June 11th, 2010
From The Morning Call:
Gov. Ed Rendell has ordered the Pennsylvania Insurance Department to investigate “truly exorbitant” increases in health care premiums, saying insurers are pushing up rates before federal health care reforms signed into law this year take effect.
In a joint statement with the department Wednesday, Rendell said officials see a “pattern of controversial rate increases,” especially for small businesses.
“Federal health reform brings many opportunities for health insurance companies, starting with 32 million new customers,” Rendell said in the statement. “So I am disappointed to see these companies hiking premiums for those most in need of health care, especially when they know that all discrimination against sick people will be prohibited in 2014 under the federal reform law.”
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