Michael Dietrich

Michael Deitrich is devoted to ending the endemic racial, income and gender inequities that plague the American health care system: The chances of an American living a long and healthy life dramatically differ for the rich and poor-- as they do for one's race or gender. How might such inequality be reduced? ObamaCare is only the first step.

Among the issues that I follow:

Reuters and Murray Waas are at it again with another great health-care investigation.

It shows how WellPoint, the largest health insurer in the country, systematically targeted customers with breast cancer to find excuses to drop their coverage, something called rescission. Reuters and Murray Waas exposed how Assurant Health similarly targeted HIV patients.

I suppose if these insurers were actually found misrepresentation by patients that this kind of targeting would just be yucky. But Waas reports that it’s something much worse than that:

State regulators say that in only a tiny percentage of canceled cases was there a legitimate reason for cancelation.