BCBS Increases Rates For Individuals In Michigan, Pennsylvania (Medical News Today)
The following summarizes news about BlueCross BlueShield Association plans increasing rates in Michigan and Pennsylvania. Michigan: State Attorney General Mike Cox (R) on Thursday filed a petition to stop a proposed rate increase by the not-for-profit Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan for more than 400,000 individual policyholders, the Detroit Free Press reports.

Class covers Medicare basics (Corvallis Gazette-Times)
A free, two-hour class titled Medicare ABC and D s is scheduled for Friday at 5:30 p.m. at the Corvallis Senior Center, 2601 N.W. Tyler Ave.

GREENSTEIN: Health care reform: Tough task ahead (The Washington Times)
ANALYSIS/OPINION: As Congress returns this week, no task before it looms larger than reforming a health care system that costs more than any other country's yet leaves 46 million people uninsured. Policymakers are converging on the idea of using a health insurance "exchange," in which insurers compete for business and can't reject people with medical conditions or charge them higher rates, and ...

Rochester family battles insurers, cancer (Rochester Democrat and Chronicle)
The Funchesses tried to do everything right after Glenn, husband and father of four, was diagnosed with cancer, but struggles with the insurance system caused them to fall behind and eventually file for bankruptcy. ROCHESTER CITY NEWS