James Manus

Thanks to Lucinda Marshall at Feminist Peace Network for pointing us to an amazing, if demoralizing, Reuters' investigation into WellPoint, which provides coverage to 37 million Americans, more than any other single provider. It turns out that WellPoint and its subsidiaries concocted an algorithm which triggered an investigation of any policyholder diagnosed with breast cancer.

Here's the crux of Murray Waas's findings:The women paid their premiums on time..They had no idea that WellPoint which targeted every policyholder recently diagnosed with breast cancer. The software searched for any pretext to drop policies.Murray Waas did a similar investigation last month into Assurant Health, which similarly was canceling policies for anyone who tested HIV positive.