Health Care & Insurance  September 5, 2014

Coverage still at a premium for some patients

By Paula Aven Gladych
news@bizwestmedia.com

Ending insurance discrimination against the sick was a central goal of the nation’s health-care overhaul, but leading patient groups say that promise is being undermined by new barriers from insurers.
The insurance industry responds that critics are confusing legitimate cost control with bias. Some state regulators, however, say there’s reason to be concerned about policies that shift costs to patients and narrow their choices of hospitals and doctors.
With open enrollment for 2015 three months away, the Obama administration is being pressed to enforce the Affordable Care Act’s anti-discrimination provisions. Some regulations have been issued while…

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