{"id":23860,"date":"2011-01-06T18:28:05","date_gmt":"2011-01-06T18:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/la_times_blue_shield_of_california_seeks_rate_hikes_of_as_much_as_59_for_in\/"},"modified":"2011-01-06T18:28:05","modified_gmt":"2011-01-06T18:28:05","slug":"la_times_blue_shield_of_california_seeks_rate_hikes_of_as_much_as_59_for_in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=23860","title":{"rendered":"(LA Times) Blue Shield of California seeks rate hikes of as much as 59% for individuals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another big California health insurer has stunned individual policyholders with huge rate increases \u201d\u201d this time it&#8217;s Blue Shield of California seeking cumulative hikes of as much as 59% for tens of thousands of customers March 1.<\/p>\n<p>Blue Shield&#8217;s action comes less than a year after Anthem Blue Cross tried and failed to raise rates as much as 39% for about 700,000 California customers.<\/p>\n<p>San Francisco-based Blue Shield said the increases were the result of fast-rising healthcare costs and other expenses resulting from new healthcare laws.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/health\/healthcare\/la-fi-insure-rates-20110106,0,6975599.story\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another big California health insurer has stunned individual policyholders with huge rate increases \u201d\u201d this time it&#8217;s Blue Shield of California seeking cumulative hikes of as much as 59% for tens of thousands of customers March 1. Blue Shield&#8217;s action<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=23860\">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":[39,40,513,582,589,149,104,593,151,584],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-the-2009-american-health-care-reform-debate","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-health-medicine","category-personal-finance","category-politics-in-general","category-the-u-s-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23860","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=23860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}