Michael Ford

I am an activist involved in making health care accessible and affordable. The two go hand-in-hand. And I have been involved in both fights.After much deserved brouhaha, including passage of a health insurance reform law, WellPoint attempted a usurioous proposed rate hike in California was a scheduled review by an outside agency. Their assessment would inform a decision on premium increases by the California Insurance Commission. The deadline for Wellpoint to provide the California Department of Insurance with justifications for rate hikes is May 1, 2010.

You may also recall the greed of Wellpoint, a health insurer that thought it could raise premiums for California purchasers of individual insurance by 39% and do it with impunity.After much deserved brouhaha, including passage of a health insurance reform law designed to prevent this kind of extortion from happening in the future,

Keep that in mind when you read this long, exhaustively detailed story documenting how Wellpoint used computer algorithms to identify women who developed breast cancer in order to cancel their policies.

Please let Wellpoint know exactly how you feel about their rescission policy for those unlucky enough to have breast cancer.