Health insurers have begun submitting their proposals for approval of next year’s health insurance rates. For hundreds of Affordable Care Act (ACA) plans, the proposed rates are up by more than 10 percent with insurers seeking increases of upwards of 49 percent for some products. Insurers have cited to increases in drug costs and the receipt of more accurate data on their insureds in support of the proposed rates. Between now and October 2015, when the final rates are published, federal and state regulators will …
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