Got breast cancer? Goodbye, health insurance (Salon)

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Got breast cancer? Goodbye, health insurance

A report alleges that WellPoint drops coverage for women recently diagnosed with

the disease By -Flory

There comes a time in every ladyblogger's life when your capacity for shock and

disgust plateaus. I like to call it Feminist Outrage Fatigue.™ We all suffer it

from time to time, and the only cure is something so backwards, despicable and

downright evil that you are jolted out of your shoulder-shrugging apathy. Well,

today I came across just such a news item -- one that reactivated the

keyboard-banging, ALL-CAPS TYPING, forehead-slapping, eyeball-gouging, and all

those other well-worn feminist blogger cliches. In an exclusive, Reuters reports

that WellPoint, the largest health insurance provider in the United States,

routinely drops female policyholders recently diagnosed with breast cancer...

http://www.salon.com/life/broadsheet/2010/04/23/wellpoint_breast_cancer_coverage\

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