{"id":13649,"date":"2011-07-05T18:44:46","date_gmt":"2011-07-05T18:44:46","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-07-05T18:44:46","modified_gmt":"2011-07-05T18:44:46","slug":"tomorrow-is-dday-for-ab-52-regulation-of-health-insurance-premiums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2011\/07\/05\/tomorrow-is-dday-for-ab-52-regulation-of-health-insurance-premiums\/","title":{"rendered":"Tomorrow is D-Day for AB 52, Regulation of Health Insurance Premiums"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>There is an immensely important vote on Wednesday in the health committee of the California State Senate.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a vote on AB 52 to regulate health insurers, and give the insurance commissioner the ability to review, approve, deny or modify excessive health insurance rate hikes &#8211; much as regulators do now in California with auto insurance.<\/p>\n<p>As you might imagine, the insurance industry is committed to doing whatever it takes to defeat this vote and the bill.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2011\/07\/05\/990790\/-ALL-HANDS:-Critical-vote-looms-in-California,-today-is-our-chance-to-halt-insurer-price-gouging\">Read the complete diary by nyceve at Daily Kos<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here are the critical Senators on the Senate Health Committee to call in support of AB 52:<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<br \/> &nbsp; &nbsp;Senator Ed Hernandez (Chair) &#8212; 916-651-4024<br \/>\n<br \/> &nbsp; &nbsp;Senator Elaine Alquist &#8212; 916-651-4013<br \/>\n<br \/> &nbsp; &nbsp;Senator Kevin de Leon &#8212; 916-651-4022<br \/>\n<br \/> &nbsp; &nbsp;Senator Mark DeSaulnier (AB 52 co-author) &#8212; 916-651-4007<br \/>\n<br \/> &nbsp; &nbsp;Senator Michael Rubio &#8212; 916-651-4016<br \/>\n<br \/> &nbsp; &nbsp;Senator Lois Wolk (AB 52 co-author) &#8212; 916-651-4005<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>There is an immensely important vote on Wednesday in the health committee of the California State Senate.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a vote on AB 52 to regulate health insurers, and give the insurance commissioner the ability to review, approve, deny or modify excessive health insurance rate hikes &#8211; much as regulators do now in California with auto insurance.<\/p>\n<p>As you might imagine, the insurance industry is committed to doing whatever it takes to defeat this vote and the bill.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2011\/07\/05\/990790\/-ALL-HANDS:-Critical-vote-looms-in-California,-today-is-our-chance-to-halt-insurer-price-gouging\">Read the complete diary by nyceve at Daily Kos<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here are the critical Senators on the Senate Health Committee to call in support of AB 52:<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<br \/> &nbsp; &nbsp;Senator Ed Hernandez (Chair) &#8212; 916-651-4024<br \/>\n<br \/> &nbsp; &nbsp;Senator Elaine Alquist &#8212; 916-651-4013<br \/>\n<br \/> &nbsp; &nbsp;Senator Kevin de Leon &#8212; 916-651-4022<br \/>\n<br \/> &nbsp; &nbsp;Senator Mark DeSaulnier (AB 52 co-author) &#8212; 916-651-4007<br \/>\n<br \/> &nbsp; &nbsp;Senator Michael Rubio &#8212; 916-651-4016<br \/>\n<br \/> &nbsp; &nbsp;Senator Lois Wolk (AB 52 co-author) &#8212; 916-651-4005<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"author":4813,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-3y9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4813"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}