There have been several great stories in The Los Angeles Times this week regarding the problems with obtaining individual health insurance out of a large corporate environment. It is great to see some coverage on this as I regard health care issues as one of the main factors in limiting your career.

Your health as a market commodity January 4, 2007

Re "Healthy? Insurers don't buy it," Dec. 31 Uninsurability is hardly a "hidden" problem, as The Times describes it. Insurers are getting ever more brazen in their efforts to exclude the people who might at some point actually need healthcare. There are...

Insurance is enough to make you sick January 4, 2007 - PATT MORRISON

IT'S A GOOD thing I have health insurance, because I thought my ticker was going to give out when I read this: Health insurance companies will not sell policies, at any price, to hale and healthy people who have, or had, some pretty trifling ailments....

Kaiser to push for standards on health plans January 3, 2007 By Lisa Girion / Times Staff Writer

Kaiser Foundation Health Plan Inc. said Tuesday that it was working with state regulators to develop standards to protect its members from unfair cancellations of health insurance, a move that the state's largest HMO hopes could lead to industrywide...

Healthy? Insurers don't buy it December 31, 2006 By Lisa Girion / Times Staff Writer

Scott Svonkin joined the Los Angeles County Commission on Insurance 10 years ago because he was concerned about an emerging problem: people losing health coverage. Since then, the ranks of uninsured Americans have swelled to more than 46 million. Svonkin...

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