Jay Walters

I advocate and lobby on behalf of the issues I care about most: income inequality, poverty, and most of all health care.

Americans are already starting to see the benefits of health care reform. The new law requires health insurance companies — starting in September — to end their most indefensible practice: rescinding coverage after a policyholder gets sick. In recent days health insurers and their trade association rushed to say that they would stop..

The insurers acted after they were whacked by some bad publicity. An investigative report by Reuters said that one of the nation’s biggest insurers, WellPoint, was targeting women with breast cancer.

Although WellPoint denied singling out breast cancer patients for scrutiny, it acknowledged using computer algorithms to cancel patients. The Obama administration and Congressional Democrats urged insurers to end rescissions at once.