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<p></p> <table style="background-color: white; color:black;"> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <tr valign='top'> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">←前の版</td> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">2012年8月26日 (日) 22:28の版</td> </tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">1 行</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">1 行</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>The Blue Cross and Blue Shield <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://www.nationalautoguardian.com/ auto warranty] </del>Association is the biggest private wellness insurance <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">method </del>in the United States (like Puerto Rico) and Canada. It is composed of 55 independent, locally operated Blue Cross and Blue Shield Plans that collectively <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">offered </del>well being care coverage to over 88 million <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">people </del>in 2003.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;For its beginnings we need <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">to have </del>to go back to 1929 to a man namedJustin Ford Kimball when he became vice president of Baylor University in Dallas, Texas. He was an <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">skilled </del>administrator, as he headed the College of Medicine, School of Nursing, College of Dentistry, and the university hospital.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Soon right after taking the job, he <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">developed </del>a well being <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">plan </del>that guaranteed teachers 21 days of hospital care for 50 cents amonth. The <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">plan </del>soon spread to other employee groups in Dallas, and then similar plans began to crop up nation-wide.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Meanwhile, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">around </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">exact </del>same time that Kimball was <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">creating </del>his program, the Blue Shield notion was becoming well-known in the lumber and mining camps of the Pacific Northwest. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Critical </del>injuries and chronic illness <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">were common amongst </del>these workers who were in <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">very </del>hazardous and <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">unsafe </del>jobs.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Their employers saw the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">need </del>to <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">provide </del>medical care for them and they arranged with physicians to pay them a monthly fee to take care of the medical <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">wants </del>of the workers. These programs would later turn <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">into </del>what is <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">known </del>as the Blue Shield Plans.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;As for the cross symbol, it was 1st <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">used </del>in a 1934 advertisement for the Hospital Service Association, which later became known as Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Joseph Binder, a Viennese artist, was hired by Firm secretary E.A. van Steenwyk to <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">generate </del>a poster that included a blue Greek cross. Van Steenwyk <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">used </del>the symbol to determine his company's <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">health </del>plans and then Blue Cross began to use it in other parts of the country.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In 1939, the American Hospital Association, which was based in Chicago, began to use the Blue Cross symbol to indicate that <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">well being </del>plans about the country met specific standards.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The AHA continued to use the symbol until 1960 when the Blue Cross Association was founded. The two organizations remained affiliated until 1972.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The shield symbol was <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">created </del>in Buffalo, New York by Carl Metzger in 1939 and the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">first </del>official Blue Shield program was founded in California that <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">same </del>year. Carl Metzger was an early pioneer in the Blue movement and he wanted a <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">design </del>that would distinguish the new medical service <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">program</del>.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;It soon flourished as the number of Blue Shield Plans kept on <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">expanding</del>. In 1948 the symbol was informally adopted by nine plans <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">known </del>as the Linked Medical Care <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Program</del>, which was later renamed the National Association of Blue Shield Plans.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Over the years, the Blue Cross and Blue Shield healthcare insurance <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">concepts </del>took hold. The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association was formed in 1982 by a merger of the Blue Cross Association and the National Association of Blue Shield Plans. When the Blue Cross and Blue <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://www.belcherbutton.com/ buy button] </del>Shield organizations merged, their brand symbols also merged and became one of the most familiar symbols in America.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;To show you how <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">big </del>it has <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">become</del>, in 2003, the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association took in $182.7 billion in income. The evolution of managed <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">wellness </del>care in the United States <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://www.nationalautoguardian.com/ automobile extended warranty] </del>is intimately linked to the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">designs </del>of Blue Cross-Blue Shield.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>The Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association is the biggest private wellness insurance <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">technique </ins>in the United States (like Puerto Rico) and Canada. It is composed of 55 independent, locally operated Blue Cross and Blue Shield Plans that collectively <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">provided </ins>well being care coverage to over 88 million <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">folks </ins>in 2003.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;For its beginnings we need to go back to 1929 to a man namedJustin Ford Kimball when he became vice president of Baylor University in Dallas, Texas. He was an <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">experienced </ins>administrator, as he headed the College of Medicine, School of Nursing, College of Dentistry, and the university <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://hawaiian-leis.com/ hawaiian leis] </ins>hospital.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Soon right after taking the job, he <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://www.eastsidebodyandskin.com/services/eyelash-extensions.php eyelash extensions seattle] created </ins>a well being <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">strategy </ins>that guaranteed teachers 21 days of hospital care for 50 cents amonth. The <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">program </ins>soon spread to other employee groups in Dallas, and then similar plans began to crop up nation-wide.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Meanwhile, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">about </ins>the same time that Kimball was <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">producing </ins>his program, the Blue Shield notion was becoming well-known in the lumber and mining camps of the Pacific Northwest. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Serious </ins>injuries and chronic illness <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">had been prevalent among </ins>these workers who were in <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">really </ins>hazardous and <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">harmful </ins>jobs.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Their <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://www.hawaiian-tropical-flowers.com/ hawaiian flowers] </ins>employers saw the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">want </ins>to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">give </ins>medical care for them and they arranged with physicians to pay them a monthly fee to take care of the medical <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">requirements </ins>of the workers. These programs would later turn <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">out to be </ins>what is <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">identified </ins>as the Blue Shield Plans.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;As for the cross symbol, it was 1st <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">utilized </ins>in a 1934 advertisement for the Hospital Service Association, which later became known as Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Joseph Binder, a Viennese artist, was hired by Firm secretary E.A. van Steenwyk to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">create </ins>a poster that included a blue Greek cross. Van Steenwyk <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">employed </ins>the symbol to determine his company's <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">wellness </ins>plans and then Blue Cross began to use it in other parts of the country.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In 1939, the American Hospital Association, which was based in Chicago, began to use the Blue Cross symbol to indicate that <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">wellness </ins>plans about the country met specific standards.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The AHA continued to use the symbol until 1960 when the Blue Cross Association was founded. The two organizations remained affiliated until 1972.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The shield symbol was <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">produced </ins>in Buffalo, New York by Carl Metzger in 1939 and the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1st </ins>official Blue Shield program was founded in California that <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">identical </ins>year. Carl Metzger was an early pioneer in the Blue movement and he wanted a <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">style </ins>that would distinguish the new medical service <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">plan</ins>.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;It soon flourished as the number of Blue Shield Plans kept on <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">growing</ins>. In 1948 the symbol was informally adopted by nine plans <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">referred to </ins>as the Linked Medical Care <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Plan</ins>, which was later renamed the National Association of Blue Shield Plans.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Over the years, the Blue Cross and Blue Shield healthcare insurance <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">ideas </ins>took hold. The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association was formed in 1982 by a merger of the Blue Cross Association and the National Association of Blue Shield Plans. When the Blue Cross and Blue Shield organizations merged, their brand symbols also merged and became one <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">particular </ins>of the most familiar symbols in America.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;To show you how <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">huge </ins>it has <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">turn into</ins>, in 2003, the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association took in $182.7 billion in income. The evolution of managed <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">health </ins>care in the United States is intimately linked to the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">styles </ins>of Blue Cross-Blue Shield.</div></td></tr> <!-- diff generator: internal 2026-05-10 01:40:36 --> </table>

BurchBowers6668 http://mix.kumikomi.net/index.php?title=The_Blue_Cross_Story&diff=59116&oldid=prev 2012-08-05T19:46:18Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: white; color:black;"> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <tr valign='top'> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">←前の版</td> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">2012年8月5日 (日) 19:46の版</td> </tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">1 行</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">1 行</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>The Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association is the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">largest </del>private <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">well being </del>insurance <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">program </del>in the United States (<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">which includes </del>Puerto Rico) and Canada. It is composed of 55 independent, locally operated Blue Cross and Blue Shield Plans that collectively <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">provided health </del>care coverage to over 88 million <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">folks </del>in 2003.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;For its beginnings we need to go back to 1929 to a man namedJustin Ford Kimball when he became vice president of Baylor University in Dallas, Texas. He was an <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">experienced </del>administrator, as he headed the College of Medicine, School of Nursing, College of Dentistry, and the university hospital.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Soon <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">soon </del>after taking the job, he <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">created </del>a well being <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">program </del>that guaranteed teachers 21 days of hospital care for 50 cents amonth. The <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">strategy </del>soon spread to other employee groups in Dallas, and then <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">comparable </del>plans began to crop up nation-wide.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Meanwhile, around the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">very </del>same time that Kimball was <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">producing </del>his program, the Blue Shield <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">idea </del>was becoming well-known in the lumber and mining camps of the Pacific Northwest. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Significant </del>injuries and chronic illness <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">had been prevalent </del>amongst these workers who were in <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">extremely </del>hazardous and unsafe jobs.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Their employers saw the need to <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">give </del>medical care for them and they arranged with physicians to <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">spend </del>them a monthly fee to take care of the medical <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">needs </del>of the workers. These programs would later turn <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">out to be </del>what is <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">identified </del>as the Blue Shield Plans.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;As for the cross symbol, it was <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">first utilised </del>in a 1934 advertisement for the Hospital Service Association, which later became <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">identified </del>as Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Joseph Binder, a Viennese artist, was hired by <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Organization </del>secretary E.A. van Steenwyk to generate a poster that included a blue Greek cross. Van Steenwyk used the symbol to <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">identify </del>his company's <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">wellness </del>plans and then Blue Cross began to use it in other parts of the country.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In 1939, the American Hospital Association, which was based in Chicago, began to use the Blue Cross symbol to indicate that <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">health </del>plans <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">around </del>the country met <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">particular </del>standards.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The AHA continued to use the symbol until 1960 when the Blue Cross Association was founded. The two organizations remained affiliated <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">till </del>1972.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The shield symbol was <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">designed </del>in Buffalo, New York by Carl Metzger in 1939 and the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1st </del>official Blue Shield <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">plan </del>was founded in California that <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">exact </del>same year. Carl Metzger was an early pioneer in the Blue <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://videos.rumerwillisweb.com/read_blog/36159/the-blue-cross-story videosalesletterformula.com] </del>movement and he wanted a design that would distinguish the new medical service program.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;It soon flourished as the number of Blue Shield Plans kept on <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">growing</del>. 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When the Blue Cross and Blue Shield organizations merged, their brand symbols also merged and became one <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">particular </del>of the most familiar symbols in America.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;To show you how <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">significant </del>it has <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">grow to be</del>, in 2003, the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association took in $182.7 billion in income. The evolution of managed <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">health </del>care in the United States is intimately linked to the designs of Blue Cross-Blue Shield.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>The Blue Cross and Blue Shield <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://www.nationalautoguardian.com/ auto warranty] </ins>Association is the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">biggest </ins>private <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">wellness </ins>insurance <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">method </ins>in the United States (<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">like </ins>Puerto Rico) and Canada. It is composed of 55 independent, locally operated Blue Cross and Blue Shield Plans that collectively <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">offered well being </ins>care coverage to over 88 million <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">people </ins>in 2003.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;For its beginnings we need <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">to have </ins>to go back to 1929 to a man namedJustin Ford Kimball when he became vice president of Baylor University in Dallas, Texas. He was an <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">skilled </ins>administrator, as he headed the College of Medicine, School of Nursing, College of Dentistry, and the university hospital.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Soon <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">right </ins>after taking the job, he <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">developed </ins>a well being <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">plan </ins>that guaranteed teachers 21 days of hospital care for 50 cents amonth. The <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">plan </ins>soon spread to other employee groups in Dallas, and then <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">similar </ins>plans began to crop up nation-wide.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Meanwhile, around the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">exact </ins>same time that Kimball was <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">creating </ins>his program, the Blue Shield <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">notion </ins>was becoming well-known in the lumber and mining camps of the Pacific Northwest. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Critical </ins>injuries and chronic illness <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">were common </ins>amongst these workers who were in <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">very </ins>hazardous and unsafe jobs.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Their employers saw the need to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">provide </ins>medical care for them and they arranged with physicians to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">pay </ins>them a monthly fee to take care of the medical <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">wants </ins>of the workers. These programs would later turn <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">into </ins>what is <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">known </ins>as the Blue Shield Plans.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;As for the cross symbol, it was <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1st used </ins>in a 1934 advertisement for the Hospital Service Association, which later became <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">known </ins>as Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Joseph Binder, a Viennese artist, was hired by <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Firm </ins>secretary E.A. van Steenwyk to generate a poster that included a blue Greek cross. Van Steenwyk used the symbol to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">determine </ins>his company's <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">health </ins>plans and then Blue Cross began to use it in other parts of the country.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In 1939, the American Hospital Association, which was based in Chicago, began to use the Blue Cross symbol to indicate that <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">well being </ins>plans <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">about </ins>the country met <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">specific </ins>standards.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The AHA continued to use the symbol until 1960 when the Blue Cross Association was founded. The two organizations remained affiliated <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">until </ins>1972.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The shield symbol was <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">created </ins>in Buffalo, New York by Carl Metzger in 1939 and the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">first </ins>official Blue Shield <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">program </ins>was founded in California that same year. Carl Metzger was an early pioneer in the Blue movement and he wanted a design that would distinguish the new medical service program.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;It soon flourished as the number of Blue Shield Plans kept on <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">expanding</ins>. In 1948 the symbol was informally adopted by nine plans <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">known as </ins>the Linked Medical Care <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Program</ins>, which was later renamed the National Association of Blue Shield Plans.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Over </ins>the years, the Blue Cross and Blue Shield healthcare insurance <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">concepts </ins>took hold. The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association was formed in 1982 by a merger of the Blue Cross Association and the National Association of Blue Shield Plans. When the Blue Cross and Blue <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://www.belcherbutton.com/ buy button] </ins>Shield organizations merged, their brand symbols also merged and became one of the most familiar symbols in America.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;To show you how <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">big </ins>it has <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">become</ins>, in 2003, the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association took in $182.7 billion in income. The evolution of managed <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">wellness </ins>care in the United States <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://www.nationalautoguardian.com/ automobile extended warranty] </ins>is intimately linked to the designs of Blue Cross-Blue Shield.</div></td></tr> <!-- diff generator: internal 2026-05-10 01:40:36 --> </table>

LewiBovie9851 http://mix.kumikomi.net/index.php?title=The_Blue_Cross_Story&diff=57473&oldid=prev 2012-08-03T12:21:11Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: white; color:black;"> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <tr valign='top'> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">←前の版</td> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">2012年8月3日 (金) 12:21の版</td> </tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">1 行</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">1 行</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>The Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association is the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">biggest </del>private <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">health </del>insurance <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">technique </del>in the United States (<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">like </del>Puerto Rico) and Canada. It is composed of 55 independent, locally operated Blue Cross and Blue Shield Plans that collectively provided health care coverage to <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">more than </del>88 million <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">people </del>in 2003.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;For its beginnings we need to go back to 1929 to a man namedJustin Ford Kimball when he became vice president of Baylor University in Dallas, Texas. He was an <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">seasoned </del>administrator, as he headed the College of Medicine, School of Nursing, College of Dentistry, and the university hospital.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Soon <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">right </del>after taking the job, he <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">developed </del>a <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">health strategy </del>that guaranteed teachers 21 days of hospital care for 50 cents amonth. The <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">program </del>soon spread to other employee groups in Dallas, and then comparable plans began to crop up nation-wide.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Meanwhile, around the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">exact </del>same time that Kimball was <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">creating </del>his <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">plan</del>, the Blue Shield idea was becoming well-<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">liked </del>in the lumber and mining camps of the Pacific Northwest. 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These programs would later turn <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">into </del>what is <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">known </del>as the Blue Shield Plans.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;As for the cross symbol, it was first <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">utilized </del>in a 1934 advertisement for the Hospital Service Association, which later became identified as Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Joseph Binder, a Viennese artist, was hired by <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Company </del>secretary E.A. van Steenwyk to <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">produce </del>a poster that included a blue Greek cross. Van Steenwyk <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">utilized </del>the symbol to identify his company's wellness plans and then Blue Cross began to use it in other parts of the country.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In 1939, the American Hospital Association, which was based in Chicago, began to use the Blue Cross symbol to indicate that health plans <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">about </del>the country met particular standards.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The AHA continued to use the symbol until 1960 when the Blue Cross Association was founded. The two organizations remained affiliated <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">until </del>1972.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The shield symbol was <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">produced </del>in Buffalo, New York by Carl Metzger in 1939 and the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">first </del>official Blue Shield <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">program </del>was founded in California that exact same year. Carl Metzger was an early pioneer in the Blue movement and he wanted a design that would distinguish the new medical service program.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;It soon flourished as the number of Blue Shield Plans kept on growing. In 1948 the symbol was informally adopted by nine plans <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">known as </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Connected </del>Medical Care <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Plan</del>, which was later renamed the National Association of Blue Shield Plans.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;More than the years, [http://<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">www</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">hawaiian-tropical-flowers</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">com</del>/ <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">hawaiian</del>-<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">tropical</del>-<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">flowers</del>.com] <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">the Blue Cross and Blue </del>Shield healthcare insurance ideas took hold. The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association was formed in 1982 by a merger of the Blue Cross Association and the National Association of Blue Shield Plans. When the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://www.eastsidebodyandskin.com/services/eyelash-extensions.php eastsidebodyandskin.com] </del>Blue Cross and Blue Shield organizations merged, their brand symbols also merged and became <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">a single </del>of the most familiar symbols in America.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;To show you how <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">large </del>it has <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">turn into</del>, in 2003, the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association took in $182.7 billion in <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">revenue</del>. The evolution of managed <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">well being </del>care in the United States is intimately linked to the designs of Blue Cross-Blue Shield.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>The Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association is the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">largest </ins>private <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">well being </ins>insurance <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">program </ins>in the United States (<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">which includes </ins>Puerto Rico) and Canada. It is composed of 55 independent, locally operated Blue Cross and Blue Shield Plans that collectively provided health care coverage to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">over </ins>88 million <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">folks </ins>in 2003.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;For its beginnings we need to go back to 1929 to a man namedJustin Ford Kimball when he became vice president of Baylor University in Dallas, Texas. He was an <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">experienced </ins>administrator, as he headed the College of Medicine, School of Nursing, College of Dentistry, and the university hospital.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Soon <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">soon </ins>after taking the job, he <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">created </ins>a <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">well being program </ins>that guaranteed teachers 21 days of hospital care for 50 cents amonth. The <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">strategy </ins>soon spread to other employee groups in Dallas, and then comparable plans began to crop up nation-wide.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Meanwhile, around the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">very </ins>same time that Kimball was <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">producing </ins>his <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">program</ins>, the Blue Shield idea was becoming well-<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">known </ins>in the lumber and mining camps of the Pacific Northwest. Significant injuries and chronic illness had been <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">prevalent amongst </ins>these workers who <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">were </ins>in <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">extremely </ins>hazardous and <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">unsafe </ins>jobs.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Their employers saw the need to give medical care for them and they arranged with physicians to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">spend </ins>them a monthly fee to take care of the medical needs of the workers. These programs would later turn <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">out to be </ins>what is <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">identified </ins>as the Blue Shield Plans.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;As for the cross symbol, it was first <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">utilised </ins>in a 1934 advertisement for the Hospital Service Association, which later became identified as Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Joseph Binder, a Viennese artist, was hired by <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Organization </ins>secretary E.A. van Steenwyk to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">generate </ins>a poster that included a blue Greek cross. Van Steenwyk <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">used </ins>the symbol to identify his company's wellness plans and then Blue Cross began to use it in other parts of the country.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In 1939, the American Hospital Association, which was based in Chicago, began to use the Blue Cross symbol to indicate that health plans <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">around </ins>the country met particular standards.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The AHA continued to use the symbol until 1960 when the Blue Cross Association was founded. The two organizations remained affiliated <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">till </ins>1972.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The shield symbol was <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">designed </ins>in Buffalo, New York by Carl Metzger in 1939 and the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1st </ins>official Blue Shield <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">plan </ins>was founded in California that exact same year. 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In 1948 the symbol was informally adopted by nine plans <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">named [http://clipzo.com/read_blog/25311/the-blue-cross-story nationalautoguardian.com] </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Linked </ins>Medical Care <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Strategy</ins>, which was later renamed the National Association of Blue Shield Plans.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;More than the years, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">the Blue Cross and Blue </ins>[http://<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">tv</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">ozon</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">bg</ins>/<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">read_blog/96130/the</ins>-<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">blue-cross-story hawaiian</ins>-<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">leis</ins>.com] Shield healthcare insurance ideas took hold. The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association was formed in 1982 by a merger of the Blue Cross Association and the National Association of Blue Shield Plans. When the Blue Cross and Blue Shield organizations merged, their brand symbols also merged and became <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">one particular </ins>of the most familiar symbols in America.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;To show you how <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">significant </ins>it has <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">grow to be</ins>, in 2003, the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association took in $182.7 billion in <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">income</ins>. The evolution of managed <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">health </ins>care in the United States is intimately linked to the designs of Blue Cross-Blue Shield.</div></td></tr> <!-- diff generator: internal 2026-05-10 01:40:36 --> </table>

DoannaMorris13701 http://mix.kumikomi.net/index.php?title=The_Blue_Cross_Story&diff=56334&oldid=prev 2012-08-01T22:15:34Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: white; color:black;"> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <tr valign='top'> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">←前の版</td> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">2012年8月1日 (水) 22:15の版</td> </tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">1 行</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">1 行</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>The Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association is the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">largest </del>private <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">wellness </del>insurance technique in the United States (<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">including </del>Puerto Rico) and Canada. It is composed of 55 independent, locally operated Blue Cross and Blue Shield Plans that collectively provided <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">wellness </del>care coverage to more than 88 million <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">folks </del>in 2003.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;For its beginnings we <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">want </del>to go back to 1929 to a man <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://hawaii-tropical-flowers.com/ hawaii-tropical-flowers.com] </del>namedJustin Ford Kimball when he became vice president of Baylor University in Dallas, Texas. He was an seasoned administrator, as he headed the College of Medicine, School of Nursing, College of Dentistry, and the university hospital.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Soon after taking the job, he <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">created </del>a health strategy that guaranteed teachers 21 days of hospital care for 50 cents amonth. The <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">plan </del>soon spread to other employee groups in Dallas, and then comparable plans began to crop up nation-wide.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Meanwhile, around the same time that Kimball was <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">producing </del>his <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">strategy</del>, the Blue <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://www.languagealliance.com/ foreign language translation] </del>Shield idea was becoming <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">common </del>in the lumber and mining camps of the Pacific Northwest. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Serious </del>injuries and chronic illness <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">were prevalent amongst </del>these workers who had been in quite hazardous and <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">harmful </del>jobs.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Their employers saw the need to <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">supply </del>medical care for them and they arranged with physicians to <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">spend </del>them a monthly fee to take care of the medical <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">requirements </del>of the workers. These programs would later <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">grow to be </del>what is <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">identified </del>as the Blue Shield Plans.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;As for the cross symbol, it was <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1st employed </del>in a 1934 advertisement for the Hospital Service Association, which later became identified as Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Joseph Binder, a Viennese artist, was hired by Company secretary E.A. van Steenwyk to produce a poster that included a blue Greek cross. Van Steenwyk <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">utilised </del>the symbol to identify his company's wellness plans and then Blue Cross began to use it in other parts of the country.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In 1939, the American Hospital Association, which was based in Chicago, began to use the Blue Cross symbol to indicate that <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">wellness </del>plans <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">around </del>the country met particular standards.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The AHA continued to use the symbol <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">till </del>1960 when the Blue Cross Association was founded. The two organizations remained affiliated until 1972.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The shield symbol was <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">developed </del>in Buffalo, New York by Carl Metzger in 1939 and the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1st </del>official Blue Shield <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">plan </del>was founded in California that <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">very </del>same year. Carl Metzger was an early pioneer in the Blue movement and he wanted a <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">style </del>that would distinguish the new medical service program.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;It soon flourished as the number of Blue Shield Plans kept on growing. In 1948 the symbol was informally adopted by nine plans <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">named </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Related </del>Medical Care Plan, which was later renamed the National Association of Blue Shield Plans.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;More than the years, the Blue Cross and Blue Shield healthcare insurance ideas took hold. The Blue Cross Blue Shield <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://www.howtostartyourlawncarebusiness.com/aboutus.html starting a lawn business] </del>Association was formed in 1982 by a merger of the Blue Cross Association and the National Association of Blue Shield Plans. When the Blue Cross and Blue Shield organizations merged, their brand symbols also merged and became <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">one particular </del>of the most familiar symbols in America.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;To show you how <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">huge </del>it has <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">become</del>, in 2003, the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association took in $182.7 billion in revenue. The evolution of managed well being care in the United States is intimately linked to the designs of Blue Cross-Blue Shield.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>The Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association is the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">biggest </ins>private <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">health </ins>insurance technique in the United States (<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">like </ins>Puerto Rico) and Canada. It is composed of 55 independent, locally operated Blue Cross and Blue Shield Plans that collectively provided <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">health </ins>care coverage to more than 88 million <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">people </ins>in 2003.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;For its beginnings we <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">need </ins>to go back to 1929 to a man namedJustin Ford Kimball when he became vice president of Baylor University in Dallas, Texas. He was an seasoned administrator, as he headed the College of Medicine, School of Nursing, College of Dentistry, and the university hospital.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Soon <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">right </ins>after taking the job, he <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">developed </ins>a health strategy that guaranteed teachers 21 days of hospital care for 50 cents amonth. The <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">program </ins>soon spread to other employee groups in Dallas, and then comparable plans began to crop up nation-wide.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Meanwhile, around the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">exact </ins>same time that Kimball was <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">creating </ins>his <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">plan</ins>, the Blue Shield idea was becoming <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">well-liked </ins>in the lumber and mining camps of the Pacific Northwest. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Significant </ins>injuries and chronic illness <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://www.howtostartyourlawncarebusiness.com/testimonials.html start a lawn business] had been frequent among </ins>these workers who had been in quite hazardous and <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">dangerous </ins>jobs.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Their employers saw the need to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">give </ins>medical care for them and they arranged with physicians to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">pay </ins>them a monthly fee to take care of the medical <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">needs </ins>of the workers. These programs would later <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">turn into </ins>what is <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">known </ins>as the Blue Shield Plans.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;As for the cross symbol, it was <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">first utilized </ins>in a 1934 advertisement for the Hospital Service Association, which later became identified as Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Joseph Binder, a Viennese artist, was hired by Company secretary E.A. van Steenwyk to produce a poster that included a blue Greek cross. Van Steenwyk <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">utilized </ins>the symbol to identify his company's wellness plans and then Blue Cross began to use it in other parts of the country.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In 1939, the American Hospital Association, which was based in Chicago, began to use the Blue Cross symbol to indicate that <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">health </ins>plans <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">about </ins>the country met particular standards.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The AHA continued to use the symbol <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">until </ins>1960 when the Blue Cross Association was founded. The two organizations remained affiliated until 1972.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The shield symbol was <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">produced </ins>in Buffalo, New York by Carl Metzger in 1939 and the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">first </ins>official Blue Shield <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">program </ins>was founded in California that <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">exact </ins>same year. Carl Metzger was an early pioneer in the Blue movement and he wanted a <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">design </ins>that would distinguish the new medical service program.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;It soon flourished as the number of Blue Shield Plans kept on growing. In 1948 the symbol was informally adopted by nine plans <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">known as </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Connected </ins>Medical Care Plan, which was later renamed the National Association of Blue Shield Plans.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;More than the years, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://www.hawaiian-tropical-flowers.com/ hawaiian-tropical-flowers.com] </ins>the Blue Cross and Blue Shield healthcare insurance ideas took hold. The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association was formed in 1982 by a merger of the Blue Cross Association and the National Association of Blue Shield Plans. When the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://www.eastsidebodyandskin.com/services/eyelash-extensions.php eastsidebodyandskin.com] </ins>Blue Cross and Blue Shield organizations merged, their brand symbols also merged and became <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">a single </ins>of the most familiar symbols in America.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;To show you how <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">large </ins>it has <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">turn into</ins>, in 2003, the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association took in $182.7 billion in revenue. The evolution of managed well being care in the United States is intimately linked to the designs of Blue Cross-Blue Shield.</div></td></tr> <!-- diff generator: internal 2026-05-10 01:40:36 --> </table>

JerelynSeaforth19004 http://mix.kumikomi.net/index.php?title=The_Blue_Cross_Story&diff=53641&oldid=prev 2012-07-28T12:56:28Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: white; color:black;"> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <tr valign='top'> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">←前の版</td> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">2012年7月28日 (土) 12:56の版</td> </tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">1 行</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">1 行</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>The Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association is the largest private wellness insurance <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">program </del>in the United States (<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">like </del>Puerto Rico) and Canada. It is composed of 55 independent, locally operated Blue Cross and Blue Shield Plans that collectively <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">supplied </del>wellness care coverage to more than 88 million <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">individuals </del>in 2003.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;For its beginnings we <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">require </del>to go back to 1929 to a man namedJustin Ford Kimball when he became vice president of Baylor University in Dallas, Texas. He was an <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">skilled </del>administrator, as he headed the College of Medicine, School of Nursing, College of Dentistry, and the university hospital.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Soon <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">soon </del>after taking the job, he <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">developed </del>a health strategy that guaranteed teachers 21 days of hospital care for 50 cents amonth. The <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">program </del>soon spread to other employee groups in Dallas, and then <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">related </del>plans began to crop up nation-wide.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Meanwhile, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">about </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">very </del>same time that Kimball was producing his <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">plan</del>, the Blue Shield idea was becoming <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">well-liked </del>in the lumber and mining camps of the Pacific Northwest. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Severe </del>injuries and chronic illness <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">had been </del>prevalent <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">among </del>these workers who <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">were </del>in <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">extremely </del>hazardous and <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">unsafe </del>jobs.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Their employers saw the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">require </del>to <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">provide </del>medical care for them and they arranged with physicians to spend them a monthly fee to take care of the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://demo.updatewall.com/read_blog/26207/the-blue-cross-story sales formula] </del>medical <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">demands </del>of the workers. These programs would later <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">turn into </del>what is identified as the Blue Shield Plans.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;As for the cross symbol, it was <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">initial utilised </del>in a 1934 advertisement for the Hospital Service Association, which later became identified as Blue Cross and <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://ipparaguay.com/read_blog/73562/the-blue-cross-story hawaii-tropical-flowers.com] </del>Blue Shield of Minnesota.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Joseph Binder, a Viennese artist, was hired by <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Firm </del>secretary E.A. van Steenwyk to <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">generate </del>a poster that included a blue <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://centrodeadoracion.csrvideos.com/read_blog/21287/the-blue-cross-story howtostartyourlawncarebusiness.com] </del>Greek cross. Van Steenwyk utilised the symbol to identify his company's <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">well being </del>plans and then Blue Cross began to use it in other parts of the country.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In 1939, the American Hospital Association, which was based in Chicago, began to use the Blue Cross symbol to indicate that <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">health </del>plans <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">about </del>the country met <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">certain </del>standards.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The AHA continued to use the symbol till 1960 when the Blue Cross Association was founded. The two organizations remained affiliated <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">till </del>1972.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The shield symbol was <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">created </del>in Buffalo, New York by Carl Metzger in 1939 and the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">first </del>official Blue Shield <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">program </del>was founded in California that <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">exact </del>same year. Carl Metzger was an early pioneer in the Blue movement and he wanted a <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">design </del>that would distinguish the new medical service <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">plan</del>.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;It soon flourished as the number of Blue Shield Plans kept on <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">expanding</del>. In 1948 the symbol was informally adopted by nine plans <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">called </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Connected </del>Medical Care <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Strategy</del>, which was later renamed the National Association of Blue Shield Plans.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Over </del>the years, the Blue Cross and Blue Shield healthcare insurance <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">concepts </del>took hold. The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association was formed in 1982 by a merger of the Blue Cross Association and the National Association of Blue Shield Plans. When the Blue Cross and Blue Shield organizations merged, their brand symbols also merged and became <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">a single </del>of the most familiar symbols in America.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;To show you how <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">significant </del>it has become, in 2003, the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association took in $182.7 billion in revenue. The evolution of managed <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">health </del>care in the United States is intimately linked to the designs of Blue Cross-Blue Shield.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>The Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association is the largest private wellness insurance <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">technique </ins>in the United States (<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">including </ins>Puerto Rico) and Canada. It is composed of 55 independent, locally operated Blue Cross and Blue Shield Plans that collectively <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">provided </ins>wellness care coverage to more than 88 million <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">folks </ins>in 2003.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;For its beginnings we <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">want </ins>to go back to 1929 to a man <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://hawaii-tropical-flowers.com/ hawaii-tropical-flowers.com] </ins>namedJustin Ford Kimball when he became vice president of Baylor University in Dallas, Texas. He was an <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">seasoned </ins>administrator, as he headed the College of Medicine, School of Nursing, College of Dentistry, and the university hospital.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Soon after taking the job, he <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">created </ins>a health strategy that guaranteed teachers 21 days of hospital care for 50 cents amonth. The <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">plan </ins>soon spread to other employee groups in Dallas, and then <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">comparable </ins>plans began to crop up nation-wide.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Meanwhile, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">around </ins>the same time that Kimball was producing his <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">strategy</ins>, the Blue <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://www.languagealliance.com/ foreign language translation] </ins>Shield idea was becoming <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">common </ins>in the lumber and mining camps of the Pacific Northwest. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Serious </ins>injuries and chronic illness <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">were </ins>prevalent <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">amongst </ins>these workers who <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">had been </ins>in <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">quite </ins>hazardous and <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">harmful </ins>jobs.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Their employers saw the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">need </ins>to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">supply </ins>medical care for them and they arranged with physicians to spend them a monthly fee to take care of the medical <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">requirements </ins>of the workers. These programs would later <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">grow to be </ins>what is identified as the Blue Shield Plans.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;As for the cross symbol, it was <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1st employed </ins>in a 1934 advertisement for the Hospital Service Association, which later became identified as Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Joseph Binder, a Viennese artist, was hired by <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Company </ins>secretary E.A. van Steenwyk to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">produce </ins>a poster that included a blue Greek cross. Van Steenwyk utilised the symbol to identify his company's <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">wellness </ins>plans and then Blue Cross began to use it in other parts of the country.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In 1939, the American Hospital Association, which was based in Chicago, began to use the Blue Cross symbol to indicate that <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">wellness </ins>plans <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">around </ins>the country met <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">particular </ins>standards.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The AHA continued to use the symbol till 1960 when the Blue Cross Association was founded. The two organizations remained affiliated <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">until </ins>1972.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The shield symbol was <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">developed </ins>in Buffalo, New York by Carl Metzger in 1939 and the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1st </ins>official Blue Shield <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">plan </ins>was founded in California that <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">very </ins>same year. Carl Metzger was an early pioneer in the Blue movement and he wanted a <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">style </ins>that would distinguish the new medical service <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">program</ins>.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;It soon flourished as the number of Blue Shield Plans kept on <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">growing</ins>. In 1948 the symbol was informally adopted by nine plans <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">named </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Related </ins>Medical Care <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Plan</ins>, which was later renamed the National Association of Blue Shield Plans.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">More than </ins>the years, the Blue Cross and Blue Shield healthcare insurance <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">ideas </ins>took hold. The Blue Cross Blue Shield <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://www.howtostartyourlawncarebusiness.com/aboutus.html starting a lawn business] </ins>Association was formed in 1982 by a merger of the Blue Cross Association and the National Association of Blue Shield Plans. When the Blue Cross and Blue Shield organizations merged, their brand symbols also merged and became <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">one particular </ins>of the most familiar symbols in America.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;To show you how <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">huge </ins>it has become, in 2003, the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association took in $182.7 billion in revenue. The evolution of managed <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">well being </ins>care in the United States is intimately linked to the designs of Blue Cross-Blue Shield.</div></td></tr> <!-- diff generator: internal 2026-05-10 01:40:36 --> </table>

PentonMinturn3802 http://mix.kumikomi.net/index.php?title=The_Blue_Cross_Story&diff=53255&oldid=prev 2012-07-27T22:57:14Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: white; color:black;"> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <tr valign='top'> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">←前の版</td> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">2012年7月27日 (金) 22:57の版</td> </tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">1 行</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">1 行</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>The Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association is the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">biggest </del>private <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">well being </del>insurance <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">system </del>in the United States (<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">which includes </del>Puerto Rico) and Canada. It is composed of 55 independent, locally operated Blue Cross and Blue Shield Plans that collectively <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">offered well being </del>care coverage to more than 88 million <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">people </del>in 2003.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;For its beginnings we <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">want </del>to go back to 1929 to a man namedJustin Ford Kimball when he became vice president of Baylor University in Dallas, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://www.mydentisthuntsville.com/ mydentisthuntsville.com] </del>Texas. He was an <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">experienced </del>administrator, as he headed the College of Medicine, School of Nursing, College of Dentistry, and the university hospital.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Soon <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">following </del>taking the job, he <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">created </del>a <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">wellness plan </del>that guaranteed teachers 21 days of hospital care for 50 cents amonth. The <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">strategy </del>soon spread to other employee groups in Dallas, and then <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">comparable </del>plans began to crop up nation-wide.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Meanwhile, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">around </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">exact </del>same time that Kimball was <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">making </del>his <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">strategy</del>, the Blue Shield idea was becoming <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">popular </del>in the lumber and mining camps of the Pacific Northwest. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Serious </del>injuries and chronic illness had been <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">typical amongst </del>these workers who <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">had been </del>in <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">really </del>hazardous and unsafe jobs.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Their <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://www.garagedoorrepairinalvin.com/ garage door repair in alvin] </del>employers saw the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">want </del>to <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">offer </del>medical care for them and they arranged with physicians to spend them a monthly fee to take care of the medical <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">requirements </del>of the workers. These programs would later <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">grow to be </del>what is <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">known </del>as the Blue Shield Plans.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;As for the cross symbol, it was <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">first used </del>in a 1934 advertisement for the Hospital Service Association, which later became <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">recognized </del>as Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Joseph Binder, a Viennese artist, was hired by Firm secretary E.A. van Steenwyk to <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">develop </del>a poster that included a blue Greek cross. Van Steenwyk utilised the symbol to <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">determine </del>his company's <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">wellness </del>plans and then Blue Cross began to use it in other parts of the country.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In 1939, the American Hospital Association, which was based in Chicago, began to use the Blue Cross symbol to indicate that <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">wellness </del>plans <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">around </del>the country met certain standards.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The AHA continued to use the symbol till 1960 when the Blue Cross Association was founded. The two organizations remained affiliated <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">until </del>1972.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The shield symbol was <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">produced </del>in Buffalo, New York by Carl Metzger in 1939 and the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">very </del>first official Blue Shield <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">strategy </del>was <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://www.nationalautoguardian.com/ nationalautoguardian.com] </del>founded in California that <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">identical </del>year. Carl Metzger was an early pioneer in the Blue movement and he wanted a <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">style </del>that would distinguish the new medical service <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">strategy</del>.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;It soon flourished as the number of Blue Shield Plans kept on expanding. In 1948 the symbol was informally adopted by nine plans called the Connected Medical Care Strategy, which was later renamed the National Association of Blue Shield Plans.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">More than </del>the years, the Blue Cross and Blue Shield healthcare insurance <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">ideas </del>took hold. The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association was formed in 1982 by a merger of the Blue Cross Association and the National Association of Blue Shield Plans. When the Blue Cross and Blue Shield organizations merged, their brand symbols also merged and became <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1 </del>of the most familiar symbols in America.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;To show you how <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">huge </del>it has become, in 2003, the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association took in $182.7 billion in <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">income</del>. The evolution of managed <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">wellness </del>care in the United States is intimately linked to the designs of Blue Cross-Blue Shield.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>The Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association is the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">largest </ins>private <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">wellness </ins>insurance <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">program </ins>in the United States (<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">like </ins>Puerto Rico) and Canada. It is composed of 55 independent, locally operated Blue Cross and Blue Shield Plans that collectively <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">supplied wellness </ins>care coverage to more than 88 million <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">individuals </ins>in 2003.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;For its beginnings we <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">require </ins>to go back to 1929 to a man namedJustin Ford Kimball when he became vice president of Baylor University in Dallas, Texas. He was an <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">skilled </ins>administrator, as he headed the College of Medicine, School of Nursing, College of Dentistry, and the university hospital.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Soon <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">soon after </ins>taking the job, he <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">developed </ins>a <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">health strategy </ins>that guaranteed teachers 21 days of hospital care for 50 cents amonth. The <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">program </ins>soon spread to other employee groups in Dallas, and then <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">related </ins>plans began to crop up nation-wide.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Meanwhile, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">about </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">very </ins>same time that Kimball was <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">producing </ins>his <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">plan</ins>, the Blue Shield idea was becoming <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">well-liked </ins>in the lumber and mining camps of the Pacific Northwest. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Severe </ins>injuries and chronic illness had been <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">prevalent among </ins>these workers who <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">were </ins>in <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">extremely </ins>hazardous and unsafe jobs.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Their employers saw the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">require </ins>to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">provide </ins>medical care for them and they arranged with physicians to spend them a monthly fee to take care of the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://demo.updatewall.com/read_blog/26207/the-blue-cross-story sales formula] </ins>medical <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">demands </ins>of the workers. These programs would later <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">turn into </ins>what is <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">identified </ins>as the Blue Shield Plans.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;As for the cross symbol, it was <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">initial utilised </ins>in a 1934 advertisement for the Hospital Service Association, which later became <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">identified </ins>as Blue Cross and <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://ipparaguay.com/read_blog/73562/the-blue-cross-story hawaii-tropical-flowers.com] </ins>Blue Shield of Minnesota.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Joseph Binder, a Viennese artist, was hired by Firm secretary E.A. van Steenwyk to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">generate </ins>a poster that included a blue <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://centrodeadoracion.csrvideos.com/read_blog/21287/the-blue-cross-story howtostartyourlawncarebusiness.com] </ins>Greek cross. Van Steenwyk utilised the symbol to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">identify </ins>his company's <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">well being </ins>plans and then Blue Cross began to use it in other parts of the country.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In 1939, the American Hospital Association, which was based in Chicago, began to use the Blue Cross symbol to indicate that <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">health </ins>plans <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">about </ins>the country met certain standards.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The AHA continued to use the symbol till 1960 when the Blue Cross Association was founded. The two organizations remained affiliated <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">till </ins>1972.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The shield symbol was <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">created </ins>in Buffalo, New York by Carl Metzger in 1939 and the first official Blue Shield <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">program </ins>was founded in California that <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">exact same </ins>year. Carl Metzger was an early pioneer in the Blue movement and he wanted a <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">design </ins>that would distinguish the new medical service <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">plan</ins>.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;It soon flourished as the number of Blue Shield Plans kept on expanding. In 1948 the symbol was informally adopted by nine plans called the Connected Medical Care Strategy, which was later renamed the National Association of Blue Shield Plans.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Over </ins>the years, the Blue Cross and Blue Shield healthcare insurance <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">concepts </ins>took hold. The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association was formed in 1982 by a merger of the Blue Cross Association and the National Association of Blue Shield Plans. When the Blue Cross and Blue Shield organizations merged, their brand symbols also merged and became <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">a single </ins>of the most familiar symbols in America.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;To show you how <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">significant </ins>it has become, in 2003, the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association took in $182.7 billion in <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">revenue</ins>. The evolution of managed <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">health </ins>care in the United States is intimately linked to the designs of Blue Cross-Blue Shield.</div></td></tr> <!-- diff generator: internal 2026-05-10 01:40:36 --> </table>

RiceTuthill16636 http://mix.kumikomi.net/index.php?title=The_Blue_Cross_Story&diff=51754&oldid=prev 2012-07-25T19:38:43Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: white; color:black;"> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <tr valign='top'> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">←前の版</td> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">2012年7月25日 (水) 19:38の版</td> </tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">1 行</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">1 行</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>The Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association is the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">largest </del>private <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">health </del>insurance <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">technique </del>in the United States (<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">including </del>Puerto Rico) and Canada. It is composed of 55 independent, locally operated Blue Cross and Blue Shield Plans that collectively offered well being care coverage to more than 88 million <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">folks </del>in 2003.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;For its beginnings we <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">need </del>to go back to 1929 to a man namedJustin Ford Kimball when he became vice president of Baylor University in Dallas, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Texas. 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The <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">plan </del>soon spread to other employee groups in Dallas, and then comparable plans began to crop up nation-wide.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Meanwhile, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">about </del>the same time that Kimball was making his strategy, the Blue Shield <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">notion </del>was becoming <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">well-known </del>in the lumber and mining camps of the Pacific Northwest. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Critical </del>injuries and chronic illness <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">were prevalent </del>amongst these workers who had been in really hazardous and unsafe jobs.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Their employers saw the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">need to have </del>to offer medical care for them and they arranged with physicians to <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">pay </del>them a monthly fee to take care of the medical <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">wants </del>of the workers. These programs would later grow to be what is <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">recognized </del>as the Blue Shield Plans.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;As for the cross symbol, it was <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1st </del>used in a 1934 advertisement for the Hospital Service Association, which later became <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">known </del>as Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Joseph Binder, a Viennese artist, was hired by Firm secretary E.A. van Steenwyk to <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">generate </del>a poster that included a blue Greek cross. Van Steenwyk <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">employed </del>the symbol to <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">identify </del>his company's <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">well being </del>plans and then Blue Cross began to use it in other parts of the country.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In 1939, the American Hospital Association, which was based in Chicago, began to use the Blue Cross symbol to indicate that <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">health </del>plans around the country met <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://www.languagealliance.com/ foreign language translation] </del>certain standards.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The AHA continued to use the symbol <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">until </del>1960 when the Blue Cross Association was founded. The two organizations remained affiliated until 1972.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The shield symbol was <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">created </del>in Buffalo, New York by Carl Metzger in 1939 and the first official Blue Shield <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">plan </del>was founded in California that <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">exact same </del>year. Carl Metzger was an early pioneer in the Blue movement and he wanted a style that would distinguish the new medical service <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">program</del>.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;It soon flourished as the number of Blue Shield Plans kept on expanding. In 1948 the symbol was informally adopted by nine plans <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">referred to as </del>the Connected Medical Care <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Program</del>, which was later renamed the National Association of Blue Shield Plans.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Over </del>the years, the Blue Cross and Blue Shield healthcare insurance <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">concepts </del>took hold. The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association was formed in 1982 by a merger of the Blue Cross Association and the National Association of <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://www.willowbrook.org/ christian marriage counseling huntsville] </del>Blue Shield Plans. 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It is composed of 55 independent, locally operated Blue Cross and Blue Shield Plans that collectively offered well being care coverage to more than 88 million <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">people </ins>in 2003.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;For its beginnings we <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">want </ins>to go back to 1929 to a man namedJustin Ford Kimball when he became vice president of Baylor University in Dallas, [http://www.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">mydentisthuntsville</ins>.com/ <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">mydentisthuntsville</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">com</ins>] <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Texas. 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The <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">strategy </ins>soon spread to other employee groups in Dallas, and then comparable plans began to crop up nation-wide.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Meanwhile, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">around </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">exact </ins>same time that Kimball was making his strategy, the Blue Shield <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">idea </ins>was becoming <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">popular </ins>in the lumber and mining camps of the Pacific Northwest. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Serious </ins>injuries and chronic illness <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">had been typical </ins>amongst these workers who had been in really hazardous and unsafe jobs.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Their <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://www.garagedoorrepairinalvin.com/ garage door repair in alvin] </ins>employers saw the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">want </ins>to offer medical care for them and they arranged with physicians to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">spend </ins>them a monthly fee to take care of the medical <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">requirements </ins>of the workers. These programs would later grow to be what is <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">known </ins>as the Blue Shield Plans.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;As for the cross symbol, it was <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">first </ins>used in a 1934 advertisement for the Hospital Service Association, which later became <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">recognized </ins>as Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Joseph Binder, a Viennese artist, was hired by Firm secretary E.A. van Steenwyk to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">develop </ins>a poster that included a blue Greek cross. Van Steenwyk <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">utilised </ins>the symbol to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">determine </ins>his company's <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">wellness </ins>plans and then Blue Cross began to use it in other parts of the country.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In 1939, the American Hospital Association, which was based in Chicago, began to use the Blue Cross symbol to indicate that <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">wellness </ins>plans around the country met certain standards.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The AHA continued to use the symbol <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">till </ins>1960 when the Blue Cross Association was founded. The two organizations remained affiliated until 1972.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The shield symbol was <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">produced </ins>in Buffalo, New York by Carl Metzger in 1939 and the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">very </ins>first official Blue Shield <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">strategy </ins>was <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://www.nationalautoguardian.com/ nationalautoguardian.com] </ins>founded in California that <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">identical </ins>year. Carl Metzger was an early pioneer in the Blue movement and he wanted a style that would distinguish the new medical service <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">strategy</ins>.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;It soon flourished as the number of Blue Shield Plans kept on expanding. In 1948 the symbol was informally adopted by nine plans <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">called </ins>the Connected Medical Care <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Strategy</ins>, which was later renamed the National Association of Blue Shield Plans.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">More than </ins>the years, the Blue Cross and Blue Shield healthcare insurance <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">ideas </ins>took hold. The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association was formed in 1982 by a merger of the Blue Cross Association and the National Association of Blue Shield Plans. When the Blue Cross and Blue Shield organizations merged, their brand symbols also merged and became <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1 </ins>of the most familiar symbols in America.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;To show you how <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">huge </ins>it has become, in 2003, the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association took in $182.7 billion in income. The evolution of managed wellness care in the United States is intimately linked to the designs of Blue Cross-Blue Shield.</div></td></tr> <!-- diff generator: internal 2026-05-10 01:40:36 --> </table>

SalCarr7776 http://mix.kumikomi.net/index.php?title=The_Blue_Cross_Story&diff=51110&oldid=prev 2012-07-24T23:38:18Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: white; color:black;"> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <tr valign='top'> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">←前の版</td> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">2012年7月24日 (火) 23:38の版</td> </tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">1 行</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">1 行</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>The Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association is the largest private <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">well being </del>insurance <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">method </del>in the United States (including Puerto Rico) and Canada. It is composed of 55 independent, locally operated Blue Cross and Blue Shield Plans that collectively offered <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">wellness </del>care coverage to more than 88 million folks in 2003.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;For its beginnings we <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">require </del>to go back to 1929 to a man namedJustin Ford Kimball when he became vice president of Baylor University in Dallas, Texas. He was an <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">seasoned </del>administrator, as he headed the College of Medicine, School of Nursing, College of Dentistry, and the university hospital.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Soon after taking the job, he <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">developed </del>a <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">wellness strategy </del>that guaranteed teachers 21 days of hospital care for 50 cents amonth. The <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">program </del>soon spread to other employee groups in Dallas, and then <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">related </del>plans began to crop up nation-wide.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Meanwhile, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">around </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">very </del>same time that Kimball was making his <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">plan</del>, the Blue Shield <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">idea </del>was becoming <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">popular </del>in the lumber and mining camps of the Pacific Northwest. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Significant </del>injuries and chronic illness <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">had been frequent among </del>these workers who <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">were </del>in <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">extremely </del>hazardous and <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">hazardous </del>jobs.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Their employers saw the need to have to <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">supply </del>medical care for them and they arranged with physicians to <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">spend </del>them a monthly fee to take care of the medical <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">demands </del>of the workers. These programs would later <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">turn out </del>to be what is <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">known </del>as the Blue Shield Plans.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;As for the cross symbol, it was <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">very first employed </del>in a 1934 advertisement for the Hospital Service <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://www.gialive.com/livehealthy cellular nutrition] </del>Association, which later became <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">recognized </del>as Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Joseph Binder, a Viennese artist, was hired by <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Company </del>secretary E.A. van Steenwyk to <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">develop </del>a poster that included a blue Greek cross. Van Steenwyk <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">used </del>the symbol to identify his company's <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">health </del>plans and then Blue Cross began to use it in other parts of the country.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In 1939, the American Hospital Association, which was based in Chicago, began to use the Blue Cross symbol to indicate that <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">well being </del>plans around the country met certain standards.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The AHA continued to use the symbol until 1960 when the Blue Cross Association was founded. The two organizations remained affiliated until 1972.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The shield symbol was <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">developed </del>in Buffalo, New York by Carl Metzger in 1939 and the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">initial </del>official Blue Shield <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">strategy </del>was founded in California that <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">very </del>same year. Carl Metzger was an early pioneer in the Blue movement and he wanted a style that would distinguish the new medical service <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">plan</del>.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;It soon flourished as the number of Blue Shield Plans kept on <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">growing</del>. In 1948 the symbol was informally <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://www.leaguecitypersonaltrainer.com/ league city personal trainer] </del>adopted by nine plans <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">called </del>the Connected Medical Care <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Plan</del>, which was later renamed the National Association of Blue Shield Plans.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Over the years, the Blue Cross and Blue Shield healthcare insurance concepts <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://www.videosalesletterformula.com/ sales formula] </del>took hold. The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association was formed in 1982 by a merger of the Blue Cross Association and the National Association of Blue Shield Plans. When the Blue Cross and Blue Shield organizations merged, their brand symbols also merged and became one <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">particular </del>of the most familiar symbols in America.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;To show you how <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">large </del>it has <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">grow to be</del>, in 2003, the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association took in $182.7 billion in <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">revenue</del>. The evolution of managed <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">health </del>care in the United States is intimately linked to the designs of Blue Cross-Blue Shield.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>The Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association is the largest private <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">health </ins>insurance <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">technique </ins>in the United States (including Puerto Rico) and Canada. It is composed of 55 independent, locally operated Blue Cross and Blue Shield Plans that collectively offered <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">well being </ins>care coverage to more than 88 million folks in 2003.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;For its beginnings we <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">need </ins>to go back to 1929 to a man namedJustin Ford Kimball when he became vice president of Baylor University in Dallas, Texas. He was an <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">skilled </ins>administrator, as he headed the College <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://www.geniusnetwork.com/maryellen-tribby.php mary ellen tribby] </ins>of Medicine, School of Nursing, College of Dentistry, and the university hospital.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Soon <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">right </ins>after taking the job, he <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">created </ins>a <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">health plan </ins>that guaranteed teachers 21 days of hospital care for 50 cents amonth. The <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">plan </ins>soon spread to other employee groups in Dallas, and then <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">comparable </ins>plans began to crop up nation-wide.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Meanwhile, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">about </ins>the same time that Kimball was making his <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">strategy</ins>, the Blue Shield <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">notion </ins>was becoming <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">well-known </ins>in the lumber and mining camps of the Pacific Northwest. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Critical </ins>injuries and chronic illness <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">were prevalent amongst </ins>these workers who <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">had been </ins>in <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">really </ins>hazardous and <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">unsafe </ins>jobs.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Their employers saw the need to have to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">offer </ins>medical care for them and they arranged with physicians to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">pay </ins>them a monthly fee to take care of the medical <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">wants </ins>of the workers. These programs would later <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">grow </ins>to be what is <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">recognized </ins>as the Blue Shield Plans.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;As for the cross symbol, it was <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1st used </ins>in a 1934 advertisement for the Hospital Service Association, which later became <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">known </ins>as Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Joseph Binder, a Viennese artist, was hired by <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Firm </ins>secretary E.A. van Steenwyk to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">generate </ins>a poster that included a blue Greek cross. Van Steenwyk <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">employed </ins>the symbol to identify his company's <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">well being </ins>plans and then Blue Cross began to use it in other parts of the country.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In 1939, the American Hospital Association, which was based in Chicago, began to use the Blue Cross symbol to indicate that <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">health </ins>plans around the country met <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://www.languagealliance.com/ foreign language translation] </ins>certain standards.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The AHA continued to use the symbol until 1960 when the Blue Cross Association was founded. The two organizations remained affiliated until 1972.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The shield symbol was <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">created </ins>in Buffalo, New York by Carl Metzger in 1939 and the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">first </ins>official Blue Shield <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">plan </ins>was founded in California that <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">exact </ins>same year. Carl Metzger was an early pioneer in the Blue movement and he wanted a style that would distinguish the new medical service <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">program</ins>.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;It soon flourished as the number of Blue Shield Plans kept on <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">expanding</ins>. In 1948 the symbol was informally adopted by nine plans <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">referred to as </ins>the Connected Medical Care <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Program</ins>, which was later renamed the National Association of Blue Shield Plans.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Over the years, the Blue Cross and Blue Shield healthcare insurance concepts took hold. The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association was formed in 1982 by a merger of the Blue Cross Association and the National Association of <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://www.willowbrook.org/ christian marriage counseling huntsville] </ins>Blue Shield Plans. When the Blue Cross and Blue Shield organizations merged, their brand symbols also merged and became one of the most familiar symbols in America.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;To show you how <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">big </ins>it has <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">become</ins>, in 2003, the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association took in $182.7 billion in <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">income</ins>. The evolution of managed <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">wellness </ins>care in the United States is intimately linked to the designs of Blue Cross-Blue Shield.</div></td></tr> <!-- diff generator: internal 2026-05-10 01:40:36 --> </table>

KunBeers134 http://mix.kumikomi.net/index.php?title=The_Blue_Cross_Story&diff=50629&oldid=prev 2012-07-24T08:28:25Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: white; color:black;"> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <tr valign='top'> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">←前の版</td> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">2012年7月24日 (火) 08:28の版</td> </tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">1 行</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">1 行</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>The Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association is the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">biggest </del>private <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">wellness </del>insurance <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">technique </del>in the United States (<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">such as </del>Puerto Rico) and Canada. It is composed of 55 independent, locally operated Blue Cross and Blue Shield Plans that collectively <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">supplied health </del>care coverage to <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">over </del>88 million folks in 2003.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;For its beginnings we <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">need to have </del>to go back to 1929 to a man namedJustin Ford Kimball when he became vice president of Baylor University in Dallas, Texas. He was an <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">skilled </del>administrator, as he headed the College of Medicine, School of Nursing, College of Dentistry, and the university hospital.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Soon <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">soon </del>after taking the job, he developed a <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">health program </del>that guaranteed teachers 21 days of hospital care for 50 cents amonth. The program soon spread to other employee groups in Dallas, and then related plans began to crop up nation-wide.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Meanwhile, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">about </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">exact </del>same time that Kimball was <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">generating </del>his <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">program</del>, the Blue Shield idea was becoming <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">well-liked </del>in the lumber and mining camps of the Pacific Northwest. Significant injuries and chronic illness had been <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://www.nationalautoguardian.com/ www nationalautoguardian com] common </del>among these workers who were in <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">really </del>hazardous and <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">dangerous </del>jobs.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Their employers saw the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">want </del>to <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">offer </del>medical care for them and they arranged with physicians to spend them a monthly fee to take care of the medical <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">requirements </del>of the workers. These programs would later <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">become </del>what is known as the Blue Shield Plans.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;As for the cross symbol, it was first <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">utilized </del>in a 1934 advertisement for the Hospital Service Association, which later became recognized as Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Joseph Binder, a Viennese artist, was hired by <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Organization </del>secretary E.A. van Steenwyk to <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">produce </del>a poster that included a blue Greek cross. Van Steenwyk <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">utilized </del>the symbol to identify his company's health plans and then Blue Cross began to use it in other parts of the country.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In 1939, the American Hospital Association, which was based in Chicago, began to use the Blue Cross symbol to indicate that <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">health </del>plans around the country met <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">particular </del>standards.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The AHA continued to use the symbol until 1960 when the Blue Cross Association was <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://www.nationalautoguardian.com/ power train warranty] </del>founded. The two organizations remained affiliated until 1972.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The shield symbol was <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">produced </del>in Buffalo, New York by Carl Metzger in 1939 and the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1st </del>official Blue Shield <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">program </del>was founded in California that <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">identical </del>year. Carl Metzger was an early pioneer in the Blue movement and he wanted a <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">design </del>that would distinguish the new medical service <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">program</del>.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;It soon flourished as the number of Blue Shield Plans kept on <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">expanding</del>. In 1948 the symbol was informally <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">adopted by nine plans called the </del>[http://www.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">nationalautoguardian</del>.com/ <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">warranty auto</del>] <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Linked </del>Medical Care <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Strategy</del>, which was later renamed the National Association of Blue Shield Plans.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Over the years, the Blue Cross and Blue Shield healthcare insurance <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">ideas </del>took hold. The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association was formed in 1982 by a merger of the Blue Cross Association and the National Association of Blue Shield Plans. When the Blue Cross and Blue Shield organizations merged, their brand symbols also merged and became <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1 </del>of the most familiar symbols in America.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;To show you how <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">huge </del>it has <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">become</del>, in 2003, the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association took in $182.7 billion in <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">income</del>. The evolution of managed health care in the United States is intimately linked to the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">styles </del>of Blue Cross-Blue Shield.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>The Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association is the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">largest </ins>private <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">well being </ins>insurance <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">method </ins>in the United States (<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">including </ins>Puerto Rico) and Canada. It is composed of 55 independent, locally operated Blue Cross and Blue Shield Plans that collectively <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">offered wellness </ins>care coverage to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">more than </ins>88 million folks in 2003.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;For its beginnings we <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">require </ins>to go back to 1929 to a man namedJustin Ford Kimball when he became vice president of Baylor University in Dallas, Texas. He was an <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">seasoned </ins>administrator, as he headed the College of Medicine, School of Nursing, College of Dentistry, and the university hospital.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Soon after taking the job, he developed a <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">wellness strategy </ins>that guaranteed teachers 21 days of hospital care for 50 cents amonth. The program soon spread to other employee groups in Dallas, and then related plans began to crop up nation-wide.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Meanwhile, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">around </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">very </ins>same time that Kimball was <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">making </ins>his <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">plan</ins>, the Blue Shield idea was becoming <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">popular </ins>in the lumber and mining camps of the Pacific Northwest. Significant injuries and chronic illness had been <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">frequent </ins>among these workers who were in <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">extremely </ins>hazardous and <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">hazardous </ins>jobs.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Their employers saw the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">need to have </ins>to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">supply </ins>medical care for them and they arranged with physicians to spend them a monthly fee to take care of the medical <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">demands </ins>of the workers. These programs would later <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">turn out to be </ins>what is known as the Blue Shield Plans.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;As for the cross symbol, it was <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">very </ins>first <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">employed </ins>in a 1934 advertisement for the Hospital Service <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://www.gialive.com/livehealthy cellular nutrition] </ins>Association, which later became recognized as Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Joseph Binder, a Viennese artist, was hired by <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Company </ins>secretary E.A. van Steenwyk to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">develop </ins>a poster that included a blue Greek cross. Van Steenwyk <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">used </ins>the symbol to identify his company's health plans and then Blue Cross began to use it in other parts of the country.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In 1939, the American Hospital Association, which was based in Chicago, began to use the Blue Cross symbol to indicate that <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">well being </ins>plans around the country met <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">certain </ins>standards.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The AHA continued to use the symbol until 1960 when the Blue Cross Association was founded. The two organizations remained affiliated until 1972.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The shield symbol was <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">developed </ins>in Buffalo, New York by Carl Metzger in 1939 and the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">initial </ins>official Blue Shield <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">strategy </ins>was founded in California that <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">very same </ins>year. Carl Metzger was an early pioneer in the Blue movement and he wanted a <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">style </ins>that would distinguish the new medical service <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">plan</ins>.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;It soon flourished as the number of Blue Shield Plans kept on <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">growing</ins>. In 1948 the symbol was informally [http://www.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">leaguecitypersonaltrainer</ins>.com/ <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">league city personal trainer</ins>] <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">adopted by nine plans called the Connected </ins>Medical Care <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Plan</ins>, which was later renamed the National Association of Blue Shield Plans.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Over the years, the Blue Cross and Blue Shield healthcare insurance <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">concepts [http://www.videosalesletterformula.com/ sales formula] </ins>took hold. The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association was formed in 1982 by a merger of the Blue Cross Association and the National Association of Blue Shield Plans. When the Blue Cross and Blue Shield organizations merged, their brand symbols also merged and became <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">one particular </ins>of the most familiar symbols in America.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;To show you how <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">large </ins>it has <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">grow to be</ins>, in 2003, the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association took in $182.7 billion in <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">revenue</ins>. The evolution of managed health care in the United States is intimately linked to the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">designs </ins>of Blue Cross-Blue Shield.</div></td></tr> <!-- diff generator: internal 2026-05-10 01:40:36 --> </table>

UsoKingston15664 http://mix.kumikomi.net/index.php?title=The_Blue_Cross_Story&diff=49014&oldid=prev 2012-07-21T00:12:14Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: white; color:black;"> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <tr valign='top'> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">←前の版</td> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">2012年7月21日 (土) 00:12の版</td> </tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">1 行</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">1 行</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>The Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association is the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">largest </del>private wellness insurance <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">program </del>in the United States (such as Puerto Rico) and Canada. It is composed of 55 independent, locally operated Blue Cross and Blue Shield Plans that collectively <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">provided well being </del>care coverage to over 88 million folks in 2003.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;For its beginnings we <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">require </del>to go back to 1929 to a man namedJustin Ford Kimball when he became vice president of Baylor University in Dallas, Texas. He was an skilled administrator, as he headed the College of Medicine, School of Nursing, College of Dentistry, and the university hospital.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Soon after taking the job, he developed a <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">well being strategy </del>that guaranteed teachers 21 days of hospital care for 50 cents amonth. The <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">plan </del>soon spread to other employee groups in Dallas, and then related plans began to crop up nation-wide.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Meanwhile, about the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">identical </del>time that Kimball was <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">creating </del>his <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">plan</del>, the Blue Shield idea was becoming <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">common </del>in the lumber and mining camps of the Pacific Northwest. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Severe </del>injuries and chronic illness <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">were typical </del>among these workers who <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">had been </del>in <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">extremely </del>hazardous and <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">unsafe </del>jobs.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Their employers saw the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">need </del>to <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">provide </del>medical care for them and they arranged with physicians to spend them a monthly fee to take care of the medical <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">needs </del>of the workers. These programs would later <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">turn into </del>what is <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">identified </del>as the Blue Shield Plans.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;As for the cross symbol, it was first utilized in a 1934 advertisement for the Hospital Service Association, which later became <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">known </del>as Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Joseph Binder, a Viennese artist, was hired by <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Company </del>secretary E.A. van Steenwyk to <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">generate </del>a poster that included a blue Greek cross. Van Steenwyk <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">employed </del>the symbol to <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">determine </del>his company's <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">well being </del>plans and then Blue Cross began to use it in other parts of <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://www.garagedoorrepairinalvin.com/ garage door repair in [http://www.nationalautoguardian.com/ drivetrain warranty] alvin] </del>the country.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In 1939, the American Hospital Association, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://www.nationalautoguardian.com/ www nationalautoguardian com] </del>which was based in Chicago, began to use the Blue Cross symbol to indicate that <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">wellness </del>plans <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">about </del>the country met particular standards.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The AHA continued to use the symbol until 1960 when the Blue Cross Association was founded. The two organizations remained affiliated <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">till </del>1972.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The shield symbol was <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">developed </del>in Buffalo, New York by Carl Metzger in 1939 and the 1st official Blue Shield <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">plan </del>was founded in California that identical year. Carl Metzger was an early pioneer in the Blue movement and he wanted a design that would distinguish the new medical service <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">strategy</del>.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;It soon flourished as the number of Blue Shield Plans kept on expanding. In 1948 the symbol was informally adopted by nine plans called the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Connected </del>Medical Care Strategy, which was later renamed the National Association of Blue Shield Plans.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Over the years, the Blue Cross and Blue Shield healthcare insurance ideas took hold. The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association was formed in 1982 by a merger of the Blue Cross Association and the National Association of Blue Shield Plans. When the Blue Cross and Blue Shield organizations merged, their brand symbols also merged and became <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">one </del>of the most familiar symbols in America.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;To show you how <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">significant </del>it has become, in 2003, the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association took in $182.7 billion in income. The evolution of managed <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">well being </del>care in the United States is intimately linked to the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">designs </del>of Blue Cross-Blue Shield.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>The Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association is the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">biggest </ins>private wellness insurance <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">technique </ins>in the United States (such as Puerto Rico) and Canada. It is composed of 55 independent, locally operated Blue Cross and Blue Shield Plans that collectively <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">supplied health </ins>care coverage to over 88 million folks in 2003.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;For its beginnings we <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">need to have </ins>to go back to 1929 to a man namedJustin Ford Kimball when he became vice president of Baylor University in Dallas, Texas. He was an skilled administrator, as he headed the College of Medicine, School of Nursing, College of Dentistry, and the university hospital.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Soon <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">soon </ins>after taking the job, he developed a <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">health program </ins>that guaranteed teachers 21 days of hospital care for 50 cents amonth. The <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">program </ins>soon spread to other employee groups in Dallas, and then related plans began to crop up nation-wide.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Meanwhile, about the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">exact same </ins>time that Kimball was <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">generating </ins>his <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">program</ins>, the Blue Shield idea was becoming <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">well-liked </ins>in the lumber and mining camps of the Pacific Northwest. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Significant </ins>injuries and chronic illness <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">had been [http://www.nationalautoguardian.com/ www nationalautoguardian com] common </ins>among these workers who <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">were </ins>in <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">really </ins>hazardous and <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">dangerous </ins>jobs.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Their employers saw the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">want </ins>to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">offer </ins>medical care for them and they arranged with physicians to spend them a monthly fee to take care of the medical <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">requirements </ins>of the workers. These programs would later <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">become </ins>what is <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">known </ins>as the Blue Shield Plans.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;As for the cross symbol, it was first utilized in a 1934 advertisement for the Hospital Service Association, which later became <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">recognized </ins>as Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Joseph Binder, a Viennese artist, was hired by <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Organization </ins>secretary E.A. van Steenwyk to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">produce </ins>a poster that included a blue Greek cross. Van Steenwyk <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">utilized </ins>the symbol to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">identify </ins>his company's <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">health </ins>plans and then Blue Cross began to use it in other parts of the country.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In 1939, the American Hospital Association, which was based in Chicago, began to use the Blue Cross symbol to indicate that <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">health </ins>plans <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">around </ins>the country met particular standards.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The AHA continued to use the symbol until 1960 when the Blue Cross Association was <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://www.nationalautoguardian.com/ power train warranty] </ins>founded. The two organizations remained affiliated <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">until </ins>1972.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The shield symbol was <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">produced </ins>in Buffalo, New York by Carl Metzger in 1939 and the 1st official Blue Shield <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">program </ins>was founded in California that identical year. Carl Metzger was an early pioneer in the Blue movement and he wanted a design that would distinguish the new medical service <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">program</ins>.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;It soon flourished as the number of Blue Shield Plans kept on expanding. 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