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Health Insurance
Consumer Watchdog Praises Insurance Commissioner Poizner for Health Insurance 'Rescission' Rules, Pans Schwarzenegger Administration for Failure to Regulate HMOs
June 21st, 2009
At a press conference today in Los Angeles, Consumer Watchdog joined California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner to praise new rules proposed by the Department of Insurance to protect patients from health insurance cancellations when they get sick. The group called on Governor Schwarzenegger's Department of Managed Health Care (DMHC), which oversees a far larger share of the state's HMOs and health insurers, to move forward with similar rules now more than 18 months overdue. The announcement by Poizner comes following several years of media attention to the issue of health policy contract "rescission," or retroactive cancellations of coverage after a patient becomes...
Source: Pharma Investments, Ventures & Law Weekly (2009-06-21)
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