Steven Gorion

Stephen Gorion, as a former staff member on Capitol Hill, and later as a lobbyist for two trade organizations, has been involved in efforts to monitor and regulate health 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, with more than 33 million customers, have dropped women 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 breast cancer and then used “either erroneous or flimsy information” as grounds for canceling the insurance policies, according to a Reuters report by Murray Waas.“WellPoint is committing murder by spreadsheet, and WellPoint has to stop now,” said the advocacy group, Health Care for America Now. “This is a matter of life and death, and the executives and board members of WellPoint need to be held to account to the fullest extent of the law.”