State regulators Friday approved health insurance rates that will boost premiums for small businesses and individuals an average of 3.6 percent in the first quarter of 2013, continuing an increase in health insurance rates that began over the summer.
Among the large commercial insurers, rates will rise by 6.9 percent for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts and 3.4 percent for its HMO business, 3.9 percent for Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and 4.7 percent for its HMO business, 2.2 percent for Tufts Health Plan and 2.6 percent for its HMO business, and 0.4 percent for Fallon Community Health Plan and its HMO business.
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Even though health care is required by law, somehow it is not included in COLA calculations...dumb...people are just supposed to pay more every year while they cut services.