Bill targets rates that rise too fast; aims to ease way for small business. Kay Lazar, Michael Levenson & Robert Weisman, Boston Globe, February 11, 2010 Governor Deval Patrick is seeking sweeping authority to review and reject rates charged by hospitals, physician groups, medical imaging centers, and insurers, in a broad new effort to make health care more affordable, particularly for smaller companies and their workers. A 40-page bill filed by the governor yesterday proposes to give the insurance commissioner the power to essentially cap health care price increases. Rates hospitals and other health providers charge insurers would be ... Patrick