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Health insurers refuse to limit rescission of coverage - Los Angeles Times
This article illustrates why we need a public option to healthcare insurance but preferably a single payer to bring overall costs down.
Susan Walsh / Associated Press
An insurance company "is supposed to honor its commitments and stand by you in your time of need," Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) said.
Lawmakers ask three executives if they'll stop dropping customers except where they can show "intentional fraud." All say no.
By Lisa Girion
June 17, 2009Executives of three of the nation's largest health insurers told federal lawmakers in Washington on Tuesday that they would continue canceling medical coverage for some sick policyholders, despite withering criticism from Republican and Democratic members of Congress who decried the practice as unfair and abusive.
The hearing on the controversial action known as rescission, which has left thousands of Americans burdened with costly medical bills despite paying insurance premiums, began a day after President Obama outlined his proposals for revamping the nation's healthcare system.
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Here are some things you can do that will help:
1. Please sign Sen. Bernie Sanders' Petition to Congress supporting single-payer healthcare. http://sanders.senate.gov/petitions/index.cfm?uid=7fd59f2e-88e1-477a-8eaf-762a5b050809
2. Send an email to President Obama and ask him to support and work for Single-Payer Healthcare Reform:
http://healthreform.gov/communityreports/comments.html
3. Take more action for Single-Payer reform https://app.e2ma.net/app/view:CampaignPublic/id:28803.2122217397/rid:31dc2a66052589ee092f9d691388aee9
4. Thursday, June 25th---Rally for Healthcare Reform, Washington, DC
Join thousands in Washington that day to demand real health reform. Come
Great American Sickout. http://www.1payer.net/action-alerts/washington-rally.html If you can't be there, take some time to call your Senators and Representatives that day.
5. SAVE THE DATE: We are standing up for single-payer health care on July 30th! Join us in Washington, DC on July 30th for Medicare's 44th Birthday Rally and Lobby Day for Single-Payer Healthcare. http://www.healthcare-now.org/campaigns/single-payer-rally/
6. INSIST that HR 676 be sent to the Congressional Budget Office for Scoring: http://www.1payer.net/campaigns/efax-send-hr-676-to-cbo.html
Only a single-payer approach to healthcare reform will end the inhumanity of our failed healthcare insurance system, where profits are more important than patients’ health, and where people die because of it.
The outcome of this fight will affect Americans for years to come!
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These business people are shameless. Absolutely shameless. They should be sent in prison for all the people they've abandoned. Okay that's a bit much, but they should be stopped from dropping clients when they're in need. Seriously.
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There is no way this can go on as it does. It's not only unfair, it's inhumane. People pay for coverage, and insurance companies just care about profit. The government needs to come down, hard and fast, on those practices. They should literally be illegal.
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