More Obamacare insurers in Louisiana reject AIDS patients

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

More Obamacare insurers in Louisiana reject AIDS patients

BY SHARON BEGLEY
NEW YORK Thu Feb 13, 2014 6:12pm EST

(Reuters) - The only three insurance companies in Louisiana that sell healthcare policies under President Barack Obama's healthcare law throughout the state are rejecting payments from a federal program intended to help low-income HIV patients, advocacy groups said on Thursday.

The Louisiana Health Cooperative and Vantage Health Plan, two smaller insurers, made the move following a decision by the state's largest insurer, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana, late last year to reject the payments.

Lambda Legal, a non-profit group, filed a civil rights complaint about the two smaller carriers' action with the Obama administration on Thursday, following a similar complaint about Louisiana Blue last week.

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The issue involves the federal Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program which, for 23 years, has made grants to states, cities and nonprofit organizations to help low-income people with HIV purchase health insurance.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/13/us-usa-healthcare-aids-idUSBREA1C22920140213

[enlightenment]

1. This is going to spread if they don't quash it now.

Insurers have found a loophole and they will exploit it.

The insurance industry is a suppurating boil on the butt of humanity.

[yeoman6987]

2. I don't understand your post

Insurers have found a loophole and they will exploit it.



What is the loophole? I certainly know they will exploit anything that renders more dollars for the company, but I don't know what the loophole is to begin with.

[enlightenment]

3. A loophole in the ACA.

Without it, they wouldn't be insuring them to begin with - since they can't deny them coverage because of their pre-existing condition, they have found a method to refuse them coverage without actually refusing them coverage.

[justhanginon]

4. After looking up "suppurating" I completely agree.

With your permission, I may have to steal the "suppurating boil on the butt of humanity" phrase. So many places to use it. Can't wait for the next coffee get together.

[enlightenment]

5. My pleasure.

It occasionally comes in useful.