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Insurance Regulation Expert Calls for Freeze of Health Rates Until ‘Prior Approval’ Regulation Is Adopted

Carrot-And-Stick Health Plans Aim To Cut Costs
Workers at a Portland, Ore., steel mill soon will be able to pick a new type of health insurance: one with financial rewards to use proven treatments and disincentives to use less-effective surgeries and diagnostic tests.

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Regents OK Audit Of Employees’ Health Insurance
The University System of Georgia hopes to save up to $4 million by auditing employees’ health insurance coverage.

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Insurance Regulation Expert Calls for Freeze of Health Rates Until ‘Prior Approval’ Regulation Is Adopted
WASHINGTON, March 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Harvey Rosenfield, author of California’s landmark insurance regulation Proposition 103–recognized as the most successful insurance regulation in the country–was joined today by people struggling to pay for health insurance in calling on President Obama and Congress to impose a national freeze on health insurance rates as part of the final round …

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Report: Health Insurers Want To Raise Rates

Romney hits Obama for bashing insurance companies
Potential Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney criticized President Barack Obama on Friday for his recent attacks on health insurance companies.

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Kansas Lawmakers Debate Legality Of Health Insurance Mandate Amendment
Kansas Health Institute: “Republicans and Democrats were sharply divided Tuesday over a proposed constitutional amendment that sponsors said would let federal officials know Kansans don’t want to be told by the government that they must buy health insurance. On a 12-9, party-line vote, the House Health and Human Services Committee voted to recommend House Concurrent Resolution 5032 favorable for …

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Report: Health Insurers Want To Raise Rates
Health insurance premiums could soon be going up significantly for individual subscribers and business owners.

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Individual insurance rates soar in 3 states

Anthem To Delay Insurance Rate Hike Amid Criticism
What’s Your Reaction? Health insurer Anthem Blue Cross will postpone its much-criticized plan to raise rates for some California residents who buy insurance on their own, after reaching a deal Saturday with state regulators.

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Hoosiers livid over increases in health insurance premiums
INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana customers of WellPoint are joining Californians in their outrage over steep hikes in the premiums they pay for individual health insurance coverage.

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Individual insurance rates soar in 3 states
Consumers in at least three states who buy their own health insurance are getting hit with premium increases of 15 percent or more — and people in other states could see the same thing.

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