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Your health care premiums are going to go down any time soon, don't hold your breath. just take a look at this. insurance companies have requested huge premium hikes. blue cross, 56% in michigan. anthem, 39% in california. 24% in connecticut. 23% in maine. and at the height of the health care debate in washington, the president is up in arms. >> just last month anthem blue cross in california tried to jack up rates by nearly 40%. 40%. anybody's paycheck gone up 40%? >> reporter: the numbers are sobering. health insurance premiums soared 131% in the last 10 years. costing the average family abo...

Anthem, 39% in california. 24% in connecticut. 23% in maine. and at the height of the health care debate in washington, the president is up in arms. >> just last month anthem blue cross in california tried to jack up rates by nearly 40%. 40%. anybody's paycheck gone up 40%? >> reporter: the numbers are sobering. health insurance premiums soared 131% in the last 10 years. costing the average family about $13,000 more over a decade. american medical association president dr. james rohack says the justice department has done little to stop health insurance companies from merging. creating what he...

Very concrete with the american public and i think that what is not coming out is the fact that it's not clear what they're going to start over over. and the reality is that we're not talking about the fact that this bill is about taking a lot of money out of medicare and medicare people don't know what that's going to mean to them. it is about putting a lot of people into medicaid. 15 million people into medicaid at $15,000 a head. we don't know what that's going to happen at the level of the patient and the doctor. i was a littledisc dapsion todae patient was never mentioned and how the pati...

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