{"id":18216,"date":"2010-03-02T17:15:19","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T17:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/consumer_group_sues_anthem_blue_cross_over_policy_changes\/"},"modified":"2010-03-02T17:15:19","modified_gmt":"2010-03-02T17:15:19","slug":"consumer_group_sues_anthem_blue_cross_over_policy_changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=18216","title":{"rendered":"Consumer group sues Anthem Blue Cross over policy changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A consumer group sued Anthem Blue Cross on Monday, accusing California&#8217;s largest for-profit health insurer of violating state law by closing certain policies to new members while illegally offering remaining customers alternative plans with fewer benefits at higher rates.<\/p>\n<p>Santa Monica-based Consumer Watchdog says in its class-action lawsuit that Anthem began closing &#8220;blocks of health insurance business&#8221; last fall, a few months before it informed policyholders who stayed put that their rates would rise as much as 39%.<\/p>\n<p>Anthem&#8217;s proposed rate hikes, set to take effect May 1, have caused a national uproar, prompting criticism by consumers, regulators and lawmakers, and triggering state and federal investigations.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-anthem2-2010mar02,0,4587397.story\">Read the whole thing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A consumer group sued Anthem Blue Cross on Monday, accusing California&#8217;s largest for-profit health insurer of violating state law by closing certain policies to new members while illegally offering remaining customers alternative plans with fewer benefits at higher rates. Santa<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=18216\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,589,149,104,114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-health-medicine","category-law-legal-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}