Blue Advantage® Summary

• You pay convenient copayments or coinsurance for things like primary care visits, specialist office visits and prescription drugs.
• Costs as low as $15 for copayments and $10 for generic prescription drugs.
• Offers low-cost premium options to fit most budgets.
• Easy to use with no claims to file in network.

Blue Options HSA (SM) Summary

• Offers lower premiums typical of high-deductible health plans.
• Offers 100% coverage for most preventative care services before your deductible is met.
• Offers coverage for prescription drugs. Discounts available in network.
• HSA contributions are tax deductible.

Monroe, BCBSNC, Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Quotes are available here. Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Authorized Agents, Osborne Insurance, assist Monroe NC residents with health insurance rate quotes and applications.

Monroe is a city in Union County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 26,228 at the 2000 census. It is the seat of government of Union County.

In 1843, the first Board of County Commissioners, appointed by the General Assembly selected an area in the center of the county to be called Monroe, as the county seat. Monroe was incorporated in 1843. Monroe was named for James Monroe, the country’s fifth president.

Monroe is also the hometown of Jesse Helms, the late U.S. Senator from North Carolina who served five terms (1973 - 2003) in the Senate. Helms was a prominent (and often controversial) national leader of the Religious Right wing of the Republican Party, and played a key role in helping Ronald Reagan become President of the United States. Helms's father was the Police Chief of Monroe for many years. The Jesse Helms Center is in neighboring Wingate, NC.

Monroe also became a focal point during the Civil Rights Movement. In 1958, local NAACP Chapter President Robert F. Williams defended a nine-year-old African-American boy who had been kissed by a white girl in an incident known as the Kissing Case. A second African-American boy, aged seven, was also convicted and sentenced to live in a juvenile reformatory until he was 21 for simply witnessing the act. In 1961, Williams was accused of kidnapping a man and woman, members of the Ku Klux Klan, who had taken shelter in his house during a moment of high racial tensions. Williams went into exile and lived in Cuba and China before returning to the United States as an adviser to the United States government. Williams is one of Monroe's most famous residents, and he was a leading figure in the Civil Rights Movement.