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Redmer lays HMO cost rise to Democrats

Rebuffing partisan calls for his resignation, state Insurance Commissioner Alfred W. Redmer Jr. defended yesterday his handling of requests from insurers to pass on a recently approved 2 percent HMO tax to consumers, saying he is following the procedure established by his Democrat-appointed predecessor.

By David Nitkin and M. William Salganik

January 27, 2005

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