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Related: About this forumMore Obamacare insurers in Louisiana reject AIDS patients
Source: Reuters
BY SHARON BEGLEY
NEW YORK Thu Feb 13, 2014 6:12pm EST
(Reuters) - The only three insurance companies in Louisiana that sell healthcare policies under President Barack Obama's healthcare law throughout the state are rejecting payments from a federal program intended to help low-income HIV patients, advocacy groups said on Thursday.
The Louisiana Health Cooperative and Vantage Health Plan, two smaller insurers, made the move following a decision by the state's largest insurer, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana, late last year to reject the payments.
Lambda Legal, a non-profit group, filed a civil rights complaint about the two smaller carriers' action with the Obama administration on Thursday, following a similar complaint about Louisiana Blue last week.
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The issue involves the federal Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program which, for 23 years, has made grants to states, cities and nonprofit organizations to help low-income people with HIV purchase health insurance.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/13/us-usa-healthcare-aids-idUSBREA1C22920140213
enlightenment
(8,830 posts)Insurers have found a loophole and they will exploit it.
The insurance industry is a suppurating boil on the butt of humanity.
yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)Insurers have found a loophole and they will exploit it.
What is the loophole? I certainly know they will exploit anything that renders more dollars for the company, but I don't know what the loophole is to begin with.
enlightenment
(8,830 posts)Without it, they wouldn't be insuring them to begin with - since they can't deny them coverage because of their pre-existing condition, they have found a method to refuse them coverage without actually refusing them coverage.
justhanginon
(3,290 posts)With your permission, I may have to steal the "suppurating boil on the butt of humanity" phrase. So many places to use it. Can't wait for the next coffee get together.
enlightenment
(8,830 posts)It occasionally comes in useful.