WellPoint, which runs Anthem Blue Cross in California, withdrew its request for rate increases in California's individual insurance market after the state's insurance commissioner found flaws with the company's methodology, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.

A Suffolk County (Mass.) Superior Court judge has ordered insurers Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and Fallon Community Health Plan to base premium increases off of 2009 rates, rather than higher figures the plans had hoped to use to determine 2010 rates, according to a report in The Boston Globe.

President Obama has released his proposal for a health reform bill, which he will carry into a televised meeting on health reform with Democrat and Republican Congressional leaders on Thursday.