Trying to buy health insurance on your own and have gallstones? You'll automatically be denied coverage. Rheumatoid arthritis? Automatic denial. Severe acne? Probably denied. Do you take metformin, a popular drug for diabetes? Denied. Use the anti-clotting drug Plavix or Seroquel, prescribed for anti-psychotic or sleep problems? Forget about it. Trying to buy health insurance on your own and have gallstones?
How Insurers Secretly Blacklist Millions With Common Ailments
The Huffington Post News Editors, Huffington Post
Sun, 03/29/2009 - 5:34pm
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