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| Fast Lane to Autism: Living Near Freeways - Medscape News Posted: 22 Dec 2010 12:51 PM PST In order to use Medscape, your browser must be set to accept cookies delivered by the Medscape site. Medscape uses cookies to customize the site based on the information we collect at registration. The cookies contain no personally identifiable information and have no effect once you leave the Medscape site. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Health insurers must justify rate increases over 10 percent - San Jose Mercury News Posted: 21 Dec 2010 07:04 PM PST WASHINGTON -- In a move to protect consumers, the Obama administration said Tuesday it would require health insurance companies to disclose and justify any rate increases of 10 percent or more next year. State or federal officials will review such increases to determine if they are unreasonable, the administration said in proposing a regulation to enforce the requirement. The proposed rule represents a major expansion of federal authority in an area long regulated by states. Kathleen Sebelius, the secretary of health and human services, said the review would "help rein in the kind of excessive and unreasonable rate increases that have made insurance unaffordable for many families." The new health care law, signed by the president in March, calls for the annual review of "unreasonable increases in premiums for health insurance coverage." The law did not define unreasonable -- a gap the administration now is trying to fill. Under the rule, insurers seeking increases of 10 percent or more in the individual or small-group market next year must publicly disclose the planned increases and the justifications for them. In recent years, individual and small-group premiums have been rising more than 10 percent a year, on average, and many increases far exceed national measures of medical cost inflation, federal officials said. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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