LOS ANGELES -- In his push to move a stalled health-care overhaul, President Obama is appealing to American pocketbooks by calling one health insurer's major rate increase in California a harbinger of rising premiums.
Anthem Blue Cross' 30 percent to 39 percent rate increase in California will affect an unknown number of its 800,000 individual policyholders -- the insurer has declined giving specifics. But Obama said that the increase is a sign of what will happen to many Americans without reform.
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