On the other side of the country, California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones last month issued an emergency regulation after getting a flood of calls from folks who said health insurers had duped them.
"Californians and California businesses deserve better than what they have gotten from most health insurers and HMOs," Jones said at the time. "Health insurers' medical provider directories have been inaccurate, misleading consumers into signing up with a health insurer for access to a doctor, specialist, or hospital only to learn that these medical providers are not actually a part of the health insurer's network."
The problems people are facing are not limited to New York and California, as Elizabeth Rosenthal reported last week in a New York Times article headlined, "Insured, but Not Covered."
Would a public option have kept insurers more honest? Thanks to Big Money from Big Insurance--and Joe Lieberman--we'll never know.
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