Mike Viveros

I work on policy issues related to health insurance companies circumventing the new health care laws to deny customers, their insurance.

Federal investigators have told Reuters that WellPoint, the country's largest insurance company, is using an algorithm to identify women with breast cancer for the express purpose of dropping their coverage.

Murray Waas writes that WellPoint "specifically targeted women with breast cancer for aggressive investigation with the intent to cancel their policies":

They had no idea that WellPoint was using a computer algorithm that automatically targeted them and every other policyholder recently diagnosed with breast cancer. Last week, Waas reported that AIDS patients were being similarly targeted for recision.