Health Insurers Accused of 'Abandoning' Cancer Patients; Charity Accuses Companies of Using 'Weasel Words' to Avoid Paying Out for Private Treatment
Sunday Herald › August 30, 2004
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Summary
CANCER patients are being forced to pay for life-saving treatments, despite taking out private medical insurance which promised to cover all costs.
A catalogue of instances where patients have been abandoned mid- way through their treatment has been compiled by leading cancer charity CancerBACUP, which has called for a radical overhaul of the way health insurers are regulated.See the full content of this document
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Health Insurers Accused of 'Abandoning' Cancer Patients; Charity Accuses Companies of Using 'Weasel Words' to Avoid Paying Out for Private Treatment
The charity claims that private insurers routinely mislead consumers about the nature and extent of cancer care and have "hidden loopholes" built into contracts which enable them to stop paying when the patient needs vital treatments.
Examples found by the organisation included women having to pay out thousands of po...See the full content of this document
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