FOUL PLAY ARCHIVE

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  • Insurance companies imposing double-digit increases in premiums for small businesses without explanation or option. Read more about it.

  • Insurance companies interfering with the way doctors treat their patients. Read more about it.

  • Insurance companies raising premiums while making record profits. Read more about it.

  • Insurance companies creating administrative hurtles—even breaking the law—to prevent prompt payment of medical bills. Read more about it.

  • Insurance companies refusing to cover costs of emergency care based on a final diagnosis, not a patient's symptoms. Read more about it.

  • Insurance companies using non-profit health care dollars to prop up for-profit subsidiaries. Read more about it.

  • Insurance companies siphoning health care dollars away to feed corporate parent company profits. Read more about it.

  • Insurance companies giving sketchy stock-option deals and huge pay packages to their executives. Read more about it.

  • Insurance companies defrauding our government and public health programs. Read more about it.

  • Insurance companies using front organizations to sell shoddy, bare-bones products. Read more about it.

  • Insurance companies redlining pregnant women to avoid covering them. Read more about it.

  • Insurance companies cutting their payments to out-of-network doctors, leaving patients to pay the difference. Read more about it.

  • Insurance companies manipulating pre-existing condition rules to deny claims and care. Read more about it.

  • Insurance companies blocking approval and payment for services that should be covered. Read more about it.

  • Giving bonuses to employees for canceling people's insurance contracts after they get sick or pregnant! Read more about it.

LATEST SCORECARD

Half of U.S. Doctors Report Insurance Restricts Medications or Treatment Decisions

Fifty-eight percent of primary care doctors in the U.S. report their patients often have difficulty paying for medications and care, and half of U.S. doctors spend substantial time dealing with restrictions insurance companies place on their patients’ care, according to the 2009 Commonwealth Fund International Health Policy Survey.


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Family Premiums for Employer-Sponsored Coverage Rose About 5%

Families saw their premiums for job-based health insurance rise to an average of $13,375 annually in 2009, with workers paying an average share of $3,515 and employers paying $9,860.


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