cadet526

She lied about her weight and medical history on her application in order to get approved for a cheaper insurance policy she never would have qualified for if she had told the truth. Regardless of Health Net's cancellation process (which I will readily admit looks suspect), it's her own fault she had her policy cancelled. She lied to try to save money on her health insurance premiums, and when it caught up with her, she cried to her lawyers about the 'evil' insurance company.

Shame on her, shame on the arbitrator, and shame on the people who so readily take her side, even though all these facts were printed in the LA Times and other newspapers. You want to know why health insurance is so expensive? It's things like this. When you go to renew your policy, just remember that this woman's $9 million will show up in YOUR premiums next year.

dwyer64

BrockBrockman

m4ximusprim3

Okay, I'll bite.

It was her fault for getting cancer in the first place....

Happy now? :P

cde

Hopefully someone can answer this but:

-Do insurance companies really have entire departments that try to find a reason to cancel your policy once you become unprofitable?

-Can my policy be cancelled in the middle of cancer treatment or are there laws protecting that?

This is going to sound really harsh (maybe), but I hope when those execs die an come back in another life, they get cancer and have their policies cancelled on them.

mobbo

rjhiggins

25 lashes * millions of customers=caned 25+million times. Ouchie.

sue_me

shelleyp

northernplateguy

boxjockey68

rikkus256

Wow, the overseeing authority appointed by the state has apparently been sitting around waiting for somone to do this so she can chime in that she thinks it's bitchin'? Holy smokes, what does she do the rest of the year?

@elvish: Still waiting on that research.....

brennie

The company appears to be one of the early arbitration companies. Perhaps, indeed, their ethical bent needs to be rectified by the free market.

Kevinber

And besides, this is damages awarded in BINDING arbitration. The company has no choice.

cde

elvish

[www.ludovictrarieux.org]

Well, at least he should be.

Again, Bravo!

Elviswasntmyhero

ColoradoShark

humphrmi

Are we suddenly fans of arbitration here?

balthisar

they probably have an extra clause that any arbitrator's judgement (NOT in the favor of the business) has to go into arbitration with another arbitrator. lol

forgottenpassword

forgottenpassword

But seriously... tying rewards to cancellations of costly policies? That sounds fine to me... for a business. And if you look at health care as a business, there's not a lot wrong here. They make money if you don't use their service.

The arbitrator's comment about this corporation's activities keeping the 'well-being' of the public is exactly the issue at hand though. Health care cannot be an economic opportunity, akin to hiring corporations to run elections and having people pay for 'election fees'. It must be a universal right that is not a business opportunity.

The problems are not due to these evil companies, because big corporations will always screw their customers, it's leaving something so fundamental as our ability to continue living in the hands of such opportunistic structures that is at fault. We cannot legislate them enough, we must simply have a free health care system. I can live without cell phones, I can choose to not pay for a car, but I eventually can't live without health care.

goodkitty

Mike_

azntg

dakotad555

DrGirlfriend

ideagirl

Especially cool b/c it came from an arbitrator, notorious for not being the friendliest to consumers...

elisa

FightOnTrojans

cef21

RobinB

UpsetPanda

I also think each time this happens the executives should take pay cuts.

Coder4Life

Darkwish

ColoradoShark

jaydez

CumaeanSibyl

Victo