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CBS Sacramento: Blue Shield Of California Cancels Proposed Rate Hike After Backlash

March 21, 2011

March 16, 2011–Blue Shield of California says it is withdrawing its plan to increase health insurance rates for individual policyholders in what would have been the third such rate hike since October.

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