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Old 11-20-2009, 08:57 AM  
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I can find endless examples of waste and fraud in Insurance companies too.
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no you can't.
WellPoint is a U.S. Corporation...

"WellPoint failed to provide beneficiaries with access to needed medications, charged beneficiaries co-payments higher than allowed and improperly disenrolled seniors from health plans, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) said Tuesday...:

"UnitedHealth Group agreed to pay $50 million to settle a New York Attorney General investigation into a scheme by health insurers to defraud consumers by manipulating reimbursement rates, plus another $350 million to resolve class action lawsuits on the same problem."


"Congressional investigators have discovered that large health insurers in every region of the country are relying on faulty databases to underpay millions of valid insurance claims."


"The NY Attorney General, Andrew Cuomo, called it "an industry-wide scheme perpetuated by some of the nation's largest health insurers to deceive and defraud consumers."





I can go on for hours, the search results for 2.2 million pages for one phrase...
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