For the past six months insurance regulators in California have been working through negotiations with Anthem, a BC insurer whose initial premium rate hikes became a cause célèbre for healthcare consumers in that state and the Obama administration, alike. The previously proposed 39% increases created a firestorm in healthcare policy circles and provided Obama and HHS a temporary PR headache as a solution to lower premium increases was sought. The end result after scrutiny of state ledgers is a “smaller” increase —  of approx. 14 percent. | MP3 LINK

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