Consumer Watchdog to Obama: Use Regulatory and State Ballot Measures If You Don't Want Health Insurers to Play Politics with Lives Via Rate Hikes

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WASHINGTON, Sept. 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The California consumer group that pioneered the nation's toughest property casualty insurance regulation called on President Obama today to use his federal regulatory authority and state ballot measure processes to stop health insurers from arbitrarily raising rates on Americans.

"The health insurance industry is playing a dangerous game of politics with Americans' lives," Consumer Watchdog's leaders wrote the president today. "The industry is blaming a fresh round of indefensible premium increases on federal health reform in a cynical attempt to swing the balance of power in the mid-term election toward the GOP."

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Consumer Watchdog to Obama: Use Regulatory and State Ballot Measures If You Don't Want Health Insurers to Play Politics with Lives Via Rate Hikes

Read the letter here: http://www.consumerwatchdog.org/resources/ LtrObamaratereg.pdf

Consumer Watchdog's letter to the White House said: "If these u...

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