STEVE INSKEEP, host: NPR's business news starts with California versus the health care industry.</s>STEVE INSKEEP, host: Another health insurance company in California has backed down from a plan that would have imposed a big rate hike on customers there. Etna was planning to boost rates 19 percent for some individual policyholders. But regulators reviewed the company's math and found miscalculations, which the company calls simple human error. That's what it would be if you reduced the checking you write them by 19 percent - simple human error. Etna has withdrawn its planned rate hike.</s>STEVE INSKEEP, host: Earlier this year, Anthem Blue Cross tried to raise rates by up to 39 percent for individual policyholders. After a political storm and a review by the state's regulators, Anthem also backed down. Both insurance companies are expected to submit revised rates.
Aetna was planning to boost rates 19 percent for some individual policyholders. But regulators reviewed the company's math and found miscalculations — which the company said was "simple human error." Aetna has withdrawn its planned rate hike.