Moda is withdrawing from the Oregon insurance market

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    Man, I was just saying last week how it's the worst bang-for-the-buck branding ever, because the arena will always be referred to as "The Rose Garden, I mean, the Moda Center." That's if people even correct themselves.
     
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    I've been getting this odd stabbing pain in my knee lately.
     
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    Oh sure, you're still pissed at me about not supporting the Blazers tanking this season. ;)
     
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    Is there an arrow going through it?
     
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    With the track record of companies that sponsor arenas/stadiums, I would think investors would downgrade any company that is not established that does it.
     
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    Should contact George Lucas and turn the M into a Y making it the Yoda Center...Star Wars supported for eternity...Comicon Central
     
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    Moda isn't alone.

    http://www.slate.com/articles/news_...taining_heavy_losses_is_obamacare_doomed.html

    Is Obamacare in trouble? This week, UnitedHealth Group, America’s largest health insurer, announced that it had sustained heavy losses in selling insurance on the Obamacare exchanges and that it might be forced to pull out of the exchanges altogether. The news from other insurers is not much better. Aetna, Anthem, and Cigna, three of UnitedHealth’s biggest competitors, will no longer offerexchange coverage in a number of counties across the country, which could be a sign that they’ll retrench even further in the future. You might have heard that insurance premiums on the exchanges are rising substantially, which isn’t exactly welcome news. But the bigger problem is arguably that insurers have been trying to hold down premium increases by narrowing the range of providers in their networks and hiking deductibles as high as they can. The result has been a spate of stories aboutdisgruntled insurance beneficiaries, many of whom blame Obamacare for their woes. None of this is to suggest Obamacare is about to get repealed. President Obama would veto any legislation to that effect. Nor does the parlous state of the exchanges have any effect on the Medicaid expansion, which has greatly increased insurance coverage in the states that have accepted it.
     
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    That's a very simplistic view. I wouldn't expect you to know the structure and organization of my company through the message board, but your statement is inaccurate as far as my company goes. We are fairly restricted due to the way we are structured, where employees live, etc. We did shop. And shop. And shopped some more. UHC was as good for our buck as anything. That may change with their prices increasing, assuming the competitors are not rising at the same pace.
     
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    Same.
     
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    They're building that place in SF?

    Wow.....if only Jed York did that too.....

    And oh yeah: bring back The Rose Garden. "Moda Center" always sounded so commercial to me; devoid of life.
     
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    I don't like it either, but it also saved my mother's life last year. $200K worth of cancer treatment, and all my parent's paid was a deductible of $5K.
     
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    The issue isn't that being able to get insurance is bad, but that they were in such a big hurry to pass this thing that they didn't make it sustainable. It's like the old joke that a camel is a horse designed by a committee. We needed an insurance system that we could ride for the long term and they gave us a broken down camel. I'm glad for those who have benefited so far, but I'm afraid a lot of people are going to be hurt in the long run.
     
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    I've still never understood that. I was never in the Tanking lane. I was in the Develop the heck out of Vonleh, Aminu, Crabbe, Meyers, Harkless etc lane instead of 45 shots a game for Dame/CJ and then see what you really have. What the Lakers and 76'ers are doing is embarrassing and I'd want no part of that.

    You already know the answer to that question. :biglaugh:
     
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    I never accepted the name "moda center". When are we going back to rose garden? This arena naming thing is so cheesy. Like can we say the name of the arena without it being an advertisement?
     
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    Not anymore, unfortunately.
     
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    I want Pfizer Arena. Because when the visiting team puts pressure on you at home and your HARD UP, You got to go ALL THE WAY and have some STAYING POWER.

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