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To: Les H who wrote (2468)	7/29/1999 9:01:00 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

LOL! The irony of that, you realize is that insweb is across the street from Kaiser in Redwood City. Kaiser is a cheap HMO but everybody is afraid of it out here. Well there was quite a health insurance uproar a few years ago which was the same time we got those quotes at Aetna. The thing that was interesting was, the high tech companies go out for a bid from the insurers and they get one... but it turns out it is cheaper for them to individually insure every worker, not as a group because high tech has more young males which are the cheapest to insure. I know SGI did that, I don't know what Oracle eventually did. A few years before they used to have this "pre existing conditions" clause which meant nobody would cover you if anything was wrong, but the state gov't finally nixed that.