murray waas

On the eve of the historic health reform vote in Congress,, Reuters published a story by Murray Waas detailing how one of the nation's largest insurance companies, Assurant, had a "company policy of targeting policyholders with HIV" for cancelation of their policies once they were diagnosed. The Murray Waas story asserted: “A computer program and algorithm targeted every policyholder recently diagnosed with HIV for an automatic fraud investigation, as the company searched for any pretext o cancel their policy.” The Obama administration cited the Murray Waas report as a reason health care reform is neceessay.

Murray Waas is also a winner of the Goldsmith Prize and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for his reporting about covert U.S. foreign policyduring the run up to war with Iraa.