Who says I trust CA government? These are the proposed rates presented by numerous private companies. Regarding your article, people on both sides of the issue can cherry pick individual case studies to support their point of view. All you have to do is ignore or not ignore subsidies, changes in benefits (yet call it "comparable coverage"), pre-existing conditions exclusions, and all that.
Personally, I am not happy with the status quo in health insurance, but sure as hell do not want the Obamunists to design a new one. However, it appears that premium increases in some of these west coast states will not be as high (if any) as feared. YMMV in any other states!
My status quo in health insurance was OK. The main driver in insurance is government policy. What I suspect is that there is a massive incentive to backload the costs. Democrats don’t want to be driven from government come 2014 & 2016.
One thing the average person doesn’t know or consider is that politicians plot their lives around election dates. Two years is the time horizon, although they plot out further. Leftists become centrists, centrists become rightists, and the reverse as well.
Manipulation is what they do. That these are “private” companies tells me nothing. The top insurer in the state begged off. That tells me more.