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Friday, April 23, 2010

Your Insurance Company Is A Crook

A must-read from Crooks and Liars:

Time for Kathleen Sibelius to step in again. This time Wellpoint leads the way by targeting key groups of insureds for fraud investigations. Their first experiment appears to be women diagnosed with breast cancer. . . .

Simply stated, these audits are intended to build a database of people they can target for fraud or misrepresentation if they should be diagnosed with anything from acne to hives to breast cancer later on.


Well, after all, what do you expect from the kind of organization that pays people bonuses for letting people die?

Death panels, anyone?

Update: Here's more detail from Eric Martin at Obsidian Wings.

The problem here is that these practices, while at least marginally legal (although that's still to be determined in some cases), belie the whole purpose of health insurance. Or at least, the original purpose -- it looks like the real purpose these days is billion-dollar profits.

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