Good evening. And welcome to kqed newsroom. Im thuy vu. Scott shafer is off today. Were focusing on high profile local ballot measures and state propositions. In november, voters in some bay area cities will decide whether to tax cigarettes and raise the minimum wage. Proposition 45 could determine how Health Insurance rates are set, property fix would raise the ceiling on damages on medical malpractice suits. Joining me to break it down are Andrew Stelzer, kqed news reporter, lisa aliferis, kqed blog editor. And april dembosky, kqed health reporter. Lets start with prop 45. What would that do . It would give the state insurance commissioner the ability to reject excessive increases for Health Insurance. Right now, the commissioner doesnt have the ability to do that. He mainly regulates property insurance, home insurance, auto insurance. And so this proposition would give him the power to help insurers want to raise rates to a point he thinks will be too much for consumers, he wants to
Good evening. And welcome to kqed newsroom. Im thuy vu. Scott shafer is off today. Were focusing on high profile local ballot measures and state propositions. In november, voters in some bay area cities will decide whether to tax cigarettes and raise the minimum wage. Proposition 45 could determine how Health Insurance rates are set, property fix would raise the ceiling on damages on medical malpractice suits. Joining me to break it down are Andrew Stelzer, kqed news reporter, lisa aliferis, kqed blog editor. And april dembosky, kqed health reporter. Lets start with prop 45. What would that do . It would give the state insurance commissioner the ability to reject excessive increases for Health Insurance. Right now, the commissioner doesnt have the ability to do that. He mainly regulates property insurance, home insurance, auto insurance. And so this proposition would give him the power to help insurers want to raise rates to a point he thinks will be too much for consumers, he wants to
Good evening. And welcome to kqed newsroom. Im thuy vu. Scott shafer is off today. Were focusing on high profile local ballot measures and state propositions. In november, voters in some bay area cities will decide whether to tax cigarettes and raise the minimum wage. Proposition 45 could determine how Health Insurance rates are set, property fix would raise the ceiling on damages on medical malpractice suits. Joining me to break it down are Andrew Stelzer, kqed news reporter, lisa aliferis, kqed blog editor. And april dembosky, kqed health reporter. Lets start with prop 45. What would that do . It would give the state insurance commissioner the ability to reject excessive increases for Health Insurance. Right now, the commissioner doesnt have the ability to do that. He mainly regulates property insurance, home insurance, auto insurance. And so this proposition would give him the power to help insurers want to raise rates to a point he thinks will be too much for consumers, he wants to