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You only think you have health insurance - even pros get taken version

Thu, 10/01/2009 - 2:14pm — okanogen

From the Star Tribune:

"One victim used to sell health insurance.

Another is a retired deputy attorney general.

A third is a 93-year-old woman from West St. Paul.

All three were tricked into buying what they thought were health insurance policies that turned out to be empty promises, according to two lawsuits filed Wednesday by Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson.

Swanson accused two out-of-state companies, Consumer Health Benefits Association and Home Health America LLC, of "scamming Minnesotans citizens."

She also warned consumers to be on guard against increasingly sophisticated bait-and-switch tactics that target the 46 million uninsured Americans who are searching for affordable health insurance."

In this, the best of all possible worlds.....

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Well, let's be reasonable

By lambert on Thu, 10/01/2009 - 3:36pm

If we didn't have the best possible health care system, these people would be even worse off. Easy when you think about it.

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