California won’t block individual health care rate hikes
The Department of Insurance won’t stand in the way of rate hikes for hundreds of thousands of Californians who buy health insurance on their own, after finding no regulatory reason to block hefty increases filed by two of the state’s largest insurers.
85,000 lost health insurance in Sacramento area, UCLA study finds
Researchers issued yet another grim statistic Monday on the toll of the recession: 2 million additional Californians – 85,000 of them in the capital region – lost their health care coverage during the recent economic slide.
Medical spending definition at issue
Consumer advocates and hundreds of representatives from the health insurance industry are heading to Seattle this weekend to influence how a key part of the national health care overhaul is enforced.
California to send e-mail notice of health insurers’ plans to hike rates
The state Department of Insurance has begun alerting customers by e-mail whenever health insurance providers submit planned rate hikes to the agency.
Push is on to publicize health insurance tax credit for businesses
While most provisions of the federal health care overhaul will take years to roll out, tax credits for small businesses providing health insurance to their workers take effect this year. But insurance agents and health care advocates say many business …