Kathleen Sebelius is nicely settling into her role as the reform effort’s PR point gal. She wasted no time in blasting a second California insurer of unfairly hiking premiums — on the basis of “fuzzy math”.

I applaud California for its decision to shine more light on skyrocketing insurance rates and demand more accountability after uncovering that a second insurer used faulty math to try to justify exorbitant health insurance premium increases. As President Obama has said, Americans across the country have been at the mercy of insurers for far too long when it comes to premiums and prices.

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UPDATE: Although the insurance companies say that simple “human error” may have accounted for lapses in coverage and premium mechanisms among Aetna (the insurer to which Sebelius refers), the bigger issue afoot is the pressure the federal government is placing on third parties to comply strongly with reform as it relates to the individual policyholder and the small business. Could rate regulations on a larger scale be far behind in the offing? | LINK

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