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Take Action: American Insurance Companies: Stop Canceling Women's Policies
Some American health insurance companies are canceling clients' policies after recent breast cancer diagnoses. Take Action!
UPDATE: Even with the passage of new federal insurance regulations, Florida, Pennsylvania, Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas, and Wyoming have informed the Obama administration that they can't or won't enforce the law. Please continue to sign and share with your friends and family.
Goal: 40,000
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Progress: 23,137
Sponsored by: The Breast Cancer Site
Prominent health insurance providers have been routinely targeting women newly diagnosed with breast cancer and canceling their policies. In fact, it was recently revealed that insurance giant WellPoint deliberately used a special computer program that tracked records down and alerted the company of patients with recent breast cancer diagnoses.
We cannot stand back and allow insurance companies to ruin lives. Sign the petition below telling U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to continue to place pressure on American insurance companies to stop rescinding policies.
Dear Secretary Sebelius,
I am horrified to hear about insurance companies' practice of canceling policies after recent breast cancer diagnoses. The sole purpose of health insurance is to provide financial assistance in the event that expensive medical procedures are vital to one's health. Rescinding a policy due to a serious condition not only restricts a patient's treatment options, but also contradicts the very reason to purchase the policy in the first place.
Your efforts to eradicate this practice from the health insurance industry are honorable, and some corporations have even reacted by renouncing it altogether. But we still need your help to make sure the act of rescinding policies is made illegal altogether.
Insurance companies should be committed first and foremost to the health of their clients. I urge that you continue to fight for your constituents, and encourage insurance providers to get back into the business of helping people stay healthy.
Sincerely,
Petition Signatures
May 13, 2013
Loraine Lindsey
May 13, 2013
sandi crist
May 9, 2013
Jessica Brown
May 8, 2013
Elizabeth Melton
May 7, 2013
Barbara Donner
May 7, 2013
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May 7, 2013
Claudia Todd
May 7, 2013
Joan Ellis
May 7, 2013
Robert Ramos
Health Insurance to help people stay healthy.
May 7, 2013
R Carballo
These illegal practices should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. The Law of the Land must be enforced or we face anarchy and chaos. Do not allow individual states to break the law! This war on women must stop!
May 7, 2013
Pallavi Menon
May 7, 2013
(Name not displayed)
Please, ask the insurance companies to have more concern for the patient than for money!
May 7, 2013
Alan Lambert
May 7, 2013
Karen Hermansen
May 7, 2013
Jo Dahl
May 7, 2013
sue harrington
Shame!
May 7, 2013
Jeanie Streit
May 7, 2013
DOUGLAS FARRENKOPF
May 7, 2013
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May 7, 2013
(Name not displayed)
if every one would just be compassionate we could all make a difference
May 7, 2013
amy sullivan
May 7, 2013
julie herbison
THINK ABOUT WHAT IF THIS WAS YOUR MOTHER OR SISTER OR GRANDBABY.....WOULD YOU CANCEL ON THEM? YET EACH POLICY HOLDER HAS CHILDREN, GRANDCHILDREN, NIECES.....WHO DO YOU (INSURANCE EMPLOYEE) LOVE? CANCEL THEM INSTEAD.......
May 7, 2013
Emily Nowicki
Please, please, please continue to fight the insurance companies!!!!!
May 7, 2013
P. Wigelsworth
Very sad that companies have been allowed to get away with this. Please don't let it continue.
May 7, 2013
Louise Owens
If this isn't discrimination, then what is it???
May 7, 2013
Jennifer Iden-Liss
May 7, 2013
G Graw
This is WRONG! These companies are devoted only to their profit. If they keep dropping customers, eventually they won't have anyone to pay their premiums.
May 7, 2013
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May 7, 2013
Cherie Flint
May 7, 2013
Bonnie Cook
May 7, 2013
Gary Herwig
May 7, 2013
Joe Phillips
As a British person of 78 years I have never had to worry about my health provider - we have the NHS.
However the political landscape would indicate that my children and grandchildren will be relying on health insurers in the not to distant future.
May 6, 2013
Kimberly Greer
May 5, 2013
Diane Lawson
May 5, 2013
kathleen obrien
Please do not let insurance companies cancel policies becauser of a breast cancer diagnosis.
May 5, 2013
Nancy Counter
Add Mutual of Omaha to the list. They declined my application because of my having breast cancer operation. P.S. AARP promotes Mutual of Omaha
May 5, 2013
Tracy Bleau
May 4, 2013
Leslie Hendricks
May 4, 2013
Anne Rohrer
May 4, 2013
Mary Jones
May 4, 2013
Fred Smith
May 4, 2013
Lisa Bennett
May 4, 2013
Bill Rohbaugh
May 4, 2013
Laurel Rohrer
May 4, 2013
Harumi Wojtas
May 4, 2013
Linda Taylor
May 4, 2013
mary anderson
May 3, 2013
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May 3, 2013
Morag Miller
May 3, 2013
Miriam Baum
