According to the L.A. Times, Blue Cross sent out letters to doctors asking them to look for pre-existing medical conditions and report them to the insurer so that they could cancel these patients' medical insurance.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-bluecross12feb12,0,4319662.story
We know that Michael Moore's "Sicko" barely scratched the surface of insurance skullduggery and shenanigan aimed at cheating people out of the insurance coverage they thought they had, nor is this latest L.A. Times report at all surprising. Anyone in a Medicare HMO who has ever been in the hospital or nursing home knows the type of tricks these chiselers pull, literally running up and down the halls frantically searching for a way to get out of paying the bills. This is just another instance of the HMO greedbags leaving no stone unturned in their continuous quest for ways of shirking their obligation to provide health care. The bottom line: for-profit insurers do not and cannot provide the health care that people need because they make more money denying people health care, and they have every incentive to do so. It is a system doomed to fail from the start.
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