Jan 7 2011
Los Angeles Times: Blue Shield Of California Seeks Rate Hikes Of As Much As 59% For Individuals
Another one of California's largest health insurers has stunned individual policyholders with news of huge rate increases -- this time it's Blue Shield of California seeking hikes of as much as 59% for tens of thousands of customers March 1 (Helfand, 1/5).
Politico: Reform Law Costs Insurance Brokers
Pay for health insurance brokers will be slashed by as much as 50 percent, according to documents obtained exclusively by POLITICO (Nocera, 1/6).
This article was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent news service, is a program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health care policy research organization unaffiliated with Kaiser Permanente. |