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House hearing takes health insurers to task

Source: The Noblesville Ledger

Washington : DC : USA | 2 months ago

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Lawmakers put Indianapolis-based WellPoint and other top health insurers on the hot seat Thursday for practices that they said show insurers care more about their bottom line than about their patients. "Hundreds of thousands of people have been wrongly denied health coverage, hassled with unnecessary...

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