Hillarysworld

Feb 24 02:17 PM US/Eastern

WASHINGTON (AP) - Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is asking the heads of five major health insurance companies to meet with her next month to explain why their premiums are on the rise.

Sebelius' move came as Democrats stepped up attacks on the health insurance industry ahead of a bipartisan health care summit Thursday they hope will jump-start President Barack Obama's stalled overhaul legislation.

Sebelius wrote Wednesday to the chief executives of UnitedHealth Group, WellPoint, Aetna, CIGNA and Health Care Service Corporation. She asked them to come to a meeting March 3 on recent rate hikes.

 

Also Wednesday House Democrats planned to vote to revoke health insurers' antitrust exemption and convened a hearing to grill industry executives.

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All I can say is what took you a whole year.  This really needed to be done last year to motivate the reform initiative correctly.