Stephen Michael Caldwell

Reuters and Murray Waas are at it one more time with another great health-care investigation.

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

My guess is that if these health-care insurers were actually finding past misrepresentation by patients that this kind of targeting would just be unfair and wrong. But Waas reports in great detail that it’s something much worse than that:

But state regulators, congressional investigators and consumer advocates say that in only a tiny percentage of canceled health insurance cases was there a legitimate reason.