When WellPoint, Inc.’s California subsidiary, Anthem Blue Cross, proposed a rate hike at the end of 2009, it didn’t know that it would be providing the anthem for the final passage of the federal health care reform law. The rate proposal prompted lawmakers to summon WellPoint’s executives to Capitol Hill for a grueling examination. But the executives were well prepared, thanks to support from WellPoint’s law department.
“The trust between the lawyers and the business people really showed itself,” says Angela Braly, who served as WellPoint’s general counsel for two years before becoming chief executive officer in 2007. When she delivered her testimony last winter, current general counsel John Cannon sat right behind her. “He had my back,” says Braly.
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