Christie's Horizon 'extortion' leaves tea party steaming

[TexasTowelie]

Reacting to Christie's ambush of non-for-profit Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey and his repeated demand that it hand over some $300 million of its more than $2 billion surplus to expand addiction treatment, {Tea Party Patriots co-founder Jenny Beth} Martin fired off a message that was not very genteel.

Christie isn't even close to done feuding with the state's largest insurer over drug treatment.

"To try and raid their reserve funds to pay for his opiate reform program," snarled Martin in a Wednesday media release, "borders on extortion."

Earlier in the week, the governor spoke at a Bordentown union hall and blasted Horizon's reluctance as "obscene" given its not-for-profit status.

"That an insurance company in this state that calls themselves a non-profit sits on nearly $3 billion of your money, in surplus, and doesn't want to give any of it to help take care of members of our families who are drug addicted and need treatment," said Christie. "It's obscene."

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[TheDebbieDee]

1. IDK - a non-profit with $3 billion of the public's money...

of the policy-holders' money. I'm thinking Christie is RIGHT to extort them...

[TexasTowelie]

2. I must agree with you on this one.

Even though there are plenty of reasons to despise Christie, every now and then he does make a correct call under the broken clock rule.