Health Insurer Caught Falsely Cancelling Thousands of Health Plans

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/11/10/1254596/-Another-Health-Insurer-Caught-Falsely-Cancelling-Thousands-of-Health-Plans#

Sun Nov 10, 2013

Following the report that Insurer Humana was fined $65,000 in Kentucky for sending out 6,500 misleading cancellation letters for low-premiums plans only to be automatic re-enrolled in high cost plans before these customers were given a chance to shop on the open exchange for a better and cheaper plan - we now have a new report that Anthem Blue Cross is being sued for tricking people into dropping their "grandfathered" plans.

Think that's bad, well this is even worse.

http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/11/07/2906861/major-insurance-company-lawsuit/

“Blue Cross successfully enticed tens of thousands of its individual policyholders to switch out of their grandfathered health plans and forever lose their protected grandfathered status,” states the lawsuit. “Blue Cross concealed information about the consequences of switching plans and intentionally misled its policyholders to encourage the replacement of grandfathered policies.”

----- [read the whole article. Some people in California are suing Anthem Blue Cross for doing the same thing. The article contains info on how to contact the California Department of Insurance]