In a congressional hearing Wednesday, an support company administrant rationalize proposed act premium increases and warned "that pending legislation" could make the problem of high medical costs worse. "The executive, Angela F. Braly, commander of WellPoint, made the instruction in data prepared for a hearing of the House Energy and truck Committee," The New York Times reports. "Anthem Blue Cross, a unit of WellPoint, of late instructed subscribers in California that premiums for singular backing policies would rise an average of 25 percent, with some rates going up as much as 39 percent...

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