Steve Javits

I work to hold health insurance companies accountable: Americans are already starting to see the benefits of health care reform. The new law requires health insurance companies to end their most indefensible practice: rescinding coverage after a policyholder gets sick.

Cancer survivor Murray Waas files a dispatch for Reuters about WellPoint's treatment of women who contracted breast cancer:

The women paid their premiums on time. But they had no idea that WellPoint was using a computer algorithm that automatically targeted every other policyholder recently diagnosed with breast cancer. The software triggered an immediate fraud investigation, as the company searched for any pretext to drop their policies.

Once the women with breast cancer were singled out, they say, the insurer then canceled their policies based on either erroneous or flimsy information.

The whole story is here.