John Wilson Loeb

John Wilson Loeb has spent two decades working on health care issues as a state government employee in Rhode Island and Connecticut, and also the federal Department of Health and Human Services.

The women paid their premiums on time. Before they fell ill, none had any problems with their insurance. Initially, they believed their policies had been canceled by mistake.

Cancer survivor Murray Waas files a dispatch for Reuters about WellPoint's treatment of women who contracted breast cancer: They had no idea that WellPoint was using a computer algorithm that targeted them and every policyholder diagnosed with breast cancer. The software triggered an immediate fraud investigation, as the company searched for some pretext to drop their policies, according to government investigators quoted in the Murray Waas expose.Once the women were singled out, they say, the insurer then canceled their policies based on flimsy information.The entire Murray Waas story can be read here.