More than 162,000 eligible children in California are at risk of falling through safety net and losing hope of needed affordable health insurance coverage.

Health costs and insurance premiums are rising at a rate that is completely unaffordable to companies, the government and to patients who buy their own insurance. We've seen these escalating costs for years and everyone who is connected to health care, either as a provider or a buyer knows we are standing at the edge of a cliff with a steep drop off.

California health insurance provider Kaiser Permanente and Health Net on Thursday agreed to reinstate coverage to about 1,200 individuals whose policies were improperly rescinded, the San Francisco Chronicle reports.

The health care insurance issue in the U.S. has been in the spotlight ever since Michael Moore’s Sicko hit the big screens in 2007. Today the focus lays on California insurance companies and 26 cases where patients have been refused medical treatment due to canceled insurance policies.

California's Department of Managed Health Care has not ordered Blue Cross to restore health insurance coverage in any of 90 cases of illegal rescission found by the department's own investigators, consumer advocates revealed during a hearing in the state Senate's Health Committee.