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Jane Bryant Quinn on Fake Medical Insurance and other ripoffs


Is Your Health Plan Crooked?

It's astounding how many holes there are in our healthcare safety net. I first became interested in the problems with our health care financing system when I had not one, but two employers (small businesses) cancel my health insurance without telling the employees. More than a decade now, states are still preempted by ERISA in mandating insurer notification of employees in ERISA policies, and Indiana doesn't require group carriers to notify the group members in non-ERISA plans.