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Anthem Blue Cross Puts Off Plan to Raise Rates

HeadlineFeb 15, 2010

Health insurer Anthem Blue Cross has postponed its much-criticized plan to raise rates by 39 percent for individual policyholders. Anthem is a California-based subsidiary of the health insurance giant WellPoint, which earned $2.7 billion in the last quarter of 2009.

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