Moda is withdrawing from the Oregon insurance market

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    THE ROSE GARDEN IS BACK!!!!! <3
     
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    I haven't seen any implications that point specifically to that- but the fact that they're directing customers away... I mean- realistically and maybe even legally, how can they take money when they aren't solvent and still pay for a sponsorship deal? That can't be legal can it?
     
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    How long is that naming rights contract? And ugh! I hate being one of these teams with revolving door names for the arena.

    Reminds me of UTA/OKC/SAC etc. Bring back the RG
     
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    See, they never should have changed ODS to that stupid MODA name, and they sure as hell shouldn't have changed the name of the Rose Garden. They could at least have called it the MODA Rose Garden.

    Karma is a bitch!

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    The moda center grew on me.

    It could have been worse. Could end up being something like preparation h stadium
     
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    The deal for the new arena in Golden State- it's a 20 year naming rights deal and it's not a ridiculous name like Sleep Train Arena, Smoothie King Center, or Talking Stick Resort... I mean those names sound like they're out of Futurama or something. How does that get past any kind of approval process?!

    http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Warriors-arena-to-be-named-Chase-Center-bank-6788844.php
     
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    First Jeld Wen, now Moda...

    No more businesses naming our sports facilities, we need something financially stable like a Kardashian.
     
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    We should ask Lillard to pay for naming rights, the Dame Dome would be bad ass!
     
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    Let's go real Oregon. The Nike Center.

    Of course, we could have a bidding war and maybe it would be the Adidas Auditorium.
     
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    As a lucky policy holder with MODA, I would just like to say:

    FUCK OBAMACARE AND ANYBODY WHO THOUGHT THIS WAS A GOOD IDEA!!!!!!!
     
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    I was thinking about this the other day. There was a huge thread on this back in the day. A few morons here were pounding their chests and saying how their rates didn't go up at all. Yeah, maybe not initially. The rates for our company went up 7% this past year, and our broker told us to expect them to go up about 20% next year. We're not even a month into the year, and they're already warning me about that kind of increase?
     
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    Fuck the Republicans and their stupid market based plans! Single payer is the best solution!
     
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    Consider yourself lucky that you're not in the individual plan market. Mine went up about 40% and now my policy is in limbo-land.
     
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    Nice try, but ACA is the Democrats' turd and they get to own it into perpetuity.
     
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    Not to turn this into an Obamacare debate but Moda's failures had little to do with it.

    They have a CEO who is incompetent being paid $12mill a year, a $25mill ad campaign for a needless name change and I have no idea what they paid for the Moda naming rights. They're failing because they are a horribly run company.
     
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    That's certainly a large factor, but the ACA has major, and probably mortal flaws, in that young and healthy people aren't signing up at nearly high enough rates to cover the cost of providing insurance to the older and sicker people who did sign up.
     
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    I just read something the other day about United HealthCare and their increasing costs allegedly due to OC is ridiculous.
     
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    Or the "Honey Bucket".
     
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