California Insurance California is expected to be hit hard by
insurance companies, many of which are raising their rates by the
double digits. According to California insurance commissioner
Dave Jones
http://www.insurance.ca.gov/0500-about-us/0200-commissioner/, some
insurance companies could raise rates as much as they can before
Obama's health care reform is enacted. Rate filings on the
California Department of Insurance website
http://www.insurance.ca.gov/ show 15 filings that affect either
individuals or small employers over the first four months of 2013.
They include two rate cuts by Anthem Blue Cross and 13 hikes
by a variety of plans that also include Blue Shield of California,
Health Net, Aetna, and Kaiser Permanente. Jones is is taking
insurance companies to task for raising their rates and he talks to
us about his call for new regulatory authority over insurance
company rate increases,
HPV Cancers As cancer rates overall continue to decline, human
papillomavirus (HPV) related cancers of the esophagus and anus are
on the rise, according to the Annual report to the Nation on the
Status of Cancer. At the same time, vaccination rates, which could
stem the number of cancer deaths, still remain low. The
report, published on Monday, January 8th, in the Journal of the
National Cancer Institute concludes that the spike in cancers
thought to be caused by HPS underscores the need for additional
prevention efforts, including immunization. Two UC Davis doctors
join us do discuss pediatric and adult risks for the
virus.
Go Ganges! Television producers and adventure travelers JJ Kelley
and Josh Thomas test their limits on an adventure down India's
sacred river, the Ganges. Together, they journey from the
source glacier of the river in the Himalayas to the Bay of Bengal,
where it empties into the Indian Ocean. They do it rather
conventionally--traveling on foot, cycle-rickshaw, rowboat, and
just about anything else that moves. They turn their
adventure into a documentary, which is showing on Saturday morning
at the Wild & Scenic Film Festival in Nevada City. JJ
joins us by phone to give us a preview of the
adventure.
Kushman by the Bottle Capital Public Radio's resident wine expert
(and occasional guest host) Rick Kushman joins us for the first
2013 installment of Kushman by the Bottle. He offers advice
on what's going on in the wine world in regards to the outlook on
wine prices, new clusters of local tasting rooms, and what he calls
"old school wine pretentiousness" and "hipsterism wine
pretentiousness." Curious yet? You can expect to hear
Rick's wine recommendations as well.
California Insurance Rates California is
expected to be hit hard by insurance companies, many of which are
raising their rates by the double digits. According to California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones,
some insurance companies could raise rates as much as they can
before Obama's health care reform is enacted. Rate filings on
the California Department of Insurance website show
15 filings that affect either individuals or small employers over
the first four months of 2013. They include two rate cuts by
Anthem Blue Cross and 13 hikes by a variety of plans that also
include Blue Shield of California, Health Net, Aetna, and Kaiser
Permanente. Jones is is taking insurance companies to task
for raising their rates and he talks to us about his call for new
regulatory authority over insurance company rate increases,
HPV Cancers As cancer rates overall continue
to decline, human papillomavirus (HPV) related cancers are on the
rise, according to the Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of
Cancer. At the same time, vaccination rates, which could stem
the number of cancer deaths, still remain low. The report,
published on Monday, January 8th, in the Journal of
the National Cancer Institute concludes that the spike in
cancers thought to be caused by HPV underscores the need for
additional prevention efforts, including immunization. Two UC Davis
doctors join us do discuss pediatric and adult risks for the
virus.
Go Ganges! Television
producers and adventure travelers JJ Kelley and Josh Thomas
test their limits on an adventure down India's
sacred river, the Ganges. Together, they journey from the
source glacier of the river in the Himalayas to the Bay of Bengal,
where it empties into the Indian Ocean. They do it rather
unconventionally--traveling on foot, cycle-rickshaw, rowboat, and
just about anything else that moves. They turn their
adventure into a documentary called Go Ganges!, which is
showing on Saturday morning at the Wild & Scenic Film Festival in Nevada City.
JJ joins us by phone to give us a preview of his
adventure.
Kushman by the Bottle Capital Public Radio's resident wine expert (and
occasional guest host) Rick Kushman joins us for the first 2013
installment of Kushman by the Bottle. He offers advice on
what's going on in the wine world in regards to the outlook on wine
prices, new clusters of local tasting rooms, and what he calls "old
school wine pretentiousness" and "hipsterism wine pretentiousness."
Curious yet? You can expect to hear Rick's wine
recommendations as well.