Daphne Singer

Daphne Singer is a blogger with various Florida newspapers, focusing on consumer issues and health care.

Some of the most horrible tales from the health reform debate have concerned people with newly diagnosed diseases who had been dropped by their health insurer.The practice is under the microscope of Reuters reporter Murray Waas, who alleges WellPoint, routinely targeted breast cancer patients.

"None of them ever had any problems with their insurance," Murray Waas reported, in a story for Reuters:They believed their policies had been canceled by mistake. They had no idea that WellPoint was using a computer algorithm that automatically targeted them and every other policyholder diagnosed with breast cancer..