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- Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!concert!decwrl!ads.com!henry
- From: henry@ADS.COM (Henry Mensch)
- Subject: Re: Can one be denied insurance based on citizenship?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.165252.14623@ads.com>
- Sender: usenet@ads.com (USENET News)
- Organization: Advanced Decision Systems; a div of Booz, Allen & Hamilton
- References: <78563@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM>
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 16:52:52 GMT
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- dhe@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM (Duanfeng He) wrote:
- ->I vaguely remember recently there was a case the US Suprime Court
- ->refused to hear. In it some people sued the insurance companies
- ->for dropping their insurance and refuses to pay after they are
- ->found to have serious illness.
- ->
- ->In essence, the Suprime Court seems to be saying that although
- ->you bought $x million health insurance, at the moment you found
- ->you need that much, or any other sizeable chunk, the insurance
- ->company can drop you.
-
- bzzt. it's important to get the details right. what happened: an
- employer changed the terms of employer-sponsored health benefit after
- an employee got sick with AIDS ... the supreme court ruled
-
- the ruling does not apparently affect those who purchase their health
- insurance directly from the insurer; it only affects those who get
- their insurance via their employer.
-
- be very afraid.
-
- --
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