Angela Braly, chief executive of WellPoint Inc., expressing disappointment in a letter to President Obama for alluding in his weekly radio address to a report that the company was systematically dropping insurance coverage of women with breast cancer:
The actual facts could not be clearer. In 2009, WellPoint covered the treatment of approximately 200,000 women with breast cancer at a cost of nearly $2 billion. During the same period, there were four cases nationwide where the issue of breast cancer or the possibility of breast cancer was identified in a rescission, but they were not singled out because of their breast cancer. Clearly, covering the treatment of close to 200,000 while rescinding four policies should make our intent in this regard quire clear. Our policy on rescissions has always been that it is based on fraud or misrepresentation.
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Our policy on rescissions has always been that it is based on fraud or misrepresentation.
We should adopt policy this in Washington, then we could have replaced the latest batch of politicians who seem to have a problem with telling the truth.