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Released: July 30, 2010

Health insurance rates: California plans crack down, but how hard?

Source: Duke Helfand, L.A.Times (Free Registration)

As millions of Californians continue to cope with surging costs for health insurance, state lawmakers, consumer advocates and lobbyists in Sacramento are haggling over how tough to get with companies seeking large rate increases.

August will be a key month as state officials try to forge a strategy to comply with the nation’s new healthcare law. Among the law’s far-flung provisions is a call for states to develop plans for reviewing “unreasonable” increases in health insurance premiums.

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