How new health insurance regulations could affect some premiums, coverage

Kaiser Health News staff writer Phil Galewitz reports: "As he trumpeted what he called a new 'Patient's Bill of Rights' Tuesday, President Barack Obama tried to calm fears that the new health law would increase insurance costs. The details of the law's potential impact came in the 196 pages of new regulations simultaneously released by the federal departments of Labor, Treasury and Health and Human Services detailing how Americans could be affected by some of the law's provisions that take effect in September" (Galewitz, 6/22). Read entire article.

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