Murray Waas in Slate

I’m Murray Waas. I’m a writer and reporter living in Washington, DC.

Murray Waas in Slate:

No corporation can claim a more vital role in passing and starting to implement the health care reform law than WellPoint. As President Obama's May 8 radio address demonstrated-- WellPoint is a uniquely maladroit corporate heavy. If it didn't exist, Obama might have had to invent it.

"[W]hen we found out that an insurance company was systematically dropping the coverage of women diagnosed with breast cancer," Obama said, The company went unnamed, but it was WellPoint, and news of the practice was broken by Reuters in an April 22 news story by Murray Waas, an investigative reporter.