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by Spooky23 4140 days ago
Blue Cross/Blue Shield used to be separate hospital/medical insurance providers that were in many states. In some cases (New York until recently) they were partially owned by the state.

Check out the Wikipedia article... There are dozens of affiliated health insurance providers. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Cross_and_Blue_Shield_As...