policy subscribers to drop their coverage this year because of the premium hikes.


Since 2002, the cost of living has risen 23 percent, while health insurance premiums have increased 117 percent...