Health Net

Insurers' Cynical Calculations on the Cost of Doing Business

Wendell Potter | Posted 05.31.2011

Wendell Potter

The next time you hear a politician say that reducing regulations and allowing the sale of health insurance across state lines would go a long way toward controlling health care costs, think of the real, much higher cost of such a solution.

Insurance Company Must Pay $10 Million For Revoking Policy Of Teen With HIV

Murray Waas | Posted 07.03.2011

Murray Waas

The South Carolina Supreme Court has ordered an insurance company to pay $10 million for wrongly revoking the insurance policy of a 17-year-old colleg...

Dying for Health Insurance

Christal Smith | Posted 05.25.2011

Christal Smith

Bob Iritano's doctors told him he had an incurable form of cancer. But while fighting for his life, he ended up also having to fight his insurance carrier.

Protecting Families From McCain's Broken Health Care Plan

Rocky Delgadillo | Posted 05.25.2011

Rocky Delgadillo

In Senator McCain's America, whenever you got sick, you'd have to fight your insurance company at the same time you're fighting for your own life.

Cut-Off Cancer Patient to Get $9M

AP | THOMAS WATKINS | Posted 05.25.2011

LOS ANGELES — A woman who had her medical coverage canceled as she was undergoing treatment for breast cancer has been awarded more than $9 mill...

Health Net Fined $1 Mil For Improper Compensation Disclosures

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Health Net of California, a subsidiary of managed health care company Health Net Inc., said late Thursday it agreed to a $1 million California Departm...

Health Insurer Paid Bonuses For Dropping Sick Policyholders

Los Angeles Times | Lisa Girion | Posted 05.25.2011

One of the state's largest health insurers set goals and paid bonuses based in part on how many individual policyholders were dropped and how much mon...