Possibilities

Health insurance rates are going up (a lot) in California - specifically, according to Anthem Blue Cross, because healthy people are forgoing coverage due to the poor economy. They're also going up elsewhere.

Which puts the lie to the charge that health care reform would be the cause of increased insurance rates. Rates are going to go up, regardless. Health care reform would begin to impose some restraint, as well as increasing the pool of insured to address the problems with health care access.

But, despite the evidence that increased insurance rates are independent of reform (or, given the reasons mentioned above, they're the result of the lack of reform, but we'll tread softly on that one for now) - President Obama and the Democrats will be attacked and blamed for all rate increases once HCR is passed. It will happen.

And our media will fail to inform you differently.