CMA Press Clips
Daily  reports on health care policy and medicine from newspapers and magazines throughout California and around the nation.

As Anthem Blue Cross sends profits to Wellpoint, it plans hefty rate hikes for Californians
Los Angeles Times - 2/22/10 - Health insurance giant Anthem Blue Cross said it was raising rates on thousands of individual policyholders in California because the cost of their medical care exceeded the premiums they paid last year.

Obama to Urge Oversight of Insurers’ Rate Increases
New York Times - 2/21/10 - President Obama will propose on Monday giving the federal government new power to block excessive rate increases by health insurance companies, as he rolls out comprehensive legislation to revamp the nation’s health care system, White House officials said Sunday.

Healthcare summit: Chance for compromise or 'trap' for the GOP?
Christian Science Monitor - 2/21/10 - The coming week could provide important signals about whether bipartisanship has a chance these days in Washington – or whether partisan gridlock will become only more entrenched as the 2010 midterms approach.

Obama plan would curb health insurers on rate hikes
New York Times - 2/22/10 - President Obama's new healthcare overhaul plan would give the federal government greater authority to stop rate increases imposed by health insurers, an administration official said late Sunday.

'Cadillac tax' on health plans would hit union and nonunion jobs equally
Washington Post - 2/22/10 - It happens often in Washington: A perception emerges and soon hardens into fact. Take the proposed tax on high-cost insurance plans in the Senate's health-care legislation. Because organized labor took the lead in opposing the tax, the assumption took hold that it would hit unions the hardest.

States Look Beyond Washington on Health
Wall Street Journal - 2/22/10 - Some governors, frustrated by halted federal efforts to overhaul the U.S. health-care system, are introducing their own changes at the state level.