Mike Joseph

I work on implementing ObamaCare so that it benefits women: ObamaCare gives 47 million women access to guaranteed women's health services. Many women's health services were not covered in the past and include provisions protecting women from gender discrimination.

Reuters has an eye-opening investigation today showing how the health-insurance company Assurant Health (formerly called Fortis) systematically targeted sick patients for “rescission", A computer program and algorithm targeted every policyholder recently diagnosed with HIV 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.