Democrats Demand Insurers Explain Rate Hikes

By Tory Newmyer
Roll Call Staff

Nov. 18, 2009, 4:11 p.m.

A bicameral group of Democratic lawmakers led by Rep. Joe Crowley (D-N.Y.) is asking the insurance industry to explain a report that its companies are steeply hiking rates ahead of a health care reform overhaul aimed in part at reining in industry profits.

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