TURN has been around for more than 30 years.  TURN actually stands for Toward Utility Rate Normalization.

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You think PG&E is screwing (indelicate term, but accurate) its customers, talk to a few employees. PG&E has eliminated jobs to outsource them to India. An employee union is filing suit. Whether or not this legal action will prevent or delay the lay-offs which are slated to take effect the end of the month remains to be seen.

Meanwhile, local news has reported that a Bakersfield customer has filed a class action suit against PG&E related to the billing coinciding with the new meters.

PG&E has cited the economic hardships for their lay-offs and outsourcing. At the same time the CEO and execs have received a substantial raise in the millions of dollars. 

If we are looking at what the health insurance companies profits are then why not look at what the profits of PG&E are.

PG&E says that the smart meters are for our benefit but in reality "I" think that is their benefit since they don't have to pay the meter readings going thru each neighborhood as they use to. First they went from reading monthly to averaging the neighborhood which assumed that you used the same as your neighbor.

It would be nice to have a real over site of PG&E, remember during the building hay days here  that it take PG&E MONTHS to get a business hooked up. I was in a particular project where PG&E held up the completion of a new RITE AID store opening for 3 months and this was in an existing neighborhood so it wasn't like they had to actually run new wires. I am very sure that RITE AID pays ALOT for the usage they use. In my business if I had people wanting to give me to come hook them up so that I would then be able to charge them thousands of dollars a each and every month, I would not just be working days but would be there anytime they needed me. 

Just what are the health insurance profits these days?? ANyone care to speculate??

Health insurance companies make 4.9 cents for every dollar of sales.

The government takes 35 cents for every dollar of profit.

It sure would be nice to have some oversight of the Federal Government.....

So that's why millions of Americans can't afford health insurance. Those poor CEOs must be starving to death. The greedy government is taking all the profits. Thanks for clearing that up. 

It's not necessarily the government, it is the damn lawyers and their frivolous law suits that they file that drives up the cost of insurance. Yes there are cases of wrong doing sometimes (mistakes) but it is both the thoughts that many lawyers have that  they will take most any case  since many times even without any wrong doing the defense will pay a 20,000 -40,000 settlement because it will be cheaper to make it go away than to defend it in court even if they win.

Plus it is the government mandating those in the medical profession that they have to treat any emergency case which we know that if you go to any hospital in town they are clogged up with people that should have gone to a regular doctor but they would have had to pay for that service but in the emergency room they get it FREE so then the prices have to go up just so they can stay in business.

Get the lawyers out  and the prices go down but since many in politics are them selfs lawyers thats not going to happen.