During my debut as a whistleblower before the Senate Commerce Committee back in 2009, I told lawmakers they could not trust Big Insurance to do the right thing for patients or even to follow state and federal laws that had been on the books for years.
Exactly right, Wendell. State insurance departments are typically somewhere between toothless and impotent, and often deliberately take a "go-along" attitude with the industry they're allegedly regulating. Of course, since the state legislators who control their budget generally want it that way, it's hard to blame them.
Exactly right, Wendell. State insurance departments are typically somewhere between toothless and impotent, and often deliberately take a "go-along" attitude with the industry they're allegedly regulating. Of course, since the state legislators who control their budget generally want it that way, it's hard to blame them.