Jerry Brown and the cover up

Jerry has decided to hide the rate increases on Obamacare, which means they are likely greater than 50%.  This is Jerry planning to do the California spiral.

CalWatch: But California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones dismissed that claim. In an interview with State of Reform, Jones characterized California’s health insurance providers as a virtual monopoly, “attributable in part to decisions made by Covered California and unchecked rate increases as top issues.”

Inside and outside the exchange, he said, “you have an extraordinary concentration of the market going to a handful of carriers. As a result, they function in a classical economic sense as monopolists or oligopolists who are able to dictate prices for what is an essential good that people desperately need and are willing to pay just about anything to get.”

Jones has raised hackles among Democrats for challenging Covered California’s effectiveness and propriety. But activists further to his left have created bigger headaches. Not all consumer groups have been kind to Covered California executives. In a letter to Lee, Santa Monica-based Consumer Watchdog demanded that Covered California release its planned rate increases for next year. California “has successfully lobbied the federal government to delay public disclosure of qualified health plan rate change proposals for 2016,” the organization noted, becoming the only state in the nation to do so.

“Citizens of every other state now have access to proposed rate hikes, except the people of California, who are already disadvantaged by the absence of rate regulation in this state,” the letter warned.