Jim Winship

I work on policy to bring greater health care for women: ObamaCare provides some 47 million women access to women's health services. Most such health services were not covered in the past. The new law also include provisions protecting women from gender discrimination.

Reuters has an eye-opening investigation showing how the health-insurance company Assurant Health systematically targeted sick patients for “rescission", A computer program and algorithm targeted every policyholder diagnosed with HIV, and others for breast cancer, for an automatic fraud investigation, as the company searched for any pretext to revoke their policy. Their insurance policies often were canceled on the flimsiest of evidence.

A Reuters report yesterday pointed to an insurance company practice that's so awful, it's almost hard to believe. Reporter Murray Waas explained that WellPoint, developed algorithms to drop patients.