CBS-Insurance Companies Are Asking Your Neighbors About Your Morality & Liffestyle

[EV_Ares]

It's really about time someone regulated this industry. I truly did not know that they can turn down new customers for having a history of acne. A history of athlete's foot. For having allergies. And now they want to know if you're gay, apparently.

Even more distressing, if you work for yourself and move to another state - oh, because your parents are dying and you'd like to take care of them, or you're dying and you'd like your parents to take care of you, or because, I don't know, you simply want to move, you lose your current insurance and good luck getting any more. A friend of mine in his mid-40s moved and they tried to up his insurance from $250 or so a month to over a thousand dollars a month. I really had no idea it was this bad. I'm basically trapped in DC since I have my own self-employed health insurance. That's crazy.

You can thank George Bush and the Republican Congress for yet again letting the market determine how much you get screwed. More from CBS -

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/05/23/cbsnews_investigates/main2843007.shtml