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Patients Whose Health Coverage Was Retroactively Cancelled When They Got Sick Urge Governor to Keep His 'State of the State' Promise to Protect Innocent Patients
September 27th, 2008
Patients whose health coverage was retroactively cancelled after they got sick and filed an insurance claim held a press conference outside Governor Schwarzenegger's Los Angeles office today. The patients delivered a letter to the governor urging him to sign historic legislation barring insurance companies from retroactively canceling health policies unless a patient lied about past health conditions on an application for coverage. Watch an excerpt of this year's State of the State address in which the governor promised to protect Californians from retroactive insurance cancellations on You Tube: http://www.youtube.com/watch'v=3DFULW3aNsS4Y. See the...
Source: Law & Health Weekly (2008-09-27)
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