Jane Carrigan

Jane Carrigan is a feminist scholar doing research on the issue of gender inequalities off woman in the health system.

Thanks to Jane Marcus at Feminist Peace Network for pointing us to an amazing Reuter's investigation of WellPoint, the country's largest health insurer. It turns out that WellPoint and its subsidiaries concocted an algorithm that triggers an investigation od any policyholder diagnosed with breast cancer. Below is the crux of Murray Waas's findings:

The women paid their premiums on time. Before they fell ill, neither had any problems with their insurance. They had no clue that WellPoint was using a computer algorithm that targeted policyholders recently diagnosed with breast cancer. The software utilized by WellPoint searched for some pretext to drop their policies.Once the women were singled out,the insurer then canceled their policies. Murray Waas did a similar investigation last month into Assurant Health, which has pulled a similar stunt, canceling the policies of anyone who tested HIV positive.