1.0 link 72277 <![CDATA[The Market Made Me Do It: Health Insurance That Disappears When You Need It]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/donald-cohen/the-market-made-me-do-it-_b_72277.html Health Net, one of California's largest health insurers, saved $35.5 million in medical expenditures for people that needed life-saving care. They did it the easy way -- they just stopped paying, ejecting the sick from their health plans.

Health Net says that they are just catching fraud. The law allows insurers to deny covering people with pre-existing conditions and Health Net claims that those they cut off -- in some cases cancer patients in the middle of critical treatment - are...

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