James Hersh

My areas of expertise include income inequality and health care.

Reuters and Murray Waas are at it with another great health-care investigation. WellPoint targeted customers with breast cancer to find excuses to drop their coverage, a practice called rescission. Earlier, Reuters and Murray Waas also exposed how Assurant Health similarly targeted HIV patients.

This kind of targeting is yucky. But Murray Waas reports that it’s something much worse than that: Congress determined that WellPoint made $300 million. Why didn’t Congress force WellPoint demand the information ?

Reuters and Murray Waas are on track with these stories.