Wendell Potter: Taking the Initiative in a Struggle Against Excessive Rate Increases

Wendell Potter: Taking the Initiative in a Struggle Against Excessive Rate Increases:

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"The biggest applause line Senator Diane Feinstein (D-Calif.) got at a gathering of Democratic Party activists last week came when she endorsed a ballot initiative to give the California Insurance Commissioner power to reject excessive health insurance rate increases.

Consumer advocates there decided to go the ballot initiative route after the insurance industry's friends in the legislature blocked a bill last year that would do the same thing. Feinstein became the first Californian to sign a petition. Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones became the second"

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