Stephen Jasper

Stepher Jasper has been involved in corporate and issue advocacy for more than two decades. Currently, he focuses on health care, primarily those surrounding equal access, affordability, and universal care.

The nation’s largest health insurance company, WellPoint, has targeted women diagnosed with breast cancer and sought excuses to cancel their policies, federal investigators told Reuters. Subsidiaries of WellPoint, have dropped women with breast cancer from Kentucky to California who had paid their premiums on time and never had trouble with their policies—until becoming victims of the insurer’s breast-cancer rescission strategy.

WellPoint relied on a special computer program that targeted women with the diagnosis and then used “either erroneous or flimsy information” for canceling the policies, according to the Reuters story.