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Stop the gouge on health insurance premiums

March 7, 2011

Another day, another health insurance rate increase.

This time, the culprit is Anthem Blue Cross. The Woodland Hills-based insurer recently notified many of its individual policyholders that there will be a new rate increase as of May 1. This comes nearly a year after Anthem proposed rate increases of up to 39 percent on its California policyholders.

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