Published on Thursday, June 25, 2009
Insure Us Against the "Insurers," Please
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A day after experts testified at a hearing that health insurers
regularly "dump the sick" to satisfy "Wall Street's relentless profit
expectations," a Senate report confirmed the charge, finding that
insurers have
forced
consumers to pay billions in medical bills they should have paid, often
by fudging the numbers. Last year, New York AG Andrew Cuomo found the
practice allowed insurers to "defraud" consumers by up to 28 percent.
A day after experts testified at a hearing that health insurers regularly "dump the sick" to satisfy "Wall Street's relentless profit expectations," a Senate report confirmed the charge, finding that insurers have forced consumers to pay billions in medical bills they should have paid, often by fudging the numbers. Last year, New York AG Andrew Cuomo found the practice allowed insurers to "defraud" consumers by up to 28 percent.
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