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<blockquote data-quote="texan" data-source="post: 1078307" data-attributes="member: 38206">&quot;Health insurance companies across the country are seeking and winning double-digit increases in premiums for&nbsp;some customers, even though one of the biggest objectives of the Obama administration’s health care law was&nbsp;to stem the rapid rise in insurance costs for consumers.In California, Aetna is proposing rate increases of as much as 22 percent, Anthem Blue Cross 26 percent and&nbsp;Blue Shield of California 20 percent for some of those policy holders, according to the insurers’ filings&nbsp;with the state for 2013.&quot;But I thought the “Affordable Health Care Act” was supposed to make health care affordable?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="texan, post: 1078307, member: 38206"] [B]"Health insurance companies across the country are seeking and winning double-digit increases in premiums for some customers, even though one of the biggest objectives of the Obama administration’s health care law was to stem the rapid rise in insurance costs for consumers. In California, Aetna is proposing rate increases of as much as 22 percent, Anthem Blue Cross 26 percent and Blue Shield of California 20 percent for some of those policy holders, according to the insurers’ filings with the state for 2013." [COLOR=#800000]But I thought the “Affordable Health Care Act” was supposed to make health care affordable?[/COLOR] [/B] [/QUOTE]

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