Anthem Blue Cross to Scale Back Rate Increases

Following on the heels of health insurer Blue Shield’s announcement that it was canceling a proposed rate hike, Anthem Blue Cross said Monday that it was giving its customers a break. From The Sacramento Bee: Anthem Blue Cross will lower rate increases planned...

Don McCanne, MD: Rationing By Inconvenience

Immigrants’ Experience with Publicly Funded Private Health Insurance The New England Journal of Medicine August 5, 2010 To the Editor: On October 31, 2009, Massachusetts involuntarily transferred about 30,000 legal immigrants (mostly “green card” holders) from...