Aetna, CIGNA In N.Y. Probe: Out-Of-Network Costs Of 16 Insurers At Issue - February 14, 2008, Hartford Courant
New York officials are investigating what they say is a scheme by health insurers to mislead and shortchange their members across the nation on reimbursement, costing them hundreds of millions of dollars.
Pre-Existing Conditions Prod Provokes Outrage: Blue Cross of California Asks Doctors to Inform on Patients - February 13, 2008 Hartford Courant
California's largest for-profit health insurer is asking physicians to look for conditions it can use to cancel their new patients' medical coverage.
About 75 people, chanting and carrying placards, protested outside Aetna's Hartford headquarters about the company's $1.8 billion of 2007 profit at a time when so many people have inadequate or no health insurance.
The protesters chanted: "Aetna, Aetna, we won't let ya, make your bucks while health care sucks."
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