Quote of the Day

Health insurers simply cannot hold out the promise of insurance for their consumers and then snatch it away just when people need it most. That is illegal, immoral and will not be tolerated.

That was uttered by California State Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner, according to the Los Angeles Times, as feedback to word that a 52 year-old cancer patient had won a $9 million ruling, in arbitration no less, in the wake of having been dropped by her insurer, Health Net, part-way along in her course of chemotherapy.

That is, curiously, very similar to the experience my wife has had with Aetna (although they didn’t drop us…they just refused to pay the bills.)

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