Health insurance rates soar as Oregon regulators nod

In today's Oregonian, Bill Graves reports that, "State regulators have approved every rate increase by Oregon's largest health insurance companies over the past three years, trimming the requests in only seven of 40 cases..."

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Track insurance rate requests
The Oregon Insurance Division has created a Web page to allow members of the public to comment on rate requests and to get e-mail alerts when health insurance companies file for rate changes.

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